Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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1854—1954 A HISTORY

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DEDICATION Dolores Lee. of Brooklyn. New York, a Junior attending the Eastern School for Physicians, salutes Lincoln Univer- sity. Dear Lincoln, our beloved, upon thee we bestow our highest praises. From within thy doors has come to us a token of remembrance, a scope of manhood and worldliness. Within the hearts of thy loyal sons will ever live the love for scholarship and achievement, the love of freedom and brotherhood. In thine own ways, thou hast branded upon this Earth a unique structure of mere simplicity—a tribute to the beauty of all which hast so long endured. In parallel with the alterations and improvements necessarily wit- nessed with the advent of time, you have been a vivid competitor, ever showing your merits for existence. In more than the value of one hundred years of development, may the aims thus far established be felt multifold in thy succeeding years. C

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I Lincoln University is an intellectual, spiritual and social, as well as an educational institution. Its history, therefore, is a drama meaningless aside from historical backdrop against which the actors in this long drama have portrayed their respective roles. This account, therefore, parallels the history of the institution with significant dates in the majestic panorama of the civilizations of which it is the child. Lincoln University is in fact much older than 100 years. The oldest, and most persistent thread finally woven into its fabric, is the idea that there is but one God. (2000 B.C.: the Ancients, principally the Jews, develop a monotheistic reli- gious faith). This great idea accepted, a necessary corollary is that God is the Father of all Man- kind: all men are Brothers. If every Man is your Brother, you owe to him every mutuality of love and helpfulness. We owe Judaism eternal grati- tude for this majestic conception. But with them the idea never fully outgrew a restriction of its application to their own people, who came to be a specially chosen” people of God. Through the life and death of Jesus Christ (4 B.C.-29 A.D.), a Jew, the idea broadened to include men of every race and creed. All men who believed in Him as the Son of God, could by an Act of Faith become a Chosen People, whether Jew or Gentile, white, black, brown or yellow. In itself a simple Faith, competition with other religions, and Man's inveterate tendency to complicate his affairs, soon required the tech- nical apparatus of a philosophy, and Theology, to defend it against unbelievers. The early Chris- tians borrowed largely from Greek sources, mainly Aristotle and Plato. An important first systematize? was St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.). His theolog- ical system dominated the early Church, and were re-worked twelve hundred years later by John Houston Hall, Seminary Building.