Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 58, number 4, September 1965

COLUMBIA

THEOLOGICAL

SEMINARY

BULLETIN

News and Announcements

Ministers' Week 196J

COLUMBIA BEGINS 138TH YEAR

Columbia will begin its 138th year with opening
exercises at the Columbia Church on September
23rd. The preacher that evening will be Dr. Oswald
Delgado, pastor of the Winter Park (Florida) Pres-
byterian Church. Dr. Delgado, a member of the
Seminary's Board, will also preach at worship serv-
ices the following two days. About 70 new students
are expected for the new year. A three-day orienta-
tion program will be conducted for them before
classes begin.

C.F.C. GIFTS LAGGING

With only the month of September left in its
present year, Columbia Friendship Circle member-
ship gifts are lagging. On August 18th nearly $17,000
had been received toward the goal of $25,000 to
complete the remodeling and refurnishing of Simons-
Law Dormitory. A record 700 attended the April
Pilgrimage and over 9450 memberships have been
received. Additional membership gifts are expected
during September to move total contributions closer
to the year's goal.

CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM
EXPANDED

Sixty ministers will be invited to participate in
two week sessions of study at the Seminary this year.
Two of the five sessions scheduled will have special
topics, Christian Education and Theology, while in
the other three, participants will choose their own
field of study. In addition to this year's increase from
35 to 60 participants, plans are being made for fur-
ther expansion of the Continuing Education Program.

Because of the need of ministers for assistance
in their continuing study, Columbia Friendship Circle
has chosen Continuing Education for their financial
support in 1965-66. The funds received through
C.F.C. will underwrite the expanded Continuing
Education activities for a two or three year period.

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BULLETIN

Vol. LVIII September, 1965 No. 4

Published five times a year by Columbia Theological
Seminary, Box 291, Decatur, Georgia 30031. Entered as
second-class matter, May 9, 1928, at the Post Office at
Decatur, Ga., under the Act of Congress of August 24,
1912. Second Class postage paid at Decatur, Georgia.

M.C.E. PROGRAM GROWING

Two visiting professors are being added this year
to meet the needs of our growing Master of Christian
Education program. Dr. F. W. Widmer, Minister of
Education at Atlanta's First Presbyterian Church
will return to the Seminary to teach courses in fam-
ily life. Mrs. Marvin B. Sledd, Director of Children's
Work at Decatur Presbyterian Church will teach a
course in children's work. New and returning M.C.E.
students will participate in supervised field work in
Atlanta area churches. These students will be seeking
opportunities for work in churches next summer.
Churches interested in employing these students
should contact the Field Education Office.

Dr. Widmer

Mrs. Sledd

DR. MILLER TO JOIN FACULTY

The Reverend P. D. Miller will become Guest
Professor of Homiletics October 1st. Since 1955, Dr.
Miller has been the Executive Secretary of the Board
of Church Extension. He served as pastor of churches
in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas. Born in
Carnesville, Georgia, Dr. Miller was educated at
the University of Georgia, Davidson College and
Union Seminary in Richmond. He has been Chair-
man of the Board of Directors of Columbia for
twelve years, but will resign from this office when
he becomes a member of the Faculty.

Dr. Miller

MINISTE

October

PASTORAL

Professor of Psychology oiel

LECTURER

Tuesday - Friday 9:30 A

THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE C

DR. ALBERT N. WELLS

Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Laurinbui

Monday - Friday 1 1 : 00 A
WORSHIP SERVICES

DR. ELAM DAVIES

Pastor

Fourth Presbyterian Church

Chicago, Illinois

Tuesday, October
ALUMNI
CLASS REUNIONS 1915, 1920, 1925, 1!

i' WEEK

29. 1965

Vlonday - Friday 7:30 P.M.

:are in social dilemmas

DR. WAYNE E. OATES

ligion, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.

MING OF AGE

North Carolina

A

LECTURER

Monday- Friday Afternoons

AUDIO-VISUAL DISPLAY AND
WORKSHOP

Mr. Bluford B. Hestir, Jr.
The Rev. George T. Wingard, Jr.
V Mr. Gene Smith

The Rev. D. Kirk Hammond

5th - 12:45 P.M.

JNCHEON

), 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965

THE WAY FOR BUTCHY CHUCKY*
TO GET OUT OF THE HOLE,

some suggest, is to reverse the process by which he
got into the hole. He should reverse or outvert the
spiral of his life. If evils issue from ignorance, he
ought to seek

1. KNOWLEDGE: self-knowledge, objective knowl-
edge of his situation and life-pattern through a
dean of students, a counsellor or a friend who
sees him objectively. He ought to LOVE HIM-
SELF first. All this may lead him to some real-
ism and a certain optimism, and create

2. SOCIAL COURAGE: Most men are decent and
honest. According to Calvin, they have an inborn
love of justice. "Break the ice" in making new
friends. You make less mistakes trusting men
than mistrusting them. Widen and multiply your
life-relationships.

3. COOPERATION, actual, will yield the mean-
ing of life which will prove to be interest in
others and cooperation with them toward some-
thing greater than you.

4. CONTRIBUTION to the greater whole will re-
store self-respect, self-confidence. Religion has
always been concerned with men (concern for
man is humanism), with their salvation (deliver-
ance) and love to them. Interest in the whole of
mankind will reveal that life has meaning. Love
thy neighbor. Read the pamphlet WHY CAL-
VIN? by Paul T. Fuhrmann and its notes\ Calvin
was concerned about man! He did a lot for men.

5. HAPPINESS is not an external object (sought
by the Romantics) but a result of activity for
men: the sound, the tone of a motor in good
order. Happiness results from seeing progress in
others, in ourself. Happiness is the reward of a
wholesome life and humanitarian endeavor.

6. The existence of some happiness and some LOVE
on earth here and there indicates that there is
a God who is LOVE, LIGHT, LIFE.

THERE IS NO END TO BOOKS, BUT WE
INDICATE A FEW WHICH WE FOUND HELP-
FUL. A book, which every student and minister
ought to read carefully, is Joshua Loth Liebman's
PEACE OF MIND (Bantam papercover Book H

*Butchy Chucky is Professor P. T. Fuhrmann's charac-
terization of the average student. A companion article,
"How Many Butchy Chuckies Got Where They Are",
appeared in the April Bulletin.

2653). It costs only 60 cents and offers innumerable
data for our own spiritual life and for preaching.

As Dr. Paul Tournier practices medicine of the
person in a Calvinistic society, his numerous books
ought to be of immense value to Presbyterians. He
reads Calvin asking himself "What can Calvin still
teach us?" Hence he finds a lot in Calvin and under-
stands him differently from us who as a matter of
fact hardly read Calvin but just assume that Calvin
believed what we believe. We suggest Tournier's:
THE MEANING OF PERSONS, Harper publisher,
$3.75, and A DOCTOR'S CASE-BOOK IN THE
LIGHT OF THE BIBLE, Harper, $3.50, or any
other Dr. Tournier's book which may be at hand.

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