Hesston College - Lark Yearbook (Hesston, KS)

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8 THE LARK - EDWARD TODER ' Greek, Latin mer 1923: A. M., State University of Iowa, 1924: Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1928 As Dean of the College and Chairman of the Administration com' mittee, Edward 'Yoder has served as head of Hesston College for the past two years. His quiet dignity, well seasoned judgment, and thoughtful action have especially fitted him for the careful execution of his duties. Dean 'Yoder is endeared to all who know him by his Christian integrity, his unfailing wit, and his kind thoughtfulness. ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE EDWARD YODER ............. 1 ................ Chairman, Dean M. A. YODER ................................. Business Manager PAUL ERB ................... ......... R egistrar, Librarian I. E. BURKHART .............. .... H ead of Bible Department Faculty Forum LOYALTY AND LIFE Edward Yoder A. B., Hesston College, 19205 University of Colorado, Sum- Loyalty is a person's spontaneous devotion to a cause, to a person, or to an ideal. Such a devotion objectifies the individual's life, it lifts the soul out of its own narrow circle and away from its selfish, cramping interests. Furthermore, loyalty unifies the life and life's purposes. Here is one place where the para- dox which Jesus announced applies: He that saves his life, devotes it to his own self, will lose it while he that loses it in devotion to a cause outside himself will save it. Such is the law of life. We say that loyalty is a spontaneous devotion of self. It cannot be forced upon anyoneg it can only be evoked from without. A person may wish to be loyal to something or to someone but until his loyalty is definitely challenged by something his life will be quite purposeless and perhaps meaningless. A personality may evoke one's devotion because of the strong or lovely charcter behind it, because of benefits received from the person, or because of other reasons. So our loyalty to God and to Christ, which should ever be our highest loyalty, becomes real only as we grow better acquainted with their personalities and characters. Some cause, religious or social, may evoke one's loyalty, if this cause is conceived of as truly noble and worth while. Perhaps it challenges us to loyalty because its principles and objectives are eternal and not temporal, because it ultimately brings some good to ourselves and our group. Sometimes a good cause or a worthwhile institution fails to evoke true loyalty from a person because its real nature is not comprehended. Unfor- tunately the ideals of a cause or an institution are sometimes misrepresented by an individual who professes loyalty to the same, and conse- quently the interpretation may prevent the cause from presenting the challenge that it might to someone's loyalty. A common experience is that people's loyalties change with growing knowledge and widening experience. The youth outgrows the loyalties of childhood. The mature man finds new and other ideals and loyalties to replace those he had as a youth. Loyalty, and devotion to God deepen and are intensified as one's religious experience grows and develops. Some things that challenged us strongly and called forth ,our deepest devotion in the morn- ing of life may seem trivial and insignificant to us in later years. Still it is all important that each person at every period of his life have his loyalties centered on worthy objects. Life is aimless without loyalties.