The Gavelyte, October 1910

1 ·:1i tlun • , what und l· I' tlw un, would you dn 't H.. 1• 1li •111 and I 'II l, 11 you . 'I h • ·pa ' l' nllow •d to nw hy tht• •1lilor l!-1 limit.-d, but II I mny 11 •v1•r h • • ill •d 1p 111 tn 1•1mlnbul1' ng-uin, I may irn w II t>mbract• pr ' !Wilt oppot tunity. W l'II now whn t w ulcl l do if 1 w re w1 thin th • olrl r ·d hri1·k . rhoolhou agam My un::iw •r is so simplt- you'll think m fooliilh l wu. h• tim • in writing it. Young m n, yotmR men, li1, t •n ! If f w re in cclarvill • {'olh·~e again, 1 woul<l l'ndcavor to e.· rt mor influ nc •, and b •ll1.•r and a gr •ittt>r influ"n " upon colleg men and wom n who for? What for" for my tiakP? for my rvl– vnnc nrnt. for my p rsonal popul a rit.? Ah, no, m) young frwnd,i, but for ne B ing's sake, for Hi ndvanc m nt for His popularity that power nnu tr ngth and holiness and p rsonal joy and a clear conscienc and an un– spotted life might be the future of my schoolmates young p •opl , I h heve if I were again a college man, I would put the emphasis upon men and womt'n and not upon things and organizations - I would try to emphasiz Jesus hrl8t. As I look back into my college life I have on regret. I did not try to bring the me n I should have brot, to the right life . I did not nelp the men I hould have helped, in their journey on the straight trac·k . And, it is a. growing– belief in my brain, that their are men whom I might have touched in the goo<l old college days, who are tonight wandering sheep without the Shepherd, without any s afe anchor, simply because I or some one else was not on the job. And when a man falls short there of what account is he ? He has failed in the only thing that it really pays to succeed at- personally touching men personally for God and right and Christ and, there is no place where this could be better don~ than within college walls. There, every book must be a failure unless it termi– nates in the reading of God's Rook - the Bible. There, every recitation is as nothing except as men are brot face to face with God. There, every personal and social influence is but stench to the nostrils, except it breathed out God. Yes, but you say, "Hawthorne we don't need anything like this -Cedarville is a church college and everybody that goes to a church college believes in Jesus Christ." Very good - but, then everybody that goes to eve ry church college does not act as tho he believed in Jesus Christ. I wonder when the coHeges and hristian associations and the churches of earth will consent to forget a merely nominal Christian membership. It requires something more than that to be en- . rolled in the Lamb's Book of Life. Christ does not want to dwell in human t ents , and use earthern vessels unless there has been a divine house-cleaning that ~eans something. God is crying to the men and the women of our colleges, to you who have been reared in Christian homes, to you who have had Christain privileges "Take care. Keep a tight grip upon mine own created. Throw out the life line of your service. Give them of the oil of your sympathy. Be a Joyal friend to everyone of my children.'' Oh but, say some, ''everybody here is all right. " But things are not always what they seem. It's easy to be Heaven-like when in Heaven. It is impossible to be Hea,·en-like when in Hell. Then with the stalwart Cedarville spirit, purity and innocence, these col– lege days are not days taken our of your life and ne,er counted. You