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. CM tu < h- S UJ H > z 3 j Z 0L UJ -J HI 1 C* u. >- ec KS% S oo UJ Ul Z Z Ul O < fc O) o a. D O z C9 cq o o ! * *bJ O CM * i s s s o S S5 r? U rO O o en o c n 3 2: a a i o J | ; f o << | s g ? ? ? z i. ? ^ d 2 3 5 o ? r. a 3 J* 3. O Q. * 7 3 3 Q. o Q 3 O 7T 3: (A $ 3 D D D a- 9: 3 ?1 :. ? is 3 3 S O ft o Q *5 s* I? s as I c o n 3 I CTQ C/> o o > ^ 2 * $1 z\ o a Si O : 3_: