Vol. VIII JANUARY, 1916 No. 2 BULLETIN COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY COLUMBIA, S. C. Published Quarterly by 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 (Entered as Second-Class Matter July 11, 1908, at the Postoffice at Columbia, South Carolina, Under the Act of July 16, 1894) u FACULTY THORNTON WHALING, D. D., LL. D., PRESIDENT OF THE SEMINARY, PROFESSOR OF DIDACTIC AND POLEMIC THEOLOGY. WILLIAM M. McPHEETERS, D. D., LL. D., PROFESSOR OF OLD TESTAMENT LITERATURE AND EXEGESIS. HENRY ALEXANDER WHITE, 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. JAMES 0. REAVIS, D. D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH BIBLE AND HOMILETICS. EDGAR D. KERR, A. M., B. D., INSTRUCTOR IN CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND APOLOGETICS. SPECIAL INSTRUCTORS IN ELOCUTION AND SACRED MUSIC. SMYTH LECTURERS. J. Campbell White, LL. D., New York City, 1915-1916. W. S. Plumer Bryan, D. D., Chicago, 111., 1916-1917. Francis L. Patton, D. D., LL. D., Princeton, N. J., 1917- 1918. in 13 ft* < o o > The Chief Financial Needs of Columbia Theological Seminary Every expanding educational institution will always need money, and the recent unexampled increase in the number of students at Columbia Theological Seminary renders imperative the securing of increased income. When the four Synods immediately concerned and the Church at large learns that fifty promising and worthy young men are in attendance today on this favored insti- tution, they will understand that more money is required to maintain it in the highest state of efficiency than was required when twenty students only were in attendance. The chief needs therefore are, first, Scholarship funds. This institution for various reasons has no specific funds donated and set apart for this use. One of our other Theological Seminaries, for example, has $90,000 that was given expressly and exclusively for use in supporting young men who are preparing for the Gospel Ministry. There must be found in our controlling Synods those who will not only contribute immediately funds for current use in this way, but who will also endow a scholarship by gift while alive, or by bequest when they depart, the interest on which shall be used forever to maintain some young man. Scholarship funds, therefore, are the most outstanding, conspicuous, and imperative need of the Theological Seminary. Second, the riches of the Library are becoming increas- ingly known, as a result of their being catalogued on the most scientific basis. The fact should be known from one end of the Church and the country to the other, that perhaps the finest theological saminary in America in the field of Puritan Theology is to be found at this Seminary. A fireproof building, which would house these invaluable treasures, ought to be provided. It would be an unpar- donable sin against scholarship and true learning if, through neglect to do this, this great storehouse of vol- umes, many of which cannot now be secured in any way 5 for love or money, should be allowed to go up in smoke. When the library is erected, arrangements should be made in it also for a comfortable, commodious and attractive Chapel for the public exercises of the institution. Third, the Chair of English Bible, Pastoral Theology and Homiletics, for the endowment of which $10,000 is promised by the widow of the Rev. R. G. Pearson, former incumbent of said Chair, should be completely endowed at as early a date as possible. The hope and expectation is entertained that Mrs. Pearson herself will enter upon the prosecution at an early date of a plan of securing $20,000 for this purpose. Dr. Pearson was the instrument of bringing into the Church 20,000 souls, scattered through the sixteen Southern States, and of enriching the Spirit- ual life of many thousands more. It would seem that it would be a delight to those whom he had thus served to perpetuate his memory and influ- ence by contributing to the endowment of the R. G. Pear- son Memorial Chair of the English Bible. These are, at present, the chief needs of the institution and pastors, Church officers, and wise stewards of "their Lord's" money, are invited to study these needs from the point of view of the progress of the Kingdom as repre- sented by the Southern Presbyterian Church, especially in the four States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. How to Use Money There is no section of Biblical or Christian Ethics which needs more authoritative exposition in order that the average Christian may understand the divine teach- ings on the subject than the teaching of the Scriptures on the theme of the proper means of acquiring and especially the proper modes of spending money. The parables of the pounds and the talents show that every Christian ought to regard his money, not as his own, but as "his Lord's" money. These parables teach that the Lord will review the Christian's use of this money, and will deter- mine his rewards by the degree of faithfulness in its use ; and that the most searching determinative test of the Christian character is in its last analysis in the use to which money is put. And, therefore, the reward and judgment as just will be based upon the Lord's decision in these respects. There are several principles which must be laid down ; first, a Christian man has a right to expend upon himself and his family all the money, and no more, that is neces- sary to prepare and maintain them for their maximum efficiency in the service of Christ and His Kingdom. This principle may not always be easy to apply, as a rule, but its meaning is certainly simple and of universal applica- tion. Second, Livingstone was certainly expressing one of the profoundest laws of the Kingdom when he said, in substance, "I shall value no gift of mind, and no attain- ment of reputation, and no money which may come to me, except as I may use them for the one purpose of serving the interest of God's Kingdom." The use of money in the Kingdom and the marriage of money to God's grace is fundamental in the Scriptural teachings. God's chariot moves on wheels of gold and God's grace may halt because money does not "prepare the way of the Lord." Third, the investment of money in a young life which is to be prepared by this money for the highest forms of service which God's world and God's Kingdom admits of, is cer- tainly a form of money investment which has no superior in the present order or dispensation of God's Kingdom and God's grace. Fourth, the most fundamental institu- tion as developed in the Church and the Kingdom of God today is the Theological Seminary, in which choice youth of the Church are assembled for preparation for the work of the Gospel Ministry. The Presbyterians of the four States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida cannot possibly find any higher use for their money, or one which will be more pleasing to "their Lord," than to sustain the young men who are in this institution. They are the gifts of the King and the Head of the Church to His people and His people cannot, without gross failure in duty, allow "their Lord's" gift to languish or to fail of the highest use because they do not come up to the "help of the Lord against the mighty," by putting down the gold and silver or the greenbacks, if necessary, which will enable the Seminary and the young men to do their work. The challenge is therefore boldly given to the preach- ers, elders, deacons, the people of these Synods, to all of our Church courts, from the Synods down to the Pres- byteries and the Church Sessions to interrogate them- selves as to the plans by which "their Lord's" money may be thus spent in the most profitable way. First, particu- lar individuals who have the means ought to contribute directly to the Seminary in the support of some young man. Second, individuals who have means might endow at once a scholarship of one to two thousand dollars, the interest of which should maintain some worthy and deserving candidate for the ministry. Such a schol- arship might be established as a memorial to some hon- ored name or beloved relative. Third, individuals who have still larger means might well consider the duty of endowing a chair of, say, English Bible, or of Christian Ethics, or of Systematic Theology, which would continue to influence the Church and the Kingdom for all the future. Fourth, Christians who make their wills ought to ask whether, instead of leaving everything to their children or relatives, more or less remote, they ought not to leave at least some share of their means to one who is more closely related to them than wife or children can possibly be, and whose Kingdom represents the chief concern of every Christian heart. In some sections of our country, it has come to be regarded as a disgrace if a man of any means dies without leaving bequests to great causes of beneficence. And the newspapers and others will remark upon it as unusual that no bequests are made to benevo- lence or the Church. It would be a good thing if this view could be transferred to our Southern country. 8 Fifth, the Church Session might well see that the support of candidates at the Theological Seminary was put down upon their Church budget and a certain amount appropriated, which will be measured by the ability of the people as well as their interest in this cause, and this can be collected by an offering on the Sabbath or in such other way as the elders and deacons may think best, and sent on to the Treasurer of the Theological Seminary, Mr. T. S. Bryan, Columbia, S. C, or, if desired, to the President, Thornton Whaling, Columbia, S C. Sixth, the Presbyteries in these four Synods may well inquire whether they may not bring their legitimate influence to bear upon their churches to secure this end, namely, that their Theological Seminary is put on the budget of their churches. Seventh, the Synods of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida could not well have a higher and more bounden duty than to consider most earnestly and prayerfully the duty of bringing their churches into hearty fellowship in this work of maintain- ing candidates for the ministry in their own Theological Seminary. The Biggest Money Investment There are usual opportunities open, especially in the South, for the investment of money in a way that prom- ises big returns. With the opening of the Panama Canal and with the termination of the world war, this oppor- tunity will be greatly increased. But the biggest possi- ble investment is one that some wise investors may pos- sibly overlook, and that is to put their money into young men who will serve the highest causes for many years. First, a young man is the most valuable asset that the world or the Kingdom can possibly possess and the use of means which liberate his powers for great efficienc}^ is the wisest use that gold and silver can find. There was a famous man, fifty years ago or more, who lived in the State of Georgia, and who was renowned for many things. He was a brilliant public speaker ; he was a finely equipped lawyer; he served with distinction in the halls of Legislature; he was vice president of the Southern Confederacy; he wrote a famous book which doubtless will last forever; but in his last days he said that the work that he had done which, in his opinion, yielded him the biggest returns in the way of interest in investment was the sixty young men whom he had helped to equip themselves by education for services in many different fields, some as lawyers, teachers, editors, preachers, farmers, and others as public men in the service of the country. Not one of these he said had proven unworthy or had failed to make a success in life. Doubtless Alexander H. Stephens thinks now that the money he put into these young men was the best money that he ever spent. And when the reader arrives where Stephens now is, he doubtless would have the same opinion if he were to put some of his money a generous share into choice youth. Secondly, such money is safely invested. It is hard to lose it, because the boards of the institutions, especially the Board of Directors of the Theological Seminary, guard the investment with such care that the principal is almost never lost and the interest quite rarely. For example, the Columbia Seminary has not lost a single cent of its endowment or scholarship funds or any other money given to it for a long period, certainly not since the finan- cial convulsions incident to the Civil War. Other bags may have holes out of which money goes, but this bag has a bottom that holds gold and silver that the wise benefactor puts in it. Third, the giver to this cause is guaranteed against misinvestments or misplacement of his moneys. First, the session in whose vicinage a young man lives and where he holds his membership must endorse him. Sec- ondly, Presbytery has to put his stamp on him as a trust- worthy and genuine young man ; and thirdly, the faculty of the Seminary must also express confidence in his Christian character and possible usefulness by his reten- tion in the Seminary. So that a moneyed man, with 10 eyes in his head seeking to find worthy young men to aid could scarcely go astray in aiding these guaranteed and thoroughly trustworthy young men who have already stood so many tests. Fourth, the cause of the education of worthy and con- secrated young men for the ministry is the most funda- mental of all causes. Foreign Missions, Home Missions, Evangelism, education in all of its forms, publication, all of them hinge on securing and preparing a sufficient number of well-equipped and able ministers. If, there- fore, money hunts for an investment which will contrib- ute to the most fundamental interest, upholding all other good causes, money ought to enlist in the support of these worthy candidates for the ministry. The chief need of Columbia Seminary is money for scholarships. The remarkable and unexampled increase in the number of students has raised a question, whether the stewards of their Lord's moneys are to be sufficiently wise to invest His money for Him in the way which will recognize the great blessing He has bestowed upon the Seminary and the Church in the gift of these young men, and which will at the same time enable their Lord's money to render its highest form of service in the main- tenance of these young men while in their course of preparation for the Gospel Ministry. There ought to be fifty scholarships of at least $1,000 each in Columbia Seminary for this cause. No better memorial for some deceased minister, or some beloved Church officer, or some departed relative could be established than to endow a scholarship in their name. Some Activities of the Professors at Columbia Seminary In addition to the work done by the professors in con- ducting classes at the Seminary, all of them respond to calls of various kinds made by the Church at large. The President of the Seminary during his services at the institution has averaged as many sermons and 11 addresses as the Church pastor delivers, has published numerous articles in church papers and magazines and has issued from the press a book entitled "Jesus and Christian Doctrine." Dr. J. 0. Reavis is in constant demand for sermons, addresses and evangelistic meetings, not only within the bounds of the four Synods controlling the Seminary, but in the Church at large. Dr. R. C. Reed is one of the efficient editors of the Presbyterian Standard, is the author of two or three valuable books and is heard also in a large number of pulpits adjacent to the institution. Dr. W. M. McPheeters, while professor, was editor for a term of years of the Bible Student. He delivered also a series of Stone Lectures at Princeton Seminary, and has contributed a large number of articles covering a large variety of Biblical themes to the religious press and magazines. In addition, he preaches at a large num- ber of churches and on many different public occasions. Dr. Henry A. White, in addition to his work as pro- fessor, is perhaps the most voluminous author in the Church, and has published quite a number of volumes while serving the Seminary, in particular one of com- parative recent date, called "Southern Presbyterian Leaders." Rev. E. D. Kerr serves the Church at Newberry both as preacher and pastor for the present. It will thus easily be seen that a professorship is no sinecure, either in the amount of work demanded in the institution itself in teaching and training students, or in the meeting of calls that come in so generous measure from the Church for preaching and other services of many different kinds by the professors. In fact, if one is in search of a beehive of busy activity on the part of both the professor and the student, the Theological Sem- inary is a good place at which to make the discovery. 12 Some Student Activities at the Columbia Seminary In addition to the work required in the Seminary classes every student at the Theological Seminary is engaged in some kind of personal religious services. This work is done under the general direction of the professor of Pastoral Theology, Dr. J. 0. Reavis, who really fills the position of director of religious work at the Theo- logical Seminary in addition to his duties as professor of English Bible, Pastoral Theology and Homiletics. The situation of Columbia, from which there radiate eleven lines of railroad, easily reaching every portion of South Carolina and a large section of Georgia and a large portion of the southern part of North Carolina, makes accessible a very large number of churches, mis- sion points and preaching places which can be easily sup- plied from the Seminary. It is believed that no institu- tion in the Church has a superior opportunity to provide with helpful and remunerative work its students, and a very important part of the training of the student is derived from the immediate application of the truth that he learns in classroom to some form of direct and per- sonal religious services. The following will give some idea of the work that the students are engaged in doing. Students who for various reasons are doing no kind of religious work are not mentioned: Work of the Senior Class A. R. Cates, supplying churches at Hamlet, N. C, and Great Falls, S. C. H. D. Corbett, supplying church at Mills River, N. C, and has supplied Upper Long Cane, S. C. J. S. Garner, Jr., occasional supply preaching at Alms- house. D. B. Green, supplying churches at Fishing Creek, Oakland, Mullins, and Latta, S. C. 13 Homer Head, supplying churches at Effingham and Hoke Wells, S. C. G. A. Nichels, supplying church at Pelzer, S. C. H. L. Reaves, supplying churches at Inman, Bennetts- ville, Campobello and Landrum, S. C. J. N. Montgomery, supplying churches at Summerville and Jedberg, S. C, and teaching Bible Class at University of South Carolina. Middle Class P. W. DuBose, preaching at Santuc, Carlisle and Sedalia, S. C. F. M. Grissett, preaching at Clarkton, N. C, and Bible Class at University of South Carolina (Y. M. C. A.). J. S. Land, preaching, irregular. W. S. Hutchinson, preaching, irregular. Neill Mclnnis, preaching, Wedgewood G. H. Rector, superintendent of Mission Sunday School and other Sunday School work. W. T. Riviere, preaching, irregular, and Bible Class at University of South Carolina. E. M. Shepard, teaching Sunday School, Negro Mis- sion, and local work. D. A. Swicord, chairman of jail committee and preach- ing, irregular. E. W. Watson, Sunday School and local preaching. Among the churches supplied at odd times are Hamlet, N. C, by D. A. Swicord ; Mills River and Oak Dale, N. C, by W. T. Riviere; Ridgeway, by J. S. Land, and in and about the city the A. R. P. Mission at Pinehurst, the Brookland Methodist Church, the Wayne Street Mission and the Arsenal Hill Church. J. 0. VanMetre preaches at Brookland and Eau Claire once each week. 14 Junior Class J. W. Brown, Sunday School at Rose Hill Mission. J. D. Gillespie, Sunday School at Rose Hill Mission. E. S. Brown, jail work, and preaching occasionally. G. L. Davis, Bible Class at Fire Department, and preaching at Greelyville and Herneman. W. O. Stephens, jail work, Jaggers Mission, both Bible Class and preaching. W. G. Henry, Sunday School and Christian Endeavor at New Brookland ; expects to begin work among boys. R. B. Gardien, Sunday School at Arsenal Hill, Negro Mission and Cottage prayer meeting. W. H. Johnston, Sunday School at Shandon. P. D. Patrick, Sunday School at Woodrow Memorial and Cottage prayer meeting. A. N. Littlejohn, Sunday School Class occasionally and Rector, Jaggers Mission. C. M. Gibbs, Sunday School at Woodrow Memorial and Cottage prayer meeting. Daniel Iverson, twice a month at St. Matthews and Fort Motte. J. W. Currie, occasional preaching at Reidville and elsewhere. W. A. Downing, twice a month at Hopkins and Eastover. Rev. Mr. Strickland, preaches regularly as Pastor of Brookland Baptist Church. Rev. A. Hartley, also regular preacher at Capital City Baptist Church. [The two last named brethren are regularly ordained ministers of the Baptist Church.] Hilarious Giving The giver has not yet reached maturity in his exercise unless it be accompanied with delight. Every activity is abnormal which does not give satisfaction to the actor and the giver who is represented by a patient yielding up his teeth in the dentist's chair to the violence of instru- 15 ments certainly is of low grade. As giving rises in the scale the degree of pain lessens and the degree of pleasure increases until the giver is found in that class whom God declares that he loves, namely, the cheerful and "hilarious giver." The writer knew one such, an elder of large means, who would clap his hands with joy and almost shout with satisfaction when an attractive and eligible opportunity for the unselfish and generous use of his money in the interest of another, and especially of the cause of God, was presented to him. The writer happened to be the pastor of this rare man for a term of years and saw him give away thousands of dollars with more delight than an epicure could possibly have in his meals, or a musician in the harmony of sound, or an artist in the culture of his esthetic taste. That remarkable veteran in the Methodist Church, Dr. John B. McFerrin, who perhaps raised more money under discouraging circumstances than any minister in the South in the last half a century, said "that the preacher ought to train people to give until they love the exercise and insist in indulging themselves in it." One of his favorite illustrations was to say that the average giver was much like a blooded Jersey cow, who at first dis- liked and refused to be milked, would dodge and even gore the milker, kick over the milk pail and remonstrate in every way within her power against the process, until after several weeks or months of training she would come rolling up in the evening hour and insist on being milked to the tune of three to five gallons." Injustice is done to the Christian if he be allowed to ward off the wholesome appeals for his beneficence because of his pain in this exercise at the start, but he should be trained in this grace until it reaches the climax of genuine joy and hilarity. There ought to develop speedily in our new South a royal band of these hilarious givers. And our own Seminary offers as fine field for such exercise as God's province could possibly present. Pas- tors, elders, deacons and Church members are urged to find here the chance of development into this noble class, who are so divinely crowned, the "cheerful givers." 103146