Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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vox COLLEGII 9 preme in our lives, tools, in Abraham ' s day, a cruel, idolatrous form. Abraham was led through an experience that in- duced him in sacrifice to offer up Isaac, his only begotten son, to Jehovah, with the result that he learned what genuine fatherhood meant. By making God our pattern in life we become our true selves. This is involved in the fact that we wei ' e made in the image of God. Thus when we make His presence in our lives a habit are Ave not thereby becoming transformed into His, likeness ? We see in this that religion does not cramp our natural powers of thought or feeling, or conscience, but rather intro- duces them into the path that shines more and more unto the perfect day. The sphere of religious action is not found in ascetic performances or merely ceremonial activities. Wherever a soul is striving to be genuine there is holy groiind, and there the living God com- municates His love, and joy, and peace. A great river, in Oriental phrase, was called a river of God ; a great mountain , a mountain of God; a genuine man, a man of God. Such was Abraham, and such are all true builders of a nation, Avhether they be high or low, masters or servants. The only secure nation is one whose people do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly Avith God. ' ' What we need as a people is to wake up. The natural man is dead in tres- passes and sins. AAvake thou that sleepest, and Christ shall give thee life. ' ' These words are addressed to individuals and especially at this time to nations. Clearer than ever before can we now see both by this war and the work of mis- sions at home and abroad the necessity of public education being in life and pre- cept Christian. Thus are we thoroughly furnished unto all good works. As it Avas in the beginning Avith Abraham, in- itiating religion into national life, may it be so now and forever. We are called upon, as Abraham, to become perfect, Avalking as in God ' s sight. To become perfect is to become thoroughly made, spherical in development, vitalized in all our faculties, and thus in ourselves and in our relations to church and home and college like a city set upon a hill that cannot be hid. And now a word to the graduating class. Every ending implies a begin- ning; every reaping implies a sowing. This college is to-day an end in your lire, but an end beckoning you on to begin another career Avith efficiency and dis- tinction in proportion to the success with which you close your course here. Youth is a rare time of advantages, be- cause of the features which characterize it. It is a formative time. With facil- ity you can give bent to your character now for untold good which Avould be beyond your power to accomp- lish if postponed too long. They that seek early in life its best eon- tents can find them. No such promise is made to one Avho, through indolence or cramping conditions, alloAvs herself to become a field where only weeds or nox- ious plants grow. Arrange after you leave here to pursue such studies with- out delay as will maintain and develop the advantages you have reaped here. Do it while memory is at its best; Avhile the heart is hopeful ; while intellect is quick; Avhen everything comes to you like the morning, and its voice is like the morning songs. This will give you a true optimism based upon a real and vital personality that hopeth all things and believeth all things. ' ' Thus jou Avill spread the influence of your Alma Mater in the best Avay Avhen you are living epistles, Avitnessing to its high and enduring educative realizations. I need not tell you, Avhat is not knoAvn as widely as it should be, of the salubrity and beau- ty and comforts of this College. It has so far begun its Avork so Avell and in such quarters as to Avarrant the hope that a great future in influence and develop- ment aAvaits it. Let all those Avho have experience of its worth, pass it on to oth- ers — its graduates, by giving it a high place in their hearts and memories through all their years by word and deed ; and the citizens of this toAAm, by furnishing accessibility to the institution among them by good roads to it ; by cord-

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8 VOX COLLEGII Merkel - Spring Song CLARICE PACKHAM. Janowski - - Djorah MURIEL COOK. Woodforde-Findin (a) Less Than De Dust; (Indian Love Lvric) , (b) Till I Wake. GRACE LINTON. Wach Pei ' venclie EVELYN COOK. Dengia Sing On FRANCES FRASER. Friml Staccato Etude Op. 37, No. 1 JESSIE LOVE. Stojoioski Prelude Ap. 1 No. 2 Jean McLelland. Ayhvard (a) Love ' s Coi ' onation (b) Rose in the Bud MARJORIE ROSS. Hensett Si Orsean J ' Etais MARY DEPEW. Lautz ]My Love is Like a Red Rose Goetz Melisandi in the Wood MALTD SHAW. Cliopin (a) Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 Coleridge-Taylor (b) Impromptu. GRACE LINTON. SUNDAY. For the Baccaulaureate sermon one of Canada ' s most foremost preachers, Rev. Dr. G. M. Milligan, pastor emeritus of Old St. Andrew ' s Church, Toronto, had been secured, and the Methodist Taber- nacle was crowded. The Presbyterian and Baptist Churches cancelled their evening sei ' dces, and all three congrega- tions joined in the splendid service at the Tabernacle. On the platform with Dr. Milligan were Rev. A. H. Foster, pastor of the Tabernacle; Rev. F. L. Farewell, Prin- cipal, and Rev. Dr. Hare, Principal Emeritus of the College; Rev. G. A. McLean and Rev. S. G. McCormack, each of whom took part in the service. During the evening the choir rendered an an- them, and Miss Gott, of the College Fac- ulty, sang ' ' There is a Green Hill. ' ' Dr. Milligan chose for his text Genesis 17 : 1 — And when Abraham was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abraham, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me and be thou perfect. He laid particular em- phasis upon the last clause — Walk be- fore me and be thou perfect. ' ' Abraham was called from his native plaee,Ur of the Chaldecs,to go to the land God had for him to found a nation for his own people, and through them for the good of all peoples. In Babylon men worshipped the powers of nature; they mistook them for gods. Abraham was quickened to recognize that the founda- tion of things was spirit, not matter. God he apprehended was spirit, and in Him all things lived and moved and had their being. This conviction was im- pressed upon Abraham and gave main- tenance and purpose to his mission. He Avas to walk as under the eye of God, and by being genuine to his real inner self was to know God, whom to know is life eternal. The career of Abraham, as set before us in Genesis, constitute many various pictures of an historic nature. The world iDecame his schoolhouse, and the exper- iences he realized in it his lessons for the life that now is as well as that to come. His heart was stirred when he saw the fate the Sodomites were bringing upon themselves. He learned, by praying for their rescue from calamity, how ready and full was forgiveness in God. In giv- ing Lot his choice in material benefits, he showed that a high purpose in life saves from the greed that degrades. The patri- arch seems not to have been clear about the sacredness of the relation of husbana and wife. Pharaoh, when he found the deceit Abraham practiced upon him by passing off ,Sarah as his sister, ordered his men to turn him out of Egypt and all he had. The lesson to Abraham was: Be genuine hereafter, and allow no words about Sarah to be other than those of truth and soberness. ' ' It was customary for chiefs adjoining Abraham in Canaan to offer children in sacrifice to their gods. The principle that our choicest treasure should be de- voted to Jehovah, if we make Him su-

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10 vox COLLEGII iality of demeanor toAvards those seeking tuition at their college, and by many ser- vices they can render socially and other- wise to make their town a place of frag- rant memories. MONDAY. CLASS DAY. Monday was Class Day. As usual we had a most delightful afternoon pro- gram. It was bright, crisp and ' ' funny. ' ' As the daisy chain was clipped each fair graduate took her place on the platform to the reading of the following fates : Before the seniors went their ways Into the happy future days, Doing their life work, we must see What each of them is going to be. Ve draw the misty vale aside And cut the knot in which fate ' s tied. FLORENCE GRAHAM. Florence is the youngest member of the graduating class, and has a veiy bright future before her when she leaves the halls of our Alma Mater. She re- turns each year to attend summer school, but not in vain. After the third year she decides to do settlement work in Whitby and afterwards is busy laundering white coats. MARGERY MOORE. Behind a counter where displayed Are hot, quick lunches all arrayed, Bowing, smiling to all who know her, Stands our dear friend Margery Moore. MYRTLE FAWT1ETT. Brooklin, Ont., January 26, 1927. Dear Friend : — You will no doubt be surprised to know I came as a delegate to a Sunday School Convention here. I am very fortunate in being billeted at the Rev. and Mrs. John Zacharius Nehemiah Nathaniel Ebenezer. Mrs. Ebenezer is a veiy de- lightful person, having qualities that be- come a young woman. She is a graduate of O.L.C. Maybe you have heard me speak of her as Miss Myrtle Ermina Weselena Faweett, her maiden name. She takes a veiy active part in the par- ish duties and is very instrumental in the carrying on of plays and churcn socials. She is also a leader in fashion here, besides having charge of the choir, being organist and sometimes supplying for the Rev. Ebenezer. I was so fortunate in being placed with these fine people, and I ' m sure their kindly deeds will live long after them. Very lovingly, A Sister Grad. MELVA IIETHERINGTON. All day long through the city street Soundeth the tread of many feet ; The militant suffragettes on the run, Led by IMiss Melva Hetherington. GRACE FISHER. On a New York stage under brilliant light, Grace Fisher ' s performing every night; She will whistle to all for a nickle or dime, And be ballet-dancing all the time. ADA SNIDER. On an outdoor platform Miss Snider stands ; She appeals to a mob with outstretched hands ; The persuasive eloquence she has dis- played Would put poor Cicero in the shade. FREDA PENNAL. Freda ' s school days are over, but she is no longer ' ' Freda. ' ' One now address- es her as Miss Pennal, the noted suffra- gette and man-hater. Frequently one sees her studying along with her inde- pendent air apparelled in her tweed suit, manish collar, sensible heeled shoes, car- rying a stick in her right hand and a bomb in the other. We noticed last week in the Toronto paper where she had an