Rowland Hall Saint Mark's - Hallmark / Lantern Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Crimj on l amWer 25 ®l)e art J eligion lapg in Eoiulant all HREE centuries ago our Pilgrim Forefathers settled on the bleak shores of New England. That sturdy band of far-sighted people, who had weathered the fierce storm of persecution and disappointment for an ideal of freedom and liberty, thought of the future and of the future citizens who would live in their land, when they founded the first school in America. Harvard College, founded in 1636, by tke Reverend John Harvard, was a religious school, whose char- ter declared it to be “for the education of the English and Indian youth in Knowledge and Godliness.” Other schools soon sprang up, and we have William and Mary’s and a score of other religious colleges spreading through the country. Why did they stay? Why didn’t they give place to the rapidly rising non-religious schools, founded to take care of pupils of sects that were too many and too various? Because, the people realized that an education was not an education without a thorough knowledge of God and His teachings, taught, if not in schools, then at other places. The need for religion today is greater than ever before! In this fast moving twentieth century, one is likely to forget all too quickly the sweeter, the holier and more serious side of life. One is likely to dash through the day without thought for our Creator who made us, and to whom one day, we shall all surely return. A close and intimate communion with God each day, 1 it ever so short, brings faith to the unbeliever, hope to the downcast, and a thought for others, to the selfish; and without faith, hope and charity — how can a man live? In Rowland Hall each day, we have a short chapel service before beginning the day s work. A casual visitor might say that a prayer is made for the school, the pupils, and teachers, and a few hymns are sung. But that is not all. Five days each week, for nine months each year, we make our own communion with God, and as a result begin our work, not with the hubbub of bells clanging in our ears, and dash- ing from class to class, but calmly, and serenely with the faith that we will be sus- tained throughout the day until eventide, when we again offer up our thanks and ask for protection through the night. Through our study of the Bible, which is the most magnificent production of literature, to which allusions are constantly made, and whoise parables are cited in all other best works of literature, our education is so rounded out and completed, that we not only have a knowledge of the funda- mentals but of the higher and bigger things of life. Through our loyalty to the church and the causes it serves, we have instilled into us loya ty to our country and state, and the principles they strive for. I dare say you will find fewer people with a religion, disloyal to a country, than those who have n • ’ 1 ? have loyalty to a country, which, after all, is the beliefs of all the people combined into a government. o conten t at through our school years spent in the study of elementary sub- jec s, com me wit a fuller knowledge of God, and through our daily contact with otind to be broader minded, to have a brighter and clearer vision are better fitted to take our place in the world, as the children of (jrod and the women of America! — Juliette Browne, Page Six

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Cfje Ctimsion Rambler L - ' • - - ■ . -- ---- - ■ J THE VERY REVEREND W. W. FLEETWOOD Dean of St. Mark’s Cathedral CHAPLAIN OF ROWLAND HALL Page Five

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166Q 25 This Chapel was erected in 1910 in memory of Mrs. Virginia Lafayette Rowland, by her daughter. The organ was given by Gol. and Mrs. E. A. Wall, in memory of Mattie, their daughter. Page Seven