The Athenaeum. (Atlanta, GA) 1898-1925, February 01, 1925, Image 10
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THE ATHENAEUM
What should be the relation of Christianity to the young college
man? What part should Christianity play in the life of the young
college man? There is a growing tendency on the part of college
men to underestimate Christianity, to measure its values unfairly, and
even fundamental ethical principles which Christianity offers us
through its various activities that cannot be paralleled in anyway bv
man’s superficially constructed social order. These principles can be
found in no other place. Christianity offers a healing balm for social
upheavals, a great guiding light through perplexing situations and
points out the way to that goal towards which we all should strive,
real success.
Man has tried his multiplicity of means to rectify the social
order but they have failed. He has resorted to wars but they serve
merely as temporal stabalizers; he has hedged in himself with laws
but these are violated.
For the last few years, national leaders viewing the social unrest
have finally arrived at one solution which offers all probabilities of
success. As young college men we must realize that education is life
and that no life is complete which shuts out the principles of Chris
tianity. The world is calling for Christian leadership and the prin
ciples of Christianity must be promulgated in classroom as well as
from the pulpit; they must govern the physician as he administers
aid to the sick; they must govern men in all the walks of life.
The modern college man must accept Christianity as a guiding
principle of his every act. He must go forth with as much knowledge
as possible but this knowledge should be based on fundamental prin
ciples of a national social order. The modern college man to aid in
this great social reconstruction must line up with Christianity and
its program.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
One day as I sat reading I ran across this, phase:
“Fame is but a fleeting name
Fortune but a fickle dame.*’
Pondering this my mind ran back thru the pages of history to
see what might be the names recorded there. Among those who have
entered the hall of fame I found such men as Moses and Abraham,
David and Christ. I found Homer, Aristotle, Demosthenes and
Plato, Hannibal and Caesar, Charlemagne and Napoleon, Cromiwell
Milton, Livingston and Darwin- I found Washington and Lafayette.
With Washington’s name came that of Lincoln the greatest who has
ever graced the executive chair of this great nation. Rather few are
the men who stand forth as having rendered mankind any great and
lasting service.
As is almost inevitably the case when a Negro thinks of Lincoln,
my thots turned to my own race. What men have I to boast of?
What black men have taken an immortal pen and made an indelible