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

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Caylor Yesterday hen the spirit of retrospection lays hold of the man of today and he lives again in his yesterdays, playing with children who are now men and women and mingling with young people whose faces he sees no more, he seems to be another person, living a different life; and were it not for the spirit of introspection re- vealing to him the same personality in both these seeming existences, he might live in these reminiscent days much as one lives in the character of a hero in some book that he has read. Thus it is in recalling the yesterdays of Taylor L ' niversity. The people who controlled her in her childhood days have gone to their reward ; those who were associated with her in her youth of service are aging, and many faces familiar in those days are seen no more. W ' e are sometimes tempted to think that the Taylor of today is a different college ; but the spirit of introspection at once reveals to us the same character and the same loyalty to Bible truths that stamped the Taylor students of former years. When we hear the testimonies of the young persons entrusted to us today, beaming with praise for the blessed truth of Holiness which they have learned at the Taylor of today, we know that it is indeed the spirit of her yester- days still growing. Taylor came to life in Fort Wayne in the year 1890 when the old Fort Wavne College was transferred to the control of the National Association of Local Preachers. It was named after Bishop Taylor because he was the only bishop who rose to that position from the rank of local preacher. In 1893, the buildings having been sold for debt. Dr. Thaddeus C. Reade, then its president, started out to find a more quiet spot. As he neared Upland he felt that the Holy Spirit was leading him to stop there. He obeyed the direction and made satisfactory arrangements for starting the college again on the present campus. Thus from small beginnings, through hard struggles, but with noble purpose, self-denial, and loyalty to the will of God, has Taylor come through the years. It is only through the sacrifice of such men as Thaddeus C. Reade, Burt W. Ayres, John H. Shilling, Monroe ' ayhinger, and John Paul — men who cared not for monetary rewards of more profitable positions — that we we stand today with the spirit of yesterday throbbing in our souls. Page Twenty-one

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' Gaylor ' Gotnorrow A vision not too visionary, a prophecy not too realistic, is what you are to see and to hear. Michael Angelo could see a perfectly chiseled statue in a block of rough marble. Beethoven could hear a beautiful sonata in a blind girFs frugal home. We conclude, then, that where there is an ideal it must first fill the soul before the mind can create it in the world. And so the Taylor of tomorrow will be the creation of our ideals as we know them today. The campus which drinks tomorrow ' s summer showers will be a roomy garden. There will be sweeps of peaceful lawn. Artistically arranged shrub- bery will guard hidden fountains and delightful nooks and retreats. The stately oaks and maples will frame the glory of the orchard trees in blossom time and add their share of artistry to the riot of colors which make the campus of Taylor a thing of beauty in autumn days. Today we see the buds of promise; tomorrow will bring the blossoms, one by one. The morning sunshine smiles upon old Taylor ' s towers and lightens the eastern windows at break of day. We may not hope that the selfsame towers will ever last to stand and catch tomorrow ' s morning rays. Ikit we may hope that the old Taylor made newer and greater will have its towers, too, as if to witness that the builders thought and wished to think of God. Yesterday is gone and so is yesterday ' s student body. They were earnest, humble, consecrated young men and women. We wish to pass their spirit on, as well as the spirit of Bishop illiam Taylor and the beautiful memory of Sammy Morris. Tomorrow the heritage of the student body will be richer, nobler, greater. Tomorrow will see a great company of young people taking up the work as it is left to them. The world must reckon with her. Taylor is set upon a hill, and Light and Faith cann( )t he hid ! She has struggled and she will continue to struggle. Perhaps tomorrow will bring harder battles, but what of that? It also will bring a way of triumph ! e shall not find the great-souled teachers of our own today before us in the chapel of tomorrow. We shall regret it. They have known and have helped to create lofty ideals. Those who teach and labor for the Taylor of tomorrow will surely receive the double portion of their spirit. It is a greater Taylor, made greater by the sculptors and geniuses who see the dawn beyond the night ; who work toward the highest goal. It is a blessed and an ever growing Taylor — the Taylor of Tomorrow. ili|! h . ■■■: ' .) Page Twenty-three J I H