Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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The Student Volunteer Band Many people think of Taylor University as a school for ministers only. The perusal of this annual will show that while this is a good place for the minister to receive his education, Taylor welcomes people from all avenues of life. Our school offers standard college and preparatory courses, besides having many departments for specialized study. However, we desire to call particular attention to the fact that Taylor solicits young people whose lives are to be devoted to the mission field. Our Student Volun- teer Band is affiliated with the National Student Volunteer Movement. The object of the organization is to present to young people the challenge of the world ' s need of Jesus and His salvation, and to foster missionary devotion. The Volunteer Band itself does not send out missionaries. Its purpose is to get into touch with possible candidates and to encourage them to prepare for and reach the fields under their respective denominational boards. The present Taylor Volunteer Band is the largest and best-attended we have had for years. There is good interest shown in the Monday evening meetings; prayer is offered each day at the hour of noon; and once each month the Band is responsible for the Sunday afternoon chapel hour. Last summer three missionaries, the Misses Sarah M. Cox, Cora Leona Rahe and Martha McCutchen, sailed from among our number, besides several othei-s who have been with us in former years. By their fruits ye shall know them. Taylor Uni- versity has sent to the field fifty-seven missionaries in twenty years, thirty-six of them in the last ten years. Impression must precede and determine expression. The radiating ribbons of purple and gold on our map show that as truly as Taylor is cosmopolitan in drawing students from nearly all parts of the world, so surely have our Volunteers gone into every continent carrying the Gospel of Light in Christ Jesus. —ROSS HUTSINPILLER.

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The Widening Soverignity of Christ, Jesus shall reign, where ' er the sun Does his successive journeys run, His Kingdom spread from shore to shore, ' Till moons shall wax and wane no more. The disciple of Christ is today seeing the truth of this stanza verified. The five hundred millions of China, the millions of India, the vast ignorant population of Africa, the alert Japanese, the patient Korean, the enslaved people of South America, and the Islands of the Sea are now hearing and accepting the Gospel of the Son of God. The recent war has melted hearts, broadened sympathies, fused ideas, and brought the peoples of the earth into closer touch and placed before them a common goal — that of relieving the distress of the world. Not only physical distress, but the great soul distress and thirst for the true Christ. From every mission field comes the cry, We want to know Jesus. It is not a sui ' face cry but a cry from the deep spiritual longing of a sincere heart as is evidenced by the Chinese man. When the crops of the natives in Burma were destroyed, one of them brought the missionaries five dollars, saved by a small congregation, for spreading the Gospel among the heathen brethren in the North. When the missionary remonstrated, the native said: We can eat rats, but they cannot do without the Gospel. The harvest comes at the opportune moment, though to us who measure time by