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

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Dur Centennial Year June Meredith, Editor

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DEDICATED to the memory of Bishop William Taylor We deem it a privilege to dedicate our Centennial Edition of the Gem to the memory of that outstanding man of faith and achievement after whom the institu- tion is named, Bishop William Taylor. Embodied in the record of his life are the spiritual experiences of the New Birth and the Sanctified Life. Likewise there are the achievemnts of a world evangel who saw, as did the founder of his Church, that the world was his parish. The name Taylor University, in honor of Bishop William Taylor, was given to the school not only be- cause of the Spirit-filled life, the missionary zeal, but also because Bishop Taylor was the only man who had been elevated from the Laity — the ranks of the Local Preachers — to the high office of Bishop. Those traditional experiences of grace and those heroic en- deavors in world evangelism which characterized Taylor have become the watchword of the institution which bears his name. In appreciation of the sacred trust which is ours to perpetuate we follow in his train.