Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 39, number 4, February 1947

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Vol. XXXIX

FEBRUARY, 1947

No. 4

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MINISTER'S WEEK FOR 1947

ANNOUNCEMENT OF FELLOWSHIPS

INDIANTOWN COUNTRY CHURCH AWARD

A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

PROGRAM FOR MINISTERS' WEEK

An attractive program of lectures has been arranged
for the annual Ministers' Week which will be held at
Columbia Theological Seminary April 21-26, 1947. The
Smyth Lectures, which are to be presented during that
period, are to be delivered by Dr. Groves Howard Cart-
ledge, Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Chemistry
Department at King College. Dr. Cartledge is a graduate
of Davidson College and earned his Ph.D. at the Uni-
versity of Chicago. He has served as Professor of Chem-
istry at Johns Hopkins University, and was for fourteen
years Head of the Chemistry Department at the Uni-
versity of Buffalo. He has rendered distinguished service
to his nation not only as a teacher and author but
through important research in his chosen field during two
world wars. The subject which Dr. Cardedge has chosen
for his lectures on the Smyth Foundation is "Some
Contributions of Science to Belief."

An additional lecturer throughout the week will be
Dr. Joseph L. Hromadka, Professor of Apologetics and
Christian Ethics in the Princeton Theological Seminary.
A native of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Hromadka was formerly
Professor of Theology in the University of Prague. Be-
cause of his uncompromising stand in behalf of political
and religious freedom, he was compelled to flee from his
homeland when the armies of Hitler invaded that coun-
try. He has made a large contribution to religious
thought in this country during the ensuing years as
teacher, lecturer, and author, and is already well known
throughout our Church. During the past year he has
revisited Europe to renew his contacts with the life of
the Church in his own country and elsewhere. The gen-
eral theme which Dr. Hromadka will discuss in his six
lectures at Columbia Seminary is "The Gospel and the
Church."

Other lectures will be delivered during the week by
members of the faculty of Columbia Seminary. Dr. Felix
B. Gear, newly-elected Professor of Systematic Theology,
will be heard in a series of addresses entitled "An
Empirical Philosopher Wresdes with Religious Ques-
tions." Rev. Cecil Thompson, Professor of Evangelism
and Country Church work, will lead a series of discus-
sions on the problems of the Country Church. A group
of representative leaders in this field from the Presby-
teries of the five supporting Synods will be invited to
attend and to participate in these discussions.

The Seminary will be able to provide accommodations
for a limited number of other ministers who will wish
to attend the lectures.

FELLOWSHIP AWARDS FOR 1946-47

At a recent chapel service announcement was made
that the faculty has voted the award of fellowships to
three members of the present Senior Class. The Alumni
Fellowship goes this year to Mr. John Newton, of Gaines-
ville, Ga. The two Bryan Fellowships were awarded to
Mr. George Andrew Anderson, of Farmville, Va., and to
Mr. Loren Eugene Jordan, of Hampton, Ga.

Mr. Newton is a graduate of Davidson College in the
class of 1935. For some years after graduation he was
engaged in the field of life insurance where he had
attained marked success before deciding to prepare him-
self for the work of the ministry. He has made a dis-
tinguished academic record at Columbia Seminary and
is serving at present as president of the student body.
During his two summers as a seminary student, he has
served as assistant to the pastors of the Central Presby-
terian Church, Atlanta, Ga., and of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church, Miami, Fla. Mr. Newton has ac-
cepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church
at Waynesboro, Ga., and will postpone his graduate
study for a time.

Mr. Anderson is a graduate of Hampden - Sydney
College. He entered Columbia Seminary originally in
the fall of 1941, but his studies were interrupted by the
war and he served with the United States Army in the
European Theater of Operations. During the past year
he has been supply pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Eatonton, Ga. He is also Instructor in Beginners' Greek
at the Seminary and is Vice-President of the Society of
Missionary Inquiry. Mr. Anderson expects to use his
fellowship in graduate study next year, but has not
decided upon the institution in which he will enroll.

Mr. Jordan is a graduate of Erskine College, where
he began the theological studies which he has continued
with distinction at Columbia Seminary. During his first
summer as a student, he served as assistant to the pastor
of the Purity Presbyterian Church, Chester, S. C, with
especial responsibility for outpost work. At the conclu-
sion of his Middle Year, he became supply pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Barnesville, Ga. Mr. Jordan has
recently accepted a call to become pastor of the Presby-
terian Church at Effingham, S. C, and has received per-
mission of the faculty to defer the exercise of his fellow-
ship for several years.

INDIANTOWN, S. C, CHURCH ESTABLISHES
IMPORTANT AWARD

A highly important step to encourage interest in and
promote the development of Country Church Work has
been undertaken by the Presbyterian Church of Indian-

town, S. C, under the inspiration of its pastor, Rev. C. J.
Matthews. Members of that church have indicated their
intention to establish for this purpose at Columbia Semi-
nary an endowment fund which will amount to $3,000
in the immediate future, and which may be increased by
later gifts.

In accordance with the directions of the donors the
principal of this fund is to be invested by the Directors
of the Seminary, and the annual income from the invest-
ment is to constitute the Indiantown Country Church
Award. This prize is to be awarded annually to the
member of the Middle Class of the Seminary who makes
the most outstanding record of work in a rural church
or field during the summer months between his second
and third years in the institution. The award is to be
based upon the student's knowledge of the needs of his
field and his faithfulness in meeting those needs. The
winner of the prize is to be selected by a committee of
the faculty in consultation with the Chairman of Home
Missions in the Presbytery in which the student labors.
In the event that no student qualifies for this recognition
in a given year, die income is to be used in increasing
the amount of the award to the winners during the two
succeeding years.

In explaining the motive for their action, the donors
have written: "This award is made available with the
hope and prayer that more of our worthy young men may
catch a vision of the possibilities of the Country Church,
and dedicate the ministry of their lives to rural areas."
The Seminary joins whole-heartedly in the hope which
they have expressed, and welcomes the establishment of a
fund for this purpose.

A BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

It is an immemorial custom for those who have
suffered the loss of some friend or loved one to express
their affection by sending a floral offering at the time of
the funeral. Occasionally, however, there are those who
prefer to express their affection and esteem in a different
manner. Quite recently a friend of the Seminary, who had
suffered bereavement, sent the institution a generous
check, stating that it was given in memory of the de-
ceased in lieu of the purchase of flowers. All such gifts
received by the institution will be reported promptly to
the bereaved family and a permanent record of the gift
will be made in a Book of Remembrance which will be
kept by the Seminary for this purpose.