The Athenaeum. (Atlanta, GA) 1898-1925, February 01, 1925, Image 10

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152 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