Show r Ii I 4 1 i i f- f I i k 4 fr c y A f I p M. M fr k r p 4 I s I- I I I 4 Margaret Scott and Dr Robert D. D Steele presIdent president president dent Westminster college are surrounded by religious things historical The Bible on the I Historic Relics Still Used At Westminster History is not always told by bythe bythe bythe the printed word It can be told and is at Westminster college college- by articles in everyday use Over the years Westminster college has been used as a re repository repository repository re- re for historical records and furniture from the churches and missions throughout Utah Particularly was this so prior to expansion of at the college into a a. af af f o 0 u y r-y e ear a r nondenominational college from a Presbyterian school School Policy Polley Rather than becoming a museum museum mu mu- seum scum full of unused relics the policy of the school has been to use all the Items willed to it The material has been kept in repair and has become useful parts of the schools school's religious curr curricula cula and activities An example is the used In the college chapel It was part of the furniture of ot the Presbyterian church founded in Ephraim Sanpete county in 1881 Originally a missionary school opened in a a. small cabin the stone church was built in 1882 Other items include a pulpit and chairs from the old Nephi church and a flag from the Gunnison church A rotating book case came from the study of at Rev C. C W. W Martin Manti ManU where the church was established established established In 1878 Rev Martins Martin's son ion Theodore is a former principal of at Richfield high school and arid i inow Is Isnow isnow now membership secretary atthe of at the National Education Wycliffe Bible An 1810 reprint of the Bible Is a 8 pr prized zed possession of ot the school John Wycliffe translated translated trans trans- the Bible into old English from the Latin in 1380 and in 1810 some reprints were made by Henry Baber British museum librarian Another historical book which book which no one at the school can read read read-Is Is a a. handwritten ten copy of at the Koran in Arabic The school a also o has the Paden collection of ot books including a a. first edition of at the Book of Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon and manuscripts of a history history history his his- tory of early western Presbyterian Presbyterian Presbyterian Presby Presby- terian mission stations As a a. depository for historical papers of the Synod of Utah and the Presbytery of Salt Lake th the school Is often called on for facts taken directly from the original manuscripts historical was printed in 1810 the I Itself used in an early arly Utah church the cross carved caned by a founding elder in Brigham City |