This page is about the actual bells located on campus. For information about the student newspaper, see The Chimes.

Biola's Chimes were 11 bells erected in 1915 over the north dormitory of Biola's original building at Sixth and Hope. They were the largest set of bells on the Pacific coast at that time.Biola Stylebook, "Bell Tower". Five of those bells now reside on Biola's La Mirada campus, and ring out three times daily: before Chapel, at noon, and at 5:00.
When Biola was still at Sixth and Hope, music faculty member Gordon Hooker is best known for ringing them every day for 37 years.

Over the years, when the bells would ring from the top of the Biola Building at Sixth and Hope, it would encourage many people to think about God and their relationship to Him. In 1919, The King's Business shared some of these stories:
"The first time the bells were rung, a young man hastened to the roof to learn who had rung the bells, for he had encountered in the street below a woman rushing frantically about, looking in every direction, as if to ascertain where the strains of the familiar hymn "Rock of Ages" were coming from. Bursting into tears, she exclaimed, "That was my mother's favorite hymn. I haven't been in a church in years and when I heard the bells ringing out that song, 'Rock of Ages, cleft for me; let me hide myself in thee," I though it was a message from heaven direct to me." That very evening, the woman came into the service and was saved."
Another one runs, "A woman who had obstinately rejected Christ as her Savior for a long time, sat one evening in the darkness by her opened window when the bells rang out,"Just as I am without one plea, but that thy blood was shed for me." The message of the old song came back to her and while the bells rang, her heart broke and she wept as she had not since a little child. When a Bible woman, the next day, chanced to call upon her, she found a changed life,for she had said, "oh Lamb of God, I come, I come,"
Another: "An aged saint, for months has drawn close to the window to catch the notes from the bells and with paper and pencil in had jots down the words of the hymns being played, to the great inspiration of the life."
The article concludes, "Only eternity will reveal what the Holy Spirit has been able to do with the testimony of the bells consecrated to God and played by those who backed the message of the bells with their prayers."The King's Business, Vol. 10.3, Mary 1919, pg 214, http://www2.biola.edu/kingsbusiness/view/10/3/23

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