Every other day, President David McKinney rode the train into Cedarville from Cincinnati, arriving at the Cedarville depot. He maintained the rigorous schedule so that he could be both pastor and president. the new structures being erected along the highway into town and along the streets near the college. When they reached Cedarville, they were joined by the final member of their committee, Pastor James T. Jeremiah, who had driven from Dayton to meet them. They were given a complete tour of the campus. Anticipating a campus in ruins, they were pleased to discover that most of the buildings gave evidence of careful maintenance. 3 Though there was work to be done on Old Main, it was obvious that the existing Board had sought to maintain the campus. The events of the day had caused the Baptist representatives to be almost overwhelmed with the possibilities the Cedarville campus afforded. As they sat down with the Operating Committee of the college Board of Trustees, they listened carefully as the Presbyterians outlined the history of the institution. The sad details regarding the liquidation of the institution's endowment and the gradual building of an institutional debt were clearly outlined for the Baptists. "Every effort was made by the Operating Committee to see that these visitors were fully apprised of the facts of the situation."4 This report of the Operating Committee of the Cedarville College Board of Trustees to the representatives from Cleveland was a manifestation of the personal integrity of the Presbyterian men. In spite of their desire to see their institution continue its existence, and despite the fact that this Cleveland group might be their last hope of seeing this, these faithful men were careful to let the Baptists know the severity of their plight. When the Presbyterians completed their report, they asked the Baptists to outline what they hoped to accomplish if Cedarville College should be turned over to them. In the discussion which followed, the Baptist committeemen outlined both their beliefs and objectives to their hosts. In the course of that explanation, virtually every aspect of the B.B.!. doctrinal statement was covered. That doctrinal statement was extremely important to the men of the committee. All administrators, members of the faculty, and members of the Board of Trustees of B.B.!. were required to sign that Confession of Faith each year they continued in their relationship to the school. The doctrines they felt were essential to B.B.!. were the same doctrines they intended to carryover into their new venture. The doctrinal statement recorded here appeared in the final catalog of B.B.!. and the first catalog of Cedarville College as a Baptist institution, in exactly the same form. In the discussion of doctrinal beliefs between the Baptists and Presbyterians, there were obvious differences based on their denominational backgrounds. But both groups recognized that there was a commonality in commitment to the basic tenets of biblical Christianity. The differences between the two groups were not as important as the similarities. "Both institutions were established by groups of Bible-believing Christians with the primary motive of providing training of the highest scholastic standard with a definite Chapter III/2l