Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 24, number 1, September 1930

BULLETIN
OF

COLUMBIA

THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY

Published Quarterly
at

DECATUR, GEORGIA

Vol. XXIV September, 1930 No. 1

Entered as Second Class Matter May 9, 1928, at post office at Decatur,
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Columbia
Theological Seminary

DECATUR, GEORGIA

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

Founded December 15th, 1828
Lexington, Georgia, 1828-1830
Columbia, South Carolina, 1830-1927
Greater Atlanta, 1927

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Board of Directors

Officers

John T. Brantley, LL.D.. President

Alexander Sprunt, D. D., Vice-President

Frank K. Sims, D. D., Secretary

Miss C. Virginia Harrison, Asst. Secretary

Class Going Out 1930

L. L. Barr, Esq. Greenville, S. C.

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

E. D. Brownlee. D. D Sanford, Fla.

J. Bulow Campbell, Esq. Atlanta, Ga.

W. A. Hafner, B. D. Gaffney, S. C.

J. B. Hutton, D. D Jackson, Miss.

J. Sprole Lyons, D. D. Atlanta, Ga.

Class Going Out 1931

J. A. McClure, D. D. St. Petersburg, Fla.

D. M. Douglas, D. D. Columbia, S. C.

C. W. Grafton, D. D. Union Church, Miss.

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

A G. Irons, B. D Birmingham, Ala.

D. W. Robinson, Esq Columbia, S. .C

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

Class Going Out 1932

Jno. D. Baker, Esq. Jacksonville, Fla.

Jno. T. Brantley, LL.D Blackshear, Ga.

S. H. Edmunds. Litt. D Sumter, S. C.

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

R. F. Kimmons, Esq. Water Valley, Miss.

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

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

Executive Committee

J. Bulow Campbell, Chairman
F. K. Sims, Secretary

E. L. Hill J. Sprole Lyons D. W. Robinson

Investing Committee

J. Bulow Campbell, Chairman J. C. Copeland

C. H. Baldwin J. S. Kennedy

W. D. Beatie D. W. Robinson

H. Lane Young

J. S. Kennedy, Atlanta, Ga. Treasurer

C. H. Baldwin, Columbia, S. C Assistant Treasurer

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

FACULTY

Rev. William M. McPheeters, D.D., LL.D.,

Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, and Apologetics.

Rev. Melton Clark, D.D.,

Professor of English Bible, Pastoral Theology and Religious Education.

Rev. Edgar D. Kerr, D.D.,

Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages.

Rev. James B. Green, D.D.,

Professor of Systematic Theology, Chri tian Ethics and Homiletics.

Rev. Wm. Childs Robinson, Th.D., D.D.,

Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Church Polity and Missions.

Rev. Samuel A. Cartledge, M.A., B.D., Ph.D.,

Associate Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis.

Rev. Henry W. McLaughlin, D.D.,

Instructor in Country Church Work.

Mr. Wallace McPherson Alston, B.A., M.A.,

Instructor in Introductory Greek.

Mr. Thomas Hancock Grafton, B.A.,

Instructor in English Bible.

Administrative Officers

Melton Clark, Vice-President

Samuel A. Cartledge, Clerk of Faculty

Miss C. Virginia Harrison, Bursar

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

CALENDAR

SESSION 1930-31

FALL QUARTER

Thursday, Sept. 11, 10:00 A. M. Session begins.

Chapel Services. Address. Matriculation. Announcements.

Tuesday, Nov. 25 Examinations, Fall Quarter.

Junior Hebrew Dr. Kerr

Middle 0. T. Lit. and Ex. Dr. McPheeters

Senior Hebrew Dr. Kerr

Introd. English Bible Mr. Grafton

Wednesday Junior Homiletics Dr. Green

Middle English Bible Dr. Clark

Senior Theology Dr. Green

Friday Senior English Bible (Elective) Dr. Clark

Senior N. T. Exegesis (Elective) Dr. Cartledge

Introductory Greek Mr. Alston

Saturday Junior History Dr. Robinson

Middle N. T. Exegesis Dr. Cartledge

Senior Apologetics Dr. Robinson

Thursday, Nov. 27 Recess. Thanksgiving Day.

WINTER QUARTER

Tuesday, Dec. 2 Class work resumed.

Saturday, Dec. 20. 1 :00 P. M. Christmas vacation begins.

Tuesday, Jan. 6, 8:30 A. M. Class work resumed.

Tuesday, Feb. 24 Examinations, Winter Quarter.

Junior English Bible Dr. Clark

Middle Ethics Dr. Green

Senior Past. Theol. and Ed. Dr. Clark

Wednesday Senior Theology Dr. Green

Introductory Greek Mr. Alston

Thursday Junior History Dr. Robinson

Middle N. T. Exegesis Dr. Cartledge

Senior History Dr. Robinson

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Friday Introductory Eng. Bible Mr. Grafton

Senior N. T. Exegesis (Elective) Dr. Cartledge

Saturday Junior Hebrew Dr. Kerr

Middle 0. T. Lit. and Exegesis Dr. McPheeters

Senior Hebrew -? Dr. Kerr

SPRING QUARTER

Tuesday, March 3 Class work resumed.

Tuesday, May 12 Examinations, Spring Quarter.

Junior History Dr. Robinson

Middle N. T. Exegesis Dr. Cartledge

Senior N. T. Exegesis Dr. Cartledge

Wednesday - Introductory Greek Mr. Alston

Senior History (Elective) Dr. Robinson

Thursday Junior Hebrew Dr. Kerr

Middle 0. T. Literature and Ex. Dr. McPheeters

Senior Hebrew Dr. Kerr

Friday Senior Theology Dr. Green

Introductory English Bible Mr. Grafton

Saturday Junior English Bible Dr. Clark

Middle Theology Dr. Green

Senior English Bible Dr. Clark

Sunday, May 17 Baccalaureate Sermon and Missionary Address

Tuesday, May 19 Alumni Reunions, Meeting of Board of Directors.

Wednesday. May 20, 10:30 A. M. Graduating Exercises.

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Rev. Richard T. Gillespie, D.D., LL.D.

Heb. 11:4 "He being dead yet speaketh.'

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Rev. Samuel A. Cartledge, M.A., B.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

PROFESSOR SAM A. CARTLEDGE, M.A., B.D., Ph.D.

Hail to Dr. Cartledge!
We are indeed glad to welcome Dr. Cartledge to the Seminary:

He is a Columbian. He already belongs to us; and, ere he has
fully realized the dignity of his doctorate, an "old grad" will
shout, "Hello, Sam!" Dr. Cartledge is a son, a grandson, and a
great-grandson, of Columbia Theological Seminary. He comes
of a godly Columbia succession: his father, Rev. Dr. S. J. Cart-
ledge, of Athens, graduated in the Class of '89; his grandfather,
Rev. G. H. Cartledge, in the Class of '48; and "Sam" thoroughly
identified himself with the Columbia life. He was as much a
star on the tennis team as he was in the classroom, and that is
saying considerable. His voice lent depth to the quartette's WSB
classic broadcasts. He was the first president of his class.

He is a South Carolina-Georgian. The Cartledge family through
the generations have won honors in the academic life of the Em-
pire State. Rev. G. H. Cartledge graduated from old Oglethorpe
University of Milledgeville. With the passing of this Synodical
institution, the Cartledges turned to the University of Georgia, of
which both Dr. Cartledge and his father are alumni. Sam was
born in 1903 in Anderson, S. C, during his father's pastorate
there; he was reared in Athens; and recently married Miss Mary
Grace Kehrer, a leader among the young people of the Decatur
Presbvterian Church. He thus represents the two States in which
the institution has been located and with which it has been most
closely identified.

He is a scholar. His record abounds with honors first honor :
High School, University of Georgia, Columbia Theological Sem-
inary; honorary societies and fraternity: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi
Kappa Phi, Sigma Upsilon; prizes, fellowships; degrees: A. B.
(summa cum laude), M. A., University of Georgia; B. D. (magna
cum laude), Columbia Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University
of Chicago. His class articles are worded with the care of the
Britannica; his grasp of the Greek impressed the graduate stu-
dents of Chicago with the high excellency of the New Testament
Department at Columbia.

He is a teacher. Dr. Cartledge taught English a year at River-
side Military Academy; and Propaedeutic Greek three years in
Columbia Seminary. Every student bears testimony to his thor-

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ough mastery of his subject, his unfailing courtesy, his consum-
mate ability to impart information. Dr. H. B. Blakely, the out-
going professor, has declared that Cartledge surpassed him in his
Greek foundation and his natural ability as a teacher.

The election of Dr. Cartledge completes the faculty of the
Seminary. Columbia has a carefully prepared, congenial and
completely integrated faculty, maintaining "in essentials unity;
in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity."

Dr. Cartledge comes to Columbia Seminary with as definite a
conviction of the truth of historic Christianity, of New Testament
supernaturalism, as the institution offered his grandfather 85
years ago. His faith has faced the fires of naturalism, human-
ism, secularism and mechanism; in the critical crucible of today
it has stood the test.

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Dr. Melton Clark,
Columbia Seminary,
Decatur, Ga.

Dear Dr. Clark:

You have asked me to tell something of my experiences as a
student in Chicago, but I hardly know where to start. I think,
though, I will tell something of the manuscripts of the New Tes-
tament in the collection of the University of Chicago.

In 1895, the University purchased a manuscript of the Gospels.
That was the only manuscript in the collection until 1929. Then
manuscripts began to come to the notice of the authorities, and
funds were raised for their purchase. Now the University has
about a dozen Greek New Testament manuscripts. The only
school with a larger collection in America is the University of
Michigan, which, by the way, does not have a Divinity School.

Most of the manuscripts are manuscripts of the four Gospels.
One of them contains the Acts and the Epistles, a rather rare type
of manuscript. Several of them are "lectionaries," or a collec-
tion of Scripture lessons to be read on various days of the
church year. The oldest manuscript in the collection is one of
these lectionaries, written in "uncial," or capital letters and
dating about the ninth century. An interesting thing about this
manuscript is that the University bought it from a restaurant that
is one of the centers of Chicago's gang life, where the manuscript
had been used as an oath book to swear in new members to the
gang.

All of these manuscripts have been unknown to scholars. Now
that the University has them, their contents can be made known.
As all these manuscripts are relatively late, it is not expected
that any of them will make it possible for us to get a better
Greek text of the New Testament than we already have. Yet
new discoveries have often come from most unexpected sources.
At any rate, every manuscript helps textual scholars in telling the
history of the text and testing the theories on which the best texts
have been reconstructed.

It was my privilege to work up three of these manuscripts for
my dissertation. One of the three was actually signed and dated

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by the scribe who wrote it the monk Nicolaus of Edessa, May 4,
1133 A. D. The other two were written probably in the thirteenth
or fourteenth century. First the manuscripts have to be col-
lated; that is, they are compared with the received Greek text
and every variation between the two recorded. Then on the basis
of these recorded variants, an attempt is made to see with what
other manuscripts the manuscript is related. All three of these
manuscripts had somewhat better texts than the average manu-
script of their dates. One of the three was related very closely
to a "family" of about eight other manuscripts. To complete the
work, a description has to be given of each manuscript, describing
all its features. These three manuscripts contained quite a few
interesting features that I cannot describe now but nothing of
any great importance. It was extremely interesting and profit-
able though, working with these ancient books, seeing how the
New Testament came down from its original writers to us. I
have just had photostats made of selected pages from all the
manuscripts in the Chicago collection and of photostats of other
manuscripts, which might prove interesting and profitable when
our students come to textual studies.

I have had an interesting and profitable stay in Chicago, but I
shall certainly be glad to get back to Columbia again.

Sincerely,

S. A. Cartledge.

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YOUNG PEOPLES CONFERENCES

\oung People's Conferences have become a prominent feature
of the summer activities of the church, in the Synods and in some
of the Presbyteries. They are now several years old, and may be
considered as having passed the experimental stage. They have
proved their worth, and are likely to abide as parts of the edu-
cational program of the church.

These gatherings of young people, while called conferences, are
more like schools. For in each conference there is a facultv of
instructors as well as of counselors, and class work is required,
and credit is given. The conference period is short, embracing
only one week, yet it is a week of intensive effort. As much is
accomplished in these few days as would be done, perhaps, in an
ordinary month or quarter in the home church.

The conference workers aim not only at giving instruction:
the end of the instruction is consecration decision of will and
committal of life. The conferences are centers of enlightenment
and enlistment for Christ and His service.

Besides all this, the young people have an outing and a good
time, and this brightens and freshens life for them. They make
new acquaintances and multiply social contacts, and so widen the
area and horizon of life. And when they return home, they give
a fresh stimulus to the work in local society, and school, and
church.

Members of the faculty of Columbia Seminary have again and
again been called to assist in these young people's conferences,
and they gladly respond to these calls. This year Dr. Clark
worked in the North Carolina Conference at Davidson College;
Dr. Robinson in the South Carolina Conference at Presbyterian
College; and Dr. Green in both the 1 oung People's and Adult
Conferences of Mississippi, at Belhaven College, located at Jack-
son.

Appreciating the past services of the 1 oung People's Confer-
ences, and believing in their future possibilities, Columbia Sem-
inary takes pleasure in speaking a good word for them through
its quarterly Bulletin.

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The Honor Roll of Helpers

Some months ago the Acting President mailed to some two hun-
dred Auxiliaries requests for aid in meeting the expenses of fuel,
light, and water, which are furnished free to our students.

The following thirty-nine Auxiliaries of Georgia, Alabama, and
Mississippi responded to the request. One Auxiliary in South
Carolina Synod sent the amount, though no call had been
made on the South Carolina Auxiliaries on account of the de-
mands made on the Synod of South Carolina by the campaign
for Deliverance of the Presbyterian College. With the un-
solicited, but greatly appreciated, gift from South Carolina the
forty contributing Auxiliaries gave S480.00. Had the two hundred
Auxiliaries responded, the receipts would have amounted to $2,-
400.00 or two-thirds of the amount needed.

ALABAMA (3)

Aliceville
Newbern

Lniontown

GEORGIA (29)

Acworth

Athens, First

Blackshear

Central, Atlanta

Chickamauga

Columbus, First

Comer

Dalton

Decatur

Fort Valley

Gainesville

Greensboro

Henry Memorial

Jefferson

LaFayette

LaGrange

McDonough

Morningside, Atlanta

Moultrie, First

North Avenue, Atlanta

Peachtree Road, Atlanta

Reid Memorial, Augusta

Senoia

Thomasville

Waycross

Westminster

West Point

MISSISSIPPI (7)

Clarksdale
Hattiesburg, First
Meridian, First
McBride Memorial
Picayune
Tchula
Water Valley

SOUTH CAROLINA (1)

Batesburg, Leesville

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LOOKING UPWARD AND ONWARD

One of the interesting features of this year's session will be the
celebration of the centennial of the Society of Missionary Inquiry.
This Society has been responsible for promoting missions for a
hundred years now. It was founded in a period when missionary
interest in the church was practically non-existent. Its mem-
bers have been largely responsible for shaping the missionary
policy of the Southern Presbyterian Church. Many of the
church's most useful missionaries have come from this Society
from the days of the first student president, J. Leighton Wilson,
on. But the Society does not live on its past alone. Weekly
meetings are held. The various problems of missions at home
and abroad are studied. Under the direction of the Society, the
members visit and conduct services in city missions, county
homes, prisons and prison camps, and help in conducting evan-
gelistic services in many churches.

All the friends of Columbia are encouraged by the splendid
group of new students entering this year. Twenty-one new stu-
dents have entered the Junior class. A very gratifying fact about
this is that all but two of these men have college degrees. One
new student has entered the Senior class, and one the middle
class. Four new students are taking special courses, attending a
certain number of the regular classes. This makes a total of
twenty-seven unusually well prepared young men who have en-
tered the regular classes of Columbia Seminary for the first time
this year.

The student body as a whole is made up of students from nine
states and China and Korea. Georgia has the largest representa-
tion this year, with eighteen; South Carolina is close behind,
with fifteen. Twenty-four Presbyteries are represented; Atlanta
leads with eight students, and Pee Dee is next with five. Twenty-
two educational institutions have representatives, Presbyterian
College leading with nineteen, Davidson next with nine.

An attractive feature is being offered this year for the first time.
Following the lead of many of the more prominent colleges and
universities, Columbia Seminary is starting a night school. In a
great city like Atlanta, there are many men who are desirous of
preparing themselves for the ministry or for more active and
useful Christian service, yet who are unable for various reasons to
resign their positions to come to the Seminary as full-time stu-

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dents. To minister to this need, courses are being offered two
nights in the week. These are regular Seminary courses, con-
ducted by the regular members of the faculty, with the regular
high standards, with regular Seminary credit given. Although
this is an innovation, eight new students have already registered.
This brings the total of new students up to thirty-five.

Columbia Seminary is doing all in her power to keep the
Southern Presbyterian ministry up to its historically high stand-
ards, and, if possible, to raise the standards. Columbia believes
thoroughly that the true Biblical religion can and should go
hand in hand with true scholarship. Columbia is insisting that,
as far as possible, all the men who come into the faculty should
have earned doctors' degrees. Columbia is discouraging candi-
dates from entering the Seminary who do not have college de-
grees, where that is at all possible. Columbia has adopted the
quarter system, which is proving so satisfactory in schools of
graduate standing throughout the country. Columbia still insists
that her graduates be able to study the scriptures in the original
Hebrew and Greek. Columbia is doing all in her power to see
that every minister who graduates from her halls is a scholar, a
gentleman and a Christian.

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Ol R FINANCIAL SITUATION

When Columbia Seminary found herself at home on her new-
campus, it was discovered that there were not a few expenditures
incident to such a move which, while necessary, were not provided
tor. After three years of life in the new location, these additional
expenditures, together with annual deficits in operating expenses,
had created an indebtedness of some $217,804.00. It was realized
that the interest on this debt was an impossible burden. Steps
were taken to relieve this, and in March of this year a campaign
was conducted among trie churches of Atlanta.

This second call upon the liberality of the Presbyterians of At-
lanta, coming so soon after the greater campaign for the removal
and rebuilding of the Seminary, was a severe test of the interest
of our friends in Atlanta, and right nobly did they meet the issue
and stand the test. \\ e did not raise the full amount asked for.
but more thai $] ras subscribed, and this has substantially

alleviated the financial pressure on the institution. In fact, the
subscribers have already assumed |80, of the Seminary's in-

debtedness, thus reducing the indebtedness for which the Sem-
inary itself is responsible to $123,270.

In this connection, it ought also to be remembered that the old
Seminary plant in Columbia is worth in normal times easily
This w ill be disposed of as soon as it can be advan-
tageously sold, and the interest from such sale will be used to
offset the interest on the larger part of our present indebtedness.
The consummation of such a transaction would bring us so near
the balancing of our budget of income and expense that we
would have no fear that our friends would welcome the oppor-
tunitv of raising the amount necessarv for such an achievement,
perhaps $25,

\^ ith this bright outlook before us: with our wonderful campus
and splendid physical equipment: and with our loyal and enthu-
siastic student body, we feel that never before in the history of
Columbia Seminary were the prospects more encouraging and
her future more secure.

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FORM OF BEQUEST

"To the Board of Directors of Columbia Theological Seminary,
of the Synods of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and
South Carolina, of the Presbyterian Church in the United States,
to them and their successors, I give and bequeath the sum of

Dollars,

(or I devise a certain parcel or tract of land, etc.) to be applied
by them to the uses and benefit of said Seminary as follows,'' etc.

Name

Street No.

City

State

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Boston

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CoMScrratnre in Outlook

Progressive in Purpose
Scholarly in Method
'"rriptural in Tearhins