William Carey College - Crusader / Pine Burr Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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Ms A TIME to be born Yet, through all this, I felt the pulse of inspiration, the challenge to growth. I groped blindly for Purpose — I grasped desperately for Meaning. All Life and Time was a cluttered cloud : I saw nothing distinctly. And as I searched, I stood alone. And then I felt the youthful breath of warm Spring — her newness — her beginning . . . and the innocent laughter of children. I saw them bask in the sunlight of their Time. . . . Stealthily, quietly, ebbed the beauties of youth, and suddenly I saw that coldness and death were also an in- tegral part of Being. I feared.

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And a TIME for every purpose under heaven Life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. It approaches subtly in its own time. Profound, it exists; in- different to the plight of mankind, it pauses not for any man. Revered and acknowledged, it comes ... it ebbs. Un- comprehended, unseen, unfelt, still it moves . . . neutral, placid, uncaring. It stretches, stretches, ' ast and mysterious, and answers only to its own bigness, while it mocks the ' ulgar and foolish hand of humanity that, in vain, seeks to chide and conquer. But each moment . . . each prayer and curse, each war and peace, each tear and smile is clothed in a single, trans- parent shroud of Life, of invaluable Time — never to be repeated throughout eternity.

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...and a 1 1 M E to die