Columbia Theological Seminary Course Catalog 1879-1880, 1879-1880

CATALOGUE

OF THE

OFFICERS AND STUDENTS

OF THE

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

AT

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.

MDCCCLXXIX--MDCCCLXXX

COLUMBIA, S. C.

PRINTED AT THE PRESBYTERIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE.
1880.

Board of Directors.

FOR ONE YEAR.

*Rev. JOHN DOUGLAS, Charlotte, N. C.
Mr. HENRY MULLER, Columbia, S. C.
Hon. J. J. GRESHAM, Macon, Ga.
Rev. J. B. MACK, D. D., Columbia, S. C.
Rev. W. E. BOGGS, D. D., Atlanta, Ga.

FOR TWO YEARS.

Rev. A. W. CLISBY, Macon, Ga.
Rev. W. J. McKAY, Mayesville, S. C.
Mr. A. B. DAVIDSON, Charlotte, N. C.
Hon. T. B. FRASER, Sumter, S. C.

FOR THREE YEARS.

Rev. T. H. LAW, Spartanburg, S. C.
Rev. C. W. LANE, D. D., Athens, Ga.
Hon. JAMES HEMPHILL, Chester, S. C.
Mr. W. A. CLARK, Columbia, S. C.

Hon. JAMES HEMPHILL, President.
Rev. J. B. MACK, D. D., Secretary.
Mr. HENRY MULLER, Treasurer.

* Deceased.

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CATALOGUE.

Access

Faculty.

Exitus.

U8.

1828.

Thomas Goulding,* D. D., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History and Church Polity.

1834.

1831.

George Howe, D. D., LL.D., Professor of Biblical Lite-
rature.

1833.

A. W. Leland,* D. D., Professor of Christian Theology.

1856.

1836.

Charles Colcock Jones,* D. D., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History and Church Polity.

1838.

1848.

Charles Colcock Jones,* D. D., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History and Church Polity.

1850.

1852.

Alex. T. McGill, D. D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History

and Church Polity.

1853.

1853.

B. M. Palmer, D. D., LL.D., Provisional Instructor in

Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity.

1853.

1854.

B. M. Palmer, D D., LL.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical

History and Church Polity.

1856.

1856.

A. W. Leland,* D. D., Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and

.

Pastoral Theology.

1871.

1856.

J. H. Thornwell,* D. D., LL.D., Professor of Didactic

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and Polemic Theology.

1862.

1857.

J. B. Adger, D. D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History

and Church Polity.

1874.

1861.

James Woodrow, Ph. D., D. D., Perkins Professor of
Natural Science in connexion with Revelation.

1867.

William S. Plumer, D. D., LL.D., Professor of Didactic

and Polemic Theology.

1875.

1870.

Joseph R. Wilson, D. D., Professor of Pastoral and Evan-

gelistic Theology and Sacred Rhetoric.

1874.

1875.

William S. Plumer, D. D., LL.D., Professor of Pastoral,
Casuistic, and Historic Theology.

1876.

J. L. Girardeau, D. D., Professor of Didactic and Polemic
Theology.

TUTOMS IN MEBMEW.

1851.

Bazile Lanneau,* A. M.

1855.

1856.

James Cohen,* A. M.

1862.

1874.

Charles R. Hemphill, A. M.

1878.

* Deceased.

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CATALOGUE.

Alumni.

Whole number of Alumni,
Deceased, . . . .

Foreign Missionaries,

506
114

20

TATm<

Frorr

i Massachusetts, .

7

From Texas, ....

2

New York, .

10

Missouri, .

2

Pennsylvania, .

19

Rhode Island,

1

Ohio,

2

Vermont, .

1

Virginia, .

10

Connecticut, . .

5

North Carolina,

68

New Hampshire,

2

South Carolina,

174

New Jersey, .

4

Georgia, . ...

87

Maryland,

2

Arkansas,

8

. Florida,

2

Alabama,

36

Canada,

6

Mississippi, . .

35

Scotland, .

2

Louisiana,

5

Ireland,

3

Tennessee, .

12

Hungary, .

1

Kentucky, .

3

England, .

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CATALOGUE.

Mesidence of Alumni.

North Carolina,

58

Louisiana,

9

Georgia, .

60

Alabama,

26

Massachusetts, .

1

South Carolina,

100

New Jersey,

1

Pennsylvania, .

3

Tennessee, .

21

Mississippi, .

36

California,

1

Texas,

20

Illinois, .

3

Indiana, .

1

Arkansas,

22

Florida, . . .

15

New Hampshire,

1

Vermont,

1

Delaware,

3

District of Columbi

a,

1

Kentucky, ..... 8

Connecticut, .... 1

New York, ..... 5

Maryland, 2

Virginia, 12

West Virginia, .... 2

Ohio, 2

Minnesota, 1

Missouri, 3

Canada, ...... 2

Oregon, 1

Ireland, 1

Scotland, 1

Japan, 1

India, ...... 1

Brazil, ...... 4

China, 4

Indian Nation, .... 4
Places of residence not k nown, 6 1

CATALOGUE.

TEMM OF 1879-80.

FACULTY.

GEORGE HOWE, D. D., LL.D.,

Professor of Biblical Literature.

JAMES WOODROW, Ph. D., D. D.,

Perkins Professor of Natural Science in connexion with Revelation.

WM. S. PLUMER, D. D., LL.D.,

Professor of Pastoral, Casuistic, and Historic Theology.

J. L. GIRARDEAU, D. D.,

Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology.

Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity.

Tutor in Hebrew.

* The studies belonging to the Department of Ecclesiastical History and Church
Polity have been taught during the past session by the occupants of other chairs,
in addition to their regular instructions.

STUDENTS.

Names.
Bishop, S. E.
Brooke, F. J.
Fraser, A. M.
Frierson, D. E.
Greer, Baxter D. D.
Houston, J. L. D.
*Mayne, J. F.
McLees, J. A.
Plunkett, J. T.
Robinson, L. H,
,Sale, A. M.
Seabrook, J. McL.
Shepherd, C. M.
Stewart, C. L.
Webb, R. A.

Residence.
Darlington, S. C
Richmond, Va.
Sumter, S. C.
Anderson, S. C.
New Harmony, Ala.
Batesville, Ark.
Gadsden, Ala.
Anderson, S. C.
Nashville, Tenn.
Pineville, N. C.
Athens, Ga.
Charleston, S. C.
Memphis, Tenn.
Greenville, S. C.
Nashville, Tenn.

College.
Davidson College.
Davidson College.
Davidson College.
Stud't Davidson Col,
Davidson College.
Arkansas College.
Davidson College.
Davidson College.
S. W. Pres. Univ'ty.
Erskine College.
Univ'ty of Georgia,
Davidson College.
Princeton, 111.
Davidson College.
S. W. Pres. Univ'ty.

Graduated. Room.
1877. 44 S. H.
1877. 32 S. H.
1876. 28 S. H.
42 S. H.
1874. 35 S. H.

1876. 9 L. H.

1877. 35 S. H.

1876. 46 S. H.

1877. 38 S-. H.
1877. 14 L. H.

36 S. H.
1877. 18 L. H.
1877. 2&4L.H.
1877. 34 S. H.
1877. 48 S. H.

MIDDLE CLASS.

Names.
Davis, Wm. Y.
Lapsley, R. A.
Matthews, Wm. T.
McLin, Jas. L.
McClure, J. W.
Neville, Wm. G.
Williams, J. L.

Residence.
Bloomfield, Ky.
Selma, Ala.
Wolfsville, N. C.
Anderson, S. C.
Verona, Ky.
Walhalla, S. C.
Charlotte, N. C.

College.
Princeton.
Davidson College.
Erskine.
Erskine.
Stud't Hamp'n Sid'y.
Adger College.
Davidson College.

Graduated.
1878. 40
1877.
1878.
1878.

1878.
1878.

Room.
S. H.

31 S.
24 L.
17 L.
10 S.
20 L.
16 L.

JTUWIOM CLASS.

Names. Residence. College. Graduated. Room.

Boozer, T. F. Newberry, S. C. Adger College. 1879. 12 L. H.

Dindsay, H. D. Due West, S. C. Erskine College. 1879. 19 L. H.

Miller, J. P. Chester, S. C. Stud't Adger College. 15 L. H.

.Woodbridge, S. I. Rockville, Md. Stud't Rutgers, N. J. 30 S. H.

f Craig, T. B.
fSimpson, L. A.
jWilson, S. L.

Laurens, S. C.
Toccoa, Ga.
Clover, S. C.

Davidson College.
Davidson College.
Davidson College.

1876.
1876.
1876.

*Died Feb. 21st.

j- Absent.

SUMMARY.

Senior Class 15

Middle Class 7

Junior Class.: 4

Absent 3

Total 29

L. H. Law Hall. S. H. Simons Hall.

REPBESEWTA HON.

COLLEGES.

Davidson 14 Princeton 1

Erskine 4 University of Georgia ]

Hampden Sidney , 1 Adger College 3

Arkansas 1 Princeton. Ill 1

Southwestern Presbvterian Univ'y... 2 Rutgers 1

STATES.

Alabama 3 ' South Carolina 13

Arkansas 1 Tennessee 3

Georgia 2 , Virginia 1

Kentucky 2 Maryland 1

North Carolina 3 I

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SESSIONS.

There is but one Session in the Seminary year. The year
commences on the third Monday in September, and ends with
the second Thursday in May.

ADMISSION.

The regular time for admission to the Seminary is in Septem-
ber. It is very desirable that all students should be present at
the commencement of the year, particularly those entering the
Junior Class.

The Seminary is open to Students of every denomination.
Candidates for admission must furnish the Faculty with satis-
factory testimonials of being in full communion with some
Christian Church, and of having been regularly educated at
some College or University, or in the absence of such testimonials
must satisfy the Faculty, by examination, that they have made
attainments deemed equivalent. Such persons, on assenting to
the Constitution of the Seminary, are admitted to the enjoyment
of all its privileges.

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COURSE OF STUDY.

The Regular Course of Study embraces a period of three years,
and covers the several departments of Theological education.

I. Biblical Literature.

1. The Grammar of the Hebrew and Chaldee Languages, and the
Grammatical and Exegetical study of the Hebrew and Chaldee
Scriptures. Portions of the Historical, Poetical, and Pro-
phetic Books, and the Chaldee of Ezra and Daniel, are read.
To these are added written exercises in translating from
English or the Greek of the Apocrypha into Hebrew.

2. The Exegetical study of the New Testament in Greek. The
Gospels and the more important Epistles are the subjects of
Exegesis, the effort being to lead the Student, in the use of
the best helps, to a thorough knowledge of the original.

3. Biblical Antiquities, Scripture Geography, Introduction to
the Old and New Testaments, Biblical Criticism, The Canon
of the Scriptures, (reference being had to the views of the
Church of Rome and to modern sceptical theories,) the
original languages of Scripture as to their character, history,
and affinities, Interpretation and Prophecy, are topics of
instruction by Text Book or Lectures. Occasional exegetical
essays by Students.

II. Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity.

1. The Junior Class is occupied thrice every week with Old
Testament Church History, the text-book being Kurtz's
Manual of Sacred History. After finishing that work, they
take up Schaff's History of the Christian Church, Vol. I.,
Part II., which treats of the second and third centuries. The
Lectures to this class are chiefly unwritten.

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2. The Middle Class use for their text-books Kurtz's History of
the Christian Church, in two volumes, and Killen's Ancient
Church. The Professor meets his class three times every
week, and supplements the text-books with lectures.

3. The third year is devoted to Church Polity. The text-
books are Bannerraan's Church of Christ, Calvin's Institutes,
Book IV., and Gillespie's Assertion of the Government of
the Church of Scotland. The Professor meets this Class also
three times every week, either for lecture or for examination
on the text-book. Particular attention is given to the expo-
sition of our Form of Government and Book of Discipline.

III. Pastoral Theology.

In this department there is a course of three years. In the
first year the studies are chiefly on Experimental and Practical
Piety. In the second year the Pastoral Epistles are studied in
the original Greek with critical care. In the third year Pastoral
Theology, properly so called, is taught. This embraces a Call to
the Sacred Office, and all the duties belonjnno; to it. Text-books
and oral instruction are both resorted to.

IV. Sacred Rhetoric.

The text-book used is the latest edition of Whately. Each class
in the Seminary has practical exercises in the Class Room or in
the Professor's study. Sermons are also delivered in the presence
of all the Professors and Students once in four weeks. A debate
on some question previously agreed upon is held every two weeks,
and declamation is attended to once in four weeks.

V. Casuistic Theology.

In this department an original plan of study is submitted in
the form of questions on difficult texts of Scripture, on doubtful
themes in theology and in cases of conscience. Reference is
made to Amesius de Conscientia, to Pike and Hayward, and to
several other books found in the Library.

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VI. Historic Theology.

Students are referred to Hagenbach and Neander, but the in-
struction is chiefly by lectures, and by questions and answers.

VII. Natural Science in connexion with Revelation.

In this department, instruction is given exclusively by lectures.
It embraces the Natural History of the Bible; Geology, As-
tronomy, and other branches of Natural Science, so far as they
have any real or supposed connexion with Revelation; and also
Archaeology and Chronology. During the Senior year, the
questions of the Unity and Antiquity of the Human Race, and
Evolution, are fully examined.

VIII. Didactic and Polemic Theology.
The Didactic and Polemic aspects of Theology are not treated
separately, but in relation to each other. The method of study
is by text-books. In the department of Natural Religion, Thorn-
well's Lectures on Theology are used, the vacancies in the treat-
ment of topics being supplied by Hodge's Systematic Theology.
In the department of Supernatural Religion, Hodge's Systematic
Theology is employed. The method of instruction is partly
lectures, either written or unwritten, but mainly interrogation of
the Student, so as, at the same time, to test his knowledge and
to elicit his mental energies; comments being freely interspersed
by the instructor.

IX. Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy.
The Junior Class is taken, so far as time will permit, through
a course of instruction in these branches of study. The method
pursued is that of lectures, the Student being expected to study
concurrently specified text-books.

CATALOGUE.

FOUB.TH YEAR'S COURSE.

For those who prefer to extend their studies through a
longer term, the"! following additional course is arranged for a
Fourth Year:

Study of the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures continued; Com-
parative Semitic Philology ; Church History continued to the
present period; Ecclesiology ; Characteristics of the most emi-
nent and successful Preachers of the Gospel ; Theology continued ;
Contributions of Science to Natural Theology and the Illustration
of Scripture.

Instruction may also be obtained in the city in the French,
German, Italian, and Spanish languages.

PROFESSORS' CONFERENCE.

Thursday evening is occupied by the Professors in familiar
conference before the Students, upon personal piety, the best
plan and method of study, and kindred topics.

B UILDIJYGS.

These are neat and commodious. The Central Building is
devoted to the Library and other public purposes. Law Hall
and Simons Hall were planned especially for the comfort of
the Students, and are supplied with the most necessary articles
of furniture.

LIBRARY.

The Library of the Seminary, to which the extensive and
choice Library of the Rev. Dr. Smyth, of Charleston, was added
some years ago, and during the past year the Library of Rev.

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John Douglas, deceased, now embraces 20,295 volumes. Besides
this, the private Libraries of the Professors are large and valuable.
The use of the University Library is also extended, by courtesy,
to the Instructors of the Seminary a collection of great value,
and now amounting to more than 25,000 volumes.

The Society of Inquiry 'on Missions is in possession of a valu-
able Cabinet, and its Reading Room is furnished with the most
important Periodicals, Foreign and Domestic.

EXPENSES.

The Board and Washing of a Student residing in the Seminary
amount to from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and fifty
dollars per annum. The Institution is a charitable foundation,
and no charge is made for room-rent, tuition, or use of Library.
Provision is also made for the support of Students who are in
need of aid.

ECCLESIASTICAL RELATIONS.

The Seminary, formerly related to the three Synods of South
Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, is now under the control of
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United

States.

LOCATION.

The Seminary is pleasantly situated in the city of Columbia
a place remarkable for health, the capital of the State of South
Carolina, the seat of the University and other public Institutions,
of easy access by railways, which are connecting it more and more
with other portions of the South and Southwest, and making it
easy of access from any part of the United States.

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FORM OF BEQUEST.

The Seminary is incorporated by the Legislature of South
Carolina under its original name, and the proper form of a bequest
would be as follows :

"To the Board of Directors of the Theological Seminary of
the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, to them and their

successors, I give and bequeath the sum of , (or I devise

a certain parcel or tract of land, etc 4 ) to be applied by them to
the uses and benefit of said Seminary."

Testators will do well to have respect to the laws of the State
in which they reside. The State of South Carolina requires that
a last Will and Testament be signed by the testator in the pres-
ence of three witnesses.

The next term will begin on Monday, September 20, 1880.

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