St Bernards School - Crusader Yearbook (Gladstone, NJ)

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THE REVFREND ROBERT L CLAYTON Rector of Sr Bermrd Q 'School 11946 I4 I

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The Crusader Managing Ecliior Edward H. Dunning l.ilc'rury Ezlilnr Arthur Warcl Avfiviiivs Ronald F. Kerr Alblelirs Beverly I.. Wzxlrer Historian Lee Tc-rhune Pbofog rapby THE STAFF Eefifor-irl-Chief .IAY 11 PERKINS Kenneth M. Crombie I311sim'ss M anagrr Howard G. Oliver Alll'l'l'fiXilI,Lf M dIlt1,QI'l' john Stein Eugene E. Lezgus Tr1'as11r1'r Charles F. Kull Ari Harold l.unn C?il'l'1IItlfi0ll Ernest W. Curr Sr'frm'ary H. Terry Cnrrell Farulfy Adviser Mr. John C. Gunzelman Published by the Sixth Form ST. BERNARD'S SCHOOL GLADSTONE, NEW JERSEY june, l95l THE RHVHREND Ronlsm' I.. CLAYTON, Renm- Nl

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illlqe QKectur's- glllfesszrge St. Bernard was the author of many moving letters. No example could illustrate this more clearly than a few words taken from his correspondence with Godfrey. This young nobleman had begun his training for the monastic life but after a time was drawn back to life in the world. In a letter of great eloquence, St. Bernard puts the matter squarely before God- frey. Perhaps you blush to return, where you have only now fallen away. Blush for flight and not for turning to renew the combat. There are some in every generation today who are responding more and more deeply to the voice of God. Both young and old are finding in fresh new ways that the voice of God alone is the voice that brings light and life. Yet it is perhaps even more true than in St. Bernard's day that the temp- tations of the world to put its demands before God's call are more subtle, more numerous and more appealing. For the person who tries to serve God with his life, there are many questions and difficulties. And we do fall away again and again. Nor is it easy to return. lt takes courage to ask God to help us overcome our deepseated selfish desires. It is just here that St. Bernard's words cut into our modern lives. Perhaps you blush to return, where you have only now fallen away. It does make us shamed to discover how easily we let our selfishness make traitors of us before God. We are not unaware that we easily become disloyal to beauty, truth, and goodness as we know them. But St. Bernard not only understood our predicament, he presents us with a fine turn of phrase-so human in its understanding and yet so godly in its unmistakable warning. Blush for flight, and not for turning to renew the combat. Even as St. Bernard tried with all his might to help Godfrey fulfill his vocation, so we of the faculty and staff hope that as you look back in the future to your days at School, you will remember that we too would have each and every one of you become men in the finest sense of the word. We would have you blush for flight for the conflict is not yet ended. May God bless you always. E51