The Gavelyte, January 1915

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE 9 We are all formi ng our char a cter by our ,thoughts and acts. For though the inward disposition is -0f less importance, yet it has a place to f.ill of more worth than the most of us realize. "As a man thinketh in bis heart, so is be!" Let u s g uard our thoughts as well as our acts. ,Ve read, that what we ought not to do we sh-0uld not even think of doing. Marcus Aurelius writes: "We should accustom our– selves to think upon nothing that we snould hesitate to reveal to others if they asked to know it." •We are going to begin t h is a r ticle :in the familiar way a great many articles begin at this time of the year. The old year of 1914 has passed into history and we a r e entering the year 1915. This is an old expression and yet it is n,ew. The year 1914 never passetl into history before nor will we ever 'have the opportunity to enter on the year 1915 again. 'This latter fact should carry with it a lesson for us each one. The opportunity for doing good to our fellow men a nd for service to God was never rn great. There is a constant de– man/d, for men of power and intellect in all departments of life. Schools, churches, factories, business concerns, and the government a r e all in need of good men and women. ot only are the opportunities g r eat, 1but the neerd for seizing them is even greater. The world was never, in all its h~story, so restless as it is at present. If this spirit of restlessness is to b e quieted care– ful guidance will be required ·on the part of those who are in authority. In this free land of ours it is the privilege of each one of us to have a hand in guiding our nation. This is a iprivilege an 1 d1 affords oppor– tunity for being of ·r eal servlce, not only to our country, but to the world. There is need of seizing this o·pportunity and making the best possible use of it. We cannot use it efficiently unless we fit our– selves for the work and that is just what we are doing now. As we enter the new year can we not make it one of more earnest and faithful preparation for service to ourse~ves, to our feHowman, to our country, to the world, and not least of all for service to God. W. ·c. Van Antwerp, governor of the New York Stock Exchange, recently made a statement like t!his: "Two essentials ,present them– selves in considering any good work if by work we m an service. There must be plenty of it, an1a1 it must be worth the doing." In get– ting out a college annual we are undertaking a work worth doing and there is going to be plenty of it. 'l'here wiH be a chance fol' ach one of us to hell> make 1t a succ ss by co-opel'ating with the staff. Any contributions or n1ggestions will be w lcomed 'by the tlilor. Let us get tog<'ther and BOOST the 1915 College Annual.