Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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for truth, we accept the Word of (iod as all-Truth. But more than that, we seek to understand the Word, and to be fruitful ground, so the seeds may grow within us and then through our efforts be propagated to other men. live the Word of CJod, making It our norm of morality and accept- ing Its laws. All our courses are directed toward the understand- ing of these principles. Every individual action is patterned after them. Each fraternity, sorority and club on the Marquette cam- pus endeavors to practice them. disseminate them through the printed pag m- But most of all at the University we seek to Furthermore, these pr others through our efforts. Within the Uni ns brace the entire University are a living exa he

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we be good and fruitful ground for the Seed? The solution is in ac- cepting Christ and 11 is doctrines, and acting in accordance with them. This means practicing the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity; it means applying the four cardinal virtues of justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude to daily living. I n other words, it means living the will of God at all times. These are the seeds that have been sown in us. In the past and in the present the seed has fallen upon bad ground: some has fallen by the wayside where it js consumed by evil; some has fallen upon the stony hearts of men •hfik it withers away; some has fallen among the thorns where it u lioked by materialism and worldliness. Vet always some of the seed fait Ipon good ground where it yields fruit, sometimes thirty, sometim|sfifxtv ajid sometimes a hundredfold. fc MIA jetj University strives to be good ground in receiving the Word

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 community AjfTfqi c | §iijlfcrSity contributes citizens better fl equipped! c§j tTuct lasting peace. I bus the Seed grows and l|p ngs forth from the ground. The Seed will mature in proportion to the fertility of the ground, and then the harvest will come forth. As a plant will develop slowly, unfolding leaf by leaf in the sunshine, retarded by frost and weeds, yet finally budding and blooming, so will the Word grow when nurtured by virtues, be retarded by sin, and finally blossom forth through the hearts of peacemakers. If the ground is good and the Seed is nour- ished, it will fructify abundantly. And the fruit of the Seed is peace. “Let us, then, follow after things that make for peace.”