Columbia Theological Seminary Bulletin, 33, number 4, March 1941

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COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

DECATUR, GEORGIA

Vol. XXXIII

March, 1941

No. 4

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THE SMYTH LECTURES FOR 1941

PLANS FOR ANNUAL MINISTER'S
INSTITUTE

FIRST AWARD OF BRYAN
FELLOWSHIPS

DR. CHAMBERLAIN TO DELIVER
SMYTH LECTURES

The Smyth Lectures for 1941 are to be delivered April
28-May 3 by Rev. William Douglas Chamberlain. D.D.,
Ph.D., Professor of New Testament Exegesis in the Louis-
ville Presbyterian Seminary.

Dr. Chamberlain was born in Barren County near Glas-
gow, Kentucky, on January 27, 1890. He attended Centre
College where he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1919
and received his B.Th. Degree from Princeton Theological
Seminary in 1922. Prior to the completion of his college
education he had served as gunnery sergeant in the United
States Marine Corps during the first World War. He
earned the degree of Master of Arts from Princeton Uni-
versity at the same time that he was pursuing his theo-
logical studies in Princeton Seminary, and later graduate
study at the Louisville Baptist Seminary led to the award-
ing of his Ph.D. in 1931. In that same year the honorary
Degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by
his Alma Mater, Centre College. He has also engaged in
graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and at
the Biblical Seminary in New York.

Dr. Chamberlain was ordained to the ministry of the
Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., in 1922 and was after-
wards successively pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
in Carteret, N. J., and student pastor at the University of
California. He has had wide experience as a teacher, having
served on the faculties of Lafayette College, the West-
minster School of Berkeley, California, and Trinity Uni-
versity in Texas. In 1928 he joined the teaching force of
the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary as an Associate Pro-
fessor, and in 1930 was elected to the Professorship which
he has held in that institution since that time. He is an
Associate of the American Schools of Oriental Research and
a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exe-
gesis. In addition to having contributed numerous articles
to religious journals he has recently published through
the Macmillan Company An Exegeticat Grammar of the
Greek New Testament, which went on sale only last
January.

Dr. Chamberlain has announced that the subject of his
lectures will be The New Testament Idea of Repentance,
From the Mind of the Flesh to the Mind of Christ. The
titles of the individual lectures will be:

I. The Need for a Re-study of Repentance.
II. The New Testament Emphasis on Repentance.

III. The Ethical and Religious Implications of Re-
pentance.

IV. The Mind of the Flesh and the Mind of Christ.
V. How Repentance is Produced.

VI. The Significance of These Things for Preaching.

The first lecture of the series will be delivered in the
Columbia Seminary Chapel on Monday evening, April 28,
at 8:00 o'clock. The other lectures will be presented at
the same hour on succeeding evenings of that week except
for the concluding message which will be heard at 10:15
on Saturday morning.

THE MINISTER'S INSTITUTE

In accordance with its custom of recent years the faculty
of Columbia Seminary has arranged for a Minister's Insti-
tute to be held at the general period set for the delivery of
the Smyth Lectures. The program for this gathering will
open on Monday evening, April 28, and will continue
until the afternoon of Friday, May 9.

Dr. Henry W. McLaughlin, Director of Country Church
Work and Sunday School Extension, will again serve as
Dean of Instruction and will offer special courses during
this period. The regional Directors of Religious Education

from the Synods connected with Columbia Seminary will
also be present to cooperate with him in presenting a well
rounded program of classes and lectures in their vitally
important field. These will be Rev. Leroy P. Burney for
South Carolina and Georgia, Rev. A. R. Batchelor for
Florida, Rev. Wm. L. Belk for Alabama, and Mr. R. L.
Landis for Mississippi. The regular courses offered in the
Seminary will also be open to visitors and several members
of the faculty are preparing special lectures for this period.
It is expected that additional addresses will be delivered by
several visiting speakers whose names will be announced
later.

In view of the increased student enrollment in the
Seminary it will not be possible for all of the ministers in
attendance to be entertained on the campus. As many of
these as possible will be admitted to the dormitory space
which is available, however, and the Seminary will be glad
to cooperate with others in arranging for suitable accom-
modations in Decatur at a reasonable cost.

THE BRYAN FELLOWSHIPS

A highly significant and encouraging event in the life of
Columbia Seminary is found in the recent award of five
graduate fellowships to outstanding members of the present
Senior Class. These awards, together with the others which
are to follow them in later years, have been made possible
through the generosity of the late Mrs. Fannie Jordan
Bryan of Columbia, S. C, who was for many years a
devoted friend of the Seminary. Believing that the giving
of an opportunity for qualified students to take graduate
studies would do much to encourage scholarship at this
institution and to equip a more adequate leadership for our
Church, Mrs. Bryan, who was called to her eternal reward
on August 9, 1939, bequeathed to Columbia Seminary a
generous portion of her estate with directions that it be
used as endowment for the provision of fellowships.

Announcement of the first award of fellowships under
this endowment was made at the regular Chapel exercises
of the Seminary on February 14 and has since been given
publicity in both the secular and the religious press. No
restrictions have been set upon the fields of study in which
Bryan Fellows are to do their work, but in every instance
the general course which is to be pursued must be approved
in advance by the Columbia Faculty. The stipends pro-
vided will be of sufficient size to make possible the taking
of advanced degrees at other outstanding seminaries and
universities of America, but in some instances the graduate
study may be pursued in Columbia Seminary. It is ex-
pected that fellowships will be awarded annually upon the
Bryan Foundation in future, although the exact number
of these will probably vary somewhat from year to year.

The Seniors to whom fellowships were awarded for the
coming year are Messrs. Donald B. Bailey, James H.
Gailey, Frank Alfred Mathes, Alex McCutchen, and Chas.
W. Rightmyer.

Donald B. Bailey is a native of Rock Hill, South Caro-
lina, being the son of Rev. John C. Bailey, D.D., the pastor
of Ebenezer Presbyterian Church. He graduated from
Davidson College in 1935 with the A.B. degree, having
been a member of the Kappa Alpha Social Fraternity, and
having served both as a member of the Y.M.C.A. Cabinet
and as editor of the Wildcat Handbook. After graduation
he taught for two years in the High School of Rockingham,
N. C, before entering the Seminary. He has served in
succession during his summer vacations as assistant pas-
tor in the First Presbyterian Church of Rock Hill, S. C,
and in the Presbyterian Church of Quincy, Fla. Mr. Bailey
is the President of the student body at Columbia Seminary
for the present year.

Mr. James H. Gailey, Jr., is a native Atlantian and re-
ceived his first two years of college training at Georgia

Tech where he was elected to membership in Phi Eta
Siema National Freshman Honorary Society. He trans-
ferred to Davidson College after his Sophomore year and
was graduated from that institution with the degree of
A R in 193 7 being elected to membership in Ftii Deta
Kappa During the fummers of 1938 and 1939 he served
as assistant to the pastor in the First Presbyterian i Church
of Florence S C, and between his Middle and Senior
years at Columbia Seminary he served a one-year theolog-
ical internship with Rev. J. Chester Frist in Starkv.lle.
Mississippi, as assistant in the student work at Mississippi
State College.

Alex McCutchen was born in Birmingham, Alabama,
and received his early education in the public schools of
that City and in Howard College, where he graduated with
the B.S. degree. During his Senior year in High School
he was winner of the Alabama State finals and of second
place in Zone finals of the National Oratorical contest.
During his career at Howard College he was active in
various student organizations, having served as President
of the Junior Class, Chairman of the Student Activity
Board, and as a member of the Student Council. He re-
ceived the Dawson cup which is given at that institution
in recognition of the College's "highest type of cultured
Christian manhood." Mr. McCutchen has served as assist-
ant pastor in the First Presbyterian Churches of Stark-
ville, Mississippi, and Concord, N. C, and accepted a
theological internship of one year in the First Presbyterian
Church of Rock Hill. S. C. He was elected last spring as
President of the student Society of Missionary Inquiry at
Columbia Seminary.

Frank Alfred Mathes is the son of the late Rev. N. D.
Mathes, who was for thirty-eight years a minister in At-
lanta Presbytery. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech in the
class of 1932 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Mechanical Engineering. He was a varsity man in baseball
and basketball at that institution, and was for three years
a member of the scrub football team. At the same time he
maintained a scholastic rating which earned him a place on
the honor roll, was President of the Student Council,
President of the Tech Bible Class at North Avenue Pres-
byterian Church, and was elected to membership in Tau
Beta Pi National Honorary Engineering Society. Follow-
ing his graduation from Tech Mr. Mathes was for several
years successfully engaged in teaching and in business before
deciding to prepare himself for the ministry. During his
student days at Columbia Seminary he has also served as
assistant to the pastor and as treasurer for the North Ave-
nue Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.

Charles W. Rightmyer is a native of Fairmont, West
Virginia, and graduated from the Fairmont State Teach-
ers' College with the A.B. degree. He was a member of the
Honorary Physics Society Fraternity, Lambda Delta
Lambda, and was President of the local chapter during
his Senior year at College. He was also active in athletic
sports After graduation he was engaged for some time
in the chemistry laboratory of the Fairmont Aluminum
Rolling Mills before reaching a decision to enter the min-
istry. During his first summer vacation at the Seminary
he served as assistant to the pastor in the First Presby-
terian Church of Valdosta, Georgia, and for the past year
he has been student pastor at the Barnett Presbyterian
Church of Atlanta, Ga.

Mr. McCutchen and Mr. Rightmyer have received per-
mission of the Faculty to pursue their graduate studies at
Columbia Seminary, where they will be candidates for the
Th.M. degree next year. The other three holders of fel-
lowships will enroll at other educational institutions
which are to be selected at an early date with the approval
of the Columbia Seminary Faculty.