Mercer University - Cauldron Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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concerned that Yahuteh might be A pictoral and verbal lank at the tears I rain (tt Mercer in 30 years View from top of Student Center makes students appear transparent, they endured 637 inches of rain in less thou two months Monsoons hii PE department attendance heavily, here faithful fete make trek to the two halls of health 25

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The Weather Always Makes w The News rpni- LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN which graced the ■ .Mercer buildings and grounds over I lie course of the war just past came as no great shock to the average Mer- ccrian, who with eves fixed firmly on the impending week- end and consciousness oblivious to all but the bare essentials I food, clothes. clubs) paid no real heed to the buckets of moisture which plummeted us all and returned to plummet again and again. The plummeting was hard on the plumbing to say the very least. Macon weather official announced that this year’s amount bested all rainfalls held since 193Qi Those who noticed the precipitation would probably be prone in agree, since swollen gutters, raging sidewalks and the tortured turbulence in the drains, storm sewers and pipe , all attested to rain quantities unknown before in the lives of the young sons of Mercer. But even the constant spatter of the rainy matter made no impressionable dent on the general Mercer consciousness. Club reported steady attendance at meetings. RQTC hoys cursed and braved the torrential blast, ami the PE classes on the hill met like the good Mercer institutions that they were. .Student Covernmetit passed a resolution deploring the rain but expressing the hope that since it had to come, the students would cooperate, Thu the rains came, the floods came up. and the house founded on that unknowable something stood firm. end Mad dash from Ad Building In hot coffee part of Mercer ritual, here Math prof Mrs. Lois Dicks lends the charge

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95 Thesis ])fSPIII THF PACT tl.il Man in Luther would have been horrified at the making light of ilr fine tradi- tion oE tlmi» writing, the appearance of the Mercer version ol the Great Re. former’ challenge can lie said, with some justification, i« luive been one of the highlight» of Mercer liturgical gear. I hi- (not tea t om of the these is un- known and the only due lies in the prologue which stales that the purpose was to lining to light the truth, Had this ten fly been the rase however, the attack on various professor would not have excluded two or three very out- standing members of the Mercer theo- logical community who though incisive, are not vcthally inspired and arc not infallible in matter of faith and morals, though they speak with a Southern Mis ■i'-ippi twang or boil from rural West- erly Georgia, Verily then, the authors bad not the revelation of the entire truth in mind when writing, hut rather spoke from a standpoint of good natured gibing with rival faculty membri» with whom they compete for theological and ecclesiasti- cal supremacy. The humorous motivation of ihe theses did not, however, prevent some real truths 'l«-mp brought to light even though this «my have been by mistake rather than intention. Constructive eriticLsini of the Baptist hierarchies, agencies, program , policies and philosophic' were also induded, to llie delight of those who feel the ten- dency of the stauncher Baptists to In-- conn- too Southern and sn on. All of these insights of course were intended in nought hut the most serious vein anrl any unthinking prolate who thought differently had only to s«.r upon the sanctimonious author to have any of lit doubts erased and his faith restored, Professors to hare the brunt of the thi-srs, including cine in particular, who though not nimie suspicion hitiiscjf as a possible author, still maintained his innocence vehemently and scoffed at the criticism as that of ravenous wolves- and fundamentalia in liberals clothing come to attack the trite sheep. Among the faults of the Southern Baptist Convention are• ( ) if is loo Southern; (2) it is too Baptist; ($) it is too conventional. Southern Baptists should be loyal to their theology as soon as they develop one. The Social Gospel movement dwindled away when the only poor people left were dirty. Kierkegrmrde must have been very disap- pointed if he found any other people in heaven.