THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
The Daily!Nebraskan
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YOUTH AND THE CHURCH .
The statement was recently made
by a senior to the effect that the
church had been negative rather than
positive in its influence on his reli
gious development The church, he
felt, had provided social rather than
religious opportunities.
Such a statement leads one to con
sider what the function is which the
church claims to fulfill and to mea
sure its success in accomplishing this
purpose among students and young
people in general.
To say that the church attempts
to provide opportunities for spiritual
development through religious chan
nels would probably be agreeable to
the churches themselves as a state
ment of their purpose. In our city
the Christian religion is offered al
most exclusively as the effective way
in which to secure that development.
We have a majority of students who
profess to believe that such is the
case.
Yet here is a student who says
that the church hinders him in his
religious development. What foun
dation can there be for an assertion
that the chjrcli not only ails but is
detrimental in the accomplishment
of its own aim?
Take a look at the thing which
the churches are doing for their
young people. The Sunday School
and some form of young peoples'
society take care of the so-called
young peoples work. The notion of
too many of these organizations as
to the method of developing spirit
ual life seems to be to familiarize
their members with the usual plati
tudes concerning our daily life, the
duties of cheerfulness in friendship
etc. Coupled with this evidently su
perficial program of studying the
way oi religion is a program of so
cial activity designed to attract the
boys -and girls and make them real
ize that the church is up to date
Hence we have annual banquets, par
ties at the manse, monthly dinners,
and luncheon preceding the Sunday
meetings as chief and foremost
among the endeavors of the socie
ties.
Very often the persons in charge
of the religious study are persons
with no special qualifications or pre
paration except their willingness to
be of service. Under their leader
ship little of value is accomplished
in the way of helping the young
man or woman to realize the value
or the sphere of the spiritual in its
relation to the rest of life.
Anyone who knows colllege stu
dents knows that there is among
them a desire and need for spiritual
life. Religion, its relation to life,
its 1 meaning, its possibilities, its
powers, its fundamental base
thtmn are the subjects of many a dor-1
mitory dialogue whereever youth
is gathered together. Yet few of the
churches seem to realize this inter
est and fail to help their young peo
ple in facing such fundamental prob
lems. Instead of first establishing
the fact of Christianity they assume
it and reason from that premise
after a fashion, not taking cogniz
nct of the fact that every individ
ual must think the matter through
for himself before he can adopt it
as a way of life.
The result is that those students
who are awware of their own prob
lems in their true light do not turn
to the church for help in"thinking.
Others who do stay by the church
become superficial in a degree and
simply take what is given them as
far as intellectual matters are con
cerned. From "the church they get
the idea that the way to live a re
lii?ious life is to give dinners and
subscribe to finance campaigns.
The church in attempting to hold
on its young people too often seems
to have become clouded in its con
coction cf its true sphere tnd even
to have mistaken the needs of the
young people themselves.
V. V.
Student Opinion
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To the Editor:
Since the question of class honor
aries has received so much attention
in the editorial and news columns of
The Daily Nebraskan the past two
weeks, the editor will no doubt per
mit the student opinion column to be
used for the same discussion, espe
cially in view of the general attitude
of fhe Nebraskan against suppres
sion of thought among the students.
The comments in the Nebraskan
on this question, with the exception
of some of the interviews, have been
opposed to the honorary system as a
whole. Nothing has been said for
the other side of the question, which
assuredly must exist from the very
nature of the problem.
The question of the honorary stat
us together with some discussion
concerning their useruuness nas
been the kernel of the whole dis
cussion about the honoraries. The
contention of The Daily Nebraskan
is that class organizations are not in
fact honorary. This is true if by
honorary" is meant that the mem
bership in these societies is conferr
ed for past accomplishments on the
campus, and is to be regarded as a
reward for such work. But such is
assuredly not the case because the
selection is not on this basis, and can
not be in the case of the freshman
and sophomorj secieties, which are
formed during the freshman year.
A discussion of the problem from
this point of view is applicable only
to the senior societies, which are
avowedly selected in this manner.
But in thp, underclass honoraries
or "honoraries," the basis of selec
tion is not past accomplishment, but
rather representation of the frater
nity and the non-fraternity student
body. The men chosen for member
ship are, in theory, supposed to be
the most representative that the indi
vidual fraternities can put fortn.
The group, in selecting its members,
bears in mind that it will be judged
by its representative, and according
ly selects the best man possible.
Membership therefore becomes hon
orary as a matter of fact because the
member is representing his fratern
ity, and has thus been honored by his
own group. Considered in this light,
there can not be much objection to
calling the societies honorary. This
conception of the lionoiaiy feature
is the one most widely accepted, I
believe.
Now the objection may be offered
that the members chosen are not
really representative of their frater
nities. This may be true in cases,
and if so it is a matter for the par
ticular fraternity to - deal with in
the protection of its own prestige.
Changes do occur that may later
raise some unnoticed fraternity nisn
who has not thus been honored,
above the member of the honorary,
but that is nothing against the sys
tem. At the time of selection the
man ranked higher, just as it is
highly probabble that some members
of the Innocents now rank higher
in the service of the University, but
may in later life be eclipsed bby some
non-Innocent. That is all part of
the uncertainty of life, and mis
takes in judgment do occur, even in
the selection of men to the highest
honors obtainable.
The second objection to the hon
oraries, and perhaps the greatest,
has been that they have no definite
purpose, seeming to exist without
cause, and justifying their presence
by the mere fact of their existence.
The editor, in searching about for
a ourDOse in their existence seems
to be deluded by the common habits
of thinking of the times, which de
mand something definite, material
and graspable, forgetting, it seems,
that there are many things which
cannot be thus isolated, and crystal
lized. The mere association of these
representatives of the fraternities
would be justification enough for
the existence of the honorary socie
ties, which serve as a meeting ground
for the representatives of the fra
ternities and the non-fraternity body.
If this has not been the case it is
a fault in the administration of the
societies, and not in the system. We
have only to look into the business
world to see the same sort of organ
izations. Witness the Rotary club,
Lions, Kiwanis, and others which are
an outgrowth of the spirit of mutual
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association of representatives of dif
ferent groups.
If there must be some definite aim
foi the society to appease the cri
tics, very 'well, but the true value
of this definite purpose will be
fully realized only as it furthers the
cause of mutuu' association discussed
in the last paragraph.
And last, the greatest proof of the
value of these organisations, and
of the respect in which they are
held by the student bbody lies in
the fact that year after year stu
dents are eager to be elected to their
membership, and many of them feel
keenly disappointed when they fail
of election.
And then what harm do these or
ganizations cause after all that they
should merit so much criticism?
None. Ergo, requiescat in pace.
Wm. C.
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