Lancaster Mennonite High School - Laurel Wreath Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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J. Paul Graybill East Earl, Pa. Principal. Free men freely work: whoever fears Cod fears to sit at ease.- Browning. Dear M em-bers of the 1953 Gracluatinff Class: VVith the Lordas blessing upon you, you have been able to finish your high-school days and have been granted a diploma as a token of the work accomplished. As you leave this institution and continue in other pursuits of life you will need to make many choices. Ycu have already made many choices. You have chosen Christ as your personal Saviour, the wisest choice anyone can make. Looking forward into the years ahead I can see many choices you will need to make. You will need to decide whether you will continue in further schooling. You will D need to choose wisely in selecting a vocation because of its influence upon your own life and upon the lives of others. A serious choice you will need to make in a few years, choosing a life partner. Choose wisely, choose seriously, look beyond surface considerations, look for foundational reasons for making your decisions. The VVord of Cod will give you noble purposes and wise counsels, the Holy Spirit will direct you if you are fully committed to Codls Willg the church will help you with encouragement and fellowship. You need not fail in life. You are perfectly safe as you follow God's unerring counsel. We Wish you a successful life with every detail of it chosen after Godls will, a life chosen by God for you. 14. I. PAUL GRAY1a1LL. Amos W. Weaver Ronks, R. 1, Pa. Assi.sta'n.t Principal, Bible. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, the rest of it is all but leather and prunella.-Pope. Dear Seniors: Those four long years you faced in the fall of 319 look much shorter now from this end. So life, as it stretches out before you in prospect, seems almost endless. But it is not. The years will continue to Hy no less swiftlyg and with them, golden opportunities, which, if you do not use as they come, will be lost forever. Here at school you have had a life filled with many activities, varied interests and opportunities for mental and spiritual development. With it all was also the constant temptation to take the easier road, to spend time in personal enjoyment of momentary pleasures These conditions will continue in much the same fashion in the few short years of life which are ahead of you. You have set a pat- tern of habits in these four years of high school which you are likely to follow in the future. Only by strong determination and major effort will you be able to make any appreciable improvement in that pattern. The fact that you have persevered until you reached the goal of graduation is in itself commendable and gives promise of future successes. The degree to which you have succeeded in giving the right proportion of time, interest, and energy to Work, play, study, prayer and devotion, and consideration to those about you, may well determine the manner of life ahead of you. lf you have not made any mistakes and have no regrets, you are most unusual. We learn by our mistakes. You learned much in that way in school, and now as you leave the schoolroom and look back, you can continue to learn. I hope that you will continue to profit by past failures and mistakes and constantly grow more proficient in the art of living. Never cease to be a student but continue in the School of God till you grow more and more like the Master Teacher, jesus. AMOS W. WEAVER.