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Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University Taylor University Bulletin Ringenberg Archives & Special Collections 3-1-1932 Taylor University Bulletin (March 1932) 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 (March 1932)" (1932). Taylor University Bulletin. 307. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu-bulletin/307 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. XXIV., NUMBER 9 MARCH, 1932 ISSUED MONTHLY « My Sacrificial Love Gift For Taylor University HOW MUCH WILL IT BE? HOW MUCH SACRIFICE HAVE I MADE FOR JESUS THIS YEAR? AM I VITALLY INTERESTED IN HIS KINGDOM? DO I WANT TAYLOR TO SEND OUT MISSIONARIES AND PREACHERS WHO WILL BLESS THE WORLD? DO I WANT THE YOUTH OF AMERICA TO HAVE A SCHOOL WHERE THEY CAN GET AN EDUCATION AVITHOUT THEIR FAITH BEING DESTROYED? TAYLOR UNIVERSITY NEEDS YOUR GIFTS AS NEVER BEFORE GO RIGHT NOW AND ASK GOD WHAT YOUR GIFT OUGHT TO BE. LET EVERY MEMBER OF THE ALUMNI AND EVERY STUDENT WHO HAS EVER BEEN TO TAYLOR SEND A SACRIFICIAL LOVE GIFT TO HIS COLLEGE. * LET EVERY LOYAL FRIEND OF TAYLOR AT THIS BLESSED EASTER TIME SEND A SACRIFICIAL LOVE GIFT. DO IT NOW. CLIMAX OF SACRIFICE BISHOP FRANCIS W. WARNE Christ's life had been a sacrificial life. From Taylor University has lost a loyal friend in the His humble birth in the manger of a cattle shed death of Bishop Warne. He believed in the things on through the years, He had lived the self-forget for which Taylor stands. Our faculty and stu ting, self-denying, self-sacrificing life, but the cli dents loved him. He thrilled them with his great max of sacrifice was reached on Calvary. No or gospel messages. dinary sacrifice was sufficient for that hour. The Bishop Warne has had a great ministry. God world's need called for the sacrifice even of His has been mightily with him. What a work he own life's blood, and Christ did not fail the world did in India. in that hour of its stupendous need, but went a Here are quotations from the last letters re step farther than He had ever gone before and ceived from him by President Stuart: made the uttermost sacrifice. "I greatly enjoyed my experience at Taylor Most of us have, through the years, tried to University, and the making of so many new make some sacrifice for the Christ, for the friends, and have my interest rekindled in the Church, for other Christian institutions, and for work and future of the institution. I feel like people less fortunate than ourselves, but not since quoting from the hymn, "God Will Take Care of 4 our birth, if ever in the history of our country, You." I believe this with all my heart, and will have Kingdom interests and human suffering cal have you and all your interests upon my prayer led for such heroic, self-denying sacrifice. We are list." wondering whether or not, we, as Christ's follow From another letter: "I have enjoyed my ers, will have the grace to go a step farther than fellowship with you, Dr. Stuart. I have been in we have ever gone and meet this extraordinary terested as I have listened to your definite testi need with extraordinary devotion, and real sac mony relative to your call to Taylor University. rificial giving? For forty years I have tested out God's call. Jesus In the last issue of the Bulletin, we asked the definitely called me to India. I gave forty years friends of Taylor University if they would not of my life there. Many times during that time, "pray over the matter and respond to the call for I could not see any way out, but I fell on my a Pre-Easter Sacrificial Gift." We want to thank face and said, 'Jesus, you sent me here.' During most heartily those who are responding to this that time He never failed me once." appeal, and to assure them that they are coming The Taylor family group appreciated the fel to the assistance of the school at a time when lowship of this man of God. He loved us well nothing less than such sacrificial giving can meet enough and believed thoroughly enough in the the great need of the hour. We want also to thank work of the institution to work for Taylor as he in advance those whom we feel sure will yet re went about contracting his friends. May God spond to this urgent call for help. Taylor Univer grant that the mantle of Bishop W. Warne may sity's needs were never greater, and we do not fall upon many students of Taylor University, know where you could invest a dollar that would and that they may go out to carry on in the great bring greater returns for the kingdom. task of winning our world to Christ. Pac/e Two TAYLOR UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Founder of Asburu College Goes Home The Rev. John Wesley Hughes, D.D., who TAYLOR ALUMNI HAVE GREAT PLANS founded Asbury College has recently gone home FOR COMMENCEMENT to be with God. What a life he lived. No one today is able to measure the influence of the work he did. The final returns will have to be in at the The President and Board of Directors of the judgment before you can tell the good this dear Alumni Association have asked that they be given man has done. What a group of preachers, mis a whole day in connection with commencement. sionaries and laymen from all over the world that This will be granted. It is to be hoped that there will say, "All that I am I owe to Brother Hughes." will be the largest number present this year in the history of the institution. Begin planning Brother Hughes knew how to get the right right now to be present. A great many of the kind of theology into the minds of his students. former students will be at the General Conference. He got it across in such a way that one can never Make your plans to come back to Taylor to meet get away from it. He made you believe and love the old group and enjoy fellowship with one of God's Book, he made you feel that you had a the finest groups on earth. Savior who could save to the uttermost—there was no question about the blood being able to cleanse from all sin—there was no question about COULD YOU DO A BETTER PIECE OF WORK the abiding presence of the Comforter when THAN THIS? Brother Hughes got through with you. How I thank God that I had the privilege of being under Most of the students of Taylor are here be this dear man. cause some friend of Taylor persuaded them to I will never get away from the mighty mani come. Taylor is dependent largely upon her host festations of God's power at dear old Asbury. I of friends in the matter of student promotion. am praying that God will help me to do the same What have you done for Taylor? How many kind of work as president of Taylor University. young people of your community or town have I want our students to come to know God defi been persuaded by you to come to our campus as nitely. I want them to love His Word, I want students ? them to know Christ as an uttermost Savior, I Or have you allowed the youth about you to be want them to enjoy the Holy Spirit as their Com drawn into institutions where you were aware forter. In fact, I want on Taylor's campus they would not be able to retain their faith in the that the greatest unfinished miracle of the age to divine Christ? Do we not have a solemn respon be performed—that of taking Jesus seriously. sibility to the young men and young women whose Two years ago I drove over Taylor's campus lives we touch? Are we not personally respon and then drove down to Asbury and as I went sible to a large degree for whatever disaster may over these institutions I could not keep back the come to their lives ? exclamation "See what God hath wrought." How It may be true that some young people who it thrills you as you try to picture in your mind have been loyal to the church and who have known » the students who have gone out to the ends of a personal relationship to Christ may be able to * the earth to preach enthusiastically the whole retain this attitude and relationship in spite of Gospel. And What a group it is! skeptical college environment. On the other hand The other day John Wengatz who is a gradu there are many who have not been this fortunate. ate of Taylor said to our students: "God has In any case is it not more profitable to place helped Susan Talbot Wengatz and myself to win a young man or young woman in an environment thirty-five thousand souls to Christ since we left during his college training which strengthens, Taylor." Oh beloved, is it worth it to sacrifice for contributes and establishes his Christian princi Taylor and Asbury? I have given my life to the ples and relationships? This is the mission of task and have forgotten that there is such a thing Taylor University to the youth of America.