Goshen High School - Crimson Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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Viaeawfazuzmaxrraziergg Ti 'zg:.z'i' .,.sa. ' lfvifiw -- f m'fL'fS-W4 H- ' lgf:ar.v'w:f301.'- ...A -s - -: mans-?3m.s:prs:.ssosxw.2 First of all, in any creed, we must establish a firm idea of fellowship. We must have the significance of brotherly love well in mind. In order to make this effective, our creed must recognize no class or distinction of name or title. In short, fellowship and brotherly love are essential because they keep us Within the sacred walls of the sympathy of our fellow men. Second, kindness is a vital consideration. To be sympathetic and comforting to a fellow in time of stress, or a time of happiness, only heightens the glory of living. lt is a wonderful investment-to put a few ounces of energy each day into kindness. Third, manliness must take a stand in our creed. YVithout manliness, as a guiding principle, every person in the world would lose respect for you. Here is included bravery, courage, and strength. A man or woman who is not roused by bravery, courage, or strength does not possess manliness. Fourth, principle is a necessary element. In our highly sensitized life of today, anger and frenzy are very common things, yet there is seemingly no means of combating the evil effects they bring about. The solution is ideal, for it pro- vides that every man, woman and child in America, think in terms of principle and not person. VVe do not or should not hate a person. The main reason we hate people is that they do not agree with us. Then is our opportunity to display our magnanimity by swerving their purpose and not by maintaining grudges. Fifth, ambition is the goal of strife. To be without ambition is to live with- out a purpose and to live without a purpose is to accomplish nothing. There should be some one thing in your life for which you are Willing to strive to the utmost-something worth while that when gotten by fair means you would cherish forever. Therefore you should have a purpos. Sixth, industry crowns the whole list. Providing you have all the former good characteristics and do not have industry, they are of no avail. lndustry is the firmness of resolve whereby one becomes constant and reliable. Industry is the ability to do that assigned to you without a threat of violence. Furthermore, industry is that prompting quality which makes you realize that a moment wasted is a life time gone forever. At last we have come to the point where we either accept a creed and do our part for ourselves and for the nation or we continue to drift along without purpose and sense of orde1'. Now, in some instances, it is not necessary for an individual to adopt a creed. The way for you to determine whether or not you should adopt a creed is by deciding in your mind whether you can afford to live without one. If there is anything about a creed that is binding or that will make you undergo too great sacrifice, then you should not adopt a creed. But the fact that a creed does not lay one liable to any discomforture or unhappiness is proof enough that one should adopt a creed. I am hoping that each and every one of you will see the necessity of your adopting a creed and the fact that a creed in no way will injure you but will only help you to success. I hope you the best of success in your life and assure you that your life will be bigger and better with a creed. -George Luke. --HEH CRIMSUN - J 35