Bryan College - Commoner Yearbook (Dayton, TN)

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We64ar e Awm ot March 19, 1946. Miss Elaine Kennard, Editor The Commoner William Jennings Bryan University Dayton, Tennessee Dear Miss Kennard: I am glad that you are paying special tribute in this year ' s Commoner to William Jennings Bryan as the Defender of the Faith. Many do not know that his Last Battle ' ' was but the culmination of a warfare for the faith carried on for several years before his death in Dayton. Many people know that he was mightily used of God, but do not know that he was definitely called of God. For several years Mr. Bryan pondered what was a God-given call to become the champion of the Defense of the Faith. Each week for five years five Godly ministers of Buffalo, New York, met for prayer, having as a special object of prayer that William Jennings Bryan would devote the remaining years of his life to the Defense of the Faith against the inroads of Modernism. Our friend, Dr. Ernest M. Wadsworth, Director of the Great Commission Prayer League, was one of these praying ministers ; the leader of the group was the Rev. Josiah H. Miller, Pastor of the Hedstrom Memorial Baptist Church of Buffalo. Finally, a former parishioner of the Reverend Mr. Miller sent a gift to him asking that he visit their family in Lincoln, Nebraska, where William Jennings Bryan was then living. Mr. Miller made the trip to Lincoln, being assured that the Lord would have him present the matter about which they had been praying to Mr. Bryan himself. Mr. Bryan considered the interview so important that he delayed a phone call from the President of the United States- for thirty minutes while they completed their discussion and joined in a dedicatory prayer. Mr. Bryan left that interview and prayer meeting no longer hesitant about God ' s call. He went forth The Defender of the Faith. Cordially yours in Christ, Judson A. Rudd. 4, The 1946 Commoner

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M 1 ' Pc 1 J| PT-l 1 y$m mm. « t aem r Top row— JUDSON A. RUDD, A.B., M.A., LL.D., President. . . . DWIGHT W. RYTHER, B.S.C., M.A., Vice-President and Dean, and Professor of English. . . . LLOYD E. FISH, B.A., A.M., Vice-Presi- dent and Treasurer, and Professor of Psychology and New Testament Greek. Bottom Row— NORMAN H. UPHOUSE, A.B., B.Th., M.Th., Dean of Men, and Associate Professor of Bible. . . . ALMA F. RADER, Dean of Women and Instructor in Bible. . . . REBECCA M. PECK, B.A., Registrar, and Instructor in Commercial Subjects. The 1946 Commoner