The Gavelyte, December 1907

THP. nAVF.LYTF., A Christmas Greeting. RY REV. THOMAS R. TURNER, '~9. "A Mrrry Christmas to Cedarville I That is an old theme, but withal, CollegP, thP best collPge in all the j one which need~ constant restatP– land." ShamP on the alumnus or j ment, because forsooth, · it is too the studPnt who does not echo that j often forgotten or lost sight of. :-;Pntitnent. There are larger and . The colleges and universiLies of thi::1 wPalthier collAgPs, 'tis true, but to I country are turning out too large those who have been, and to those I a crop of rascals, and th~ secret of ~·ho still are Cedarville students, I it may be found in the fact, that in there should be none finer. So, all i too many in1,tances, they aim too together, let us say- "A Merry I much at the filling of the head and I (;h ristmas to olrl C. C.'" I too Iittle at the filling of the heart. I have been requested by the If we werP asked w_hich is the more editor to write an article for the desirable of the two, heart develop– Christmas iasue of "The Gav~yte", ment or brain development, we would and the above is the sentiment that L give the preference to the former is uppermost in my heart, and with I every Ume. But we also recog– that sentiment as a beginning, I pro- nize that the one kind of develop– ceed to · draw on a scanty supply of I ment without the other, would, to "gray matter" for some thoughts I say the least, be one-sided. A corn– which the editors may dignify by bination of both is the ideal. Now, whatever they choose. ' it is right here that Cedarville Col- The chief reaspn why those who have lege ranks high, she does not divorce had, and those who. are now having , religion from learning. She in no the privilege of being students at Ced- !way, encourages the false and pernic– arville CollPge, should stand hy that I ious notion, that it is a mark of in– institution, is because her dominant I telligence to sneer at or to remain spirit is one which rel".'~gnizes and J ~ndi~erent to :-piritual things.. There strivPs to rlPveli.pe the chief elE>ment 11s too much encouragement given to I of all true Pclucation. That t>lement I students in many colleges through- is character - anrl, not simply chi.lrac- 1out the land to assume the above ter after a type that sati:..fie. the I attitude. worlrl, hut, ('hriRtian rharart(lr. Now, CPclarvillP ('ollege could Le