Testimony of a Pledge Signer: "Borden of Yale"

Testimony of a Pledge Signer
"Borden of Yale"

William Borden was already a millionaire when he graduated from a Chicago high school in 1904. As heir to the Borden Dairy estate, he could have anything he wanted and as a graduation present his parents gave him a trip around the world. During Borden's travels through Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, he found a burden growing in him for the world's hurting people. Finally, he wrote home to say, "I'm going to give my life to prepare for the mission field." After making this decision, William Borden wrote two words in the back of his Bible: "No Reserves."

Borden arrived at Yale University (Connecticut) in 1905 as just one more freshman, but during his first semester, Borden started a movement that transformed the campus. A friend of described how it happened: " Bill and I began to pray together in the morning before breakfast. We had been meeting only a short time when a third student joined us and soon after a fourth. The time was spent in prayer after a brief reading of Scripture. Bill's handling of Scripture was helpful...he would read to us from the Bible, show us something that God had promised and then proceed to claim the promise with assurance."

Borden's group was the beginning of the daily groups of prayer that spread to every one of the college classes. By the end of his first year, 150 freshmen were meeting for weekly Bible studies. By the time he was a senior, 1,000 out of Yale's 1,300 students were meeting in such groups...

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I pray that many of you will make such an impact on your campus for the cause of Christ that someday people may know you as Sam of Pensacola, Mark of Golden State, or Ashley of Trinity!