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

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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

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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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days and years it may seem to linger. Today China is reaping the fruit from the sacrifice of the two hundred fifty-eight missionaries and the thirty thousand native Christians who gave their lives during the Boxer Rebellion. The reaping must not stop until every soul of China has had the opportunity to accept the Christ for whom they cry. India, beautiful, caste bound! India representing one-fifth of the inhabited world, but crowded into one-thirtieth of its area, is moving as a mass toward tho Light. But Wait! Will she be guided aright in the forward step? Are there enough of His disciples, either foreign or native, to teach the masses the way? There are more Christian workers in New York City alone than missionaries in all India. Are the laborers sufficient? There are now more than one hundred million unevangelized beyond the reach of the present force of workers. Of the one hundred and fifty million women of India, less than a million can read and write; forty million are life- long prisoners in Zenana homes. The widows of India alone number twenty-five mil- lion, one hundred thousand of them under ten, and twenty thousand under five years of age. Then, too, what about the fifty million untouchables of India? Did not Christ die for them as well as for you and me? India today is the greatest religious arena of the world. Who will enter this arena in the conflict against the powers of darkness to lift and lead these people to Light? An African woman cried: Tell we where I ' ll find Him, we ' re tired of darkness, we want light. She is only one of the millions of this Dark continent calling for help. There are fifty million souls in the jungles of Afi-ica unsought by a single missionary. Sherwood Eddy describes Africa as the continent Fettered in soul, manacled in mind, enslaved in body, and that has lain prostrate before the rapine and avarice of the world. Dragged captive by the Mohammedan; crazed by the intoxi- cants of Christian nations, made murderous by their fire-arms, Africa is bleeding out her life-blood at every pore. What a benighted race! Shall we by our neglect delay them the Lamp of Life? From Mexico comes the cry; armed men are not needed here but the Gospel of the Son of the living God. This alone will settle the problem of Mexico, said , the representative from Mexico to the Des Moines convention. Then as to South America ; what other nation than ours can better throw the rays of light across this continent where Catholicism has lost its hold and today they are practically without a religion. The word neglect in itself expresses the con- dition of South America. The seventy thousand students of South America and the peons held by slavery because of debt to the land owners is the pressing problem of that land. Mr. Mott, after his return from South America, said : A final impression which has been borne in upon me with overwhelming force is that a special burden of re- sponsibility rests upon the Christians of the United States for the extension of Christ ' s Kingdom among the peoples of Latin America. We repeat the statement that from every nation conies the cry: We want to know the Christ! This cry from the countries of Europe has a strange pathos in it. Sacrifice is the fundamental principle of Christianity and who can tell but that out of the tremendous slaughter of the Armenians, Syrians and Greeks will come the salvation of the people of Turkey, Arabia and Persia. We have entered a new realism on thinking of missions. We no longer need to