Oklahoma Presbyterian College - Ithanna Yearbook (Durant, OK)

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out the day when we stretch out into its tasks will make us strong, thru the Holy Spirit's strong aid, to scatter seeds which will enrich other lives. A Student Volunteer Band Was organized on March 30, 1914. Its members are Misses Sadie Nesbit, Winnie Lewis, Lillie Atvvell, Emma Stevenson, and Irene McCain. lThe primary purpose of the board is to enlist volunteers for Work in foreign lields. The secondary purpose is to deepen the spiritual lives ofthe members ofthe band. The band is deeply interested in every phase of college Work, scholar- ships, social life, athletics, the spiritual life of the college and most of all creating and sustaining missionary interest. Their Leader has said: Also the foreigners that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be His servants le W ll g even them Will I bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Isa. 56: 6-7. ,,.....-...1-i DELEGATES TO KANSAS CITY CONVENTION 65

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Y. W. C. A. CABINET GLOVER, HARRISON, ORR, LLOYD, LEEORAPT, ADAMS ATWELL, LEMON, MCCAIN, BARNETT, STEVENSON

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It is pre-eminently in the Y. W. C. A. that the growth in favor with God is made. The purpose of the Young Women's Christian Association anywhere is to draw the girls together in their loyalty to Jesus Christg to furnish a channel for service for Jesus while in college and to prepare them for active service-especially leadership-after leaving college. Furthermore it seeks to associate the students with the students of the world in the advancement of the kingdom of Christ. In 1910 the Young Women's Christian Association of Oklahoma Presbyterian College was affiliated with the National Young Women's Christian Association and then this association to the World's Cristian Student Federation. While we are preparing for sleep, we have members of our association just beginning a new day's work. It means more than one can tell to get such a vision of the world's great work, as goes the student to-day, so goes the world, some one has said. If membership in so large a federation did nothing else, it would furnish our students with infor- mation of great world movements. It does,however, help to strengthen the faith of a student to get a knowledge of the world task for Christians of to-day and how it is being accomplished. The important exponents of the Y. W. C. A. are Mission Study and the Morning Watch. There are among the stu- dents and Faculty seven Mission Study classes. China, South America, Japan, India, Africa, and unoccupied fields in Asia are topics for study in foreign fields. Immigration is thetopic for Home Missions. There is the little dandelion that clings close to mother earth and keeps warm in the cold winterg in the early morn? ing of its life it blossoms out with a golden ray of cheer that sends one who sees it onward with a cheerier heart, then later in its life this little flower grows up from its close Cllllglng to earth, up intoa tall stalk, and by means of the strong wind sends out its seed to enrich the earth. In our lives the Morning Watch enables us to be like the little dan- delion. A little time spent in close communion with Jesus Chl'1Sf fthe warm mother earthl is sure to bear the fruit of Cheerthat will make more joyful other livesg and through- 64