Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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Never in the history of the world was the need for true manhood greater than at the present. Polities, in its corruption, is calling for men with clear brains and large hearts, to liberate it from the terrible cesspools of its pollution. Commerce is asking for men of honesty and integrity to manage her busy affairs and to guide the wheels of her rapid progress. Eeligion, tainted v ith doubt, skepticism, higher-criti- cism, and fo rmality, is demanding men with acute intellects, tender consciences, and pure hearts, to exhibit and rightly preach the truths taught by the Man of Galilee. And we are proud of the fact that our University is one among the few universities which sends out persons who supply the needs above mentioned. That is, they have not only a trained head, but also a trained heart. Taylor University is free from those vices which generally attend larger institutions of learning. We are glad we have had the privilege of attending such a university as ours, whose motto is ' ' plain living and high thinking, ' ' and now that the time has come for the Class of 1905 to leave her walls, we deem it a privilege to present the ' ' Gem ' ' to the faculty, trustees, alumni and fel- low students, hoping that all who read its pages may be inspired to be true representatives of our beloved Alma Mater. EDITOES. fef

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EDITORIAL IN THE forward march of the world the time has come when the Class of 1905 feel that they must supply the demanding need of the literary world by the publication of another College bi-ennial. Duty has knocked at the door of our conscience, and said : ' ' Give to humanity another ' Gem. ' ' ' Whether it has been decreed from the fovTndation of the world by fixed and inexorable laws that we should be the recipients of this great pleasure and honor, or whether we, by our own voluntary act, took the tide at its flood which has led us into this haven of for- tune, it is not our jiurpose to settle ; but one thing we do know, the task is before us, and with this realization, we advance with the steady tread of a conqueror. One of the greatest problems with which the twentieth century is confronted, is the Law of Supply and Demand. The proper adjust- ment of this law would be one of the greatest achievements known to the human race. This law is not confined to the political, economical or material relations of life only, as some might think, but it relates to the intellectual, spiritual, moral, and other phases of life as well. And the greatest folk of any age are they who come most nearly to fulfilling the conditions for the proper adjustment of this law. He is not a man who lives surrovmded by his accumulated millions, still striving to hoard all that which is possible for him to get, and turning a deaf ear to a hungry multitude crying for a few fishes and some bread to satisfy their need. He may walk upright as a man and wear the vesture of a man, but in his breast beats the heart of a beast. He is not a man who conceals himself in some monastery of learning and there feeds continually his voracious appetite for intellectual de- velopment on the delicious truths of knowledge, and refuses to take time to give to the world the benefit of his already acquired mental wealth. Though he may have acquired all the combined knowledge of the Grecian Philosophy and have penetrated the profoundest depths of modern science, yet he lacks the requisites of a man. He could be called a person of knowledge, but not a man of wisdom. He is not a man who ever drinks at the living fountain and eats the heavenly manna, and fails to go out to tell a restless world of the source of eternal joy and peace. We light the world only as our light reaches others; we are the salt of the earth only as we become the saving agencies of it; we are worth to the world only what we give to it.

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H. MARIA WRIGHT LITERARYTHALL TAYLOR UNIVERSITY