Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 19, number 2, October 1926

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Vol.X IX October, 1926 No. 2

Entered as Second Class Matter July 1 1, 1908,

at the Post Office at Columbia, South Carolina,

under the Act of July 16, 1894.

THE COLUMBIA SEMINARY BULLETIN

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The New Campus Is Just Outside the City of Atlanta, on High, Well-wooded Land, Easily Reached, and in a Fine Community

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Airplane View of the Section Immediately East of the Seminary

In the Center of Its Field

|OLUMBIA SEMINARY serves South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama
and Mississippi. Its new location m Atlanta, recognized by 560 commercial
companies as the distributing center of the South, assures easy access to this
field. The generous support of the people of Georgia will double the Seminary
assets. So situated, with a new plant and larger resources, Columbia will turn out more
men and better trained men for the ministry. It will mean a greater service to the Synods
of the South East.

The Seminary is entering on this new era, also, under the leadership of a man who has
the confidence of the whole denomination. The scores of cordial letters that have
poured in from outstanding leaders in the South indicate that under Dr. Gillespie the
Seminary has a promising future. It should be a labor of love for the entire denomination
to build a new Columbia worthy of its past here in the heart of the South.

President R. T. Qillespie, D. D., LL D.

Loyal to a Qreat Past

HUNDRED years of church history attest the notable contribution Columbia has
made to Presbyterianism in the South. Few institutions in the country can show as
great a record. It will never outgrow or forget the men who have made the Semi-
nary what it is. Names like Golding, Howe and Leland, Palmer, Thornwell and J. R. Wilson,
Woodrow, Plummer and Girardeau, are a part of the history of our denomination. They
numbered among them great teachers, inspiring preachers, men who wrote the basic doctrine
on which the church stands today. Their work will always be revered. These and many more
men Columbia has contributed in the past. Its earnest endeavor is to continue to provide
trained leaders for the future who are loyal and worthy of this great tradition. Columbia Semi-
nary is not moving away from its past; it is fulfilling the past in serving the Church of today.

Dr. Benjamin Morgan Palmer

The Old Main Seminary Building in Use Since 1830

Dr. James Henley Thornwell

In a material way the Seminary has lived too much in the
past. The old main building has been in continuous use

No Longer Usable a Shrine

since 1830. The historic old chapel was originally a coach-
house.

As a center in which some of the greatest men of a
century have been trained, in which the most eloquent
spiritual leaders of the South have conducted services and
where by authentic record one great President of the
United States professed his faith in Christ, these buildings
are deserving of every honor. But for the practical purposes
of a modern, up-to-date seminary, they are as impossible as
the spinning wheel and stage coach, in an age of great
factories and railroads. These buildings are shrines, cen
ters of loyalty and faith; the loyalty which they inspire
should point the way to a larger and more modern plant
where hundreds of young men can carry out in this new
day the purpose for which these buildings stood. Columbia
is loyal to its past, but it is facing toward the future.

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A GROUP OF THE TRUSTEES, FACULTY AND STUDENTS IN 1925

W>rthy of a Great Future

IN the last analysis a seminary is made up, not of build-
ings, but of MEN with common ideals and a wide
range of scholarship coupled with the vigor and en-
thusiasm of young men in training. Columbia has these men altho
not in such numbers as she would like. New buildings, improved
library facilities and equipment, will immediately bring more men
and provide for them better training.

The quality of young men coming to the Seminary today is

worthy of the best that we can give. A member of last year's class
([whose picture is set in above]}, when confronted with the emer-
gency at a summer resort recently, plunged into the surf to save the
lives of three little boys who were drowning. He brought all three
to safety but lost his own life in the effort. All of these young men
from the Seminary are plunging in regardless of cost to save
spiritual lives at home and on the foreign field. The Seminary
trains that kind. They deserve the best.

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The Campus Plan

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the faculty homes and most of the
academic group of buildings front on
Oak Street. On Inman Drive, space is
allotted to the homes for married students and a
Training School eventually to be erected. "Mis-
sion Terrace, " comprising a row of homes for
returned missionaries, and a portion of the
academic group will lie on Kirk Road. The pre
posed gymnasium and athletic field are practically
in the center of the plat.

A landscape designer of national reputation
says of the new campus : "The site lends itself
admirably to the building of a great institution
and offers everything which could be desired for
the development of artistic beauty and fitness."

Buildings started in 1926.
Buildings urgently needed. H
Buildings planned for future. Q

The Financial Situation

|HE development of a new seminary
plant involves a great financial strain
which can only be borne by the united
efforts of all of its friends. The people
of Georgia have contributed the campus and
virtually doubled the assets of the institution.
It will require much larger resources than the
Seminary now has to bring this project to matur-
lty. In this emergency Columbia Seminary is
counting with confidence upon liberal contnbu'
tions from churches and individuals throughout
her territory. The cost of operation for this year
is fifty thousand dollars. Twenty-five thousand
dollars must be secured in direct gifts. $150.00
will support an annual scholarship. We need,
immediately, forty additional scholarships.

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COLUMBIA'S CONTRIBUTION

Ministers trained 919

Living Alumni 343

Graduating Class 1926 .... 8

Assured enrollment, Sept., 1926 . . 60

COLUMBIA'S TERRITORY

204 Candidates 632 Ministers

1,171 Churches 134,770 Members

247,785 Square Miles
Over 10,000,000 Population