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

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faith is, it is carrying on in the face of the greatest difficulties and re- treating with the hope and expectation of advancing. I would put as the second essential of true leadership the passion to work. Leadership means toil. Indefatigable toil is the lot of the world ' s leaders. You must join heart and hand with the doers of things. There is no time for idleness in the life of the leader of men. He must keep in touch with the world ' s movements and the world ' s thought. He must close ranks with men and women who Labored in their sphere, as men who live In the delight that work done can give. The leaders of men are those who while others slept they were upward toiling in the night. The command of heaven is son, go work today in my vineyard. The true leader works not because he has to, but because it is a passion for him to do so. He works because there is work in him. John Ruskin says, Nobody does anything well that they cannot help doing; work is only done well when it is done with a will; and no man has a thoroughly sound will unless he knows he is doing what he should, and is in his place. We must keep this always in mind that the leaders of tomorrow are always chosen from the workers of today. And remember, as the frank Englishman says, wise work is always honest, useful, and cheerful. Then again the leaders must be willing to make sacrifices. The world has never learned how to pay its true benefactors or to reward its true workers. The true work of the world is never well paid for by those who receive its benefits. The leader must be content to know that he is doing a worthwhile work. Leadership means sacrifice and often very painful sacrifice at that. A leader must forge ahead into unbroken and entangled byways. He must venture into unknown re- gions like Abraham, not knowing whither. He must tread lonely and thorny pathways. We depend fo rour welfare upon sacrifices offered by another person. The scholar makes sacrifices in order that he might lead others into newly discovered fields of scientific and literary thought. Our comforts and joys are the result of the sacrifices of others. Leaders are mocked and jeered at by their contemporaries but they have the joy of knowing that they lead and sometime that they will be remembered by grateful people. All the blessings of modern invention have cost men suffering and anguish. The sacrifice has been great and the pay small. Let Ruskin speak again. None of the best work in art, literature, or science is ever paid for. How much do you think Homer got for his Iliad? or Dante for his Paradise? only bitter bread and salt, and going up and down other people ' s stairs. In science, the man who discovered the telescope, and first saw heaven, was paid with a dungeon ; the men who invented the microscope, and first saw earth, died of starvation driven from his home ; it is indeed very clear that God means all thoroughly good work and talk to be done for nothing. A true leader never asks what shall I have therefor but what can I do in this work a day world and how well can I do it. The greatest reward that can come to the noble soul is to know that he has done something in life and he has done that something well. The only

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SOI aar? ! illlllli i iHSB5K SB9l@ (Lhr Cssnttmls uf (Lntz Lm ersltirj (Prof. Geo. Shaw) Motituri Salutamus. We who are about to die salute you. So said one of old time to Caesar. And so say we to you who are about to leave university halls to take your place among the leaders of Church, State and Society. The crying need of the age is for true leaders. The world is i na chaotic state and madness is in the hearts of men. Madness and fear and a dreadful uncertainty fill the minds of onlooking human- ity. Blind guides there are a plenty but the world was never in greater need of true and sane leadership. The leaders of tomorrow are in the schools of today. To graduate from college is the privilege of a very few. To have a college education means that you will in all probability be a leader among men. Just what kind of a leader you will be will depend upon your native ability and how well you have applied your- self to your academic studies. It will also depend upon how you grasp the essential elements of leadership. Conditions of leadership will change, but the essential qualifications remain the same — the same whether it be Napoleon on the plains of Lombardy or Foch on the de- vastated plains of Picardy; whether Paul on Mars ' Hill or Wesley on the moores of Smithfield. No matter how well you have mastered theories in the class room you are now to grapple with facts and deal with the hearts and wills of the people. You have yet to learn the truth of the poet ' s words that the best study of mankind is man. The first essential of true leadership is faith in the future. You have youth and with youth is vision. The leader must not sit down and waste his time in vain regrets over the irrevocable past, but must stir his heart over the possibilities which lie in the available future. How beautiful is youth, all possibiliites are in its hands, No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands in its sublime audacity of faith. To believe in these possibilities is the first great essential of leader- ship. You must believe in success before success can crown your labor. There can be no crowning victory if you embark on a doubtful course. You must believe in yourself and the cause you espouse. You must believe through the darkest hours of seeming defeat that ultimately you will succeed. To lose faith is sure defeat. You must have the will to believe. This thing we call faith is the soul ' s anchorage when the storms of opposition threaten with destruction the work our hands are trying to perform. We must refuse to listen to the prognosticators of failure and push on in joyful anticipation of final victory. Faith is a subjective continuity of disposition and will, which seeks to hold firmly to an objective continuity in existence. Faith holding fast in the dark- est hour of seeming defeat has brought the sure reward of ultimate and glorious victory. The war phrase of the English troops when their back was to the wall was carry on. You could not choose a better phrase than thi sfor your life work. Carry On. And this is what

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plaudit he asks for is the voice within saying well done. Then work, work with all your heart, work until thy earth ' s task is done. And again the leader of men must have patience to wait results. He must bring himself under the strictest discipline. He must be able to think calmly and quickly. He must have a well balanced judgment and a fine sensed soul. Around the portrait of the intrepid Luther are the words of his favorite verse in the Latin tongue, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength. Leaders must have anchored souls, In the title page of that beautiful book the Christian Year John Keble says, next to a sound rule of faith there is nothing of so much conse- quence as a sober standard of feeling in matters of practical religion. A leader must be patient of results. He must endure reverses and set- backs and be willing to wait results of his labor. He may have to wait many years for the bread he has cast upon the waters. He will sow in tears but he shall also reap in joy in due season. He must not be in haste for he that believeth shall not make haste. Impatience is a sure mark of inability to lead. He must not let temporal failures daunt him, but like Disraeli, who failed in his maiden speech in Parliament, he should say, some day you will hear me. And they did. To hurry with your work, to take the line of least resistance, will mean to fail of the best results. The time element in life ' s work is most important. Waterloo was won not only by the bravery of the English troops but equally by the calm waiting of Wellington who waited for the right moment to let loose his panting eager legions. There is still another essential to true leadership. The leader must be willing to stand alone. You must have the courage to cut yourself adrift from all parties ; be a slave to no maxims ; stand forth, unfet- tered and free, servant only to the truth. You will then often stand alone, grandly alone, untrammelled by the prejudices of any, and free to admire the beauty, and love the goodness of them all. The great Apostle said I have made myself free from all men in order that I might be servant of all. The world ' s true leaders are always free from the petty party spirit. They are men who tower above the paltry bickering of a frail humanity. They do not live for the applause of men nor for a temporal reward but for a cause. You must choose some noble cause and devote your soul to its success. Cultivate then a broad mind and a loving heart. Hold fast to fun- damentals, but be free enough to leave traditions where you find they are not founded in the pure dogmas of humanity. Be loyal to truth as God gives you to see the truth. Let virtue, love of God and mankind be the stars to guide you to your destiny. May each one of you be found among those of whom Carlisle wrote when he said, Blessed be heaven there is here and there a man born who loves truth as truth should be loved, with all his heart and all his soul, and hates an untruth with a corresponding perfect hatred.