Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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e l6a t lonelte The President’s Message T HE HISTORY of the Human family is but a record of man’s attempt to lift himself to a higher level, socially, mentally, spiritually. Two ideals have always been before him from which to choose his course of action,— Divine Revelation, or what God wants man to be; and the World Ideal, or what man wants himself to be. To God, man is helpless to recover himself without Divine aid. To man, he is sufficient within himself. He has ever been, in his own eyes, the great image with legs of iron, body of brass, breast and arms of silver all crowned with the head of gold. Egypt, Bablyon, Greece and Rome each in turn thought to lift the race to the world ideals. Of these the world was worthy. They followed her program; they labored for her glory; they sacrificed their lives on her altars. Her gifts were ample rewards for their labors. But they could give to the World nothing better than they had received from her. Side by side with these, lived men who saw beyond the World ideals. For Egypt, there was a Moses; for Babylon, there was a Daniel; for Greece and Rome there was a Paul. Although men of like passions with their fellows, they showed by their lives and deeds that they were in touch with the powers and glories of another world. T hese men of God defied Kings and put to flight their armies. Empires rose or fell at their word and they made history at God’s command. The earth and sky obeyed their voice: seas dried up be¬ fore them and rivers stopped in their courses. The sun and moon obeyed them and even death, at their command, meekly brought back the prey it had taken. Mighty men were they, who brought to the World something the World knew nothing of. Of these, the World was not worthy. But the final conquest was won for us by the Man of Galilee. The road He traveled was the roughest ever trod by man. The sweat of blood, the night arrest, the judgment hall, the crown of thorns, the heavy cross, the cruel nails and the despairing cry, all tell of the mightiest conflict the world had ever seen. But the rending rocks, the quaking earth, the opened graves, HIS empty tomb and the ascension cloud proclaim again the victory for man. And under His banner came Peter and Paul and Luther and Wesley and Finney and Moody, all mighty men, “of whom the world was not worthy.” Is it expecting too much that in this, the twentieth century, there may still go forth from the halls of our Christian colleges men and women who, through faith in Jesus Christ, may obtain promises, work righteousness, and subdue kingdoms Men and women of whom the world is not worthy? Page Eighteen