Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1915

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE BULLETL~ 19 The id~al college must and will have the highest ideals. Among the many ideals which might be adopted, citizenship is an important one. The ideal college in a republic like ours trains_ its students in the fundamentals of good government and endeavors to fit them for worthy citizenship. Whatever _course of study they may pu~sue, whatever calling in life they may prepare for, students in an ideal American college are taught to believe that the adventures of the colonists, the sacrifices of the patriots, the aspirations of the fathers, and the devotion of our countrymen in peace and in war, have bee~ the deepest expression of the natural, imperishable, and Just desires of human hearts for the rights of mankind and the freedom of the l'l,\Ce. The principles of democracy are held second in their sacredness only to the tenets of the Christian Church. The problems, indiv- idual and social, political and economic, material and moral, of the nation are made clear and the student is presented with solutions histoi·ical and theoretical for their adjustment and is made to feel that it is his imperative duty so to prepare himself that he may ren- der the most efficient service in meeting and helping to adjust the questions of his country. He is made to understand that the nation does not call for young men or for old men, but for prnpared men. The advantages and_ attainments of college men are supposedly· superior, and consequently the demands are greater upon them. It is expected that they measure up to the needs of the hour, but if they fail it is discouraging and little short of humiliating. Inspired by the ideal that his country is to be f1·eed from error and redeemed from vice; enlightened in the principles of equality, justice, and truth; prepared to apply courageously and wisely what he has learned, the college man should enter his country's tasks a fit instru- ment to perform them faithfully and successfully. Colleges have rendered their full duty to their country when they teach the prin- ciples of civic righteousness, and send forth their products in the form of clean, honest, courageous, patriotic and practical manhood and womanhood. Hand in hand with the ideal of citizenship goes that of character. The two are inseparable. The one is, _the other does. The one is the active and the other is the potential element in pe1·sonality. The call is for men and women of unquestioned and irreproachable character, sincere in motive, simple in manner, sympathetic in nature, stable in principle, and safe in Christ. · The ideal college has for its supreme mission the molding and establishing of character. Material resources precious for source and magnificent in extent, personal factors numerous, qualified and essential as they are, co-operate to the truest end and· shine out with the brightest lustre only when they become the means to develop chat·actcr to its full orb. · That college and that faculty are rendering the greatest service t-0 humanity and bringing the highest glory to God that are along with the strengthening of the physical powers, and the broadening of the mental faculties, developing character which will ring true to principle whether it be popular or unpopular, be itself before the mighty and in the presence of the mean, feel tenderly for the out- cast as well as the 1·espected, endure through adversity and remain unmoved by prosperity, and crown Christ over all that it is and does. The motto of Cedarville College is "For Christ's Crown and Cove- nant." It was first heralded by our forefathers of Scotland and Ireland as they suffered persecution and martyrdom for the crown rights and royal prerogati'!'es of King Jesus. Ah! they were but men with the frailties of human nature, but they were men of force and character, unswe1·ved by the threats of tyrants and undaunted by