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VOL. XXVIII., NO. 10 SUPPLEMENT FEBRUARY 1936 Issued 9 or More Times a Year

Warsaw District Program for the Securing of William Taylor Foundation Memberships L. G. JACOBS, Chairman

Taylor University Alumni Get-to-gether and Alumni Day

At a meeting last fall of the alum­ DR. STUART AND THE UNIVERSITY ni of the school, an executive com­ mittee for the program of securing QUARTET IN THE WARSAW DISTRICT memberships in The William Taylor Foundation, the holding icompany Warsaw District Alumni Get-to-gether, March 8,1936 for Taylor University, was raised. This committee comprised of the 2:00 P. M., First M. E. Church, Goshen, Indiana Rev. A. W. Pugh, the Rev. J. W. Rose and the Rev. L. G. Jacobs, to­ For the territory comprising the Warsaw District of the Methodist gether with the Rev. 'P. B. Smith, President of the Taylor University Episcopal Church Alumni Association had a meeting recently and decided upon a plan Time — March 8, 1936 of procedure. Work is already be­ ing done in other sections of the country, but for the territory com­ Place -— First Methodist Episcopal Church, Goshen, Indiana prised by the North Indiana Annual Conference of the Methodist Episco­ pal Church on the North Eastern Purpose — To foster fellowship and crystalize Alumni interest in their section of Indiana. It was decided Alma Mater. that efforts should be made to obtain memberships in The William Taylor Program — 9:45 A. M. President Robert Lee Stuart, D. D. and the Foundation before Commencement university quartette in the Worship service of the Methodist Episco­ season in June, preferably by the middle of April. So different persons pal Church in Goshen. were asked to head up the work in the six sections in which this part of 2:00 p. M. A great Fellowship Hour of Alumni and friends with Indiana has been divided. For the such action as the group will take in the interest of their school. Warsaw District, Dr. L. G. Jacobs, pastor of The First M. E. Church in Goshen, Indiana was appointed. 7:30 P. M. Dr. Stuart and the university quartet will he in the First Plans are under way for the program Methodist Episcopal Church Warsaw, Indiana. All the friends of Taylor of visitation in the Warsaw district. invited. Dr. Bur] M. Bechdolt, Pastor. The time for the intensive visitation is the week of March 8, 1936. Teams of visitors will be arranged and It is desired and urgently requested that each alumnus of Taylor friends and alumni of Taylor Uni­ University, resident in the Warsaw District, shall be in attendance at versity will be visited in the interest this Alumni Get-To-Gether, especially in the afternoon service. You will of The William Taylor Foundation be cordially welcomed to the morning services, but are expected to attend memberships. By this time all of us should know the service in the afternoon. Come! Let us get acquainted with one what these memberships are. The another and the present program of the school. William Taylor Foundation is the Holding Company of Taylor Uni­ Alumni of the old Fort Wayne Methodist college are invited and versity and each person who becomes considered as a part of the alumni of Taylor University. The help and a member of The Foundation not only has a right to participate in the counsel of each alumnus will be needed. Set this day aside and plan (Continued on page 2, Col. 1) to be with us. Page Two TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

annual meeting, but by virtue of liis Pastor Recommends Action Help A World-Serving College membership shares in the support of Having known Taylor University, The influence of Taylor University Taylor University. and its splendid work for many has been felt around the world. The How may we become members ? By years, I want to say a few words con­ multitudes have been blessed in the the payment of $10.00 or more, a cerning the work and value of this contacts she has made with and person may become a member and school. Though I have never been a through her student body. Many of by such payment annually bis mem­ student of the school I have been a her students have given their lives in bership may be maintained. close observer of the fine Christian full time christian service and others Will you please notice again the spirit that has come to our North have gone out in other vocations of form of the membership pledge? Indiana Conference largely through life, but their interest in the Your membership pledge may be the many young ministers that have Christian Church has always been paid in cash or any part thereof paid come to us, and brought the Spirit paramount. in cash and the balance paid in as of Taylor University into the Those who have been in official many equal payments as you may churches and homes of our people. relation to this school have earnestly desire. It is hoped that each annual I have observed the devotion and desired to make it a Christian membership will be paid by June sacrificial service of the men and College not only in name but in first each year, or by the time of the women that have composed the reality. What this means to parents annual meeting of The William faculty through the years, and am who wish to send their sons and Taylor Foundation. Please note that led to say God has surely had his daughters to a Christian college can you may indicate that it is your hand on Taylor in the past, and 1 only be fully realized by reading the purpose to continue such membership believe He will continue to guide to letters, or welcoming home that son until you give written notice of your the end. or daughter whose life bears testi­ cancellation. Or your pledge may be I am hoping and believing that the mony to an enriched spiritual life. for a period of live years at $10.00 Warsaw District both ministers, and Eternity alone will reveal the per year. It is hoped that this form laymen, will do their full share in blessings and influence that a school of pledge will become very popular The William Taylor Foundation like Taylor University has wielded. with the alumni and friends. For those membership campaign. Let's DO IT. Investments in an Institution that is who are able and wish to declare a — George W. Martin enobling the lives of our youth will larger interest, there is provided the pay great dividends. $100 a year special sustaining mem­ Unchanged Christian Spirit May I as one who feels greatly in­ bership and the $500 Life member­ "Every College or University has debted to his Alma Mater, urge you ship. a particular something peculiar to who are interested in the youth of Twenty-five hundred memberships itself. This is especially true of col­ our land and in the Kingdom of God is the present goal for our entire con­ leges like Taylor University. It is to give this school your earnest con­ stituency. Let Warsaw District sub­ constant in its manifestation. I was sideration. Send in at least your scribe her share! Let each alumnus a student under three different ad­ membership to The William Taylor do his or her part to take one mem­ ministrations. Its characterizations Foundation and by so doing help bership and to secure, at least, one were the same. What is it? It is the Taylor University to measure up to other membership. We want all the consecration and prayers and sacri­ the required standards set up by the alumni in the Warsaw District to fices of devout lives that falls like North Central Association of Col­ attend the Get-To-Gether whether or the mantle of Elijah to clothe the leges. This will enlarge Taylor's in­ not they are able to take out member­ campus and student body of Taylor fluence and bring many more youth in ship personally in The W. T. F. with the beauty of God's Holiness." this fine christian atmosphere. L. G. Jacobs J. S. Denbo Thurman Mott, '18

AVI I IkllX/CDCITV OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE UIN I V tl\Jl I I WILLIAM TAYLOR FOUNDATION Upland, Ind., 193... <§AQ as Because of my interest in the type of Christian education Taylor University is rendering and in consideration of others subscribing to said school for operating purposes, I hereby agree to pay to The William Taylor Foundation

The sum of Dollars, on the following terms: $ cash; the remainder to be paid in equal Pay~ ments, beginning , 193 , until fully paid. 5c/o interest on deferred payments 1 [ ] $10.00 of this represents membership in The William Taylor Foundation, and I expect to continue same until I give written notice of cancellation. 3 [ ] $100 a year special sustaining membership. 2 [ ] $50, five year membership payable annually. 4 [ ] $500 Life membership.

Name . Witness Address TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page Three APPRECIATIONS OF TAYLOR UNIVERSITY Stresses Necessity of Bishop Cushman Pleased Who Knows What Your Financial Support With Taylor Membership May Do? For almost a century, Taylor It is entirely impossible for me to University lias been doing business find words to say what Taylor Uni­ for the Kingdom of God. Much of versity has meant to me. In 1916 I her work has been a case of "making found nryself with a definite call to bricks without straw." preach the gospel, but I was totally unprepared. I had heard about Tay­ The number of Christian workers lor University and after much prayer who have gone from her halls to the I wrote to Dr. Monroe Vayliinger, ends of the earth, is legion. Of this who was then president, and stated number, the North Indiana Con­ ference of the Methodist Episcopal my case. I told him that I had about $50.00, a sixth grade education and Church has been the largest bene­ that 1 had been out of school for ficiary. eleven years. His reply was full of It would seem that, in view of the Taylor spirit that has endeared Taylor's service to the world, this this school to so many of us who same world owes her a "decent could never have had an education living." If this be true, then this had it not been for the sacrifice and territory which has profited most faith of its faculty, leaders, and would seem to have a special obliga­ those whose sacrifical gifts have made tion. Bishop Cushman and President it possible to carry on the school. The immediate goal to be attained Stuart It would require columns for me is her entrance into the North Cen­ to tell the debt I owe to Taylor, but Bishop Cushman gave the Com­ tral Association of Colleges. With may it suffice for me to say that I mencement Address, June, 1935, and this dream a reality, many stubborn entered school September 1916. following the Indianapolis meeting obstacles will have been removed and While I was not there continually, of evangelism December 4, wrote a new day will dawn for her. The Taylor stayed by me until it was my Kingdom will be advanced thereby. thus: happy privilege to graduate with God and the church need Taylor. "Dear Brother Stuart: the largest class in Taylor's history, It is to be hoped that the alumni will "I am decidedly pleased with the the class of '31. rally once more in their interest spiritual objectives which you are All that I am or hope to be I owe and loyalty at this time of her pursuing at Taylor University. I to Taylor University. I not only re­ opportunity. A faithful presentation have long believed that our Metho­ ceived what education I have from of her needs to our Christian people dist institutions must maintain the there, but by her Christian atmos­ will result doubtless in increased in­ spiritual message or go out of busi­ phere I kept my faith and today I terest and support. ness. have a burning passion to see Christ Personally, the influence of Taylor "We must not forget that the made real in the hearts and lives of has been a vital factor in my life. It Methodist Club at Oxford was made the people it is my pleasure to has been a ballast in the time of up of young men. The modern young shepherd. storm and uncertainty, holding me man and woman is just as ready to Who knows but that your member­ to an even keel. For over a quarter receive the message of dead in ship in The William Taylor E'ounda- of a century, I have tried to give my earnest Christianity provided, of tion will be the one that will save support to her. I am willing to con­ course, it be presented in realistic Taylor University in this time of tinue my support of money, time, and fashion." needr I know of no other cause where effort to such a worthy institution. $10.00 could buy so much at this Rev. Burl M. Bechdolt, D.D., '11 A Great Bargain time. K. Fdward Maynard, '31 The life of Commissioner S. L. Brengle, "Portrait of a Prophet" by SEND FOR NEW CATALOG Clarence W. Hall, formerly sold for School man, and Layman of the North Indiana Conference says: Taylor University $1.50, and "The Angle in Ebony" Upland, Indiana by Jorge Masa, originally $1.00, and I know that the work accomplished five of the leaflets of the great at your school is having a great in­ A Standard College of Liberal spiritual experiences of Commissioner fluence upon young people, because Arts by the State Board of Edu­ Brengle — ALL FOR $1.00. we have two in our church. My visit cation of Indiana. S. Parks Cadman Says of Com­ with you thoroughly convinced me missioner Brengle: "Personally, I that the atmosphere is of the highest consider Brengle one of the most type for young people. May you Registration of Youth Conference competent guides to the spiritual life have a happy and successful year in limited to 500. of the churches to be found in this the service of the Master. Names must be in bv March 14. or any other country today." Nelson Hunt Page. Four TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN YOUTH CONFERENCE, MARCH 20-22 Already it is not a problem of Taylor Influence World-Wide getting the youth interested, but the Where Youth Conference Taylor has over one hundred real problem is knowing how to Meets preachers in the North Indiana Con­ plan for their lodging and group ference who have either received meetings while they are here. This their degrees or been former students meeting has become so outstanding of Taylor, and what a group of as a place of blessed spiritual re­ spirit-filled men these pastors of construction that youth start in­ the North Indiana Conference are! quiring about it before the literature Bishop Wallace E. Brown, when he is out. presided over the North Indiana Conference was very much im­ The Purpose of the pressed with the fine group of Tay­ Youth Conference lor graduates he found and ex- piessed to the president this feeling, is to inspire the youth of Indiana to that the outstanding leadership which live for God and to let the Holy was manifested by the Taylor men Spirit have complete control of their in the conference would more than lives. Vital questions of the youth justify the work of Taylor Uni­ will be answered in the discussion versity in Kingdom building. groups. It is the aim of the Con­ All the way around the world ference to challenge the youth and to there is a choice group of men and send them back to their churches with women who have graduated from a ringing testimony to the saving Taylor's halls and have gone out to power of Christ and with the power the ends of the earth with the of the Holy Spirit to find their places blessed full Gospel. Clear across the in the World Mission of Jesus Christ. continent in these different annual Bishop Titus Lowe of the Metho­ conferences will be found a group of dist Episcopal Church, Portland area, Maytag Gymnasium men who have received their training writes: at Taylor. Dear Doctor Stuart: The laymen of the North Indiana Gift from Two Faithful Alumni Conference who come to Taylor's If this brief article clipped campus for their spiritual life re­ Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dodge of the from the Western (Christian Ad­ treats, and are using Gospel teams vocate) means what I think it does, class of '31, since graduating from and musical groups are becoming I desire to offer my very warm con­ Boston University are now on their more and more convinced of the real gratulations. Such a group of young way to take charge of the Taylor worth of Taylor University in the people as is here indicated, in my spiritual life of the conference. mind, is the way to spiritual recon­ Bible School in Angola, West Africa. struction. They are going out under the Board B. D. Nysewander, 'l6 Titus Lowe of Foreign Missions of the Methodist There are institutions of higher Those who are interested in re­ Episcopal Church. education and learning whose aim is ceiving detailed information concern­ These splendid young people to educate the minid develop the ing the Conference should write for write to us in a very beautiful spirit personality, strengthen the morals, information and registration blanks. of their -appreciation and love for enlighten the conscience and through Taylor, and they are going to carry an introduction to the Master of One of the many young people this blessed, full Gospel out yonder Life, change the heart of the in­ who have attended the other Youth to that territory made sacred by dividual so as, to make him a creature Conference meetings say: Bishop William Taylor. fit for the kingdom of God on earth I shall never cease thanking God In the same letter they send us and in heaven above. for leading me to the Taylor Voutli a love gift of $35.00, and say they Taylor University purposes to be Conference two years ago. I was are arranging with the Board at such an institution. Therefore it de­ gloriously converted and received my New York to send us at Taylor serves its fair place in the benevolent call to the ministry. Although I $35.00 each year to carry on this giving of Christian people. strayed from Him, he marvelously blessed work. If these two conse­ The lovers of Taylor University opened the way for me to come to crated young people can do this for and the truths for which she stands school where I again found Him in their alma mater what ought the can make it possible for the school a new way. My sister was here last rest of us to do. It would be a fine to become established upon a sound year and reported the seme power of thing if the pastors who are raising financial basis and secure its rightful spiritual uplifting. Praise God! for missionary offerings would designate place of recognition among the as­ introducing Youth Conference to certain gifts for which World Service sociation of colleges by paying their Taylor's Campus. credit may be given, to go to these membership fees to The William Robert M. Hollingsworth splendid people over there in Africa. Taylor P'oundation.