William A. Quayle
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"God Sows the Mind to the High Thought"
--William Alfred Quayle
Bishop Quayle kept company with master minds of all ages. Poets, philosophers, essayists, theologians, novelists challenged his surging intellect, companioned with his titanic brain and enriched his life with the wealth of their resources.
Bishop Quayle caught rare glimpses of God’s truth and imprisoned them on paper to cheer and strengthen thousands. Fresh interpretations of nature and of God opened like lightning upon his heart, and he was eager to share them with God’s world of people.
---from early Baker literature
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William Alfred Quayle:
A Great Bishop . . . A Famous President of Baker University |
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A freckled faced, freckled handed, red haired penniless young man of 21 came to Baker University seeking an education. Despite his lack of money, he was encouraged to pursue his goal. He had to work hard himself, but the doors of learning were opened to him and he was able to enjoy the rich treasures of the Bible and the world’s classic literature. He became Baker’s professor of Greek and other ancient languages, and nine years after he was a freshman, in 1890; he was elected president of Baker University.
His gift of the precious Quayle Bible Collection was a tribute to his alma mater as a place where young people will find encouragement to grow mentally, spiritually, and in all aspects of the complete personality.
Because Bishop Quayle loved Baker, because he loved young people, and because he loved books, he left his precious Bible collection to Baker University.
This bibliophile, this lover of nature, this author, this man of God, this Man among men emerged from obscure surroundings to greatness.
The late Homer Ebright, beloved Baker professor and ofttimes lecturer on the Quayle Bible collection said of Bishop Quayle: “How can one explain him? His compelling magnetism which held audiences spellbound, his marvelous wizardy with words, his boundless energy which seemed to never to need sleep, so that he read nearly all night—how can one explain such a many-sided personality?”
Born in Parkville, Missouri, in 1860, he early was orphaned and came to make his home with relatives near Baldwin. After graduating from Baker in 1885, he quickly rose from adjunct professor, to preacher, to professor, to college president, to renown as lecturer and preacher, and to bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Page 2
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