Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 45, number 2, August 1952

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COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

DECATUR, GEORGIA

Vol. XLV

august, 1952

No. 2

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PUBLISHED QUARTERLY AT DECATUR, GEORGIA

THE NEW SESSION

DR. FRANK C. BROWN BECOMES PROFESSOR

DR. ELIO EYNARD, DR. PAUL L GARBER,

& REV. F. SIDNEY ANDERSON TO OFFER

COURSES AT COLUMBIA SEMINARY

THE NEW SESSION

Columbia Theological Seminary will begin its
new school year with a service held in its chapel
at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 16, 1952. Dr.
Wallace M. Alston, President of Agnes Scott Col-
lege, will deliver the opening address.

All new students of the seminary are expected
to arrive on the campus to register on September
10th and to attend the Orientation Program
which will continue through the 15th. Upper-
classmen will register for classes on September
16th. A capacity enrollment for the year is in
prospect, with more than fifty men accepted as
members of the entering class, and with several
others coming as transfers to the upper classes.
A limited number of graduate students will also
be enrolled.

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DR. FRANK C. BROWN
BECOMES PROFESSOR

Announcement was made through the press in
June of the fact that Dr. Frank C. Brown, then
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Dallas,
Texas, had been called to a faculty post at Co-

lumbia Theological Seminary. Dr. Brown has ac-
cepted this call and at his request the pastoral
relationship between him and his congregation
was dissolved by Dallas Presbytery at its meeting
on July 8. After a period of rest and study in
New York, he expects to take up his residence in
Decatur early in September and will assume his
teaching duties in the Departments of English
Bible and Practical Theology at the opening of
the fall quarter. Both by native gifts and by ex-
perience he is eminently qualified to serve with
distinction as a teacher of young ministers.

Dr. Brown is a native of Lewisburg, W. Va.,
where he attended the public schools before en-
tering Hampden-Sydney College. At the latter in-
stitution he earned both the B.A. and M.A. de-
grees. After two years as principal of the Poto-
mac Academy at Romney, W. Va., he enrolled at
Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va.,
where he received his B.D. degree in 1914. He
has subsequently been awarded the honorary de-
grees of D.D. by Hampden-Sydney College and
LL.D. by Austin College.

After his ordination Dr. Brown served as as-
sistant pastor of the Henry Drummond Memorial
Church in Glasgow, Scotland, while studying at
the United Free Church College of the University
of Glasgow. In late years he has studied at Oxford
University and has traveled extensively in Europe
and the Holy Land.

From 1915 to 1920 Dr. Brown served as pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church at Logan, W. Va.
From the latter year until 1936 he was pastor of
the Bream Memorial Church, Charleston, W. Va.,
manifesting unusual evangelistic zeal and ability
both in his pulpit work and in personal contacts.
From 1936 until the present summer he was Das-
tor of the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas.
During those sixteen years, he had the privilege of
receiving 3500 new members into his congrega-
tion, and led in the raising of more than $2,000,000
for church causes. He was also instrumental in
the organizing in Dallas of the Trinity Heights
and the Irving Presbyterian Churches.

In 1940 Dr. Brown was elected Moderator of
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church,
U. S. He has also served as Moderator of the
Synod of West Virginia, and of Kanawha and
Dallas Presbyteries. He was active in the work
of the Dallas Pastors' Association, serving as its
president in 1944, and was also a useful member
of the Dallas County Community Chest Board and
the Bov Scout Executive Council. He was for some

years a trustee of Austin College, and is now a
member of the Board of Church Extension of the
General Assembly. In the midst of a busy pas-
torate, he found time to become the author of a
volume entitled "Lost A Human Soul", which
was published in 1932.

Dr. Brown was married in 1915 to Miss Mary
Oden Hansford of Charleston, W. Va. Mrs. Brown
has been her husband's true helpmeet in his work
through the years, and has also found time to be
active herself both in denominational and inter-
denominational work and in civic affairs. The
Browns will be heartily welcomed into the life of
the seminary community, and will make their
home near the campus.

At the time Dr. Brown left Dallas he was paid
high tribute both by the secular press and in
church circles. In presenting him to the friends
of Columbia Seminary, it is appropriate to quote
a portion of the resolution adopted by Dallas Pres-
bytery at its meeting on July 8, 1952.

"The departure of Dr. Frank C. Brown
from Dallas Presbytery leaves a vacancy
in our ranks that will be hard to fill.
During the sixteen years of his ministry
at the First Presbyterian Church he has
impressed everyone with his outstanding
ability as a preacher of The Word. The
entire church has been vocal in its praise
of his pastoral leadership, and wonderful
spiritual ministrations, especially to
those who were sick or in distress. The
Presbytery will greatly miss his wisdom
and sound judgment.

"As he takes his new position as a
teacher of theological students we rejoice
at his special fitness for it. Drawing
from a life of successful pastoral work
we can easily imagine how this life will
be channelled into the lives of the young
ministers in his classes. We can but be-
lieve that his own life will be projected
into the lives of these young men.

"We commend him with deep affection
to the members of the Board of Columbia
Seminary and to its faculty and students.
We foresee that he will become with them
a brother beloved as he has been with
us. Our prayers and very best wishes
will follow him in his new work."

DR. ELIO EYNARD TO SERVE
AS GUEST PROFESSOR

During the Fall Quarter of 1952 Columbia Sem-
inary will welcome to its campus a distinguished
representative of European Protestantism in the
person of Dr. Elio Eynard, a member of the Wal-
densian Theological Faculty in Rome. Dr. Eynard,
who has been awarded a travel scholarship under
the Fulbright Fund, will spend much of his time
here in study, but will also be able to teach an
elective course on the History of the Waldensians
in Medieval Europe, the Reformation in Italy, and
the Contemporary Religious Situation in Italy. It
is hoped that Mrs. Eynard will be able to accom-
pany her husband to this country. The Eynards
will occupy a guest room on the campus of the
seminary, and Dr. Eynard will be available for
a limited number of speaking engagements in
churches of this area.

DR. PAUL LESLIE GARBER TO TEACH
COURSE IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Columbia Seminary takes pleasure in announc-
ing that Dr. Paul Leslie Garber, Professor of
English Bible at Agnes Scott College, has ac-
cepted an invitation to offer elective work in the
field of Archaeology for seminary students during
the winter quarter.

Dr Garber is a son of the manse and is a
graduate of the College of Wooster and of the
Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. He holds the
degrees of B.D. and Th.M. from the latter insti-
tution, and was awarded his Ph.D. by Duke Uni-
versity in 1939. He was ordained to the ministry
in 1937 and has had successful pastorates in the
First (U. S. A.) Presbyterian Church of Bloom-
field, Indiana, and in the Trinity Avenue (U. S.)
Presbyterian Church of Durham, N. C. He has
served since 1943 as a member of the faculty at
Agnes Scott.

Dr. Garber is the author of "A Functional Ap-
proach to the New Testament Doctrine of the Holy
Spirit" and of "The Religious Thought of James
Henley Thornwell." During the past year he has
traveled extensively in Palestine and the Near
East He is well equipped to teach seminary stu-
dents, and the work which he offers will serve to
enrich the curriculum of the seminary.

REV. F. SIDNEY ANDERSON APPOINTED

AS INSTRUCTOR IN INDUSTRIAL

CHURCH WORK

One of the great needs in the life of the Presby-
terian Church is for the development of a strategy
which will enable us to meet the needs of indus-
trial populations. A first step in this direction will
be taken at Columbia Seminary this year as Rev.
F Sidney Anderson, Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Porterdale, Ga., teaches an elective
course on "The Work of the Presbyterian Church
in an Industrial Community."

Mr. Anderson is a native of Farmville, Va. and
a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College. He holds
his B.D. degree from Columbia Seminary where
he was awarded a fellowship for post-graduate
study, and he earned his Th.M. from this insti-
tution in 1952, writing his thesis on the subject
which has been chosen for his class discussion.
Following his ordination in 1944, Mr. Anderson
served as pastor of the Barnett Presbyterian
Church in Atlanta for a brief while before going
as a missionary of our Church to Brazil. His re-
tirement from Mission service for reasons con-
nected with the health of his family became neces-
sary after three years of work in Lavras, Minas,
Brazil Since 1948 he has been the highly suc-
cessful pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Por-
terdale, Ga., a textile community.

In further preparation for his course, Mr. An-
derson expects to visit various industrial com-
munities in the South, and to study methods which
have proved successful in other churches. His pro-
gram of teaching at the seminary will be carried
on in conjunction with his work as a pastor.