Hesston College - Lark Yearbook (Hesston, KS)

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THE LARK 9 THE BASIS OF LOYALTY Esther Good We do what we do because we are what we are. We think of loyalty as faithfulness to a cause, a principle, or a duty. It is also a feeling or sentiment accompanying our sense of allegiance to the cause we have espoused. The sentimental part of loyalty we express in our speeches, songs, and testimonies. The expressions that prove loyalty are our actions. The hireling fleeth because he is an liireling and careth not for the sheep. Ordinarily he may care for the sheep quite well, he may find pasture and water for them, and we cannot tell he is a hireling. When the wolf comes he flees because of the danger in which he himself is involved. We do not find him faithful to his duty or loyal to his mas- ter. His interests are within himself and only because the business affords him means to gratify himself, does he attend to his duties. He is prompted by no interest outside of his own. May we find a similar reason for a lack of loyalty in our own lives? We are mere hirelings. We have not es- poused, adopted, or embraced the cause in which we work. We are Christians or church members because of the bene- fits to ourselves. When anything happens t h a t re- quires a sacrifice of our own interests or involves a loss to us, we act the part of the hireling because that is what we are. If I can have a higher motive in my work, I believe it will solve the question of loyalty. It must be a motive outside of self. I must espouse a cause higher and greater than myself and lose myself in it. It will be my highest desire to see that cause prosper, and all my energies will be bent toward that end. Never will my own interests come between me and the cause in which I believe with all my heart. The ques- tions of loyalty to my cause are then settled because that cause is my life. Instead of me living in the church me1'ely, it is a question of Christ living in me, and of His Spirit filling my whole being. Then the question of loyalty to Christ is settled, for His business is my business, and I am no longer a hireling. The natural expression of the Christ Spirit within me is bound to be that of loyalty to the One who implanted that Spirit. Hehcannot be untrue to Himself and it follows that when He is my very life I will not be untrue to Him, but my life will be the constant expression of true loyalty. 0 Loyalty is to believe in something eternal and to express that belief in the practical life of a human being.

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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.

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10 TI-IE LARK AN APPRECIATION We deeply feel the inadequacy of words to express our feeling as to what the faculty has meant to us, the College Sophomore class. We will never be able to fully appreciate, and never be able to repay what they by their lives of ex- ample, sacrifice, and admonition have given us. IRVIN E. BURKHART Bible, Psychology A. B., Goshen College, 11126: Th. M., Southern Bap- ti rt Theological S:min:u'y, 19293 A. M., University of Pittsburgh. 1929. 0 ALTA MAE ERB Education A. B., Goshen College, 1912: Graduate College, Uni- versity ol' Kansas, Summers 1915, 1920: A. M., Stat.: University of Iowa, 1924. 0 PAUL BENDER Physical Sciences, Biology A. B., llcsston College, 1921: University of Colorado, Summer 1923: M. S., State University of Iowa, 19255 Ph. D., State University ol' Iowa, 1931. Q . MAURICE A. 'YODER Biology A. B., Goshen College, 1927: The Biblical Seminary in New York, Summer 1927: M. S., State University of Iowa. 1930. 0 PAUL ERB English, Music A. B., Bethel College, 1918: Graduate College, Uni- versity cf Kansas, Summ:r 19120: A. M., State University of Iowa, 1923. Q GLADTS LOUCKS BURKHART Acting Dean of Women KNO picturel A. B., Goshen College, 1925. 9 OF THE FACULTY For the help we have received spir- itually, mentally, morally, and socially, We Wish to thank them sincerely. It is our desire, by God's help, to express our thanks in a larger Way by the lives we live in the church and the world as We go to our respective places of service.