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Vol. XVI APRIL, 1924 No. 4

Catalogue Announcements

1923-1924 1924-1925

BULLETIN

Published Quarterly by the Board of Directors of the Theological Semi-
nary of the Synods of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida,
of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

{Entered as Second-Class Matter July 11th, 1908, at the Postoffice at
Columbia, South Carolina, Under the Act of July 16th, 1894)

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of the
Officers and Students of

Columbia Theological
Seminary

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
FOUNDED IN 1828

Under the Control of the Synods of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, and Florida

1923-1924

THE STATE COMPANY
COLUMBIA, S. C.

1924

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CALENDAR
1924

Tuesday, February 5 Second Term begins.

Tuesday, April 22 Final examinations begin.

Sunday^ May 4 Baccalaureate Sermon, 11 :30 A. M., by
Kev. B. K. Lacy, Jr., D.D., Atlanta, Ga.

Sunday, May 4 Missionary Sermon, 8:30 P. M., by Rev.
J. P. Marion, D.D., Greenwood, Miss.

Tuesday, May 6 Annual meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors, 11 A. M.

Wednesday, May 7 11 :00 A. M. Delivery of Diplomas
and Certificates in the Seminary Chapel.

Wednesday, September 17 'Session of 1924-1925 begins;
address by Professor J. B. Green, D.D., at
5 :00 P. M. ; matriculation of students.

Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Day.

Friday, December 19, 1 :30 P. M. Christmas vacation
begins.

Tuesday, December 30, 9:00 A. M. Christmas vacation
ends.

1925

Tuesday, January 20 Intermediate examinations begin.

Saturday, January 31 Close of first term.

Tuesday, February 3 Second term begins.

Tuesday, April 21 Final examinations begin.

Sunday, May 3 Baccalaureate Sermon, 11:30 A. M. ; Mis-
sionary Address, 8:30 P. M.

Tuesday, May 5 11:00 A. M. Annual Meeting of the
Board of Directors.

Wednesday, May 6 11:00 A. M. Delivery of Diplomas
and Certificates in the Seminary Chapel.

N. B. It is of the greatest importance that all students
be present on the opening day, since recitations begin in all
classes on the second day of the session.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
South Carolina
Kev. W. A. Hafner, Gaffney, S. C. .

Col. W. W. Lewis, York, S. C

D. W. Robinson, Esq., Columbia, S. C. .
Rev. D. M. Douglas, D.D., Clinton, S. C
S. H. Edmunds, Litt.D., Sumter, S. C. .

Rev. Alexander Sprunt, D.D., Charleston, S. C.

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Georgia

J. T. Brantley, Esq., Blackshear, Ga 1924

Rev. E. L. Hill, D.D., Athens, Ga 1925

Rev. F. K. Sims, D.D., Dalton, Ga 1926

Rev. A. L. Patterson, D.D., Savannah, Ga 1927

Alabama
Rev. C. M. Boyd, D.D., Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Rev. A. G. Irons, Tuscaloosa, Ala

Rev. S. E. Hodges, D.D., Anniston, Ala. .

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Florida

Rev. L. E. McNair, D.D., Jacksonville, Fla 1924

Rev. W. J. Garrison, St, Petersburg, Fla 1925

Officers of the Board
President of the Board J. T. Brantley, Esq.
Vice-President of the Board Rev. Alexander Sprunt,

D.D.
Secretary of the Board Rev. Hugh R. Murchison.
Treasurer of the Board C. H. Baldwin, Esq.

Standing Committees

Executive Committee F. K. Sims, W. W. Lewis, A. L.
Patterson, D. W. Robinson, W. A. Hafner.

Committee on Material Property R. C. Reed, Hugh R.
Murchison.

Investing Committee D. W. Robinson, W. H. Town-
send, C. H. Baldwin, Hugh R. Murchison, J. C.

COPELAND, J. T. DABBS.

FACULTY
JOHN MILLER WELLS, A.M., Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.

PRESIDENT OF THE SEMINARY
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL THEOLOGY

WILLIAM M. McPHEETERS, D.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF OLD TESTAMENT LITERATURE AND EXEGESIS

HENRY ALEXANDER WHITE, A.M.,Ph.D.,D.D.,LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT LITERATURE AND EXEGESIS

RICHARD C. REED, D.D., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AND CHURCH POLITY

MELTON CLARK, A.B., B.D., D.D.

PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

EDGAR D. KERR. A.B., B.D., D.D.

PROFESSOR OF HEBREW AND COGNATE LANGUAGES

JAMES BENJAMIN GREEN, A.B., D.D.

PROFESSOR OF DIDACTIC AND POLEMIC THEOLOGY

HUGH R. MURCHISON, A.B., B.D.

INSTRUCTOR IN MISSIONS

WALTER P. TAYLOR, Ph.D.

INSTRUCTOR IN ELOCUTION

PERKINS PROFESSORSHIP OF NATURAL SCIENCE IN CONNECTION
WITH REVEIATION, AND CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS

The duties of this Chair are distributed among the
members of the Faculty.

Smyth Lecturer, 1923-1924 Rev. Egbert W. Smith, D.D.
Smyth Lecturer, 1924-1925 Rev. A. M. Fraser, D.D.

Faculty Officers
Chairman John M. Wells.
Recording Secretary Hugh R. Murchison.
Librarian Richard C. Reed.
Executive Secretary Hugh R. Murchison.

6 COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Special Lecturers
1923-1924

Rev. G. G. Mayes, D.D., Winnsboro, S. C.

Eev. C. Darby Fulton, Okazaki, Japan.

Rev. J. Porter Smith, D.D., Campinas, Brazil.

Rev. A. W. Crawford, Greensboro, N. C.

Rev. J. N. Montgomery, Hwaianfu, China.

Rev. H. W. Myers, D.D., Kobe, Japan.

Rev. Plumer Smith, Mutoto, Congo Beige, Africa.

Rev. J. J. Murray, Wilmington, N. C.

Rev. James R. Graham, D.D., Tsing-Kiang-Pu, China.

Rev. M. B. Lambdin, D.D., Washington, D. C.

Rev. Winfield Scott Hall, M.D., Berwyn, 111.

Rev. J. W. Skinner, D.D., Kingsville, Texas.

Rev. H. B. Dendy, B.D., Weaverville, N. C.

Rev. T. M. McConnell, D.D., Greensboro, N. C.

Rev. Fritz Rauschenberg, Waycross, Ga.

Rev. Egbert W. Smith, D.D., Nashville, Tenn.

Rev. Homer McMhlan, D.D., Atlanta, Ga.

Rev. R. F. Cleveland, Bulape, Congo Beige, Africa.

Mr. D. McL. McDonald, Columbia, S. C.

Rev. W. C. McLauchlin, Haichow, China.

Rev. M. E. Melvin, D.D., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Rev. J. E. Purcell, Chattanooga, Tenn.

ROLL OF STUDENTS

Junior Class
Bowles, Samuel P., Clemson College

Jacksonville, Fla. Suwannee Presbytery

Brannon, J. D., Mus.B.,

S.W. Baptist Theological Seminary
Columbia, S. C. Columbia Baptist Association

Dendy, Marshall Coleman, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Seneca, S. C. Piedmont Presbytery

Flanagan, John Arthur, A.B.

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
York, S. C. Bethel Presbytery

Gamble, William Arnett, Jr., A.B., Davidson College
Macon, Ga. Macon Presbytery

Hodges, Robert Shiver, Jr.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Hodges, S. C. South Carolina Presbytery

Meeks, Benjamin Alford, University of South Carolina
Pine Bluff, Ark. Pine Bluff Presbytery

Neville, John Coffee, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Clinton, S. C. South Carolina Presbytery

Porter, William Salter, Jr., A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Georgetown, S. C. Harmony Presbytery

Scott, William Simpson, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Columbia, S. C. Congaree Presbytery

Strickland, Laurie Curtis,

Columbia, S. C. Columbia Baptist Association

Tregler, Alois Edward^ A.B., Th.C. University of Prague
Brno, Czecho-Slovakia Bohemian Brethren

8 COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Middle Class

Baker, Richard Thomas, B.S., Young-Harris College

University of Georgia
Danielsville, Ga. Athens Presbytery

Bryan, Thomas Claudius, A.B.,

Hampden- Sidney College

University of South Carolina

Birmingham, Ala. North Alabama Presbytery

Coates, Edwin S., Jr., Union Theological Seminary

Angier, N. C Fayetteville Presbytery

Crawford, Vernon Allen, B.S.,

Military College of South Carolina
Georgetown, S. C. Charleston Presbytery

Dendy, Samuel Wilkes, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Seneca, S. C. Piedmont Presbytery

Doty, Arthur Francis, Ph.G.,

South Carolina Medical College
Sardinia, S. C. Harmony Presbytery

Douglas, Charles Kirkpatrick, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Columbia, S. C. Congaree Presbytery

Dulin, James Haskell, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

Clover, S. C. United States Army

DuRant, Marion Ashton, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Alcolu, S. C. Harmony Presbytery

Elsberry, Arthur Tarrant,

University of South Carolina
Marion, Ala. Tuscaloosa Presbytery

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 9

Ellis, Irving Melville, Mercer University

Oak Park, Illinois Mecklenburg Presbytery

Grier, Thomas Franklin, A.B., Erskine College

Gaston, N. C. Mecklenburg Presbytery

Hay, Theodore Beckett, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Martin's Point, S. C. Charleston Presbytery

LaMotte, Louis Cossitte, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

Columbia, S. C. South Carolina Presbytery

McDonald, Donald McLaurin

University of South Carolina
Columbia, S. C. Fayetteville Presbytery

McFall, James William, B.S.,

Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Anderson, S. C. Piedmont Presbytery

McInnis, William Donald,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Little Rock, S. C. Pee Dee Presbytery

Piephoff, Clarence Eugene, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Spartanburg, S. C. South Carolina Presbytery

Smith, William Epps, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Cades, S. C. Harmony Presbytery

Swetnam, George Francis,

University of South Carolina
College Park, Ga. Congaree Presbytery

Swetnam, Walter Stafford,

University of South Carolina
College Park, Ga. Congaree Presbytery

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White, Robert DuRant, University of South Carolina
Sardinia, S. C. Harmony Presbytery

Wiggins, Birl Herman, University of South Carolina

Cuthbert, Ga. Macon Presbytery

Wilson, Parks Watson, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Due West, S. C. Norfolk Presbytery

Wood, Elmer Donovan, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

Valdosta, Ga. South Carolina Presbytery

Wood, Ryan Lee, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

Valdosta, Ga. Harmony Presbytery

Senior Class

Alexander, Hasell Norwood, A.B., Davidson College

United States Army
Belmont, N. C. Atlanta Presbytery

Beaty, Ernest Albert, A.B., M.A. Davidson College

University of South Carolina
Lancaster, S. C. Bethel Presbytery

Beaty, Walter Kirkpatrick, Moody Bible Institute

United States Navy
Lancaster, S. C. Bethel Presbytery

Blake, William Kennedy, A.B.,

University of South Carolina

United States Army

Rock Hill, S. C. Bethel Presbytery

Brearley, Cecil DuBose, A.B.,

University of South Carolina
St. Charles, S. C. Harmony Presbytery

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 11

Copeland, William Creecy, A.B., Davidson College

Rocky Mount, N. C. Albermarle Presbytery

Dendy, Marshall Bertrand,

University of South Carolina
Hart well, Ga. Athens Presbytery

Dick, Anthony White, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Oswego, S. C. Harmony Presbytery

Dickson, Robert Malcolm, A.B., B.S.,

North Georgia Agricultural College

United States Army

Seneca, S. C. Piedmont Presbytery

Dillard, Edgar Archer,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Columbia, S. C. Congaree Presbytery

Dulin, Davidson Hafner, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Bowling Green, S. C. Bethel Presbytery

Henderson, John Daniel, A.B.,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina
Little Rock, S. C. Pee Dee Presbytery

Langham, Frank Wyman, United States Navy

Montgomery, Ala. East Alabama Presbytery

Medlin, Clonnie Nathaniel,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina

United States Army

Unionville, N. C. Mecklenburg Presbytery

Morriss, Woodward Dale, LL.B.,

Cumberland University

United States Army

Memphis, Tenn Memphis Presbytery

McGehee, James Clayborne, A.B., Roanoke College

Charlotte Court House, Ya. Congaree Presbytery

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McMahon, Albert E. S., Tusculum College

United States Army
Columbia, S. C. Congaree Presbytery

McMurray, Carl Walker, A.B., M.A.

Presbyterian College of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

United States Navy

Lancaster, S. C. Bethel Presbytery

Polk, Lucius Eugene, University of Tennessee

St. Louis, Mo. Knoxville Presbytery

Smith, William Theodore,

University of South Carolina

United States Army

Charlotte, N. C. Mecklenburg Presbytery

Wilson, Charles Leroy,

Presbyterian College of South Carolina

United States Army

Florence, S. C. Pee Bee Presbytery

Graduate and Special Students

H. B. Dendy, A.B., B.D Weaverville, N. C.

F. B. Estes, A.B., B.D Lockhart, S. C.

C. D. Fulton, A.B., B.D Okazaki, Japan

George A. Hudson, A.B Kashing, China

Charles Rees Jenkins, B.S., B.D Toe Cane, N. C.

W. H. Johnson, A.B., B.D Jefferson, S. C.

J. Sprole Lyons, A.B., B.D Winnsboro, S. C.

J. N. Montgomery, A.B., B.D Hwaianfu, China

W. T. Riviere, A.B., A.M., B.D Cleburne, Texas

Summary

Junior Class 12

Middle Class 26

Senior Class 21

Graduate Special Students 9

Total 68

GRADUATES IN DIVINITY

Class of 1923

Graduates who received the Degree of Bachelor of Di-
vinity :

Anderson, James Weldon, B.S., B.D., South Carolina.

Belk, George Washington, Jr., A.B., B.D., North Caro-
lina.

Cobb, James Venner, A.B., B.D.,* Mississippi.

Foster, Harry Robert, A.B., B.D., South Carolina.

Fulton, Samuel Hewitt, A.B., B.D., South Carolina.

Hay, Samuel Burney, A.B., B.D., South Carolina.

Jenkins, Charles Rees, B.S., B.D., South Carolina.

Neville, William Gordon, A.B., B.D., South Carolina.

Park, Russell White, A.B., B.D., South Carolina.

Taylor, Arthur Thaddeus, A.B., B.D., South Carolina.

Williamson, Malcolm Russell, A.B., B.D., South Caro-
lina.

Woodson, Marshall Scott, A.B., B.D., South Carolina.

Members of the Senior Class who received Certificates
of Graduation in some of the departments of instruction:
Ayers, Stephen Edward, South Carolina.
Batchelor, Alexander Ramsay, New York.
Stogner, Daniel Coppedge, North Carolina.
Yandell, Benjamin Franklin, North Carolina.

*B.D. course finished and degree given October 10, 1923,
Mr. Cobb having completed and received the degree of
A.B. at the University of South Carolina in June, 1923.

REPRESENTATION
Literary Institutions

Presbyterian College of

S. C 25

Mercer University 1

University of Tennessee . . 1
University of Georgia . . 1
Hampden-Sidney Col. ... 1
S. C. Medical College ....1
Ala. Polytechnic Institute 1
Moody Bible Institute . . 1
Erskine College 1 Columbia Theol. Seminary

S. C. Military Academy . . 1
Cumberland University . . 1
N. Georgia Ag. College .

Tusculum College

Roanoke College

Union Theol. Seminary

Clemson College

S. W. Baptist Theolog-
ical Seminary

University of Prague 1

University of S. C 11

(Graduate and Special
Students) 9

Davidson College 4 No Literary Institution . . 2

Number of Institutions Represented 21

Presbyteries

Athens 2

Atlanta 1

Albermarle 1

Norfolk 1

Pee Dee 3

Charleston 2

Congaree 7

East Alabama 1

Knoxville 1

Macon 2

Pine Bluff 1

Mecklenburg 4

Memphis 1

North Alabama 1

Bethel 6

Piedmont 4

South Carolina 5

Tuscaloosa 1

Harmony 8

Suwannee 1

Hayetteville 2

No Presbytery 4

Graduate and Special Students, Presbyteries not listed ... .9
Number of Presbyteries Represented 22

States and Countries

South Carolina 38

Georgia 8

Alabama 3

Tennessee 2

Czecho-Slovakia 1

Arkansas 1

Illinois 1

Number of States and Countries Represented 13

North Carolina 8

Virginia 1

Japan 1

Florida 1

Texas 1

China 2

COURSE OF STUDY
Junior Class
(Figures indicate the number of hours each week.)

Old Testament Literature and Exegesis. Exegetical
propaedeutics ; hermeneutics 2

Hebrew Language. Hebrew orthography, etymology, vo-
cabulary, syntax of the verb; translation at sight in
Genesis 4

New Testament Literature and Exegesis. Practice in read-
ing Greek ; Gospel History 3

Ecclesiastical History. Church History from Pentecost

to 1073 A. D. ; Biblical Geography 2

Homiletics. Outline of Sacred Rhetoric; exercises in

reading the Scriptures and hymns 1

Theology 1

English Bible 2

Elocution 2

Religious Education 1

Middle Class
Old Testament Literature and Exegesis. Exegetical

praxis 2

Hebrew Language. Drill in Hebrew syntax; translation

of extended passages 1

New Testament Literature and Exegesis. Gospel History ;
Apostolic History begun 3

Ecclesiastical History. From 1073 A. D. to the close of

the period of the Reformation 2

Homiletics. Sacred Rhetoric completed; Church Polity. . .1
Missions. Chronological history of missions; the world

religions ; kinds of mission work 1

Theology. The theology of natural religion 3

English Bible 3

Elocution 2

16 COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Senior Class

Old Testament Literature and Exegesis. The canon;
principles of biblical criticism ; prophecy 2

New Testament Literature and Exegesis. Apostolic His-
tory continued; exegesis of Eomans, Hebrews, and
Revelation 2

Ecclesiastical History. History of doctrine ; history of the
Presbyterian Church 2

Pastoral Theology. A course of lectures ; methods of per-
sonal work 1

Theology. The theology of redemption 2

English Bible 2

Christian Ethics 1

Elocution 3

Apologetics 2

DEPARTMENTS OF INSTRUCTION

Old Testament Literature and Exegesis

Professor McPheeters

The end ultimately aimed at in the work of this depart-
ment is to establish in the mind of the student a well-
grounded conviction that there is a science of interpreta-
tion; to give him a clear conception of its "architectonic
principle" and constitutent parts, the nature of each part,
and its relation to the others; to open up to his mind the
nature of exegetical propaedeutic, and make him aware of
its practical bearing upon the work of exegesis ; to help him
form and cultivate those mental habits that condition all
real exegesis; and finally to give him such acquaintance
with the principles, the apparatus, and the work of exegesis,
and such skill in the use of them as can only be acquired by
practice.

Exegetical propaedeutic and hermeneutics will engage the
main attention of the class during the Junior Year; the
praxis of exegesis during the Middle Year, and such subjects
as the Canon, the principles of Biblical Criticism proper,
and Prophecy, during the Senior Year.

In connection with the class- work there will be assigned to
each class a reasonable amount of paralled reading, and to
each member of each class a thesis on some aspect of the
special subject under consideration.

Hebrew and Cognate Languages

Professor Kerr

The aim in this department is to put the student in a po-
sition that will enable him to use to advantage the Hebrew
language in interpreting the Scriptures of the Old Testa-
ment. Accordingly, stress will be laid upon a mastery of
the principles of Hebrew etymology and syntax, and the
acquisition of a vocabulary as copious as possible.

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Junior Class
During this year the attention of the class will be occupied
principally with etymology and the acquisition of a vocab-
ulary.

Middle Class

In this class the principal aim is to acquire a working
knowledge of Hebrew syntax. There is careful study of
selected passages, and rapid reading of more extended pas-
sages, for the purpose of illustrating principles of syntax
and further enlarging the vocabulary.

Elective Courses

Elective courses in this department are offered to members
of the Senior Class or others qualified for the work ; the par-
ticular nature of the course, to be determined upon con-
sultation with the professor, as follows:

A. Advanced Hebrew Syntax.

B. Hebrew Text Criticism.

C. Biblical Aramaic.

D. Elementary Arabic.

New Testament Literature and Exegesis
Professor White

The regular courses of study in this department are in-
tended for students who have acquired a working knowl-
edge of the Greek language. A special course of instruction
is given, however, for the benefit of beginners in Greek.
This preliminary course includes the grammatical study
of New Testament Greek and practice in reading.

In each of the three regular classes the Greek New Testa-
ment is used as a textbook throughout the session.

Junior Class

The work in this class is based upon a study of the Greek
text of portions of the Gospels, including a review of New
Testament Grammar; practice in reading; Gospel History,

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including literary and historical criticism of the Gospels,
Jewish life and thought in New Testament times, and the
life and teaching of Christ until the close of the Galilean
ministry. Three hours a week during the session.

Middle Class

Gospel History continued ; the life and teaching of Christ
during the later part of His ministry on the basis of the ma-
terial contained in the Gospels; the Kingdom of God;
Apostolic History, including the literary and historical
study of the early chapters of Acts, origin and early history
of the Church, and the beginnings of the Pauline Mission ;
critical exegesis of selected portions of Galatians and 1st
Corinthians. In this class instruction is given with refer-
ence to the canon, the Greek text of the New Testament,
and the principles of textual criticism. Three hours a
week throughout the session.

Senior Class

Apostolic History continued, including the chronology of
the Apostolic Age, the later period of the Pauline Mission
as set forth in Acts, and the order and grouping of the Paul-
ine Epistles; critical exegesis of portions of the Epistle
to the Romans, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the Apoca-
lypse; development of Apostolic teaching concerning the
Holy Spirit, the Church, and the Kingdom of God. Special
papers prepared by the members of the class furnish the
basis of discussions in the classroom. Each student is ex-
pected to become familiar with the various commentaries
found on the shelves of the working library. Two hours
a week during the session.

Didactic and Polemic Theology

Professor Green

The study of Systematic Theology is begun in the Junior
year, and prosecuted through the Middle and Senior years.

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Junior Class

This class is occupied, throughout the year, with the West-
minster Confession of Faith and the larger and shorter
Catechisms. The object of this course is threefold: (1)
to acquaint the students with the doctrinal symbols of our
Church; (2) to furnish them, at the outset of their studies,
with a convenient body of divinity for their use as teachers
and preachers during their undergraduate years; (3) to
prepare them for an easier and larger comprehension of the
topics treated in Didactic and Polemic Theology.

Middle Class

The Middle Class takes up, at the beginning of the year,
Introductory Theology, embracing the definition of theology,
and the method of its distribution, the source of theology
or the rule of faith and duty, and the inspiration of the
Scriptures.

This class studies during the second term the Theology of
Natural Religion, embracing such subjects as the names,
nature, and attributes of God, the trinity, the decrees, crea-
tion, providence, angels, men, the covenant of works, the fall,
original sin, the pollution and guilt of sin. The textbook
is Charles Hodge's Systematic Theology. Three hours a
week.

Senior Class

The Senior class studies the Theology of Redemption, em-
bracing such topics as the plan of salvation, the mediator,
the covenant of grace, the person and work of Christ, the
person and work of the Holy Spirit, vocation, grace, re-
generation, faith, justification, adoption, sanctification, the
means of grace and the last things, Hodge's Systematic
Theology is used throughout the course. Instruction mainly
by question and answer. Three hours a week.

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Christian Ethics and Apologetics
Apologetics
Proffessor Reed
Junior Class
This course aims to show the reasonableness and authority
of the Christian religion. It treats of and compares the
Christian and anti- Christian theories of the universe, show-
ing the Christian to be preferable on both Scriptural and
philosophical grounds. The other general questions of
apologetics are also treated.

Instruction is by textbooks and lecture. One hour a week.

Christian Ethics

Professor Green

Senior Class

This course shows the nature and content of the Christian

ethical ideal, its authority, and its superiority to all other

standards. It deals with Christian duties both toward God

and toward man, and in individual and social relations. Its

aim is to put into practical life the teaching of the Spirit

of Christ, "to live according to Christianity."

Instruction by textbook and discussion. One hour a week.

Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity
Junior Class
Professor Reed
Beginning with Pentecost the class follows the unfolding
of the Church's history to the culminating point of the
Middle Ages. The contrast is noted between the persecuted
Church under the Pagan Emperors and the persecuting
Church under the Christian Emperors. Another striking
change is considered, that of form, from Presbytery to
Episcopacy. The early councils receive attention, especially
as the sources of our creeds and theologies. The disintegra-
tion of the Roman Empire under the impact of barbarism,

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and the conversion of these barbarous tribes to Christianity
furnish a study of much interest.

Middle Class

During this year the class follows the course of the
Church's history to the close of the Eeformation Period.
Interest centers in the complicated relations of Church
and State, and the struggle resulting therefrom ; the climax
of the Papal power; its Mohammedan method of propa-
gandism; the development of doctrinal perversions and ad-
ministrative abuses ; the Crusades ; the Eenaissance, the in-
creasing degeneracy of the Church; the waning power of
the Pope; the many elements of discontent, preparing the
way for and prophesying the revolt of the sixteenth century.

Senior Class

With the Eeformation the history of the Church becomes
more complicated. The Protestant Church splits into na-
tional branches, and into many minor bodies. Some atten-
tion is given to the whole field of the Church's history,
both in the East and in the West; but special attention is
given during the Senior year to the Presbyterian and Ee-
formed churches of all countries. The great Wesleyan
Eevival with its consequences on both sides of the Atlantic
is considered; also the origin and expansion of the many
religious denominations in the United States.

The method of teaching throughout the whole course is
by textbooks with supplemental lectures.

Church Polity is studied during the second term of the
middle year. In addition to a series of oral lectures, dis-
cussing certain general principles, instruction is given in
connection with the Book of Church Order, and Dr. Withe-
row's "Which is the Apostolic Church?" Church Polity
is emphasized as a matter of no inconsiderable importance.

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Natural Science in Connection with Revelation and
Christian Apologetics

This chair is vacant for the present. Its field is occupied
by Professor Green in Philosophy, Professor Reed in Apolo-
getics, and Professors White and McPheeters in Introduc-
tion and Criticism.

The English Bible
Professor Clark

The object of this course is to guide the student in the
discovery and mastery of an effective method of Bible study.

Incidentally there will be taught the theology and ethics
of the sacred Scriptures, and these will be presented in the
form in which they are developed in the word of God.

So far as time will permit, the facts and doctrines of
God's word will be studied, for these furnish the substance
and material of the minister's message, and there can be no
substitute for biblical theology and biblical ethics.

The main purpose, however, which will be constantly
kept in the foreground in the work of this department, will
be not to furnish facts from the Bible, and to formulate
Scriptural doctrines and rules for the student, but to en-
able him to acquire a method by which the truths of God's
word may be known and appreciated.

The ultimate aim of the course is to arouse in the heart a
permanent and passionate love for the Book.

Junior Class

The Pentateuch and the later historical books of the Old
Testament are studied in the American Revised Version.
The method is by syllabus of the professor and the first
year's course includes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Hebrews,
Joshua, and Kings.

Two hours each week for two terms.

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Middle Class

The Psalms, the Wisdom literature and the Major and
Minor Prophets are studied by the use of the same methods
that are employed in all the classes.

The second year's course will include Esther, Job, Psalms,
2nd Chronicles, Jonah, Hosea, and Jeremiah.

Three hours each week for two terms.

Senior Class

The third year's work deals with the books of the New
Testament, and the course includes a study of the Gospels,
Acts, Romans, Philippians, James and 1st John.

Two hours each week for two terms.

Practical Theology
President Wells
Work in this department continues through three years.

Homiletics

The Junior Class gives one hour a week to Homiletics.

The textbook is Broadus' "Preparation and Delivery of
Sermons." This is supplemented by lectures.

The preacher, his call, his message, his personality, his
equipment and his preparation are discussed.

Sermon briefs are required during the second term, and
are criticized and corrected by the professor.

The Middle Class gives one hour a week for the first term
to Homiletics. The textbook is Breed's "Preparing to
Preach."

The time of the class is largely given to sermonizing.
Sermons or sermon briefs will be required almost every
week. The whole work of the class is directed toward teach-
ing the men how to preach.

Pastoral Theology
The Senior Class gives one hour a week to this subject.
The teaching is mainly by lecture. The minister is studied

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as the leader of his people. His relation as pastor is care-
fully considered. The complete organization of a modern
church is shown.

Every effort is put forth to fit the young minister to face
the problems of today in his pastoral work.

Missions
Mr. Murchison

This course is designed to meet the needs of pastors and
prospective ordained missionaries. Whether the minister
expects to spend his life in the homeland or on the foreign
field he needs a comprehensive view of missions. The or-
dained minister is the key man at the home base as well as
on the mission field. To be informed, therefore, of the most
approved methods of conducting this great task of the
Church, and of the preparation best adapted to the needs of
the workers, is a matter of first importance.

The books used for guidance in this study are :

1. The Foreign Missionary, by Rev. Arthur J. Brown,

D.D.

2. The Preparation of Ordained Missionaries, being the

report of a Committee of the Board of Missionary
Preparation, Robert E. Speer, Chairman.

3. The Fourth Report of the Board of Missionary Prep-

aration, giving attention to the reports of the commit-
tees on the special preparation needed for missionaries
appointed to

(a) China.

(b) Japan.

(c) Latin America.

(d) Africa.

4. The reports of the executive committees of Foreign

and Home Missions to the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United States.

5. The Religions of Mankind, by Edmund Davison

Soper.
This course is taken by the Middle Class for one hour a
week.

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Religious Education
Professor Clark

The aim of this course is to adapt the general principles
of education to the special work of the Sunday School.

After a survey of the historical bearings of the Sunday
School, the nature of the pupil is studied with some fullness.
Then the following topics are treated : The curriculum, the
principles of method as applied to the Sunday School, the
organization, management, government, program, external
relations and general means of success of the Sunday School.

Textbooks : Weigle : The Pupil and the Teacher ; Law-
rence: How to Conduct a Sunday School.

Elocution
Instructor Taylor

The purpose of the work in this department is to train
the student in the art of proper and effective oral expres-
sion; to render his thoughts naturally and forcefully; to
read intelligently; to use his voice and body to the best
advantage; to eliminate mannerisms and faults, both in
speech and action.

Delivery is not here considered as mere physical per-
formance. Eather it is the liberation of thought and feeling
through the voice and body. This implies that there must
be the proper co-ordination between the actions of mind,
voice and body. To improve delivery mental processes
must first be stimulated. In connection with this the voice
and body must be so trained as to be responsive to all
thinking.

Proper exercises are given for strengthening the voice
and for improving the quality. The primary modulations
of the speaking voice are taught and insisted on from the
beginning. Articulation and pronunciation are not neg-
lected.

The importance of interpretative reading of the Scrip-
tures is emphasized and especial attention is paid to the
reading of hymns.

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Annual Course of Lectures on the Thomas Smyth
Foundation

Through the generosity of the late Thomas Smyth, D.D.,
of Charleston, South Carolina, a Seminary lectureship has
been established called the Thomas Smyth Foundation. In
accordance with the conditions of the bequest, some person
who is of worthy character and distinguished for learning
and ability is chosen each year by the Board of Direc-
tors and the Faculty of the Columbia Theological Seminary
to deliver a course of lectures before the students of the
Seminary. This series of lectures will deal from year to
year with the fundamental principles of the Christian faith.

The funds bequeathed to the institution by Dr. Smyth to
found this lectureship, according to the terms of the bequest,
were allowed to accumulate until they amounted to $10,000.
For the past ten years distinguished lecturers have filled this
lectureship, treating a large variety of themes doctrinal,
critical, practical, archaeological and historical.

Extension Work at Columbia Seminary

The Professors of the Seminary are constantly engaged
in preaching and lecturing in various communities within
the bounds of the four Synods. Courses of lectures are de-
livered by the Seminary professors in response to the re-
quests of particular churches and communities.

Graduate Work

For those who desire to continue their course of study
for a longer time than the regular period of three years, or
for those who wish to take special studies, no fixed cur-
riculum is prescribed, but each student is free to devote him-
self to those branches which he wishes especially to pursue.
Such students may attend any of the regular classes, or they
may pursue advanced courses of study and conduct original
investigation under the guidance of the professors in the
Seminary.

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Optional Courses

Optional courses may be established for students who wish
to equip themselves in a manner more complete and thorough
than that which is permitted by the regular curriculum.
On request, such courses will be provided by the professors
of the several departments.

The professor will reserve the right to say whether any
applicant shall take a desired course, basing his judgment
upon the recognized ability of the student and the prob-
ability of interference with his regular work. He reserves
the further right to determine, from the number making
application, whether the course shall be offered.

University-Seminary Course

The University of South Carolina is located in the city
of Columbia.

The following has been adopted as the basis of credit
for the combined Seminary and University of South Caro-
lina courses for the A. M. and A. B. degrees:

1. Students of the Columbia Theological Seminary who
comply with the general entrance requirements of the Uni-
versity of South Carolina may register for a combined Semi-
nary and University course leading to the A. B. degree.

2. This course must represent the following semester
credits: English 12, History 12, Mathematics 12, one an-
cient or modern foreign language (above course A) 12,
a laboratory science 6 or 8.

3. From certain courses given at the Seminary 36 credits
may be counted toward the University A. B. degree.

4. For the Seminary-University A. B. degree at least 18
credits must be made in University courses.

5. For the A. M. degree one subject, approved by the
Committee on Graduate Studies may be selected as a minor,
from the middle or senior year courses in the Columbia
Theological Seminary.

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Religious Exercises

Daily prayers which every student is required to attend
are conducted in the chapel every morning by a member
of the Faculty.

Various meetings for worship are maintained by the
students, either as a body or by each class separately.

Every Friday afternoon the Faculty and students meet
together in the Chapel. Students conduct devotional ex-
ercises and preach sermons. Afterwards the members of the
Faculty offer suggestions with reference to the subject mat-
ter of the sermons and the manner of their delivery.

Society of Missionary Inquiry. This society meets on
alternate Tuesday evenings, and holds a separate business
meeting once a month. It proves a power in awakening and
sustaining interest in missions, and takes practical oversight
of local mission work. The society is divided into a number
of mission study classes, each class using a different text-
book, treating a different phase of missions.

Opportunities for Christian Work

By reason of her location and environment, the Columbia
Seminary furnishes to her students various opportunties
for engaging in active Christian work. Some of these are
the following.

The Churches established in the City of Columbia are
well organized with respect to Sunday schools and young
people's societies. Some of the students of the Seminary
take an active part in the work of these Church organiza-
tions.

Mission Work. The city of Columbia offers many op-
portunities for religious work and training. There are six
mission churches in the suburbs. There are three cotton-
mill villages, where mission work may be conducted. There
is abundance of opportunity for teaching and preaching
among the colored people. Prayer meetings, house-to-house
visitations, Sunday schools and preaching services are con-

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ducted by the students in various parts of the city and the
adjacent country.

Regular Preaching. Students of the Middle and Senior
classes are allowed, with the consent of the presbyteries con-
cerned, when it does not conflict with their Seminary duties,
to supply vacant churches in South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida. Much of the territory embraced
within these and other adjacent States is easily accessible
to the students of this Seminary.

TERMS OF
ADMISSION AND GRADUATION

Students seeking admission to the Seminary should be
graduates of a college of recognized standing. It is desirable
that Presbyterian students should connect themselves with
a presbytery before coming to the Seminary. Any student
coming from another Seminary must present a certificate
of dismission from the Seminary previously attended, show-
ing the courses completed in that institution.

Every Presbyterian student entering the Seminary is ex-
pected to present a statement from his presbytery to the
effect that he has permission to enter the Seminary, and
specifying the course he is expected "to take. Representatives
of other denominations must furnish the Faculty with sat-
isfactory testimonials of being in full communion with some
Christian Church, and of having been educated at some
college or university ; or, in the absence of such testimonials,
the ministerial candidate must satisfy the Faculty, by ex-
amination, that he is qualified to enter upon a course of
study in preparation for the Gospel ministry.

All students, on entering the Seminary, are required to
subscribe to the following declaration: "Deeply impressed
with a sense of the importance of improving in knowledge,
prudence and piety, preparatory to the Gospel ministry, I
solemnly promise, in reliance on divine grace, that I will
conscientiously and vigilantly observe the rules and regula-
tions specified in the Constitution, and also obey all the law-
ful requisitions, and readily yield to all wholesome admoni-
tions of the professors of the Seminary, while I shall con-
tinue a member of it."

At the close of each term written examinations are held
upon all the subjects studied during the term. No student
is permitted to be absent from the examination of his class,
except for satisfactory reasons. In the event that a student
is absent from the regular examination, he must afterwards
stand a special examination. Any student who completes
in a satisfactory manner all of the courses of study given in

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the Seminary and who presents to the Faculty a diploma of
graduation from a college of recognized standing will re-
ceive a diploma from this Seminary according him the de-
gree of Bachelor of Divinity.

The Seminary Year

The Seminary year begins on the third Wednesday in
September. The Baccalaureate Sermon to the graduating
class is delivered on the first Sunday in May, and the session
ends with the delivery of diplomas and certificates on the
Wednesday after the first Sunday in May. For the conven-
ience of some of the classes and for presbyterial reports the
session is divided into two terms, the first of which ends on
the last Saturday in January, and the second begins on the
following Tuesday.

Reports to Presbyteries

Eeports are sent at regular intervals to presbyteries con-
cerning the attendance of the students upon the exercise of
the Seminary, and concerning their general deportment,
diligence and standing in study.

Expenses of Students

Tuition and room-rent are furnished free of charge.
Board is furnished at cost, which amounts to about $100 for
the entire session. Incidentals, including lights, fuel and
books, amount to about $50.00. With the exception of
towels, rooms are furnished and neatly kept without cost
to the student.

When necessary, students are aided from scholarship funds
to the extent of $100. In order to secure this aid the ap-
plicant must bring a written recommendation, stating the
amount needed, from the chairman of education of his
presbytery.

HISTORICAL STATEMENT

The Columbia Seminary was founded in 1828 by the
Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, which occupied the
territory now embracing the Synods of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Each of these Synods in
its own behalf assumed afterwards the obligation to main-
tain the institution established by the parent Synod. Thom-
as Goulding, D.D., of Georgia, was elected the first profes-
sor in 1828. In January, 1830, he and his students removed
from Georgia to Columbia. In January, 1831, the present
central building was occupied and George Howe, D.D.,
was elected his associate in the Faculty. Two years later
(1833) A. W. Leland, D.D., was appointed to the chair of
Theology. In 1834 Dr. Goulding retired, and his chair,
that of Ecclesiastical History and Polity, was filled by the
election of Charles Colcock Jones, D.D. (1836).

The establishment of this Seminary in Columbia, in 1828,
was the practical recognition, by the fathers of that day, of
the fact that they owed something to their generation and
something also to those who were to come after them. Look-
ing around them, they saw fields white to the harvest. An
increasing population with pressing spiritual needs was fill-
ing the boundaries of both South Carolina and Georgia.
Looking ahead of them into the future, the fathers of that
day foresaw that time would make the call for efficient
laborers in this field only the more urgent. Their children,
even then, had begun to turn their eyes westward. The
States of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana were being
settled by those whose antecedents were in South Carolina
and Georgia. The Christian people of these two States
followed with eager interest not only the material, but also
the spiritual progress of those who had gone out from them,
and were still of them.

In the narrative of the Synod of South Carolina and
Georgia for the year 1832, four years after the Seminary
opened its doors, the following statement occurs:

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"It is to be hoped that the period is not far distant when
this school of the prophets to which principally our Churches
look for the successors of those who are removed from the
ministry by death for the pastors who are to break the
bread of life among our numerous unsupplied Churches
shall be so amply furnished by Christian liberality with the
means of imparting a complete theological education, that
it shall not be behind similar institutions to which the
churches in other parts of our land look for their spiritual
guides."

Soon after the completion of the period of the first twenty-
five years in the life of the Theological Seminary important
additions were made to the Faculty. For a short time,
Alexander T. McGill, D.D., who afterwards occupied a
chair in the Princeton Theological Seminary, taught in
Columbia Seminary the subjects embraced in Ecclesiastical
History and Church Polity. He was succeeded in the oc-
cupancy of this chair by Benjamin M. Palmer, D.D., who
was succeeded by John B. Adger, D.D. From 1856 until
1862, James Henley Thornwell, D.D., gave the crowning
years of his life to the work of teaching the subjects con-
nected with the chair of Didactic and Polemic Theology.
During this period of early growth, a generous fund for
the endowment of the Seminary was contributed by the sup-
porting Synods. In 1854 Simons Hall was erected through
the liberality of Mrs. E. L. Simons, of Charleston, and in
1855, Mrs. Agnes Law, of Columbia, provided "for the
erection of the dormitory that bears her name.

During the period of the war of the Southern Confede-
racy and the two decades that followed it the following
ministers and teachers served as members of the Faculty:
Benjamin M. Palmer, D.D., James Woodrow, D.D., William
S. Plumer, D.D., Joseph E. Wilson, D.D., John L. Girar-
deau, D.D., Charles E. Hemphill, D.D., William E. Boggs,
D.D. and James D. Tadlock, D.D. Among the members
of the teaching force in the more recent years, to name only
tihose that have been called to their final reward, were
Francis E. Beattie, D.D., William T. Hall, D.D. and E. G.
Pearson, D.D.

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Throughout her entire life, a period of four score and
sixteen years, the Columbia Theological Seminary has fur-
nished well-trained ministers of the Gospel not only to the
Synods with which she is organically connected, but to other
parts of our Southern Church and to many regions beyond
the seas. Prior to the War of the Confederacy, the largest
number of students at any time in attendance was during
the session of 1860-1861, when sixty-two students were
assembled in the halls of the Seminary. Within the limits
of the half century that followed the close of the great
sectional struggle, the largest number of students in at-
tendance during any one session was in 1873-1874, the num-
ber present that year being fifty-seven. Although the num-
ber of students in attendance at this Seminary "has always
been thus moderate in extent, yet Columbia has furnished
more than three-fourths of the Presbyterian ministers who
have labored in South Carolina, more than one-half of those
that have labored in Georgia, and a considerable proportion
of those in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee,
Arkansas, and Louisiana. Moreover, graduates of Colum-
bia Seminary have given themselves to the work of mis-
sions in Africa, Syria, Turkey, Persia, Hindostan, Korea,
Japan, China and South America.

Location and Buildings.

The Seminary is located near the center of the city of
Columbia, the ca-pital of South Carolina. The city, with a
population of about 50,000, is situated on heights overlook-
ing the Congaree River, and is noted for the beauty of its
site, its broad and well-shaded streets, its excellent natural
drainage, its quiet and refined society. It is one of the
most important railway and educational centers in the
Southern States. Posessing an excellent public-school sys-
tem, Columbia is also the seat of the University of South
Carolina, the Lutheran Theological* Seminary, The College
for Women, the Methodist Female College and several
Business Colleges. In recent years Columbia has entered
upon a career of steady, if not, indeed, phenomenal develop-

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merit. The establishment of large manufacturing enter-
prises in the various suburbs of the city means not only in-
creased material prosperity for the city, but enlarged op-
portunities for mission work by the students of the Semi-
nary.

Columbia is one of the leading winter resorts of our
country. It is located in the same great pine belt in which
Camden and Aiken, famous winter resorts, are situated.
The climate is one of the most delightful in the world.

The Seminary occupies a beautiful square of four acres
in the heart of the residence portion of the city. Just across
the street from the Seminary are located the beautiful
grounds surrounding the Presbyterian College for Women.

The first and second floors of the central building on the
Seminary grounds are used for lecture rooms and offices.
The third floor is used for the books of the library. This
building is flanked by the two dormitories, Law Hall and
Simons Hall. Each of these dormitories has twenty-four
rooms, commodious, well ventilated and lighted. The rooms
are kept in a thoroughly cleaned and wholesome condition,
and each room is supplied with a complete set of furniture,
a carpet, and necessary linen and bedding. The Chapel
is the small brick building on the east side of the square;
the Dining Hall is on the west side a new two-story brick
building.

THE SEMINARY LIBRARY

The library of the Columbia Seminary is probably the
most extensive and the most valuable collection of theologi-
cal literature in the South. It forms an important adjunct
to the work carried on in the classrooms. In it are incor-
porated the larger parts of the libraries of Rev. Thomas
Smyth, D.D., Eev. John Douglass, Rev. George Howe,
D.D., and Rev. S. Beach Jones, D.D. New books are being
continually added from a fund set apart for the purpose,
as well as by gift. The libraries of the professors, amount-
ing to several thousand volumes, are accessible to the stud-
ents.

The Smyth Reference Library Room has been fitted up
by Miss Sarah Ann Smyth and the Ladies' Society of the
Second Church, Charleston. In it are kept the books needed
for daily reference. Some of the daily newspapers, with
a number of the leading monthly magazines, are on file in
the reading room.

Gifts to the Seminary Library

The Seminary has recently received as a gift from the
family of Rev. J. William Flinn, D.D., deceased, an honored
alumnus of the institution, the books formerly owned and
used by Dr. Flinn. This valuable collection of books con-
tains a large number of standard works on Philosophy,
Logic, and Ethics. This collection includes also a con-
siderable number of books which once formed a part of the
library of Dr. Thomas Smyth, of Charleston, S. C. All
of these volumes have been placed in a room on the first
floor of the main building on the Seminary grounds, and are
known as the Flinn Annex to the Smyth Library.

The First Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, Alabama,
has donated to the Columbia Seminary the collection of
books once the property of the former pastor, Rev. David
Finley, D.D.

38 COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

From the estate of Rev. Charles S. Vedder, D.D., LL.D.,
an honored alumnus of this Seminary, and late pastor
of the Huguenot Church, Charleston, S. C, a gift of three
hundred valuable books has been donated to the Seminary
library.

The Rev. M. C. Hutton, D.D., of Georgetown, Texas, an
honored alumnus of the class of 1872, has presented to the
Seminary a valuable selection of choice books from his own
library, consisting of volumes which he has found especially
helpful in his own ministry.

The large and valuable library of the late Rev. Samuel M.
Smith, D.D., who was at the time of his death the pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Caro-
lina, has been given by the family of Dr. Smith to the
Columbia Seminary.

The collection of books formerly owned and used by the
Rev. W. B. Arrowood, D.D., late pastor of Bethel Church,
York County, South Carolina, has been given by his
daughter to the Seminary Library.

Valuable books from the library of the late Rev. William
E. Boggs, D.D., former professor and also member of the
Doard of Directors of the Columbia Theological Seminary,
have been presented to the library.

Wilds Book Prize

Louis T. Wilds, Esq., a ruling elder of the First Presby-
terian Church, Columbia, S. C, has given the Seminary the
sum of five hundred dollars, to be used as the basis of an
annual book prize. At the close of each session the proceeds
of the gift made by Mr. Wilds will be invested in books and
the books will be bestowed as a prize upon a student se-
lected by the Faculty, in accordance with conditions pre-
scribed by the donor. In May, 1923 this prize was bestowed
upon Samuel H. Fulton, A.B., B.D., and Charles Hees
Jenkins, B.S., B.D., members of the Senior class.

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 39

Pressing Needs of the Seminary

1. The first and greatest need of the Seminary is schol-
arship funds providing for the support of the largely in-
creased number of students who are now coming to this
institution. A considerable number of scholarships yield-
ing at least $100 each per year should be provided. It is
hoped that generous friends will find here an opportuntiy
for wise beneficence. Perhaps no more attractive method
of providing an enduring memorial for some beloved rela-
tive could be found than to establish a scholarship of $1,500
for this purpose.

2. There is need of a fireproof library building. The
Smyth Library has no equal in the South, and perhaps no
superior in the United States, in the field of Puritan the-
ology as expounded by British writers. It would be an
unpardonable sin to allow these riches, which no amount
of money could ever duplicate, to be destroyed by fire. The
Church cannot excuse herself on any ground for failure to
do this at an early date.

3. There should be a larger and more commodious Chapel
of brick or stone. The present unsightly and inconvenient
building has served its purpose already too long. The com-
mencement exercises must be held elsewhere and no special
exercise which would involve a considerable attendance of
people can be held because of the small size of the building.

4. There is room for a variety of lectureships, fellow-
ships and other special foundations.

5. Small gifts of books, maps, charts, casts for the
library and the lecture rooms and supplies for the boarding
hall are always gratefully received.

Form of Bequest

The proper form of a bequest is as follows :

"To the Board of Directors of the Theological Seminary

of the Synods of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and

Florida of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, to

them and their successors, I give and bequeath the sum of

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APPENDIX
Members of the Faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary

1828-1924

Accessus Exitus

1828 Thomas Gottlding,* D.D., Professor of
Ecclesiastical History and Church
Polity. 1834

1831 George Howe,* D.D., LL.D., Professor

of Biblical Literature. 1883

1833 A. W. Leland,* D.D., Professor of Chris-
tian Theology. 1856

1836 Charles Colcock Jones,* D.D., Profes-
sor of Ecclesiastical History and Church
Polity. 1838

1848 Charles Colcock Jones,* D.D., Profes-
sor of Ecclesiastical History and Church
Polity. 1850

1852 Alex. T. McGill,* D.D., Professor of

Ecclesiastical History and Churcjh
Polity. 1853

1853 B. M. Palmer,* D.D., LL.D., Provisional

Instructor in Ecclesiastical History and
Church Polity. 1853

1854 B. M. Palmer,* D.D., LL.D., Professor

of Ecclesiastical History and Church
Polity. 1856

1856 J. H. Thornwell,* D.D., LL.D., Profes-
sor Ehetoric and Pastoral Theology. 1856

1856 J. H. Thornwell,* D.D., LL.D., Profes-

sor of Didactic and Polemic Theology. 1862

1857 J. B. Adger,* D.D., Professor of Ecclesias-

tical History and Church Polity. 1874

'Deceased.

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 43

Accessus Exitus

1861 James Woodrow,* Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.,

Perkins Professor of Natural Science

in Connection with Revelation. 1886

1862 B. M. Palmer,* D.D., LL.D., Professor of

Didactic and Polemic Theology. 1865

1867 William S. Plumer,* D.D., LL.D., Profes-
sor of Didactic and Polemic Theology. 1875

1870 Joseph E. Wilson,* D.D., Professor of
Pastoral and Evangelistic Theology and
Sacred Rhetoric. 1874

1875 William S. Plumer,* D.D., LL.D., Pro-

fessor of Pastoral, Casuistic and His-
toric Theology. 1880

1876 J. L. Girardeau,* D.D., LL.D., Professor

of Didactic and Polemic Theology. 1895

1882 Chas. R. Hemphill, D.D., Associate Pro-
fessor of Biblical Literature. 1883

1882 Wm. E. Boggs,* D.D., Professor of Ecclesi-

astical History and Church Polity. 1885

1883 Chas. R. Hemphill, D.D., Professor of

Biblical Literature. 1885

1885 Jas. D. Tadlock,* D.D., LL.D., Professor
of Eccelsiastical History and Church
Polity. 1898

1887 Chas. C. Hersman, D.D., Professor of Bib-

lical Literature. 1888

1888 Francis R. Beattie,* Ph.D., D.D., Perkins

Professor of Natural Science in Connec-
tion with Revelation, and Christian
Apologetics. 1893

^Deceased.

44 COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Accessus Exitus

1888 William M. McPheeters, D.D. Profes-
sor of Biblical Literature. 1893

1892 Daniel J. Brimm, A.M., Associate Profes-

sor of Biblical Literature. 1893

1893 William M. McPheeters, D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Literature
and Exegesis.

1893 Daniel J. Brimm, D.D., Professor of New

Testament Literature and Exegesis. 1900

1893 Samuel S. Laws,* A.M., M.D., LL.D., D.D.,
Perkins Professor of Natural Science
in Connection with Eevelation, and
Christian Apologetics. 1898

1895 William T. Hall,* D.D., LL.D., Professor

of Didactic and Polemic Theology. 1911

1898 Eichard C. Reed, D.D., LL.D., Profes-
sor of Ecclesiastical History and Church
Polity.

1900 John W. Davis,* D.D., Professor of New

Testament Literature and Exegesis. 1902

1901 Samuel C. Byrd, A.M., Adjunct Profes-

sor in the Chair of Pastoral Theology,
Homiletics, and the English Bible. 1902

1902 Henry Alexander White, A.M., Ph.D.,

D.D., LL.D., Professor of New Testa-
ment Literature and Exegesis.

1911 Thornton Whaling, D.D., LL.D., Presi-
dent of the Seminary and Professor of
Didactic and Polemic Theology. 1921

^Deceased.

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 45

Accessus Exitus

1911 K. G. Pearson,* D.D., Professor of the

English Bible. 1913

1913 James O. Keavis, D.D., LL.D., Professor
of the English Bible, Homiletics, and
Pastoral Theology. 1920

1916 Edgar D. Kerr, A.B., B.D., D.D., Instruc-

tor in the Hebrew and Greek Languages. 1921

1920 Hugh K. Murchison, A.B., B.D., Instruc-
tor in Missions.

1920 Melton Clark, A.B., D.D., Professor of

English Bible and Keligious Education.

1921 Edgar D. Kerr, A.B., B.D., D.D., Profes-

sor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages.

1921 John M. Wells, A.M., Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.,

President of the Seminary and Profes-
sor of Practical Theology.

1921 James B. Green, A.B., DD., Professor of
Didactic and Polemic Theology.

Special Lecturers

1898 Samuel M. Smith,* D.D., Lecturer on

Pastoral Theology and Homiletics. 1899

1911 Patterson Wardlaw, A.B., LL.D., In-
structor in the Pedagogy of the Sunday
School. 1915

1917 William H. Mills, A.B., D.D., Instructor

in Kural Sociology. 1921

Lectures on the Thomas Smyth Foundation

1911 Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D.,
Princeton, New Jersey. Subject : The
Theistic View of the World.

'Deceased.

46 COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Accessus Exitus

1912 Caspar Eene Gregory,* D.D., LL.D., Uni-

versity of Leipsic, Germany. Subject:
Theological Movements in Germany
During the Nineteenth Century.

1913 Eobert E. Speer, LL.D., New York City.

Subject: Some Missionary Problems
Illustrated in the Lives of Great Mis-
sionary Leaders.

1914 Eobert A. Webb,* D.D., LL.D., Louisville,

Kentucky. Subject: The Doctrine of
the Christian Hope.

1915 William Hodge Marquess,* D.D., LL.D.,

New York City. Subject: The Period
from Abraham to Joshua as Illustrated
by the Eesults of Archaeological Dis-
covery.

1916 J. Campbell White, A.M., LL.D,,

Wooster, Ohio. Subject: Missions and
Leadership.

1917 W. S. Plttmer Bryan, D.D., Chicago,

Illinois. Subject: The Grace of God.

1918 Benjamin B. Warfield,* D.D., LL.D.,

Princeton, New Jersey. Subject:
Counterfeit Miracles.

1919 Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D.,

Princeton, New Jersey. Subject : Chris-
tianity and the Modern Man.

1920 A. H. McKinney, D.D., New York City.

Subject: Guiding Girls to Christian
Womanhood.

^Deceased.

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 47

Accessus Exitus

1921 Louis Matthews Sweet, S.T.D., Ph.D.,
New York. Subject: The Origin and
Destiny of Man in the Light of Scrip-
ture and Modern Thought.

1923 J. Sprole Lyons, D.D., Atlanta, Ga. Sub-
ject: Sermonic Sources.

1923 L. E. McNair, D.D., Jacksonville, Florida,
Subject: Passion in Preaching.

1923 W. McF. Alexander, D.D., New Orleans,
La. Subject: The Man and his Mes-
sage.

1923 J. B. Hutton, D.D., Jackson, Miss. Sub-
ject: Kegulative Ideas in Preaching.

1923 James I. Vance, D.D., Nashville, Tenn.
Subject : Sermonizing.

1923 Dunbar H. Ogden, D.D., Mobile, Ala.

Subject: The House in Which the
Minister Lives.

1924 Egbert W. Smith, D.D. Nashville, Tenn.

Subject : The Call of the Mission Fields.

Deceased.