Bacone College - Warrior Yearbook (Muskogee, OK)

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4 , ' f r ' LA: JOHN L. MURPHY, Editor. Someone has said: The three most beautiful words in the English language are 'Heaven, Home and Motherf Re- alizing that no person's education is complete Without the person has some knowledge of the Bible, and adoration for his or her parents, and a proper regard for the sacredness of the home, the faculty of Bacone College has labored faith- fully to instill into the heart of each student that one thing which is so essential to all happiness, a Christian spirit. The College maintains a fully organized church for the benefit of the students. The fact that more than one hun- dred students are members of the Bacone Baptist Church, shows the powerful influence the church has upon their lives. Regular preaching service is conducted by the pastor each Sunday evening. In these Sunday evening services the stu- dents have the opportunity of hearing and analyzing series of sermons. At eleven o'clock A. M. there is a service con- ducted for those who have not so good a command of the English language. This arrangement gives everyone an op- portunity to get all possible out of their schooling. There is a prayer meeting conducted regularly every Week for all. The Bacone Church has one of the largest and best or- ganized Sunday Schools in this association. The Sunday School is divided into eighteen classes, which are taught by teachers who have diplomas which they received .after doing much hard studying in the Normal Teachers' Training Course. Their previous training enables them to present the great truths to their pupils in such a manner that even the least can understand them. Under the able leadership of the Superintendent, Prof. A. C. Rice, our Sunday School each Week approaches nearer and nearer the goal of perfec- tion. The Sunday School feels that it is more blessed to give

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THE BACONE CHIEF 41 than to receive, so it has given fifty dollars to the fund for our new building. The Y. M. C. A. has been a great force in helping the boys make a success of their school life. When a strange boy comes into the College, he is met by the Y. QM. C. A. boys and made to feel that some one is interested in him. Per- haps a few people realize how much the friendly interest of the Y. M. C. A. members does to drive away that feeling of homesickness and discouragement which so many boys ex- perience when they leave home for the first time. The Y. M. C. A. is a powerful agent in helping the boys to learn just Where they are in their spiritual life. It has helped many of the boys who use tobacco to give up the use of the filthy narcotic altogether. Dr. Robert Hall of New York has given the boys two illustrated lectures this year. It is always an inspiration to all of the boys to hear Dr. Hall tell about some of the things the Y. M. C. A. is doing for the young men all over the country. A The influence of our Y. M. C. A. has not been confined to the College alone. Early in the year the boys organized a gospel team. The enthusiasm of this team is shown in its work for Christ. It has aided some of the small, struggling churches in this vicinity. Our boys have shown the people of Oklahoma their interest in the Y. M. C. A. work by send- ing to the State Conference in Tulsa a larger delegation, in proportion to the number of members, than any school in the state. The delegates returned to Bacone with many new ideas, and a larger vision of the work. Thos. Bailey Aldrich said: Build as thou wilt, and as thy light is given, Build as thou wilt, unspoiled by praise or blame, Then at last if what thou hast built shall fall,- Dissolve and vanish,-take thyself no shame. They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. Our Y. W. C. A. this year has been trying to build in spite of praise and blame, striving to help the girls of Saca- jawea Hall to become more intelligent and earnest Christian girls. During the fall term a play, The School Girl, and the Slave Girl, was given by a number of the Y. W. C. A. members. It illustrated the work begun by the mission- areis in China, and carried forward by the Chinese Christian students themselves. During the Winter Term we enjoyed a series of studies in the mission work of the world based on the book, The Child in the Midst . On December 7th, Miss Dabb, the National Secretary