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THE MERCER CLUSTER
March 3, 1922
The Mercer Cluster
Published weekly by the students of
the fourteen schools.and colleges In
the Mercer University System.
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’MID OCEAN STORM!
If you were in - ’
Tlje Crow’s Nest'
At Midnight
In 'mid-ocean . ,
On a ship tossed '
By a .storm which
The .Captuin said was
The worst in twenty years;
And if you were going
Across to fight, and 1
It seemed you would
Drown instead of fight;,’..
And if the Crow’s Nest
Reeled and rocked, and
The ship was dark, and
Only the lightning's flash
And thunder’s roar
Of the lashing storm
Beat
Upon yoUr soul;
What would you ..
Think about ? .
Bruce Newsome, . ..
A Mercer boy,
Had this experience,
And thought as follows:
Christian men and women, in fact
all who believe that a Divine power
shapes our ends,’’ must reject em
phatically the mechanistic conception
of life, in the interpretation of vital
phenomena only the vitalistic concep
tion will meet the demands of reason
and of conscience.
The vitalistic conception of life, ac
cording to Dr. Henry Fox, Mercer’s
oiologist, is .that conception which re
gards vital phenomena as involving
he intermediation of an agency in
stable of being explained in me.
hanistic terms. Mechanistic forces,
n so far as their chemical and phys
ical actions and reactions are con-
erned, are not denied, but no me-
hanica.1 theory has ever been able to
give oven an approximately reason
able explanation of all the facts of
life. '
The vitalistic conception of life
ecognizes something “unexplained
end unexplainable:” It points out
hat life is due to some power beyond
>ur knowledge. This, in bur opinion,
s a scientific path that leads to God.
I'his conception recognizes the spirit
>r soul as the ultimate essence of
ife, and it leads farther to the power
jehind the soul, or. the creator and
ustainer of the soul.
The vitalistic conception shows that
«ve cannot give a complete mechan-
stic explanation of even the simplest
•otal phenomena- It frankly acknowl
edges that inanimate matter cannot
pull itself up “by its own bootstraps”
and become a living thing. Back of
the clod is God—“and He breathed
ntoman the breath of life.”
JESUS MY HIDING PLACE
' By Bruce Newsome
When in this world 1 began to roam
Leaving friends and people at home,
Traveling on still so far away
All this cold and lonely day,
Of friends I could find no trace,
For then I had no hiding place.
Then I sailed the deepest blue
With characters whom I never knew.
Though I sink in the deepest sea
His love will come down to me.
So, will I be a useless broken vase
And not accept this hiding place
Though the sun and moon may turn
to. bipod,
Heaven and stars may turn to flood,
Captains and mighty men will loudly
call.
Kings and queens will rise and fall;
Though the mountains may shake
from place
Still Jesus is my hiding place.
The rich and bondmen will flee away,
The foolish men will he led astray.
The unprepared will flee His wrath
And will travel their own chosen
path,'
But now I. see His shining face,
’Tis Jesus, my- hiding place.
When the billows roll ever so high
And by my side dangers are nigh,
Though the fires of battle.be hot
And the devil be with every shot,
Still I am saved through His grace
Artd Jesus .will ever be my hiding:
place.
HER HANDS
Juki Miltoa Samplea
Dear hands that seek from day to day
-With mepk, unselfish zeal and care
To pluck the. thorns from out my way
.And strew the sweetest flowbrs there
Cpuld you but know within my heart
The debt of loye I feel and owe
That tongue nor pen can e’er impart.
Could you but know, could you but
knowl
O loving hands! I call you' mine,
And ,gently kiss your palms of snow.
Full well I knots you are divine,
For He who gave, has made you so!
And when Death lays upon my brow
His bony fingers dull and cold,
O may I feel your touch as now
to lead me sweet into the Fold!
Reports to the Association of
American colleges show that there
has been an increase of 60 per cent
in the salaries of presidents and
faculty members since 1913-14.
Another night of dreamB and sighs
is past,
And morbid thoughts, that oft op
press my brain:
When night has drawn her magic
curtains’ to, •' ■
Are o’er, for now the night is on
the wane.
The cock-crow brings me back from
death to - life, •
To sweet fair life, and enjls my
troubled sleep;
On distant fatfms, each cork in an
swer crows,
And rouses me from, slumber, dark
and deep.
The sun peeps o’er the eastern hill,
> the birds
Begin to sing, and with their song
Arouses from lethargy, and I think
Of romance in the knightly days of
old. . , '
walk through meadows green and
think of life, . v
Of joy, o love, of God and human
kind.
The rising sun, the' breeze, the song
of birds
Are to my .soul like most .delicious
wine.' -. -
ELBOW GREASE
Another ■ night of dreams and sighs
is past.
And joy has come into the world
once more,
The day has dawned, black night is
on’ the wing,
Day has descended through the
heaven’s, floor. .
Scores of men at Mercer, are work-
ng at some job .in order to pay their
way through college.. For these men
Mercer students as u whole have the
greatest respect and admiration.
Some of the highest: college honors
have been given by the students to
men who are working their way in
whole or in part. The Master Mer-
cerian this year is a man who has
made a large part of his college ex
penses by writing for a local paper.
Many other positions of honor and
prominence have been occupied by
students who work.
Students who lubor on the campus
are seen from time to time going
about their tasks, sometimes with the
soot and grime of the furnace, some
times with paint or dust upon them,
generally always with some sign of
toil. But . the signs of honest’ work
for a. college education arc symbols
of. grit, perseverance and highest
manhood. . • .
Students run barber shops, 'shine
shoes; fire furnaces, sweep halls and
rooms, wash dishes, in fact do 'dozens
of things in order to get money for
college expenses. These men are the
salt of the earth, and .they arc among
the'best men at Mercer. They ..will be
heard from in the world of aecom
plishment when some men who have
»n easy' time are forgotten.:
These men prove also the old adage
that 'where there is a will, ther4 is
a way. . They had no way at first,
but they hav'e made a way, and
what they have done other men in
Georgia can do.- To any man in the
South to whom these words might be
addressed, let us say, you can get a
ollege education IF YOU WANT IT!
That is, IF YOU WILL IT.
A group of various nationalities
were gathered - around the* stov*
boasting of their similarity’ in ap
pearance to famous men.
‘Ze other day,, said the French
man, “I was walking along ze street
an’in old soldier came up to me and
told me zat if he didn’t know Napo
I eon was dead he would think I was.
him. I look so much like him.”
“That was noddings,” said an. old
Qerman. “The .odder day » friendt
of mine wass in mine room, and he
look at the picture of Bismarck .on
the wall and said it sure’ iss a goot
picture of me.”
“Pah,” .said an old. jew sitting in
the corner, “de. odder, day I vass
standing on the cornet, and a police
man comes UP to me and tells me to
move on. I walk a little way till be
leave, and then go back. Pretty soon
he come back again and coihe up to
me and say, ‘Holy Moses! You .here
yet’!” / " ;
Suspicious Wife: “I smell doves.
Hubby: “No'm dear. .Taint dote,
Sh flowrsh on m’neckties.” .
SUNRISE
By T. M. Hart
PIEDMONT NEWS
Piedmont defeats Tifton Aggies
31 to 20 and Norman Park 10 to 9.
The nearest approach to perfection
a five-man-offense, prep school
quintet ever seen in Waycross was
in action on the municipal court
Saturday night in the Tifton Aggies
team, although defeated by the
margin of one point, 21-20.
Again the' figures of comparison
have -played a trick. •
Several weeks ago Norman Insti
tute ck'feated the Lads from the Hill
by 15 points, the score being 33-18.
Monday night the mighty Normans
were defeated by the one point the
count being 10-9.
Starting at: the very first of the
game the teams set a rapid pace that
was kept up thoroughly throughout
the game. Norman Park and Pied
mont played a fine defense, very lit
tle offensive work being shown. The
ball- zig-zagged up and 'down the
court a hundred times and fully
thirty trials at the basket was made
by members of each team,'but the
Cagers seemed unable to get the
range and the majority of the shots
fell short a few inches.
Misses Hazel Crutches and Teresa
Watwood spent the* week-end at their
homes.
Miss Valentine Paschal left Mon
day. morning for White Oak, where
she will join her parents before go-
.ng to Union, Miss., which will be
their future home. - ,
The many friends of Roy Bethune
regret to learn of his illness at his
home in' Alma.-
Miss Leila Camp was the week
nd guest of Miss Eulenna Clink
scales.
•
A social was given Monday after
noon by the'Piedmont girls, in honor
of the Norman Institute basketball
team. “Proms” and a general good
time were enjoyed by all.
Washington’s birthday was cele
brated Wednesday morning- with
suitable exercises, held in the Hes-
perion Society Hall. Several visitors
froqi .town were present. A chorus
composed of Messrs. Byck, Scully,
Crawley, Ellens and Hopkins, with
Mrs. Garrett at the piano, sang two
appropriate selections. Mr. Will C.
Parker was the speaker of the day.
He made an unusually inspiring ad
dress on .“Washington—-the- Man.”
At the conclusion of the program, a
rising vote of thanks was given the
musicians and Mr. Parker,
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What Is Water Japan?
IAPAIM—pot the country but a metal-coating varnish
. —and your morning bottle of milk. Totally unlike,
yet associated!
Ordinary japan consists of a tough, rubbery, tar-like
“base" and a highly inflammable "solvent." The solvent
dilutes the base so that the metal may be coated with it
easily. The presence of the solvent involves considerable
fire risk, especially in the baking oven.
Milk is a watery fluid, containing suspended particles
of butter fat, so small that one needs the ultra-microscope
to detect them. An insoluble substance held permanently
in suspension ini a liquid in this manner is in "colloidal
suspension." ■ •
The principle of colloidal suspension as demonstrated
m milk was applied by the Research Laboratories of the
General Electric Company to develop Water Japan. In
this compound the particles of japan base are colloidally
suspended in water The fire risk vanishes.
So the analysis of milk has pointed the way to a safe
japan. Again Nature serves industry.
< Connected with the common thing? around us are
many principles which may be applied to the uses of
foduflry with revolutionary results. As Hamlet said,
'There are more thing? in Heaven and earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philoaophy."
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