Taylor University Bulletin (April 1938)
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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University Taylor University Bulletin Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections 4-1-1938 Taylor University Bulletin (April 1938) Taylor University Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu-bulletin Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Taylor University, "Taylor University Bulletin (April 1938)" (1938). Taylor University Bulletin. 316. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu-bulletin/316 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]. TA YLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Entered as second class matter at Upland, Ind., April 8, 1900, under Act of Congress, July 16, 1894. Vol. XXX, No. I APRIL 1938 Issued Monthly Tai/l OK is DijjjjeKent "AN EFFECTIVE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE" That does not mean that midst of an ideal spiritual Taylor is different when it atmosphere. Students are comes to her beautiful taught to think and to face campus, splendid buildings the facts of life. and equipment, although Education and religion many educators who visit are God's surpassing gifts our campus say it is one of to the youth of today. the most beautiful cam Everything that education puses and well equipped has to offer is welcomed plants of the smaller col and used in the reaching of leges of the State. A college the objective, but always should have the very best with the thought that it buildings and equipment must be controlled and and surroundings possible directed by the Spirit of so that it may be an ideal Christ. Education and re place in which to study. ligion must not be di It is not that Taylor is An ideal place to study vorced. While all of this different primarily in her (Administration Bldg. and Music Hall) vast field of education staff - for every college which is so rich in its offer worthy of the name must have a phasis, and young people are ings is used, in order for it to be staff that carries the very highest sweetly, tactfully led into a con effective it must be presented by earned degrees of the great scious relationship with Christ. highly trained men and women universities of America. Over one who are definitely Christian half of Taylor's staff have either Taylor is different in that her themselves and who help to their Doctor's degree or the teachers and students alike feel create a sane, Christian atmos equivalent and the rest of them, they are preparing to carry on phere. Such influences are with the exception of two, have Christ's great task of building a brought to the student life that their Master's with considerable new world. The purpose and ob- whether ministerial or lay they work toward their Doctorate pectives of Taylor are taken are made to feel themselves a secured. seriously both by the staff and part of the great ongoing Christ Taylor is different in that the student body. ian educational movement which college emphasizes the spiritual they will later be called to lead. along with the intellectual. It While the student is urged to feels that young people must have The Task and Objective get the very finest intellectual the great staying force of religion equipment possible and to find to help them meet life's task. The task entrusted to the his spiritual bearings by organiz Taylor is different 111 this respect, faculty of Taylor University is ,« ing his life around Christ, it is as you know, for as you cover the build Christian character in the also felt that he must have a field of American colleges there youth who enter her halls. The strong body, so through physical are very few that are doing a high emphasis is made daily upon the examinations, lectures on health class piece of scholastic work and ethical and spiritual in educa and hygiene and a constructive are definitely and enthusiastically tion. The doors are open to program of intercollegiate ath Christian. Taylor is not extreme, Christian youth who desire a letics and Intramural activities hut sane in her religious em standard college education in the this goal is reached. Already many students are sending in their applications and room de posits for next year. Send yours immediately so you may have a choice of one of these beautiful rooms. Next semester begins September 14. Fifth Annual Youth Conference Greatest Ever Excerpts from letters of those who were present It would have thrilled you to battled it out during the altar call, time that I came to the Taylor Youth have seen that big gymnasium and then, just as the service was Conference. I didn't come with the filled with young people eagerly closing slipped out and went down to thought of how much I could get out facing their own spiritual needs. the altar again. I tried to reason it of it religiously. As soon as I entered These three days were given over out some other way, but the only the campus grounds something hap thing that offered any peace at all was pened; I do not know what, but some to the spiritual reconstruction of saying, "Lord, I'll go anywhere you of the weight on my heart was lifted. youth. On Sunday, both morning want me to go." When I saw the faces of those young and afternoon, when the mes I've come home determined to do people beaming with the love of God, sages were completed and the ap that, at whatever cost. more weight was lifted. When I at peals made, literally scores of tended the meetings and discussion young people came forward and groups, all the remaining weight lifted many were blessedly saved, and I was free. others were mightily baptized "Taylor has I have known for weeks that God with God's Holy Spirit. wanted me to use my voice in win offered me for ning souls, yet I resisted. All I thought This Conference has grown in four years the of was myself and how I could become power and influence until, even highest aca famous. Now that it is all gone and though the registrations were demic stand I have given myself and my voice to limited to five hundred, there ards in a truly God I know what it is like to have were over one thousand from the Christ-center God talk to me. I know that He wants outside. Anyone who had the ed program." me to be a Singing Evangelist and that I shall be, with God's help. Next privilege of looking in on this —TED ENGSTROM great gathering of young people Sunday night I shall dedicate my voice to God from the pulpit with that would feel there is hope for us wonderful song "My Task". I ask the when you can get a choice group prayers of all to help me resist temp like this together who are Dear President Stuart: tations and give me strength "to go definitely seeking and finding for During the great Youth Conference where He wants me to go." themselves the highest standard which was held at Taylor, I was so Although I spent only two days on of New Testament experience. absolutely saved that I have felt the Taylor's Campus I have fallen in love The group voted to come back urge to write and tell you all about with it already. for the Sixth Annual Conference it. next year. My name is , the daughter My Dear Dr. Stuart: of one of the finest Christian ministers In the congestion of the time and of the North West Indiana Conference. the services of the recent Youth Con From a prospective student: Perhaps you have heard of him. My ference, I was unable to meet you mother is also a fine Christian woman. and tell you how very grateful I am Last week-end I attended Taylor's I will be nineteen in May and will as a pastor, for the splendid resultant Youth Conference. For some time graduate from high school in June. I efforts Taylor University has put during my high school years I felt have been brought up in a Christian forth to bless the youth ®f our very certain that God was calling me home with Christian surroundings. churches. Certainly anybody attend for a definite work .... A year ago Up until a year or two ago I had al ing one of the conferences could not when I attended Taylor's Youth Con ways taken God for granted. Then help emphasizing the untold enrich ference I was touched again by a questions such as, "How do I know ment that comes into the lives of tremendous appeal that God still had there is a God?" began to arise in my our youth. In the five years that you something definite which he wanted mind. I began to disbelieve. have been conducting these Pisgah me to do. I was down at the altar on God has given me a talent which experience meetings, I have always Saturday evening and again on Sun could win souls to Him but I did not availed myself of the opportunity of day morning, trying to get the whole heed His call and have been planning taking some of my young people, ex thing cleared up — but I left Taylor's to use that talent in a way that cept one year when I was unable to campus unwilling to leave my job and might bring me fame.