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CENTRAL BIBLE INSTITUTE was born to serve a dying world. At a time when the earth was pressed between one great holocaust and the threatenings of economic disaster and a second world war, a little school was begun in a church basement in Springfield, Missouri. As we look back on that beginning, we are cer- tain that the world held no great welcoming service for the new school. The world may never stretch forth wide arms to embrace its graduates or the spirit for which the school stands, yet every corner of the earth has been warmed from its hearth. Every land has echoed its songs of salvation and many of the earth's heartaches and sorrows have been alleviated by those who have gone from its halls to minister. Though the world held no great celebration at its birth, Pentecostal people rejoiced when C.B.I. was be- gun in 1922 in the old Central Assembly building at Campbell and Calhoun in Springfield. D. W. Kerr was the first dean. He and Mrs. Kerr, well beloved early leaders in the General Council, and their daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Pierce, con- ducted the school that year. In 1923,edue to the retirement of Brother and Sister Kerr, W. Welch, President of the school, journeyed to Newark, New jersey, and persuaded Frank M. Boyd, Dean of Bethel Bible School to come to Springfield and become C.B.I.'s second dean. The school work was continued that year in the Central Assembly building, which was a square box- like structure about one-half the size of the present main auditorium. Classes were held upstairs in the audi- torium and in the basement, two classrooms in all. The basement included one classroom, dining room, kitchen, and the offices of the Dean and the Business Manager. W. Sitton, who later became very active in the servicemerfs work, was business manager, and Miss Mollie Baird, now missionary in India, was the dean's secretary. The grant of the present property was made from the City of Springfield. Some prominent business men very positively opposed the establishing of the school, because they were skeptical of the Pentecostal move- ment. They were afterward very happy for being over- ruled in the matter. Brother and Sister Boyd lived in the white cottage just east of the present Administration Building. Huge stacks of lath and brick were piled in front of the cot- tage. When they came home from Central Assembly each day, they watched with great interest the progress of the new building. This first unit was financed by small gifts from our Pentecostal people. Most of the money came in through dime containers. wenfy-gihk D. W. KERR, Fifi! Dean -I. W. WELCH, First Prer. FRANK BOYD, Serond Dean W. T. GASTON, Semmz' Pref.