Tarkio College - Tarkiana Yearbook (Tarkio, MO)

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TI-IE BIBLE CLASS. The Bible class was organized for the College girls in the fall of l900, just after the great revival, by Mr. Chas. M. Alexander. Its meetings are held every Thursday evening from five to six, at the home of Miss Esther Rankin, the President. For three years the class was under the leadership of Mrs. Bertha Collins Herbert. Nirs. Adair was selected to follow Mrs. Herbert as leader. The object of the class has not been so much a critical as a devotional study of the Bible and a strengthening of the spiritual life of the members. The study has been based on R. A. Torrey's nl-low to Prayf' F. B. Meyer's Shepherd Psalmf' Robert E. Speer's Principles of Jesus, S. D. Gordonis Quiet Talks on-Poweru and Quiet Talks on Prayerf' and selected chapters from the Bible. This year is the lirst which has been entirely devoted to the study of the Bible. During the year HThe Sermon on the Mount,,' Romans and Ephesians, have been studied. At each meeting a chapter has been taken up and considered in view of the truths in it which are applicable to the lives of the girls. Prayer is an important part of every meeting. The class has a membership of thirty-six. 176-

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A uv 4 Y. W. C. A. OFFICERS: President ........ . . .MARGARET GIFFEN. Vice-President. . ...... . . .JENNETTE MURCHY. Recording Secretary .... ..... C LYDE. DUNLAP. Corresponding Secretary ......... ..... M ARY MOORE. Treasurer .......,............. . . .EATHEL WOODS. Chairman of Nlissionary Committee... .... EMILY PORTER. Chairman of Social Committee ........... . . .ESTI-IER RANKIN. Chairman of Membership Committee ............... LAURA BOYD. Chairman of Room and Library Committee ...... l'lINDA STEWART. The Young Woman's Christian Association of Tarkio College is an organization ol young women, who have as their aim the deepening of the spiritual life of the school and the emphasizing of the spiritual development as well as mental and physical. The association has been greatly blessed, both in a spiritual and financial way. The enrollment of the past year has been about sixty, whilethe budget for the year has been one hundred and twenty dollars, divided among these respective parts of the work: Fifty dollars to State workg twenty-five dollars to missionsg thirty dollars to conference fund, and twenty dollars to incidentals. p During the year the association girls were given a room in the College building which they have furnished with mission furniture and arranged as a rest room, where committees may hold their meetings and where girls may study when they have hours to wait in the college building. ' Early in the year a birthday party was given the room at which time the girls gave small gifts to add comfort and homelikeness to the appearance of the room. Last summer three girls, former members of the Y. W. C. A., went out to represent the association in the foreign field. ' We have been represented at four conventions during the year: at the missionary conventions at Detroit, at Monmouth and at Nashville, Tenn., and at the annual student's summer conference at Waterloo, Iowa. The delegates from each of these conventions brought back inspiring and enthusiastic reports which we hope and believe will help us in our work in the future. The Bible class, under the leadership of Mrs. Adair, has been doing good work. During this year we have been studying the Epistles of the Apostle Paul. A series of evangelistic meetings were held in February, conducted by Rev. W. M. Jackson, of Clarinda, Iowa, a former student of Tarkio College. These meetings greatly benefited and strengthened the spiritual life of the students.

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'Z Y. W. C. A. ROOM. .... P GIRLS' BIBLE CLASS.