Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 62, number 1, January 1969

COLUMBIA
THEOLOGICAL
I SEMIKARY

Rock Eagle Conference In April

The 17th Rock Eagle Missions Con-
ference will be held April 25-27 at the
Rock Eagle 4-H Camp, Eatonton, Geor-
gia. This annual week-end of Bible study,
mission seminars and Christian fellow-
ship for senior high and college students
is sponsored by Columbia's Society of
Missionary Inquiry.

Speakers at this year's conference will
be the Rev. Peter J. Marshall of Cape
Cod, Massachusetts and Mr. Walter D.
Shepard of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Also participating in the program will
be Presbyterian missionaries on fur-
lough and missionaries and ministers
with the Board of National Ministries.

Total cost for attending the confer-
ence is $16.00. This includes the $4.00
registration fee. The conference is fi-
nanced entirely by the conference fees.
Students at Columbia, their wives, and
students from Agnes Scott College
volunteer their time for planning and
carrying out the conference. The semi-
nary and college students serve as coun-
selors and Bible study leaders also.

Mr. Marshall, son of Catherine Mar-
shall LeSourd and the late Peter
Marshall, is minister of the East Dennis
Community Church, Cape Cod. Church
attendance has more than doubled since
his ministry began there in December,
1967. Most of the newcomers, especial-
ly through the summer months, have
been young people. Mr. Marshall, who
served as student body president of
Princeton Theological Seminary, will

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SHEPHARD

speak on the committed Christian life.

Mr. Walter Shepard will address the
student group on the universal witness
and outreach which the Church of Jesus
Christ possesses. A former Presbyterian
missionary to Congo, Mr. Shepard has
also served on the staff of the Board
of World Missions. He is presently as-
sociated with the architectural firm of
Curtis and Davis of New Orleans and
New York as the Architect-In-Charge,
Foreign Projects.

Though planned especially for senior
high and college students, the confer-
ence will include special activities for
the adults who attend.

Information and registration forms
may be obtained by writing the Society
of Missionary Inquiry, Columbia Semi-
nary, Decatur, Georgia 30031. Deputa-
tion teams emphasizing the conference
and mission work are available to in-
terested churches.

President Richards welcomes new Professors C. Benton Kline and Ralph Person.

Topics Announced For
McCord Lectures

Dr. James I McCord, President of
Princeton Seminary, will deliver a series
of lectures at Columbia on April 14th
and 15th. The lectures, "Calvinism and
the New Theology," are being given in
honor of Dean Felix B. Gear. Dr. Gear,
who has been Dean of the Columbia
faculty and Professor of Theology since
1947, retires in June.

Topics for the individual lectures in
the series will be: "Humanization and
How to Do It," Revolution and When
to Make it," and "The Church and
When to Scrap It."

A banquet in the Seminary dining hall
will precede the first lecture the evening
of the 14th. On the 15h Dr. McCord
will lecture at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Other features of the program will be
a reaction panel, question and answer
sessions and small group discussions with
Dr. McCord.

Dr. McCord served as Professor of
Systematic Theology and Dean at Austin
Presbyterian Theological Seminary from
1944 until 1959 when he became Presi-
dent of Princeton Seminary.

Further information about the lectures
will be available from the Alumni Office
by mid-February.

Alumni Gifts
Reported

Columbia's alumni contributed over
$10,000 to the seminary during the first
year of the Alumni Giving Program. 317
alumni made gifts during the year. The
gifts included $3,370 toward the J. Mc-
Dowell Richards Chair of Biblical Ex-
position, an alumni project emphasized
several years ago, and $900 in special
gifts.

The objectives of the first Alumni
Giving included a retirement gift for
Dr. Felix B. Gear, fellowships for gradu-
ate study and funds for the seminary
library. $5,813 was received in Alumni
Giving. The retirement gift, a new car,
was presented to Dr. Gear at the an-
nual Alumni meeting in October. An-
nouncement of the winners of graduate
study fellowships will be made at the
Honors' Day program, April 8th.

The 1969 goals for Alumni Giving
will be announced by the Alumni Coun-
cil during the spring.

Student's Busy Christmas

Middler Cecil B. Murphey and his
family were "parents" to 178 foreign
college students from 46 countries, De-
cember 18-January 2, at Peachtree Pres-
byterian Church's 2nd annual Interna-
tional House gathering in Atlanta.

Cecil and his wife Shirley were of-
ficial "house parents," and the church
was "home away from home" for the
foreign students. Cecil, a native of the
Chicago area, coordinated the work of
local committees handling tours, chaper-
ones, meals, transportation, housing and
emergencies.

The Murphy children, Wanda 12,
Cecile 11, and John Mark 9 also helped
entertain the visitors.

The International House Program is
now in its fifth year at Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Huntington,
W. Va., where it was first organized by
the Rev. Harry F. Petersen, III, a Co-
lumbia alumnus, now a missionary to
Ghana. More than twenty churches
across the country now offer the pro-
gram every Christmas.

The Murpheys are not strangers to
work with persons from foreign coun-
tries. For seven years before coming to
Columbia they served with the Elim
Missionary Assemblies' mission in
Kenya, East Africa. Cecil was a mis-
sionary teacher conducting Bible train-
ing courses for lay preachers, pastors
and evangelists.

Tours and entertainment in Atlanta
this year included the Cyclorama, sev-
eral musicals and dramatic productions
in the Alliance Theater of the Memorial
Arts Center, the Robert Shaw Christ-
mas Concert of the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra, an Atlanta Hawks basketball
game, and Fernbank Planetarium.

Only 15 of the students had to be
isolated briefly wih flu, and most of
these were ill for only two days.

CFC Pilgrimage Set

April 10th will be the date of the
13th Annual Columbia Friendship Circle
Pilgrimage. Approximately 500 women
from Columbia's supporting synods are
expected to visit the campus that day
for a program, luncheon and tour of
the campus.

This year gifts from Columbia Friend-
ship Circle are being used to renovate,
equip and refurnish classrooms. Mrs.
Harold Barber of Gulfport, Mississippi
is President of the Columbia Friendship
Circle Council.

Gifts of more than $23,000 given to
Columbia Friendship Circle last year
established the "Friendship Collection"
of books in the Library and strengthened
the Continuing Education Program.

Faculty Profile . . .

James H. Gailey, Jr.

Dr. James H. Gailey, Jr., professor
of Old Testament language, literature
and exegesis, joined the seminary faculty
in 1953, after serving several churches
in Mobile Presbytery. His last pastorate
was with the Spring Hill Presbyterian
Church in a suburb of Mobile.

Dr. Gailey grew up in Atlanta where
his father, the late James H. Gailey,
Sr., taught architecture at Georgia Tech,
and helped plan the expansion of the
Tech campus building program.

The Gaileys were members of At-
lanta's First Presbyterian Church where
young Jim met Virginia Templin, the
present Mrs. Gailey. Mrs. Gailey is now
arts' coordinator at The Westminster
Schools in Atlanta, and both Gailey
children, Landen 18, and Bryan 13, are
Westminster students.

After graduating from Columbia
Theological Seminary in 1941, Dr.
Gailey received his Th.D. degree from
Princeton Theological Seminary in 1945.

In 1966, under the auspices of the
Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Dr.
and Mrs. Gailey led a study tour to
Palestine with 45 American students
from 20 different schools. The eight-
week program includes credit courses
in Palestinian history and archeology,
and is still being offered to interested
students and alumni. Dr. Gailey, who
was tour director, is the contact person
in this area for those interested in
making such a tour. The tour contains
equal parts of archeological digging,
study and travel.

On campus, the Gaileys are known
for their interest in original art, and for

the effect this has had upon the design
and decoration of their Decatur home.

With the help of a cooperative con-
tractor, a modem, stained glass, madon-
na-and-child original has become a
part of the window and wall adjacent
to the home's fireplace. Both natural
and artificial light are utilized.

In addition to a number of Mrs.
Galley's paintings, there are also sketches
by some of her students. "It's a modest
and inexpensive collection.," the Colum-
bia professor says, "but we enjoy it."
Dr. Galley's hobby is woodworking, and
he is currently refinishing an old roll-
top desk which was his father's.

Since 1960, Dr. Gailey has served as
chaplain at the Florence Crittenden
Home for unmarried mothers. In addi-
tion to his preaching there himself, he
serves in a liason capacity for the
seminary, and helps place Columbia
students there for limited counseling and
preaching assignments. He is also a
member of the home's board of direc-
tors, representing the Protestant clergy
of the area.

Faculty authors Samuel A. Cartiedge, left, and Hubert Vance Taylor, pause to discuss their new
books. Jesus of Fact and Fancy, by Dr. Cartiedge was published last fall and was a monthly
selection of the Evangelical Book Club. Dr. Taylor contributed a chapter on "Preoching on
Slavery" to Preaching in American History, a book being published this spring by the Speech
Association of America. Dr. Taylor is also contributing to the preparation of a companion
volume of representative sermons to be published later.

ATLANTA
INTERSEMINARY
GRADUATE
INSTITUTE

COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

INTERDENOMINATIONAL THEOLOGICAL CENTER

ANNOUNCES
an advanced professional degree in ministry

S.T.D.

Students will be accepted beginning September 1969 to work in the new advanced
degree program, Doctor of Sacred Theology. Designed to prepare outstanding
students for significant leadership in the Church, the program will place its em-
phasis on the practice of ministry and the development of new forms of ministry.
Although differing in purpose and content from the traditional degrees, the S.T.D.
is aimed at the same level of competence intellectually as the Th.D. and Ph.D. and
at a high level of professional practice.

Applications are invited from students who present a 3.0 (B) or better average on
their M.Div. (or equivalent) degrees and who show exceptional promise for fur-
ther professional development.

For further information or application forms, write ;

Dr. James W. May, Director
Atlanta Interseminary Graduate Institute
Bishops Hall, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Evangelism Course Offered

The Rev. Richard A. Dodds will
teach a course on evangelism in the
parish ministry at
Columbia during the
spring quarter, Mr.
Dodds, the pastor of
the St. Andrews Pres-
byterian Church of
Tucker, Georgia,
earned both the B.D.
and Th.M. degrees at
Columbia.
"The course," Mr. Dodds said, "will
seek to define evangelism and determine
how the gospel can best be commu-
nicated and shared in the context of
the local church and community." He
plans to lead students in a study of ef-
fective methods of witness and renewal
being used in the contemporary parish
ministry.

Alumni Plan For Fall

Plans for alumni activities during
Ministers' Week in October were made
by members of the Alumni Council at
their meeting at the seminary on Janu-
ary 24th. The Alumni Association's an-
nual meeting and luncheon will be on
October 28th.

The Rev. A. Allen Gardner ('50),
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
Asheville, North Carolina is President
of the Association. Serving with him
are The Rev. Richard A. Dodds ('54),

Special Gift Received

A recent gift to Columbia bore testi-
mony to the dedication of a faithful
Christian woman and the concern of a
Presbyterian pastor. The gift came to
the seminary from the will of Mrs.
Eugene Wyatt of Chickamagua, Geor-
gia. She provided funds through her
will "for the purpose of financing the
training of students for service in world
missions."

The pastor. Dr. Cecil A. Thompson,
now pastor of the J. J. White Memorial
Church in McComb, Mississippi had
known Mrs. Wyatt during the time he
served the Menlo, Georgia Church early
in his ministry. His ministry then and
his continuing interest in the Wyatt
family during the years he served as
Professor of Missions and Evangelism
at Columbia drew Mrs. Wyatt's attention
to the seminary.

In accepting the gift President Rich-
ards recalled that Mrs. Wyatt "was a
faithful friend who had expressed her
interest in Columbia Seminary in many
ways. We are deeply grateful," he said,
"for the fact that she remembered us
in her will."

pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian
Church, Tucker, Georgia, Vice-President;
and The Rev. P. Randolph Kowalski
('60), pastor of the Reid Memorial
Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia,
Secretary.

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RELIGION (Basic Books. 246 pp.)

$5.95.

Intending to define "the basic ele-
ments that have swayed the religious
thought of the ages and have bound the
human race together in aspiration,"
Robert O. Ballou examines practices and
ideas related to major world religions
from prehistoric times to the present.
His book can introduce world religions
to those who have little background in
the subject, but it is not organized
around the religions. Rather it deals with
thematic ideas found in many religions.
Final chapters deal with the problem
of heresy and orthodoxy and attempt to
define religion through a survey of a
wide variety of definitions. The book
will serve its purpose if its readers are
stimulated to dig into other books listed
in eight pages of suggestions at the end
of the volume.

James H. Gailey, Jr.

Averill, Lloyd J. BETWEEN FAITH
AND UNFAITH (John Knox Press. 87
pp.) $1.75.

This little book is an interesting series
of essays which first appeared in The
Christian Century. A college chaplain
seeks to deal with the tension between a
person's faith and his "unfaith." A per-
son must be honest enough to be able
to say often, "I do not know," yet the
Christian must affirm, "I believe." He
must be able to be realistic in the com-
plicated and tragic world in which we
live, yet he must be able to attain a
vital faith in God and the unique revel-
ation of God in Jesus Christ. This should
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