Trevecca Nazarene University - Darda Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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The joy of being friends is just; a simple code of faith and trust.

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j„ 5t kjl Of dl FINER ARTS No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier was the ac- cented pronouncement of a Prussian mili- tarist. Past mouths have witnessed elo- quently to the tragic issuance of this philosophy. From such a conception of values men have thought it right to dis- regard truth, astute to convince by night, pious to confound by stealth, and manly to exhibit brute nature. The melancholy consequences are hatred, world chaos, and war. He who would multiply sorrow to himself and others may drink of this rank cup of false creed to its foulest dregs. By contrast, Christian thinking sees in the f iner arts a creator ' s priceless bene- faction, a token of man ' s relation to God. In accordance with this high postulate art remains to humanity a sublime medium for speaking truth, a mouthpiece for ut- tering wisdom; by this premise art is power ; after this judgment nature itself is the art of God. Greed, strife, and dissention congeal to stiff inactivity in awe of this divine cunning which man shares with deity. He who would serve God and man in truth, wisdom, piety, and power may drink deeply at the fountain of reverence for the arts.

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FRIENDSHIPS 9 We are constantly making new friends and when we depart from the halls of Trevecca we may be inclined to forget the old friends of our school days. But we should always re- member that old friends are gold, new friends are silver; and friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. Among the satisfying sentiments that are common to humanity none is more constant and abiding than friendships. Respect, liking, ad- miration, infatuation — all pleasant in the feeling — have roots that are easily plucked up. These are the beginnings, the starter-growth, for the great prime mover that connotes a friend. They lengthen their reach in sunshine but may shrink and be lost in minuteness when shadows hover in prolong. They make brighter the lucen skies of prosperity but may lose their radiance in the darkness of misfortune and transmute into their antipodes. True friendships form through patient growth. Th ey are nurtured ofttimes on the shocks of adversity. They persevere in constancy with- out either flower or veil. Nature and reli- gion are their binding cords, nobility and mag- nanimity their great endearments. They only reach full flower when animated by divine fer- tilization, but thus quickened they radiate splen- did beauty in those who share them and time- less service for the doubting on-looker who aghast contemplates their silent precepts.