Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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lllllliiliiiiliiiNiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiir II 1 Hebrew and Systematic Theology in Taylor University. The failing health of Dr. Reade made it necessary for him to have relief, consequent- ly Dr. Shilling was made Vice President. When Dr. Reade passed away July 25, 1902, Dr. Shilling became Acting President, serving in that ca- pacity until June 1903, when on account of failing health, he was granted leave of absence. He died Nov. 1904. Prof. B. W- Ayres, who had followed Dr. Clippinger, a greatly beloved teacher and Dean of the institution, now became Acting President of Tay- lor University. In 1906 Dr. Ayres was called to the Central Holiness University at Oskaloosa, Iowa and later accepted the presidency. Re- turning to Taylor University in 1910 as Dean of the institution, he has served the administrative interests of the school most faithfully. As a teacher he has been instrumental in stamping lasting ideals of Chris- tian theory and conduct upon the student body. His influence circles the globe todav. The Rev. Charles W. Winchester, D. D., of Buffalo, New York, was elected president of Taylor University in November, 1903, resigning in 1907. Rev. A. R. Archibald was Acting President for a few months. Rev. Monroe Vayhinger, D- D., became president of the University in 1908. Under the auspices of this consecrated man Taylor University has stead- ily grown through the years. Rich in faith and love, though constantly hampered for funds to re- alize its ideals, the institution has, never-the-less, succeeded in making valuable additions to its possessions. Among the buildings the Music Hall and Swallaw-Robin dormitory and the Central Heating Plant have been added. The seventy acre farm adjacent to the Campus has also been purchased. Perhaps the best thing of all has been the steady adherence of President Vayhinger, Dean Ayres, and their faithful faculty to the early religious standards of the school. Its vital principle — Holiness un- to the Lord, has never lost its power, but is still one of Taylor ' s accepted tenets. One can scarcely close this article without mentioning the name of the president ' s gifted wife, Mrs. Culla Johnson Vayhinger, who by her work for the cause of prohibition, both in Indiana and the nation, has shed lustre on the institution over which her husband has presided for thirteen years. Were I to mention the names and good deeds of all those who have made Taylor University the great institution that it is, time would fail me. Bound by the limitations of space I must be content to recommend them to the Father of us who will say to each of these some glad day, Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things ; enter thou into the joys of the Lord. s° 2 T. U. IN EARLY DAY

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iiii ' iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliiiiiiniiiiiiiiifTTnTmn il Mr. Henry Kline of Upland had the contract for making the brick for the main building; also the contract for the running of the dining hall for the first year, at seven cents per meal. In 1897 the present dining hall was erected. The Life of Samuel Morris, a consecrated African student of the institution, was written and published by Dr. Reade, soon after the trans- lation of Samuel Morris in May 1893. It was the means, in God ' s hands, of bringing hundreds of students to Taylor, even from other lands. In the early years natural gas from nearby wells was used for heat and light and each room had its little stove and gas-jet. This gas was hard on lace curtains, the leather of books and purses but rather easy on the inside of the pocket book. In the year 1911 the present heating plant was built. The great desire in Dr. Reade ' s heart was to found an institution where earnest young men and women, for some reason denied an oppor- tunity for an education, might be able to secure one. The student body was thus largely made up of earnest, faithful young people, many of them past their early youth, who felt an urgent need of an education. Vision and the spirit of sacrifice were not in the heart of Dr. Reade alone but they were kindled or intensified in the faculty and many of the students. The president took no note of hardship and knew no defeat; loving, yet firm, he could not be moved a hair ' s breadth to sacrifice principle for any man ' s wealth or influence. He once took the carpet off his own floor and put it on the floor of a poor, sick student that he might be more comfortable. A few teachers came with the school from Fort Wayne- Among them were Miss Grace Husted of the English department and Miss Mabel K. Seeds of the Latin department. These devoted women gave many years of faithful work to Taylor. Miss Seeds later went as a missionary to Japan, where she has since labored. The first year of the school in Upland, John H. Shilling came as a student, graduating in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. After two years in the Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., where he took his Bachelor of Divinity degree and served as instructor in Vocal Music in Gammon Seminary and Clark University, he was called to the chair of I 5C5 OLD CHAPEL NOW THE MUSEUM iimuumnii ii ii j yj iii M

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IIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII THE LATE PRESIDENT THADDEUS CONSTANTINE READE, D. D., L. L. D. B. W. Ayres, Ph. D. How difficult is the appraisal of personality! This can be realized only when one begins thoughtfully to consider the diversity of human in- terests and to evaluate these in their relation to what is conceived to be the supreme end of life. The greatness and dignity of human personality, as well as its uniqueness, its contrast with mere animal consciousness — are revealed in the fact that a destiny may be chosen, a great overmaster- ing purpose may be adopted which will hold the activities of life true to that great purpose like a needle to the magnetic pole. When a man God- led and God-inspired sees a great human need, and commits himself to the task of relieving that need, making yiis concrete expression of a life pur- pose which is grounded in the Will of God; and when a man with such a vision keeps the eye of decision on the goal, ever pursuing through appar- ent failure, ever seeing the star of hope through the clouds, ever holding steady in the face of the calumnies of enemies and the cold indifference or misunderstanding of friends, then personality reveals its real spirit- ual essence. But men are to be appraised in the market of human worth, not only by this godlike determination and fidelity to a chosen task, but al- so by the relation this task, if accomplished, holds to the fundamental spiritual needs of man. It is not always easy to discover the full signi- ficance of a task, hence not always easy to give a comparative value to the work of different men. Some men are over-appraised by their own generation and some men ' s greatness and goodness are not seen until the perspective of history reveals them in their grandeur. Some who achieve fame in this life will find in the fires of the judgment that they have built of wood, hay and stubble; and some who have done the more obscure and sacrificial work will in that day find they have built of gold, silver and precious stones. Christ gave one sure standard of human greatness: Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will V chief among you let him be your servant. in portraying the life of the subject of this sketch no comparisons, implicit or explicit are made. It is an honest attempt to appraise by Christ ' s standard a life, grandly lived, nobly spent. Thaddeus r ' onstantine Reade was born in Steuben County, New York, March 29, 1846. His father ' s name was David Reade, descended from a family of some prominence living near Bath, N. Y. ' A large number of the descendants of this family were ministers. David Reade, the father, moved from New York to Ohio, and Thad- deus, whose mother died when he was a child, went to live at Marion, Ohio, with an old lady by the name of Russell. He was accustomed to call her Grandma Russell. He lived with her till he was about thirteen years of age. In his thirteenth year he was converted and united with the church. At fifteen he was licensed to preach and began as a circuit rider in north- western Ohio. At this age he became a country pedagogue.