Southern Adventist University - Triangle Yearbook (Collegedale, TN)

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ertitce if- -i Service — what a wealth of meaning; Service — who can understand? With what high endeavor teaming; Fraught with Christ ' s own heart and hand. Years ago in old Judea, By the shores of Galilee, Did our Saviour work and labor, Seeking sin-sick souls to free. Then we see on that hill yonder, Crosses three are raised to view. On the high one hangs our Saviour Dying there for me and you. Thus our Lord fulfilled His mission; Then came life, that we might live; And to us, the great commission, Go and labor; work and give. And tonight we hear the Saviour As he says, Go serve today — Yes, go serve Me in my vineyard; Work, O work, do not delay. Then the answer swiftly follows, Here am 1, O Lord, send me ; Just to serve Thee every moment — This our prayer ascends to Thee. BeRNICE HOLLISTER.

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regibent ' s bbres:s IDEALS are the stars which God has placed in the sky of young manhood and womanhood. They are not fleeting clouds after which children run, only to find that the hilltop is no nearer to them than the valley, and that the climb has been of no avail. They are real, tangible, and each ascent brings us nearer their posession. As the wise men followed a star to the King of the universe, so every youth who is guided by the light of his ideal will discover a Bethlehem. In his childhood, Abraham Lincoln fixed his eyes upon an ideal, the highest possible service to humanity, and never for an instant lost sight of it. Step by step it led him. With a dauntless courage and unswerving purpose that was death- like in its tenacity, he followed. The light grew brighter and clearer. With patience and grim determination he overcame obstacles that seemed insurmountable. Finally, his ideal hovered over the president ' s chair; Lincoln followed until he sat on the throne of a nation, crowned under his life ' s star. The swallow flutters over the plain and meadow, but the eagle lives on the crag and soars among the clouds and mountain tops, never knowing weariness. This is the divine right of every individual in the universe. There is no power sufficient to shackle a man ' s aspirations. Spurred by a noble purpose, he can rise out of the dungeon and mock the chains of his enemy ' s forging. We rise upon what we wish to be by constant effort. To reach the summit of our aspirations we must climb a steep and dangerous mountain side. There are curves and precipices which make it almost impossible to return. To go back is to fall. The only safe way is ever onward, ever upward. The one essential to true success is a worthy purpose — an ideal with conscience in it. The perfect pattern and highest ideal to which mankind can aspire is Christ, and in him is bound up the mystery and power of attainment. It was because we had caught a vision of this highest ideal and purposed in our hearts to follow the perfect pattern, that we came to Southern Junior College. And as we, the class of 1923, have reached the first ledge of life ' s great ascent, we pause for a moment to pay tribute to our beloved teachers, through whose untiring efforts we have been urged on toward the realization of our ideals. Theirs was the courage which taught us to Welcome each rebuff That turns earth ' s smoothness rough. Theirs was the faith that bade us, even in the face of failure, Nor faint, but climb. And so tonight, our hearts filled with gratitude, our eyes fixed upon the Day-star, and our ears attuned to the great commission, Go ye into all the world, we pledge ourselves to the Master ' s service. For time, we claim the tugged heights of noble achievement, and for eternity, The shining table land to which our God, himself, is moon and sun. Frederick E. Fuller.

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alutatorp AWAY back in eternity God purposed, in His heart, a great purpose. It was to make our little world. The thought of it brought great joy to His heart, and it brought great sorrow, too. But. looking beyond the few thousand years this world would remain in sin, He saw the riches it would bring to Him; so He made it. At the end of creation week, as the earth lay in full glory, a glory which is found only in the yearning purpose of the heart of God, He called the heavenly host together. They looked upon His work, and the record is, The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Upon us. the creatures of God ' s handiwork, rests the responsibility of harmon- izing the closing stanzas of this song, with the triumphant notes which marked its beginning. Only as we understand that which caused the first joyous strains shall we be able to meet this obligation. Perfect faith in the plans and purposes of God filled the angelic host with rap- turous song. If we would join that swelling chorus, there must be an entire trust in the working out of an infinite plan for our lives. It is because we have this trust and because we have purposed in our hearts that God shall use us in the perfecting of His great plan in creation, that we stand before you tonight. Fathers and mothers, we welcome you on this occasion because we wish to share with you the joy which it brings to our hearts. When we were discouraged, or disheartened you urged us on, by your kind, loving words, and by those comforting letters, and have helped us to stand successful tonight. Had it not been for those years of training under you, our first teachers, this success would not be ours. So, to you. we extend our heartiest welcome. Dear teachers, in view of the fact that our lives have been molded for the best by your untiring, persevering labors, we rejoice to welcome you, to this, the partial culmination of our hopes. With the thought of whatever of success has come to us during these years at school, our minds turn to you. Accept our gratitude. Friends and relatives, we welcome you because life would be incomplete without you. Those ties which bind us can never be broken. You have put joy into life, for friendship improves happiness .... by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief. We gladly welcome you. Juniors and fellowstudents, you. too. have a welcome this evening. You have helped us. You, perhaps, have looked to us for examples and by so doing have made us strive the more to give you an example, the results of which we should be willing, always, to face. Our message is Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe And so, in behalf of the class I welcome every person here tonight. We have reached one goal in the fulfilment of our hopes, and this evening, our last oppor- tunity for united endeavor is to us an occasion of great joy. And as you enter into our joys with us tonight, with your prayers and good wishes, enter also into our hopes and desires that this maybe the beginning of years of greater usefulness and nobler endeavor. Sanford Horton Ulmer.