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

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Legal Hundred A chain of providences attending the history of Taylor University have led to the reshaping of its Board of Control in the form of a Legal Hundred. This organization is called a Legal Hundred hecause its charter provides that one hundred persons shall he the maximum size of its membership. The technical minimum is fifty. The idea of this style of organization originated with John Wesley in the later years of his life. The Legal Hundred which has existed in England since that time, is the legal person constituted under English law to control the property of British Methodism. It will he remembered that the property control was a one man affair during the life of Mr. Wesley, although he recognized that this was only an expediency, and that when an institution would be permanent and serve the generations to come, there must he some method for avoiding a one man rule. It is believed that the plan of school government represented in the Legal Hundred of Taylor University, is one of the most perfect that has yet been conceived. Its careful plan of selecting its membership from representative men and women makes for stability, and the fact that, barring some kind of apostasy, these persons will hold office for life, gives us an organization as consecutive as any conference. The advantage is in the fact that this is their one work, and they are definitely controlled by an unchangeable charter of ideals. Following, for instance, is our article on doctrine which by a special safeguard is declared unchangeable : We confess the sixty-six books of the Holy Scriptures as God ' s word: the final authority in every matter on which it speaks, and the sufficient rule for even- man ' s faith and practice. We confess the fundamental doctrines of Christianity as set forth in the common Christian Creeds, which we understand to teach that Jesus Christ, God and man, the Second Person of the adorable Trinity achieved by His Cross in the name of God and on behalf of all men, complete salvation from sin. We under- stand further that the process of salvation is repentance, justification by faith, and entire sanctification by faith through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. As believers in this precious Gospel we joyfully acknowledge our obligation to carry the news ■of God ' s grace to all men everywhere, holding this solemn conviction, that all who die in wilful rebellion must be eternally lost. The providential demand for Taylor University in the field of higher educa- tion, is parallel with the providential demand for the Legal Hundred as a Board of Control. If consecrated men and women of vision in the several States had not seen that such a college as Taylor was needed in this section of the United States, the task of finding men and women to compose the Legal Hundred would have been hopeless. We are safe in saying that the persons who have consented to form this organization represent in character and leadership the strongest among the people of the United States who stand for a whole Bible and a full Gospel. Page Twenty-five cs- mz

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A m B. R. Pogue, A.B.. S.T.B. Secretary W. G. Nixon, D.D. President Legal Hundred Edgar C. Cox Treasurer (These are the charter members of Taylor ' s new enlarged board of control. Another group of splendid nominees are in line for election at the June meeting.) Dr. B. W. Ayrks Mr. C. C. Ayres Dr. Joseph W. Bedford Mrs. Beatrice C. Beezley Dr. John C. Bieri Rev. R. R. Bryan Rev. H. R. Carson Mr. Edgar C. Cox Rev. R. B. Cramer Mr. Alyin Dickerson Rev. E. S. Dunham Mr. John A. Duryea Dr. W. C. GlasiEr Mr. John L. Golden Mr. L. W. Greeley Mr. W. H. Hansing Rev. T. C. Henderson Dr. Melvin J. Hill Mr. W. S. Holloway Miss Della Howard Rev. J. F. Knapp Rev. George J. Kunz Mr. John C. Eashley Rev. J. C. Long Rev. S. R. Maitland Rev. W. P. Manning Mr. Jesse McKinney Mr. Forrest C. Miller Mr. H. C. Miller Dr. W. G. Nixon- REv. Joseph Owen Dr. John Paul Rev. H. H. Pitzer Proe. B. R. Pogue Mr. W. H. Polhemus Rev. Sam Polovina Mr. E. O. Rice Dr. S. A. Shoemaker Rev. H. D. Skinner Dr. Harold Paul Sloan Rev. P. B. Smith Mr. D. L. SpEicher Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley Dr. Myron E. Taylor Mr. C. C. Yalade Mr. Tom Yalade Dr. G. G. Yallentyne Dr. M. Yayhtnger Dr. Iva Durham Yennard Miss Fern Wheeler Rev. Guy Wilson Dr. Newton Wray m $ HfflUMWIITI Page Twenty-four

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