La Sierra College - Meteor Yearbook (Arlington, CA)

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HORIZONS L, .ET us pause for a brief moment in the swirling rush of wartime scholastic activity— and lift our eyes above the seething smoke of world turmoil. Look— student, teacher, alumni— expand your vision! ... can you see a REBORN dawn of CHRISTIAN ENTERPRISE brilliantly flooding a not-so-far-away horizon? It is there . . . men of the world are looking for it— they fancy that they are searching for on eternal world peace . . . but it isn ' t that— they are not looking for the elements of a mundane peace at all— in truth, they are blindly seeking the God of Israel— the only peace. . . . Blindly, we say, but it is because they are WILLINGLY IGNORANT OF HIM. • This, then, our preappointed and only task, to lift the cobwebs of egotism from the eyes of man- kind—that includes ourselves does it not?— and to show humanity the way it MUST go. Who among us can— or dare— soy that we have a task of greater magnitude than this? • Let us with hearts unified in Christian belief work toward the termination of this war— for country ' s sake. It must end— it will end if we strive toward that goal. Then will NEW HORIZONS open before us . . . then will the challenge of all time be cast at our feet. A world black with pain, weary of war- ring, tired of sinning, calls for a hope— a lasting message of eternal peace. We hove that message . . . even the most callous among us will say in his heart that we do. Even now the opportunities to dessiminate it are multitudinous. HOW MANIFOLD they will be when a time of peace has come! New fields of endeavor; new visions of the old; new worlds to conquer in Christian enterprise; NEW HORIZONS! • Let us fervidly expound unto humanity until none con say— ' I have not heard ' ! To this inevitable end— this unusual dedication. A- • if a cduon

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mat m M . 7m ie m soM I HE last chord of the organ has faded into silence, a chapel service has begun, and still the seat beside you is empty. For a moment you wonder, then your pulse quickens and you understand. Scat- tered throughout the assembly many similar, silent tributes of thought salute the realization that one more classmate has been called to the colors of his country. Has he been forced to leave his school and his quest of knowledge behind? Of course not. Rather, in his own heart, he has taken a port of us with him. He is another light that La Sierra College has sent out as a luminary of the new dawn of freedom. Another graduate from the school of intellectual pursuits and thriv- ing ambitions into the nobler art of lift- ing men from their forced ignorance and bloodshed into the light of liberty and into the embracing love of God. What he has left behind is a bit of that fire which truth and right alone have kindled within him. We, too, must strive— with him — to make this temporal world a fit place in which to dwell and to explore those New Horizons of soul-winning. We must be, even as our servicemen are, so alive in Christ that our influence will appear be- fore men as a phosphorescent light- more vivid when all around is darkness. t t t