Lake City High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Lake City, MI)

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PROPHECY There is one prophecy remaining, greater than all the other prophecies-a prophecy that never failed, a prophecy that breaths truth and power,-the prophecy of inspiration! So we prophesy to ourselves-by inspiration, by the inspiration which four years of association with earnest, eager minds before us have brought, so that we may foretell the future, for The present still is echo of the past: Of both, the future will an echo be. In just the ratio we have seen by our sincere, earnest en- deavor, forming nucleus, the seed from which is useful, satisfying future life can grow, can we predict to us the fulfillment of such a life, with its accompanying success: For I hold the truth with one who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise by stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Among us are many individualities, many diferent futures to be, worked out along many different lines, for it is impossible that any two among us should have the same destiny, and yet ev- eryone desires the same ultimate result,-success. Whether We will have it or not remains with ourselves. In the first place, then, we are going forth to serve. The world is full of idea, I am I, you are you, and each one must make the most of himself? And, afterall, the old world is right, only it has just ra mistaken idea as to what making the most of oneself is. It is not to knock your brother down, that you may take his place. It is not the development of our powers to serve as a pedestal upon which we may pose as a marvel to the assembled multitude, for the multitude is not very apt to assemble for such a purpose. But it is the utmost development of our powers to serve as a means by which we may lend a helping hand to all with whom we come in contact. Let them feel that we can and will help them upon the pedestal with us, and a multitude will be there, every time. The world will not accept us from pity, nor from admiration, but our ability to serve is the Hnal credential which will open to us every opportunity. And we can serve the Class of 1920. For four years we have seen ourselves growing slowly, but surely, to- ward a higher plane of thinking and living, seen ourselves gaining such possessions of mind and body that both become active in the service of the soul. These things we can in turn carry to the world without,-the world with such possibilities for health and ,3 2-

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g -g P I THE SALUTATORIAN Howard Miller, Who has made his efforts count, has acquired the second place as to average for his four years in High School. He has Worked With a great interest and has proven his ability as a good Worker-and a hard studying student. We hope that he will keep up the good Work which he has started and make a place for himself which he will be proud of. He will look back to the Lake City High School With that admiration which will fill his mind with the thought of climbing higher to make the World see what he has accomplished in the youth of his learning. 1

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strength, so sadly perverted, the world with its infinite capacity for love and sympathy, so strangely wrapped. We can carry with us, out of our fresh young experience, the health, the comprehen- sion of truth, and a larger sympathy of love it so really wants, in spite of its apparent obliviousness to those things. We will carry with us that Which the world needs most, a tenderer sympathy and deeper love to all mankind. There is one certain thing that marks the climax of all human powers, and when this has been done we know that the best has been done that can be done, and this supremest thing that anyone can do is to love. From the day of our entrance here as Freshmen we felt that loving, believing sympathy, that firm belief in our innate po- tentialities, which inspired us to do our best, until little 'by little, we grew to a comprehensive grasp of what it meant, and belief of it, until we appropriated it for our own and that we will carry it vgithf us to our work that it may do for others what we have seen it o or us. We will not be discouraged if the world does not rush to us, demanding what we have. We will go to it carefully and slowly, perhaps, but surely, bring it to the final prevailence of truth, for what we desire is not so much an instance, as an eternal recog- nition-the fixed star, nor the meteor. But neither will we set quietly down to let the world wonder, then seek us, but will be ag- gressive, and will carry our truth to the people and cause them to see them so clearly thatthey must accept them. Truth will prevail in the end. This then is the future that was read from our past. We have learned how to think, to work, and to live, but the end is not yet. We will continue as student in our study of life's larger book as we go forth as helpers and teachers. But in whatever ca- pacity we go, be our sphere of action great or small, we will be true, Class of 1920, to the high ideals, the larger plane of thought and action, attained through this great system of education, which has daily demanded the utmost we could give of sympathy, faith and love. We will go forth with our bestto serve the world. As the world sees the service it will acknowledge us and assure us our success. We will be true, O Class of 1920, true in the greatest and the least, and in the great tomorrow which we are to help make we can put the invocation of Tiny Tim into a solemn affirmation that God will bless us everyone. -3 3..