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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Taylor University Bulletin by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Entered as second class matter at Upland, Ind., April 8, 1900, under Act of Congress, July 16, 1894 VOL. XXIX, NO. 3 MAY 1937 ISSUED MONTHLY

TlinetuMtet Commencement

PRESIDENT HARRY M. GAGE, COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER DR. HARRY LINDBLOM GIVES BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS

Commencement Exercises, June I, 9:30, Maytag Gymnasium Baccalaureate Exercises, , 10:30, Maytag Gymnasium

Dr. Harry M. Gage is President he is head of the department of Dr. Harry Lindbloin will give of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, the North Central Association for the Baccalaureate address, Iowa. He will deliver the address the accrediting of higher educa­ "Meeting Life's Challenge," Sun­ at Taylor University's ninety-first tional institutions. day morning, May 30, at 10:30. Commencement exercises, on He was the guest of Taylor Dr. Lindbloin is pastor of the Tuesday morning, June 1. Dr. University two years ago, and Lake View Evangelical Free Gage has been one of the out­ gave the Baccalaureate address. Church of , Illinois. He standing Christian educators of He delighted a large audience is also one of the prominent America. He has done a splendid with his message, and his friends teachers and lecturers in the Free piece of work as President of Coe who heard him then are glad he Church Bible Institute and Acad­ College. Dr. Gage believes in an is returning to the campus to emy of Chicago. He is known as effective Christian education, and give the Commencement address. the "Moody of Sweden." is able to combine the spiritual Rev. Lindbloin was present at and intellectual in a very fine the Taylor University Youth's way. He is prominent in the TO JUNE 1 Conference and gave a message counsels of the North Central As­ Thursday: All College Farewell that stirred the hearts of those sociation of Colleges and Second­ Prayer Meeting—6:45 P.M. Friday: Annual Meeting of The who heard him. ary Schools. At the present time William Taylor Foundation —10:00 A.M. Farewell Meeting of Holiness Vayhinger to Receive LL.D. President's Itinerary League by President Stuart —6:45 P.M. The Taylor University faculty President Stuart will be speak­ Saturday: Fine Arts Program— vote to honor Dr. Monroe Vay­ ing to the Southern California 8:00 P. M. Sunday: Baccalaureate — 10:30 hinger with the honorary degree Holiness Camp Meeting, Los A. M. of LL. D. at Commencement, Angeles, June 18 to 25. The first Sacred Concert by Miss Both- June 1. All of the fourteen two weeks of July he will be well, Professor Kreiner, and classes that graduated under his Choral Society—8:00 P. M. with the summer evangelistic Monday: Literary Society Con­ administration are urged to be campaign of Wesley Methodist tests—9:30 A. M. present for this event. Dr. Mon­ Church and the Salvation Army Annual Meeting of Board of roe Vayhinger did an outstand­ of Detroit. He will be at the Directors of The William ing piece of work during his thir­ Taylor Foundation — 10:00 Barker, , Bible and A.M. teen years of administration of Youth Conference July 18 to 25, Class and Group Reunions of Taylor University. His Taylor and from July 30 to August 8 Alumni-—-1:30 P. M. students are all over the world. will be at the Cherry Run Camp Alumni Association Business This is one of the most fitting Meeting—3:30 P.M. in Pennsylvania. From August 9 Alumni Banquet—6:30 P. M. honors that Taylor has ever to 15 he will speak at the State Alumni Artist Program—8:00 given. Dr. Vayhinger exempli­ Camp and Bible Conference of P. M. fies in an outstanding way the the Methodist Protestant Church Tuesday: Commencement — 9:30 things for which Taylor Univer­ of Indiana, Marion, Indiana. A.M. sity stands. NEXT SEMESTER OPENS SEPTEMBER 15, 1937 Registrations are coming in now. Send for catalogue and picture folder and make up your mind to be one of the fine group registering now for September 15. Page Two TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

A WORD FROM NEW YORK A Layman Speaks ALUMNI Delightful Dinner Dear Friend: "It is well known and we of REUNION With the Alumni at And I have somehow felt the the alumni are much aware of friendly touch as we have seen Houghton, New York, at the the fact that Taylor University's National Holiness Convention each other in passing. I have ap­ buildings are well above the av­ preciated your warm spirit and erage for a college of its size." In the group were W. V. Miller contact with you. "Discerning parents who are and his wife, Eugene Pilgrim I do not want anything; I just Christian should be interested (president of the Western New want to tell you how I know the especially in knowing that Tay­ York Taylor alumni group), John men in the Northern Indiana Con­ lor is a place where their son's O. Mabuce and his wife, and ference are feeling toward Tay­ or daughter's faith will be Clarence French and his wife. At lor University. When a promi­ strengthened and not destroyed." this dinner President Stuart and nent churchman tells me that Dean Huffman, of the School of some of the leading men of the Religion, had the privilege of church are Taylor products, it meeting seventeen of the Taylor means to me that after all, the family. It was a delightful oc­ real church is looking toward casion. It was encouraging to hear the Taylor for leadership. This is a testimony of Mrs. W. V. Miller, day when Methodism should be who graduated in the class of and is, for that matter, harking 1903, as she told us how the life back to its foundation, having of Samuel Morris which she read reached, without a doubt, an in­ influenced her life and sent her tellectuality at the expense of a to Taylor University. warm spirituality. It certainly is an error and many of our people are coming to realize the fact that it is possible to bring about Samuel Morris a combination of warming The Samuel Morris booklet is spirituality with a superb in­ still going out by the thousands, tellectuality for leadership as the blessing lives everywhere. There hope of the church. lies on our desk now a copy that I have never been a student at has been printed in the Korean Taylor. Somehow I always envy language. Rev. S. M. Choi, of the some of the men I know for Oriental Missionary Society, having the privilege of spending came on the campus, saw Sam­ some of their lifetime as students uel Morris Memorial Hall, then there. I am convinced personally This group will be singing and went to the grave of Samuel Mor­ that there is no hope for our leading young people's work in the ris and took along a copy of his denomination outside of a return State Holiness Camp at Washburn, life story. He was so profoundly North Dakota, June 10 to 20. They to the conception of a religious will be planning to stop for evening impressed with it that he felt it influence, as laid down by John concerts and gospel team work on the must be put into the Korean lan­ Wesley. way up and back. If you would like guage and put into circulation to I am convinced of the power to have them, write immediately. the people over there. that you and your school can Bankers, lawyers, and Chris­ exert in the daily life of a hard tian workers of all types are pressed world. Quartets and Gospel Teams sending for this booklet and cir­ Sincerely yours, There will be at least four culating it. A lawyer in one of J. C. Tritch groups in the field all summer. our great cities who has been Principal There are many calls coming in buying and circulating it has International College for these workers, but you will made out an insurance policy for School of Commerce realize the time is here when the education of his children at Fort Wayne, Indiana schedules must be made out and Taylor University, for he says definite itineraries planned, so that an institution that offers the please get your request to us at fine things scholastically that we I Parents and Christian youth ! once. do and is definitely and enthusi­ j are turning to a school like ) God can give you a great meet­ astically Christian is the place . Taylor and time and again they | where he wants his children edu­ J ask, "Why didn't we know about ! ing through these splendid young I Taylor?" Tell them about { people. Make your plans at once cated. i Taylor and send their names to j and let us know how we can help = Taylor for complete informa- ! you. Alumni, Friends and Parents con­ I tion. | cede that Taylor's campus and build­ • Send for new catalogue and i ings are adequate for effective work I picture folder that will give ' Dr. Joseph H. Smith, a great Bible and that in many things far excel I them an idea of what Taylor | most colleges of the type of Taylor. j University has to offer. j teacher and expositor, will be speak­ A visit to Taylor's campus will con­ ing at Taylor from to 21. vince you. TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page Three

2500 MEMBERSHIPS WOULD SOLVE TAYLOR'S From the Heart of Africa FINANCIAL PROBLEM One bleak January morning in following day he was laid to rest If you have not sent your 1885 the first party of Bishop in the Quessua cemetery close to $10.00, please send it immedi­ William Taylor missionaries left the mound which marks the ately, and if you are able to New York harbor. Among that grave of Susan Talbott Wengatz take more than one membership, please do that. Some of our group of over forty men, women, (Mrs. John C. Wengatz). good friends are taking twenty- and children was twelve year old Two weeks before the death of five memberships a year. A Herbert C. Withey. On February Mr. Withey, Mrs. Dodge and I number of choice laymen, some 9, 1937, more than fifty-two years had the rare privilege of spend­ of them in the biggest churches in America, are taking ten later, Mr. Withey, the last of the ing a Sunday with him in Ma- memberships in order to carry Bishop Taylor missionaries in lange where he was translating on the great work at Taylor. Angola, Africa, peacefully went the Old Testament into the tribal Five hundred dollars gives you to his Heavenly reward. The vernacular, Kimbundu, and also a life membership. While just as appreciative a letter is writ­ preaching on Sundays to the ten for the smallest amount sent large Malange congregation. That in, you can easily realize how afternoon we sat at his feet as necessary it is to find a number he told us of the hardships and of the larger gifts in order to carry on the work of Taylor joys of the early years; of his University. relationship with Bishop Taylor; Send your sacrificial gifts of God's blessing upon His work immediately to Taylor. You have in Africa. It was a blessed day. been thinking about it all year, and you know how heavy the We drank deeply from Mr. financial burden gets near Com­ Withey's well of rich experience mencement time. All salaries and spiritual power. That night and obligations must be met, we prayed that God would spare and if your friends will respond as they intend to and get their him until he had completed the gifts into our hands, Taylor will work he alone was prepared to close another year with a bal­ do, but God, in His wisdom, had anced budget. other plans. Since that intensely hot March Annual Meeting of day in 1885 when the first Taylor missionaries landed in Luanda, The William Taylor Taylor University has had a Foundation special interest in the Angolan mission field. She has given of Friday, , 10 a. m. her favorite children, Oliver M. The above quartet will begin their Moody and Susan Talbott Make your plans now to be work with an itinerary of group con­ Wengatz, and God has accepted present at this important ferences of the Church, and District of her sacrificial gift for the Epworth League groups in the North meeting that has to do with Indiana Conference. They will also salvation of His children of a the work of an effective be singing at Bethany Camp, Winona darker hue; her graduates have Christian college. Everyone Lake, Indiana, June 15 to 18. given of their substances and God has sanctified the gifts and with who is in harmony with the them has extended the borders ideals of the school and pays Taylor University within which His name is the $10 membership, which Banquet praised; she has labored in must be in full before the prayer and thus her representa­ annual meeting, is urged to The North Indiana Taylor tives in Angola have been University group held their strengthened with Heavenly wis­ be present, for you have a banquet on Thursday evening, April 29, at the First Presby­ dom and power. vote in all the business of terian Church of Anderson. Mrs. Dodge and I, as the only The William Taylor Foun­ Their large dining hall was T. U. graduates on the Angolan filled with the enthusiastic Tay­ mission field, the place of such dation. lor family. There are over a The three visitors ap­ hundred preachers in the North vital associations to all Taylor Indiana Conference who have students, ask a continued interest pointed by the church groups been to Taylor University. in your prayers. The task is tre­ are to be present and have Bishop Cushman paid the very mendous, the climate is trying, highest tribute to the type of their vote right along with work Taylor University is doing, the needs are appalling, but God the other members of the commending us for the high is very near and precious to us scholastic standard that is being and will supply that which is Foundation. held, and expressing himself as necessary for those he has called so delighted that Taylor is defi­ Complete reports of all the nitely and enthusiastically into his work. Pray for us. work of the University will Christian. Ralph E. Dodge be presented to this meeting. Luanda, Angola, Africa. Page Four TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Alumni Neuis

Bishop Cushman announced Front Clearmont, Wyoming, at the Taylor Banquet that the comes word from Virgil Brown, spiritual tides at Denver Uni­ of the class of 1932. He is doing versity were rising. President pioneer missionary work out Knight of the Alumni Associa­ there, and is being wonderfully tion, of the class of. 1915, had to owned of God. He makes an remind the Bishop that Chancelor appeal for teachers and preachers D. Shaw Duncan, of Denver Uni­ who want to invest their lives in versity, was a graduate of Taylor the great task. University in the class of 1901. Norman L. Rose, of the class of A recent letter from President 1927, is definitely planning a reunion Marsh, of University, for his class and many of them will tells of the outstanding work that be present. Mr. Rose and the class of is being done by Atlee Lane 1927 are inviting the classes of 1926- Percy, of the class of 1922, who 30 to join them in this reunion. heads the Boston Summer School, and has a vital place in the Col­ A number of other classes are try­ lege of Business Administration ing to have as large groups of their membership present as possible. Let at Boston. Rev. H. Lindblom, B. S., Ph. G. other presidents take notice and get At the recent session of the Baccalaureate Speaker North Indiana Conference, L. G. out a personal word if possible to Jacobs, of the class of 1909, each member of his class. Let this "I am looking forward toward this be one of the greatest Commence­ season of renewed fellowship, with former president of the Taylor prayer and expectation. I feel you Alumni Association, and now ments for the alumni and former stu­ dents that Taylor has had in many have a great work. I am glad for the president of the Board of warmth and spiritual fervor at Directors of The William Taylor years. Taylor." Foundation, was made District Superintendent of the Muncie District. Rev. P. B. Smith, of the class of 1917, former president of the Alumni Association, was "Be Satisfied When You Go To College" made District Superintendent of the Richmond District. A. Wesley Pugh, of the class of 1922, a Choose member of the Board of Directors of The William Taylor Founda­ tion, was made pastor of High TAYLOR UNIVERSITY Street Church, Muncie. Elwood Hershey, of the class of 1936, missionary under the SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS Brethren in Christ, reports Leading to A. B. and B. S. Degrees and B. S. in Education, glorious victories in his new field Certification in High School and Elementary Training. in Africa. Sinners were converted at the close of the very first ser­ SCHOOL OF MUSIC mon he preached. He rejoices in Leading to B. Mus. Degree the victories God is giving him. He writes in a wonderful way of SCHOOL OF RELIGION one of the slogans of Taylor, Leading to Th. B. and B. D. Degrees "Beautifully Christian and Ef­ fectively Evangelistic." He is pouring out his heart in apprecia­ Send for new catalogue. Limited number of Selective tion of what Taylor has meant to Honor, Service, and Good Will Scholarships for worthy him. students. Write for infor­ mation.

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