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Taylor University Bulletin (April 1938)

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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]. 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. That talent is be there. However, I believe this was venture out into a field where I felt, singing and I hope that you will not the crowning year. Perhaps the down inside myself, I ought to be. think I am bragging when I say that reason I feel so is due to the great For the past year I've gone on — I have a good voice. I had been plan­ enrichment that has come to my own afraid to even let myself think of the ning to work my way up until I might soul and life. Jesus seems dearer and possibilities which God might want to reach Grand Opera, yet all the time the Holy Spirit a more potent factor open up for me — trying to convince something was pulling me back. I in my own experience. myself that maybe after all, I was have been taking singing lessons and Too, I want to congratulate the com­ never supposed to go to college. I've I know enough about music to know mittees that worked and prayed laid my head on my pillow at night, that I was not progressing the way I through all the intricacies in planning over and over again, conscious of the should. I was miserable. It was hard for such a conference. Surely, without fact that I wasn't satisfied, that I for my parents to live with me. I the guidance of the Holy Spirit they was trying to convince myself of could not get along with my friends. could not have succeeded so well. I something that I knew wasn't true. I deceived my parents by doing things realize also that the fine spirit of I came to the Youth Conference that I know they wouldn't want me to cooperation on the part of the faculty again this year. And again, too, I do. I got to the place where I couldn't and yourself was a balancing leverage felt the pull on my life. Sunday morn­ pray, I hated the Bible and I didn't for the best results. Again, I am seeing ing I listened to your address, and as want to live. the fruitage of the Christian college. you went on, the grip tightened up. I It was with the thought of a good (Continued on last page) Items of Interest to Taylor's World-Wide Alumni

From Ralph and Eunice Dodge, Robert Marvin Stuart, class of little Timothy, and his new sister, '31, describes the thrill he had in Lois Ann, in Lauanda, Angola, pulling in this "big one": Africa: Dad, I would have given a lot to I want to report to you some fresh have you along when I hooked my news of the results of our work. By 19-pound bass on Armistice Day. It "our", I mean the partnership formed was a thrill of a life-time, the biggest by your prayers and money and our fishing thrill I have had. In the high­ prayers and labors. . . . For ten con­ lights of 1937 it rates second to the secutive nights the large Luanda arrival of Robert Lee in April. I put church auditorium was packed to the star-drag clear on and still he capacity, so great was the hunger pulled my line right on out. It was for the Word of Life. The evangelist, 30 minutes before I could begin to a mission-educated native, held the bring him in, and I was so thrilled audience almost motionless as he fed and nervous that my legs shook like a them on spiritual manna. Each night, leaf. The other fellows were hollering, after an intensely interesting and "Bring it in, 'parson' ", and the long picturesque sermon though extremely years of watching you bring in the long, the invitation to remain and big ones taught me how to handle pray was given those burdened with him. It is my dream that some day sin. Never a meeting closed but what you can be out here when the big ones from twenty to forty remained to re­ are running and we can go out to­ pent of their sins and later on to con­ gether. secrate their lives to the will of the Master. As I write these lines, the meetings How One Family Goes are continuing in the classes in the outlying districts of the city. To date, To School more than five hundred have definitely Robert Marvin Stuart, '31, been liberated from the bondage of El Cerrito, California sin, under which they were existing — not living. . . . The permanent re­ to be with the T. U. students again sult of such a meeting is still un­ during the Conference. My heart was written, but immediate proofs of sin­ certainly touched when I saw those cere repentance are not lacking. young people stand up for Christ. Domingos, a native worker who She also speaks of the great several years ago had been legally freed from a debt by the burning of responsibility of teaching in the the books in a local grocery store, had public school and how she has a never attained spiritual freedom from chance to counsel and help young his obligation. During the meeting people with their difficult prob­ he settled this back account. lems. She thanks God for Taylor Juliana, a seamstress, had lied to and says: the missionary as to the cost of Taylor is a great school and I am material which she had bought to realizing more and more what it has make some arm bandages for a parade done for me. In appreciation for what of the school children on a national Taylor has done I am sending some of holiday. As I was working in my office my tithe. I joined the William Taylor one night about eleven o'clock came a Foundation last year. note asking my pardon and with it the equivalent of ninety cents. Juliana Then she describes the victories The Smith family have solved the still lacked twenty cents, which she of the young people she brought problem of paying their way through promises to pay as soon as she can to the Youth Conference and how college. Four of them have been to earn the money. Her spirit is once Taylor; there are three here this more free. . . . she is leading them and getting year — Hazel, Logan, and Mable. They Tennyson's line, "More things are them established in spiritual simply load up four hundred white wrought by prayer than this world things. leghorn pullets, bring them to the dreams of", is as true today as when Each year Taylor graduates a campus, take care of them, and sell the eggs and pay their way through he penned it. Let us work our partner­ number of teachers who are college. They have done this so suc­ ship to the limit in striving for the thoroughly trained and yet cessfully that they have been written new goal of 5000 claimed or reclaimed definitely and enthusiastically up in the papers and magazines all for Christ before our next annual Con­ Christian. School boards and over the United States, and Miss ference in July. Hazel Smith appeared on "We The churches interested in having People" program in New York, over teachers that are constructive and the Columbia Broadcasting System, We received the following from Christian in their approach would sometime ago and told the story of one of Taylor's graduates who do well to check up on the grad­ their project. teaches in the public schools. She uating class of Taylor and give The students on Taylor's campus writes about the Youth Con­ these young people a chance to who have to work for their tuition are ference. honored just as much as those stu­ invest their lives in your com­ dents who come from parents who It was a great privilege to be able munity. pay all their way.

i 1 Bishop Springer from Africa Sends Excerpts from Letters (Continued from second page) William Taylor Foundation Membership As your slogan goes, "The college that cares for the soul." From Bishop John McKendree There is no outward force that is Springer, Bishop for Africa: i Already several of Taylor's I as inspirational to my own experience | friends have sent their Easter I as the contact with the student body Dear Dr. Stuart: ' sacrificial love gift. Whether it | of Taylor University. With the pass­ A copy of your bulletin of April I is one dollar or one hundred | ing of the last decade, I have had a 1937 came to my hand, and I was | dollars, send it on, backed by ' growing endearment for your school. greatly interested in the items re­ j your prayers. Taylor's needs are I I pray daily for you, your faculty, garding Brother Withey and also | many, and we are depending j and the student body. I grant you, Bishops Taylor and Oldham. I upon God's people to send in j they get my "special" at the throne of I am enclosing herewith a copy of | their gifts so that every financial ! grace. How I praise God for the my circular letter which tells of the | need may be met. privilege of the friendship with youth. Conferences of 1937. You will note 1 am rejoiced that many of them have my reference to Brother Dodge. We For nearly five years Taylor | faith and confidence enough in my hope that other couples like these ! has not borrowed a dollar, has j | not gone into debt and has met = Christian experience to dub me as splendid workers will be available in "Dad." It doesn't injure my dignity in the not distant future. [ conscientiously every obligation. ! the least. If it has any effect, my I am enclosing a Bill of Exchange j This has been done through the ) dignity is increased. God bless the for $10.00 and will be glad to be en­ [ love gifts of her friends. Please J girls and boys of Taylor University! rolled as a friend of Taylor. Mrs. I give this definite prayer and j You may always count on me as a Springer and I visited the school in j thought and send your gift at ! booster for Taylor. I am not an 191.6, I think it was, and we have kept I once. ( I _ ; alumnus (I sure wish I were), but more or less in touch with matters that does not keep me from seeing there through the years since. We are QUARTETS AND GOSPEL TEAMS her real value as the boon of blessing just returning from Liberia where we to the souls of youth. visited Barelayville, the present sta­ Dates are coming in, plans are May the riches of God be yours as tion of Brother J. C. Wengatz, where being made for quartets and gospel the foundations have been laid for a teams for the summer. If you have you direct the work of Taylor Uni­ great service among a considerable any thought of using any of these versity. population. I presume that he has been fine groups, please write the Presi­ Fraternally Yours, at the University and has given an dent's office immediately. R. Lowell Wilson account of the work there. With very best wishes for the school, Very cordially yours, J. M. Springer TAYLOR UNIVERSITY (Founded 1846) Taylor Stands for the Best UPLAND, INDIANA College, April 7, 1938 President of Taylor University: It was my privilege to read a letter a girl student received from a student in your college and I cannot remem­ ber of having been more impressed. She told of the wonderful Christian spirit there, and gave a detailed ac­ count of her conversion, and it was one of the sweetest and most genuine things one could imagine; I am not ashamed to tell you I could not keep back the tears. . . . NOTE: There are not many colleges in America that stand for the very finest scholarships Taylor offers a wide range of courses, including regular and are at the same time definite­ college, theological, normal, music, domestic science, pre-nursing, ly and enthusiastically Christian. pre-medic, and pre-engineering. You will find one of the happiest Accredited Standard College of Liberal Arts by the State teaching groups and student Board of Education of Indiana. groups in the country on Taylor's campus. They are learning how, Taylor's credits are accepted at full value in leading Universities of the United States. in a real sense, to live happily to­ gether. Limited number of Selective Honor, Service, and Good Will Scholarships for worthy students. "Scholastic achievement is in­ complete until religion is a part Send for catalog. Fall semester opens September 14, 1938. of it. Taylor offers us both." — CLARICE BELL