A roughly 500-page unpublished typescript history of Biola written by history professor James O. Henry and deposited in the Biola library archives. The document includes handwritten changes and comments throughout, and some nearly-identical duplicated pages that indicate two different typed drafts must have existed, which have now been mostly collated imperfectly into one manuscript. It contains no footnotes and few indications of the sources used. Many sections of the manuscript are so well-written that it could have been published, but it was never put into final publishable form by the author.

Contents and Description

1. The Call of Bezalel and Aholiab (22 pages). The formation of Lyman Stewart and Thomas Corwin Horton.

2. The Vision (18 pages). Biola's founding.

3. Biola Finds a Home (28 pages). The building.

4. (there is no chapter numbered 4 in the manuscript; instead there are two chapters numbered 5)

5. Trouble in the Camp (39 pages). Three early controversies: Bullingerism, pentecostalism, liberalism.

5. Famine in the Land (29 pages). Financial problems.

6. The Presidents (30 pages plus 10 pages plus 5 pages). This chapter is very messy and composed of different documents. The 10 pages on President Richard Chase seem to have been added later.

7. The Deans (50, but then with several sections repeated).

8. Academic Development (27 pages). This chapter traces the curriculum and program growth. It is not actually numbered "chapter 8," but it comes between chapters numbered 7 and 9.

9. From Egypt to Canaan (32 pages). The move to La Mirada.

10. Biola in China (26 pages).

11. Biola on the Air (17 pages).

12. Our Reflection on Biola Today (13 pages). Largely illegible.