Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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I lliniintllMHtMIINIIINIIII till Mil l X education, so rich in those priceless things iterature. history, science and art. and so in-LMisahle in sustaining our complex civilization, et incomplete within itself. All education is tin unless it leads to a profound religious life. Formal training must l e supplemented by an additional experience which relates to the spiritual. Sometimes this cx| eriencc comes from the hard tasks of the day. Sometimes it is horn through the companionship of a friend. Sometimes misfortune, even tragedy hegets it. It i . of course, the substance of all great literature, being the most fundamental basis of human thought and action. However it arises, when this conception of the spiritual world comes it helps to explain the meaning of life. And life during youth, the student age. is generally misunderstood or rather incompletely understood. )ur vision, during these years, is shut in and the purpose of things either misinterpreted or the very existence of a purpose, doubted. This age is not the age of faith, it is the age of reasoning, of question and of doubt. Let me ask von only to watch for this vision of spiritual law and life and welcome the time, whether it comes in sorrow or in happier ways, when faith grows up within you replacing the purely material conception of youth. I do not mean by faith a vague. punx»seless feeling regarding life: I mean a positive faith in God. in the orderliness of the universe, and the dignity, however humble, of your place as a worker in it. This faith is the greatest glory which can come to you. With it you cannot fail, no matter how tawdry may seem your accomplishments, and without it you cannot succeed. Elmer George Peterson.