Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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(Erittt00tt nnh Wtyitt EVERY observant reader of the Bible lias had his attention arrested at times by what seemed a mystical or symbolical use of numbers. This is also true in regard to colors. Crimson and white are so often associated with the ideas of bloodshed and purity as to have become emblematical of them. White is preeminently the color of purity, righteousness and holiness. God ' s attitude of holiness was symbolized by the patterns of Levitieal economy, hence we find the Hue linen in the covering, the veil and the curtains of the tabernacle. The Levitieal singers were arrayed in white garments, the priests and the Levites in white, and the raiment white as the light in which the transfigured Christ appeared, the apparel of the angels, the white robes of the glorified and the white linen bright and pure, symbolic of the righteousness of saints which is the ornamental vesture of the bride of the Lord, are all naturally associated together in our minds. Purity is a priceless jewel. It is most admired of all the virtues, the su- preme quality in all noble characters. It rises as queen of Christian graces, exciting in the hearts of the beholders a Cod-given admiration. We, as a class, have chosen the colors symbolic of that which we want our thoughts, our actions and our lives to be. Crimson is typical of our gospel. From the book of Genesis to Revelation, there is a scarlet thread, a blood-streak, the hope of mankind. It is the life- giving flow; and since the night when God spoke the words, When I see the blood I will pass over you, great multitudes have stepped into the crimson tide and have been saved from eternal death. Without the blood there is no remission of sins. Our motto — All for Jesus — means all; not one mite would we withhold. Had we a thousand lives to give we would lay them all at the feet of Jesus. We have purposed in our hearts to take the blood-sprinkled way — no sacrifice too great, no service too hard. The center of our »ospel shall be the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. May the Crimson and the White be cherished as reminiscence of our pleasant days spent in I. H. U., and may our lives ever fulfill their meaning. P. B. Morris, B. Col. ' 15. 24

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Pearl Morris Jennie Jacobson Cora Ryan JENNIE JACOBSON, President Motto: All for Jesus Colors: Crimson and White 23

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Ruth Ellyson Hugh Benner Ethel Dain Flower: Hyacinth Colors: Moss Green and Gold Motto: At the Foothills, Climbing A SnaBt in tljr QJnttB ruatnrH QUaaa nf ' 15 TO THE three who are climbing- the mountain of the sublime art of music — sublime because God is the author of all harmony and has so constructed the universe that every star and every flower, every hill and every stream shall contribute to swell the anthem of His praise. Come all ye unnamed minstrels, bring them music from heaven ; come with the wave-burst, solemn and majestic, or with minor strains, which pulsate with pathos and tenderness until the very rocks will be softened and the shadowed mountains tremble as with reverent joy. While their own souls revel in ecsta- sies of highest rapture, which run out at their finger tips, may they be the instruments by which the divine Master will communicate revelation to human listeners. Under the spell of their genius may all controversy be silenced, and alienation be forgotten in brotherhood; while a consolation which touches every quivering fiber of human sorrow turn tear drops of grief into rainbows of hope. Play on with heaven-given afflatus, for amid earth ' s ruins some souls will catch a line of beauty and be made glad with pure exultant joy! Play on! Until this night-life be gone and the morning be fully come; then, with immor- talized fingers you may strike the golden harps of heaven ' s grand orchestra in the city of our God. Professor M. Emily Ellyson. 25