“I feel a sense of reverence in the presence of youth because I am standing in the presence of the future.” This was the opening remark of Agnes M. Tierney, a Philadelphia teacher and young peoples’ leader who spoke in Chapel Thursday morning.
In speaking of our modern civilization, Miss Tierney compared it to a giant who cannot be controlled, and she spoke of the modern industrial world as crushing and killing the souls of people—destroying all traces of individuality.
Miss Tierney made a special appeal to the young people that they should leave everything behind but the future. “The great task of changing the world is yours,” said Miss Tierney. “It is easier to change the world than we realize. Japan has changed remarkably in the last 25 years. In a short time, the United States has forwarded education, adopted prohibition and many other timely measures.”
Miss Tierney, in closing, expressed a hope that the young people of America would revolt against the old conventions and carve out a new order of things for the future generations. “The young people are the power house of the future,” said Miss Tierney. “They must help, through strength and power of consecration to the Master, in bringing out a new and better age.”
From the front page of The Guilfordian, student newspaper of Guilford College, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1925
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