The Gavelyte, March 1915

I I l merica for \\ 11 trn ned ml n "ho llllVP lw < omp, n of th Lord Je:u < hrif-; and "ho shall cli1 ( t the , ffair~ of th \ o Id to tlw advanc m nt < r Iii houor and glo1y. In '!Pad of d1mlnl l11ng or !inti ing th number of hr, tian C'Oll ge . thi is a tlm, if no at l agt to ndow and main ain th m for the great we rl< of prPparln11; mu1titude. of young men anrl worn •n for leadlne; the h . to th Lo1 1 • Cedarville College is a hri~ 1 tian ingtitutlon. Th n·li ion. atmo • phere is very marked. It graduates are S'Pirltual IPadPr. among the ·pe ple. Dear lumni. th;s i no time to be at r ase in Zion an<l 1 t "Old Cedarville" strug-gle along, hampered bcc·au ·e of lnsuffi i nt P.n• dowm nt. There ar rea<:ons. n • one do7en but one hurnlr · ancl one and still more, why the Alumni . hould rally around their Ima :\T•1ter. college never 1i. es mu0h a ove the €Stimatl' its ~raduatrs put UJ) n it. 'I'he outside world will not he attra ted to it if the lumni lo\' lHtle interest in it. :\foneyed men do little •for any ins•it11•t·on until the Alumni have first shown their loyalty and intere t. • communit, will think well or otherwi e of an institution in proportion to the faith or indifference of the gra 1 ~rua f of the school '!'his is the time when colleges are increa ing their endowments; board of education are securing funds for the e ·ta,bli. hment of 0hair · of Bible; Alumni are endowing chairs. '\\'i!i} the Alumni of "O!d ('edar– Yille" let tlhi privilege pa"'s by untouched or shall we like other Alumni give for the endowmPnt of cur coll ge? Cedarvi'.le College ·s not an old institution, but old €nou2h for us to know that it is now a fixture among the educational C'ir<'les of our · ale an 1 • nation. It. graduates are not among tre rnonPyed p ople nor ha,·e they b en Ion~ in he worl ·,• acth<ties. ret snrely if thP s,pirit was willing i>af'h could give something al hough th,, amount mi2'ht b small To give will mean identifka ion with an added interest in rt.he college ,,,here we received a Christian ctucation fitting u-- for life's duti s . . •o other college in the lanrl viii sbow a larg-er p r<'entage of its graduates 1Pa '•ing n"eful Ii'€"-. r.oYPrno1· "'illis . a)·. or the small ol•