Bacone College - Warrior Yearbook (Muskogee, OK)

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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

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42 THE BACONE CHIEF for Indian Schools, visited us and told us the story of a prince who changed his kingdom from a land of bitterness, gossip, and cruel hate, to a land of happiness and joy, where there was no time for anger , by giving to each, individual within his kingdom a flower to be planted and cared for. Early in the year we sent over 323.00 to the suf- fering Belgians. We have pledged 8510.00 for Home Mis- sions and have already paid our pledge of 310.00 to Foreign Missions. On December 27th, the Young W0men's Christian As- sociation of America met with a great loss in the death of Miss Grace Dodge, who for eight years had been the Presi- dent of the National Board. She was the associationis hu- man resource for wisdom, outlook, peace, joy and courage, and because of the inspiration of her life thousands of men and women, boys and girls of America and the world, have been brought nearer to the Christ life. At the beginning of the new year the active members of the Y. W. C. A. received certificates which will admit them to the privileges of any Y. W. C. A. in America. In each term we have tried to have six devotional meet- ings, three practical talks, and three missionary meetings. We also have a prayer circle which meets on Sunday even- ing, and a meeting for those who can not understand the English language very well. This latter meeting is held on Wednesday evening so that some of our Indian girls may not miss the help and training which those who speak English freely get in the Tuesday night meetings. We believe that the Bacone Y. W. C. A. has meant more to the girls this year then in former years, because they have seemed to feel less difiidence in making the meetings their very own, and in not only giving Verses, but in telling their own thoughts upon the subject, and especially in prayer. Early in the year an enterprising B. Y. P. U. was organ- ized under the leadership of Miss Crouse. The B. Y. P. U. is divided into four groups of about twenty members each. This affords a little good natured rivalry, when a new stu- dent arrives on the hill . The B. Y. P. U. has done much good already, and we expect to get much training from its lessons. The first ten days of February were given to evange- listic services. The teachers and students congratulate them- selves upon being able to secure the services of Rev. Jas. Peden, a prominent minister in eastern Oklahoma, for this occasion. Rev. Peden took his college course in Bacone, and the memories of his student days enabled him to appeal to