- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- An Overture by a Presbyter
- Creator:
- Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921
- Date of Original:
- 1897
1907 - Subject:
- Legal opinions
Presbyterian Church--Discipline
Presbyterian Church--Government
Retirement age
Retirement, Mandatory
Presbyterian Church--South Carolina
Theological seminary trustees
Bliss, Philemon, 1814-1889
Cecil, Russell, 1853-1925
Humphreys, C. W. (Cavet Wiley), 1844-1934
Laws, S. S. (Samuel Spahr), 1824-1921
Columbia Theological Seminary
Columbia Theological Seminary--History--19th century
Columbia Theological Seminary. Board of Trustees
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly
Presbyterian Church in the U.S--Education
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synod of South Carolina
Alabama
Birmingham (Ala.)
Columbia (S.C.)
Florida
South Carolina - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
- Medium:
- notes (documents)
fragments (object portions)
pamphlets - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Documents by Samuel Spahr Laws related to his complaint against his mandatory retirement as Perkins Professor of Natural Science in Connection with Revelation and Christian Apologetics at Columbia Theological Seminary. Printed pamphlet entitled, ‘An Overture by a Presbyter: To the Synods of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida,’ [Columbia, SC: The Bryan Ptg. Co.] Columbia (S.C.), October 16, 1897; printed pamphlet entitled, ‘The Seminary Dead-Line,’ Columbia (S.C.), November 1897; typescript fragment with manuscript annotations by Laws entitled, ‘A Complaint of a Presbyter of the Synod of South Carolina to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, vs. The action of the said Synod, Nov. 1, 1897, touching an overture of the undersigned Presbyter denying the relief therein sought,’ undated; manuscript notes and drafts by Laws concerning the complaint and its reception within the Synod of South Carolina and the [47th 1907] General Assembly, with consideration given to C. W. Humphreys and extended quotes from [Philemon] Bliss.
Institution: C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/6314
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p17323coll7:6314/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 42 pages
- Original Collection:
- S. S. Laws papers, 1878-1917
- Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
