The Princeton Seminary Bulletin

10-

^ OF PRI«Cf/>

/nT ^

( JUN 4 1941 v

%06ICALS5^

r ' "

PER BV 4070 .P712 v. 11-20 c.2
Princeton Theological
Seminary.

The Princeton Seminary
I bulletin

e_o y 'j ^

\

fORUsc muwwwom*

Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2016 with funding from
Princeton Theological Seminary Library

https://archive.org/details/princetonseminar2011prin

The Princeton Seminary Bulletin

Published Quarterly by the Trustees of the Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church

Entered as second class matter. May 1, 1907, at the post office at Princeton, N. J.,
under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894.

Vol. XX

PRINCETON, N. J., May, 1926

No. 1

The One Hundred and Fourteenth Commencement

Splendid May weather again favored the returning Alumni and friends of
the Seminary during the Commencement season, May ninth to eleventh. On
Sunday, President Stevenson preached the Baccalaureate Sermon in Miller
Chapel and the Lord’s Supper was observed. In the afternoon the Graduating
Class had a fellowship meeting, and in the evening at a union service of the
First and Second Presbyterian Churches, in the First Presbyterian Church,
the Seminary Chorus rendered a number of selections and the Rev. Louis E.
Holden, D. D., ’91, Vice-President of Beloit College, Wisconsin, gave the ad-
dress.

On Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning the Board of Directors held
their regular Spring Meeting; in the afternoon President and Mrs. Stevenson
gave a reception at “Springdale” for the Graduating Class, returning Alumni
and friends of the Seminary ; and in the evening, a number of classes held re-
unions and several of the Seminary clubs assembled their Alumni at dinners.

On Tuesday morning the Commencement exercises were held in the
First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Maitland Alexander, D. D., ’92, Presi-
dent of the Board of Directors, presided ; the Rev. Charles R. Erdman, D. D.,
’91, Moderator of the General Assembly, offered prayer. The Rev. John Van
Ess, D. D., ’02, Missionary of the Reformed Church to Arabia, gave the Com-
mencement Address on “Christian Irredentism,” which forms an article in
this issue of the Bulletin. After the conferring of degrees and announce-
ment of fellowships and prizes, the President of the Seminary addressed the
graduating class. Again the Seminary Chorus contributed to the services of
the day by leading the singing and rendering a number of selections.

The gathering of Alumni has in recent years become so large that the
accommodations in Stuart Hall for the Alumni luncheon have become entire-
ly inadequate. By the courtesy of the University, the University gymnasium
was put at the disposal of the Seminary for the luncheon this year, and the
ample and delightful place of meeting greatly contributed to the pleasure
and success of the Alumni gathering. The number of returning Alumni was
probably the largest in the history of the institution. The Seminary dormi-
tories were filled to overflowing with those who wished to spend the night,
and some four hundred and sixty men sat down at the luncheon in the gym-
nasium; beside one hundred and sixty visiting ladies were entertained at

2

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

luncheon by the Seminary in the parish house of the First Church. Among
those present at the Alumni luncheon was the Rev. Ezra F. Mundy, ’55, the
oldest living graduate of the Seminary, to whom special recognition was giv-
en.

At the meeting of the Alumni Association, on nomination of the Execu-
tive Committee, officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: Presi-
dent, Rev. W. P. Finney, D. D., ’86 ; Vice-President, Rev. Kerr Duncan Mac-
millan, D. D., ’97; Treasurer, Rev. Charles R. Erdman, D. D., ’91; Secretary,
Rev. Robert M. Russell, T5, and additional members of the Executive Com-
mittee, Rev. W. P. Fulton, D. D., ’87; Rev. J. Marshall Linton, ’07, Rev.
Harold S. Laird, T7. Dr. Erdman gave his report as Treasurer, and Presi-
dent Stevenson addressed the Alumni. Addresses were also given by the
Rev. Alfred H. Barr, D. D., ’96, speaking as a member of the Faculty of Mc-
Cormick Seminary, and by Professor J. Gresham Machen, D. D., ’05. and by
the Rev. W. P. Finney, D. D., ’86, the newly elected President of the Asso-
ciation.

The Executive Committee recommended to the Assembly the formation
of an Alumni Council as a more permanent body to take the place of the an-
nually changing Executive Committee; the personnel and functions of this
Council to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association next year.
The recommendation was adopted.

A vote of thanks was given to President John Grier Hibben, D. D., ’86.
for the courtesy of the University in granting the Seminary the use of the
gymnasium for its luncheon.

A vote of sympathy was extended to Prof. J. Ritchie Smith, D. D., ’76,
who was unable to be present because of illness, and congratulations were
extended to him on the approaching fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to
the Christian ministry.

A vote of thanks was extended to the Seminary Chorus.

After singing “Blest Be The Tie That Binds,” the Benediction was pro-
nounced by the Rev. Clarence E. Macartney, D. D., ’05.

Degrees, Fellowships and Prizes

The degree of Bachelor of Theology
was conferred upon the following stu-
dents who hold the degree of A. B., or
its academic equivalent from an ap-
proved institution, and who have com-
pleted the course of study prescribed
therefor in this Seminary:

James K. Akimo

Frederick Hadley Allen, Jr.

Llewellyn Kennedy Anderson

James Flint Boughton, Jr.

Sam Ralph Brenner
Thomas Law Coyle
Oscar Levi Daley
William Henry Dilts
Edmond Granger Dyett
Clarence Ford French
Lawrence Blair Gilmore
William Jennings Groah
William Edward Hawkins, Jr.
Joseph Adolph Howard
John Earl Jackman
Christian Schriver Jessen
Harold Emile Kenrick
Warren Edward King
Alfred Lee Klaer

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

3

Stanley Charles Lange
Lenn Learner Latham
John Richard McAliley
William Alexander McCall
Paul Harper McKee
Norman Spurgeon McPherson
Charles Harnish Neff
John Alexander Orange
Hyung-Nong Park
Eugene Wesley Pilgrim
James Raymond Sampson
Robert Denham Steele
Franklin Warren Stevens
Samuel Herbert Sutherland
Garrett Simon Tamminga
Claude Henry Thomas
Albert Elias Tibbs
William David Turkington
Ernest Vanden Bosch
Lowell Anderson Van Patten
Eunace Artemas Wallace
August Herman Wessels
Jay Gomer Williams
Robert Allen Newton Wilson
William Clarence Wright
William August Zoerner

The degree of Master of Theology
was conferred upon the following stu-
dents who hold the degree of A. B., or
its academic equivalent, and the degree
of Th.B., or its theological equivalent,
from approved institutions and who
have completed the course of study
prescribed therefor in this Seminary:

John Apostol
Fred Bronkema
Harold Milford Carlson
Robert Lorenzo Clark, Jr.

Athel Dale Cotterman
Jesse Miller Dale
Earl Dubbel
Michael Feher
Richard J. Frens
Alexander Gray
Eben-Haezer Greyling
Floyd Eugene Hamilton
Martin Armstrong Hopkins
Jacob R. Kamps

Kenji Kikuchi
Kwan-sik Kim
John Leonard Koert
Henry Arthur Lynch
Jarvis Scobey Morris
Ladislas Muzsnai
Toyobei Nakazawa
Byron Christopher Nelson
Hyung-Nong Park
Charles Herford Reed
Chester Elijah Rettew
David Worth Roberts
John Renze Rozendal
John Rubingh
Andrew George Solla
James Sprunt
Irby D. Terrell
Gerrit Timmer
Noriyoshi Toku
George Clarence Westphal
J. Christy Wilson
Parks Watson Wilson
Johannes Wilhelm Ylvisaker
Habib Yusuf ji

and Edward John Ardis, having completed his
work in the Seminary for the Th.B. and the
Th.M. degrees, these degrees will be granted
him on his having obtained the prerequisite
A. B. degree.

Fellowships and Prizes were award-
ed as follows :

The Alumni Fellowship in New Testament
and the Archibald Robertson Scholarship to
Albert Elias Tibbs.

The William Henry Green Fellowship in
Semitic Philology to William Jennings Groah.

The Gelston-Winthrop Fellowship in Church
History to Robert Denham Steele.

The Gelston-Winthrop Fellowship in Apolo-
getics to Lawrence Blair Gilmore.

The Gelston-Winthrop Fellowship in Syste-
matic Theology to Thomas Law Coyle.

The Hugh Davies Prize in Homiletics to
Charles Harnish Neff.

The Benjamin Stanton Prize in Old Testa-
ment Literature to Charles Jahleel Woodbridge.

The First Robert L. Maitland Prize in New
Testament Exegesis to Allan Alexander Mac-
Rae.

4

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

The John Finley McLaren Prize in Biblical
Theology to Robert Arthur Miller.

The Archibald Alexander Hodge Prize in
Systematic Theology to Calvert Nice Ellis.

Christian Irredentism

Commencement Address Delivered by
The Rev. John Van Ess, D. D.

In the city of Paris there is a large, open
square called the Place de la Concord. As you
approach it from the side of the Arch of
Triumph you see a semicircle of statues, each
statue representing a city of France. Before
the war, on the anniversary of the Battle of
Sedan, the statue representing Strassbourg was
draped in black, mute witness of the torture
and humiliation felt by every Frenchman be*
cause there still were others, their kinsmen in
race and language, and rightful heirs with
themselves of the glory and protection of
France, who yet were deprived of their heritage
by an alien power. As the years passed by
irredentism became to every Frenchman a flam-
ing passion, handed down from father to son,
all consuming in its hot intensity, fusing the
souls of Frenchmen into one soul, the soul of
France.

As each Easter day we pass with the Risen
Christ through the arch of His triumph, do
we see with tear-dimmed eyes half a world
still swathed in the blackness of sin and despair,
do we see it as a world redeemed but not re-
covered, paid for but not possessed? Has it
become to us a flaming passion, consuming our
smugness and our complacency, fusing us into
a oneness of purpose and hope and desire — a
'sacred torch handed down to our sons and
daughters? Can we, do we, feel the torture
and humiliation of our Lord’s reproach who
nearly twenty centuries ago said “Go” and we
have not gone, — or are we ready to admit that
Christ’s Kingdom has gone bankrupt, His pro-
gram gone shipwreck, and that it is our only
task to rescue here and ther-e some battered
fragment of a soul? Is our outlook that of the
defeatist, or that of the irredentist? Hitherto
we have been defeatists, in practice if not in
principle, and defeatism is treason by every
rule of reason and religion.

There are three aspects of Christian Ir-
redentism which I wish to stress:

i. THE KINSHIP OF THE WORLD.

It was that which made so boundless the
horizon of Paul’s vision — that God had made
of one all nations for to dwell on the face of
the earth — that in Christ there cannot be neither
Greek nor Jew, barbarian, Scythian, bondman,
freeman — but all alike with us, in race if eter-
nity be the measure of a man, alike too in
essential color, with a place for each in the
spectrum of his environment, but each incom-
plete without the other, to make up the white
light of God’s glory. Search and see that out
of the west ariseth no prophet. Let the people
of the world today pass before you one by
one. Every fourth will be Chinese, every fifth
an Indian, every sixth a negro or his equal.
Picture them then in all their squalor and
degradation, in all their ignorance and super-
stition— but before you stand apart from them
gp out some night and look at the heavens.
Look at Arcturus. You know how they meas-
ure how far away is Arcturus. They take an
angle, then six months later when the earth
has swung to her aphelion, a mere trifle of 186
million miles, they take another angle, and
with the base and two angles, they measure the
altitude of the triangle whose angle at the
vertex is .127 of a second of arc. Look now at
Christ. Then span the distance between your-
self with all your learning and culture and that
Hottentot, and look at Christ again. The re-
sultant parallax will become to you a parallel
as you fall in dust before Christ’s face. What
said Christ? Who is my mother and who are
my brethren? Whosoever shall do the will of
my Father Who is in Heaven, he is my brother
and sister and mother. Kinsmen all in race.
And kinsmen too in language. Do you under-
stand the language of human pain? Listen.
Once I was going to our Mission hospital early
in the morning. At the door I found a leper
Whom some Arabs had left there. During the
night the rats had gnawed away his heels as he
lay there in his helplessness. So I called the
dresser and together we started to carry him to
the infectious ward. The dresser put his arms
around the wretched leper’s knees and middle,
and I put my right arm around his shoulders
and tried to support his head with my left
hand. As we were entering the ward I half
stumbled and my left hand involuntarily clutch-
ed, and that ghastly skull gave way like a piece
of rotten card-board and the brains gushed over

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

5

my fingers. Oh, Church of the pitying Christ,
do you hear the language of human pain? Do
you, hearing, understand that you might have
been that leper but for the grace of God ?

You have read Dan Crawford’s book Think-
ing Black. You remember the chapter called
Red Sunsets. King Chona lay dying in Africa.
Being a king he must not pass out alone. It
would be unkingly. So from the moment he
breathed his last breath, human, blood began
to flow. Every footstep of those who bore the
royal corpse was over ground sodden with
blood, the body was lowered into a grave
aglow with the same crimson flood, and when
all was over and the king was buried, the
grave was moulded over with plaster made of
earth, and, not water, but human blood again.
Men and women, disciples of Him Who loved
even the worthless fifth sparrow, how can you
stop your ears to the wails of men and women
and children, alike with yourselves in their
hopes and little ambitions and fond desires 1

Do you understand the language of human
aspiration? Listen to India, to China, Arabia,
Persia, Turkey and Egypt, speaking in accents
of hope, of struggle, of freedom and high
endeavor. Hear Gandhi as he preaches to
India in the words of Jesus, hear Mustapha
Kemal as he pronounces woman free and equal
with man, hear Zaghlul, Abdul Kerim, Atrash,
Riza Khan, stammering but burning to utter
each to his people the words which speak of
newer and higher living. Do you understand
the language of sin — the coarse, heavy words
which strike like a bludgeon in the east, which
pierce like a supple poniard in the west, but
sin everywhere and speaking of the need of a
Saviour for east and for west?

Do you understand that universal language
)f pain, of aspiration, of sin, of freedom and
ife and salvation, that language spoken wher-
:ver men struggle and women suffer and little
rhildren wait and wonder, and will you say the
vhole world is not kin?

The second aspect of Christian irredentism
vhich I wish to stress is :

2. THE KINSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST.

Three children saw the Mauretania pass out
nto the ocean. Said one, aged five : “Oh, look
t the big ship. It must be worth at least ten
lollars.” Said the second, aged eight: “Ten
Hollars, why that’s nothing. That ship must
e worth at least a hundred dollars.” Oh, said

the third, aged ten, “You two know nothing
at all. Why that ship is worth all of a thou-
sand dollars.” But even so we have tried to
appraise Jesus Christ in terms of human glory.
We have pressed upon His brow diadems of
human majesty, and in His name have gone
out to the beat of thei crusading drum, with
strange devices on our fluttering banners, out
from barracks of Gothic architecture where we
lolled our spiritual lives away, out to conquer
a world while we sang : The Son of God goes
forth to war.

And why have we not conquered the world?
Simply because we have not gone in the spirit
of our King, for He is not such a King. Read
the Gospels again. Wherever you find Christ’s
name closely associated with kingship you will
find an incongruity. In the royal register in Mat-
thew are mentioned among others three women :
Thamar, Bathsheba, and Ruth of accursed line-
age, witnesses all that human frailty cannot
stain a heavenly pedigree. Born in a manger
— born King of the Jews. Refusing a crown
and praying alone. Riding into the city on a
colt the foal of an ass with eyes still wet from
weeping over Jerusalem. Then shall the King
say : I was hungry, thirsty, naked, sick and in
prison. A King silent before a governor, and
giving place to a robber. Crowned with thorns,
mocked, buffeted, and spat upon, clothed only
in the scarlet of his own blood, a king dead,
and when He rose, looking like a gardener
save for the prints of the nails in His hands.
And yet that was kingly, that was truly regal,
for He could not and would not be measured
by human standards. Can such a King conquer
a world? He conquered the Roman centurion
for when he saw how He died he said : Verily
this was the Son of God.

He conquered Saul of Tarsus and made him
an ambassador despite his chains. He can con-
quer Japan, eager, clever Japan; He can con-
quer China, ponderous, persistent, potent China ;
He can conquer India, sensitive, suffering India ;
He can conquer Africa, trembling, fearful
Africa; He can conquer Islam, brave, reckless,
defiant Islam.

But how will He conquer? And so I wish
to stress the third aspect of Christian irre-
dentism :

3. THE CONDITIONS OF VICTORY.

Listen to His great apostle : In labors, in
prisons, in stripes, in death, beaten, stoned,

6

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

wrecked, imperilled, in hunger, thirst and
fastings, in cold and nakedness, in anxiety,
yet more than conquerors through Him that
loved us. Supervincimus, supervictors. There
is something higher than victory as men count
victory. And its first condition is :

a — A Deep Humility.

For He loved us, He loved even us, and
therefore He must love the world. What had
we to offer, we of the vaunted west, but force,
and wealth and the pace that kills? To offer
to Him, who could command legions of angels,
w'ho became poor for us, and spent whole nights
in prayer.

b — A Great Simplicity.

As little children, our only boast our Father’s
strength and wisdom, our only power the pow-
er of the Cross, that simple, simple message
that we ourselves cannot understand and yet
know to be eternally true and all sufficient. To
let men see Christ, as He is, and not us at all,
or ever.

c — Consciousness of His Presence.

I saw Christ once, in the delirium of a fever,
standing by my bed. I know it was Christ
for I saw His hands and feet, and his fore-
head all marred and scarred, but the face was
the face of a common Arab. And then I re-
membered His words : As ye have done it to
one of the least of these my brethren ye have
done it unto me. Perhaps some day on some
desert high-way, as I hand to one whom I re-
gard as a common Arab a cup of cold water
I shall see the prints of the nails in his out-
stretched hand and I shall see Christ face to
face again. But I know He is always very
near. I hear his footfalls often, need think
I may meet him anywhere. Can He walk to-
day with us in the midst of this busy world?
I think He can. I know He does.

d — Utter and Implicit Obedience.

Counting all things, all things but loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ.

I wish to ask the permission of the students
to tell again a story which I told a few weeks
ago, for it sums up all I have tried to say.
A year ago last January a young Arab came to
my study in Basrah. I did not know him per-
sonally but knew of him as belonging to a
good family, comfortably situated, well edu-
cated. After the preliminary greetings he took
out from beneath his mantle something wrapped

up in a silk handkerchief and laid it on the
table. I unwrapped it and found therein an
Arabic Gospel of John and of Matthew. He
said : I bought these some time ago from one
of the Mission’s evangelists. I have read them
and reread them and have come to the conclu-
sion that they are true and that I must become i
a disciple of Jesus Christ. I said: I am very ;
glad to hear that, but you know the next step,
you must confess Christ before men. You may j
not keep that a secret for Jesus said: Him !
that denieth me I will deny. Yes, he said, I
know that too. But, Sir, you know what it
means for me. My family will probably stab i
or strangle or poison me. But I am not so j
afraid of that. There is one thing, though, j
which I cannot bear to think of. My family
will in any case cast me out, and I have a
little son, the same age as your son. I cannot
bear the thought of losing him. But I said:

S — , Jesus said : “He that loveth son or daugh-
ter more than me is not worthy of me.” Then
we prayed together, and at last he went out
into the night.

Between our house and the main road is a
narrow dark path, and for a long time after
he had left I could still hear him sobbing under
the palm trees in the agony and conflict of his
soul. But long after he had gone I still sat
in my study, wondering, wondering whether I
had done right, whether I had not laid too
heavy a burden upon that young Arab. But my
mind always came back to the saying of Jesus:
“If any man would come after me, let him deny
himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
I thought I had done right. But when I reach-
ed America last June and began to go up and
down in the land I began to think I had done
wrong. You say: What do you mean, surely
the words of Jesus are plain and unequivocal.
Yes, I know that, but listen. I see men and
women here who are in good and regular stand-
ing in the church, they sacrifice nothing worth
mentioning for Christ, they come to the Lord’s
table, and nobody calls in questoin their right
to come except the Lord Himself. We mis-
sionaries want to know how many standards
of discipleship there are. Back in 1896 Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan came before the country
on a platform of Bimetalism, but the business
men of the country repudiated his theory. They
said, We cannot have a double standard of
value, there can be only one standard, pure gold.

Jc

v

L

Q

1,

Q

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

7

But I fear that the church has been clinging to
a double standard. We are your missionaries.
You sent us. Now answer us this question :
Shall we apply to the Arab your standard?
Then we shall say: Very well, sacrifice only if
it does not hurt, be a disciple at no cost. Or,
do you dare to have applied to yourselves the
standard which we apply to the convert in
Christless lands, the standard He Himself set?
We challenge you and we wait for your answer.

Jesus I my cross have taken,

All to leave and follow Thee,

Destitute, despised, forsaken,

Thou from hence my all shalt be.

Plans of the Graduating Class

The plans of the members of the
graduating class so far as determined
are as follows:

J. K. Akimo, Pastor of the Kahuku, Hawaii,
Church.

F. H. Allen, Jr., Pastor, Presbyterian Church
at Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

L. K. Anderson, Missionary of the Presby-
terian Church to West Africa.

J. F. Boughton, Jr., Pastor, Methodist Episco-
pal Church, Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J.

S. R. Brenner, Pastorate in the Reformed
Church, U. S.

Sargent Bush, plans not yet settled.

T. L. Coyle, further study.

O. L. Daley, Assistant, Second Presbyterian
Church, New York City.

W. H. Dilts, Pastor, Presbyterian Church,
Matawan, N. J.

E. G. Dyett, Foreign Missions after a year.

J. M. Ewing, Assistant, First Presbyterian
Church, Norristown, Pa.

C. F. French, Pastorate in the Methodist
Church.

L. B. Gilmore, further study as Fellow in
Apologetics.

W. J. Groah, further study as Fellow in
Semitic Philology.

W. E. Hawkins, Jr., Evangelist, Methodist
Church, South.

Ned Hill, Pastor, Methodist Church, Belmar,
N. J.

J. A. Howard, Pastor, Presbyterian Churches,
Montgomery and Montoursville, Pa.

J. E. Jackman, Pastor, Presbyterian Church-
es, Springfield and Holmes, Pa.

C. S. Jessen, Pastor, Presbyterian Church,
Circleville, N. Y.

H. E. Kenrick, Pastor, Methodist Church,
North Adams, Mich.

W. E. King, plans not yet settled.

A. L. Klaer, Instructor in Bible, Lafayette
College.

S. C. Lange, Pastor, Chelsea Church, At-
lantic City, N. J.

L. L. Latham, Pastor, The Warren Avenue
Presbyterian Church, Saginaw, Mich.

G. B. Leeder, Missionary of the Presby-
terian Church to India.

J. R. McAliley, plans not yet settled.

W. A. McCall, Missionary of the Presby-
terian Church to Syria.

Paul H. McKee, Assistant, First Presby-
terian Church, Steubenville, Ohio.

N. S. McPherson, plans not yet settled.

C. H. Neff, Pastor, Old Tennent Church,
Tennent, N. J.

J. A. Orange, plans not yet settled.

H. N. Park, further study.

E. W. Pilgrim, Pastorate in the Methodist
Church.

W. A. Price, Jr., plans not yet settled.

M. W. Remaly, Pastor, Presbyterian Church
Elysburg, Pa.

R. P. Riddick, further study.

J. R. Sampson, plans not yet settled.

B. Smetanka, Ministerial service, Czecho-
slovakia.

R. D. Steele, Minister, Presbyterian Church-
es, Ridgebury, Denton and Centerville, N. Y.

F. W. Stevens, Pastor, Presbyterian Church,
Delaware City, Del.

S. H. Sutherland, Pastor, Grace Presbyterian
Church, Los Angeles, Calif.

G. S. Tamminga, plans not yet settled.

C. H. Thomas, Missionary in China.

A. E. Tibbs, further study as New Testa-
ment Fellow.

W. D. Turkington, Pastor, Methodist Church,
Lakehurst, N. J.

E. Vanden Bosch, Pastor, Presbyterian
Church, Weatherly, Pa.

L. A. Van Patten, Assistant, Westminster
Presbyterian Church (U. S.), St. Louis, Mo.

A. D. Viernes, further study.

E. A. Wallace, plans not yet settled.

W. M. Weaver, Pastor, Pine Grove Presby-
terian Church, Sunnyburn, Pa.

8

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

A. H. Wessels, Pastor, Chanceford Presby-
terian Church, Woodbine, Pa.

J. G. Williams, Pastor, Welsh Presbyterian
Church, Oshkosh, Wis.

R. A. N. Wilson, Assistant, Presbyterian
Church, Westfield, N. J.

W. C. Wright, Pastor, Presbyterian Church,
Mount Holly, N. J.

W. A. Zoerner, Missionary of the Presby-
terian Church to India.

Lectures on Christian Hymnody

The Seminary welcomed this year as
lecturer on the L. P. Stone Foundation,
the Rev. Louis F. Benson, D. D., Edi-
tor of “The Hymnal,” Author of “Stud-
ies of Familiar Hymns,” and “The
English Hymn.” Dr. Benson has the
unique distinction of having been three
times the Stone Lecturer, having giv-
en in the session of 1906-07 a course on
“The Psalmody of the Reformed
Churches,” and in 1909-10 a coarse on
“The Hymnody of the English-Speak-
ing Churches.” The subjects of the
several lectures in the series this year
were : “The Apostolical Ideal of Hymn-
ody,” “The Relation of the Hymn to
Holy Scripture,” “The Relation of the
Hymn to Literature,” “The Contents of
the Hymn,” “The Text of our Hymns,”
and “Hymn Singing.” The iectures
were so instructive and illuminating
that the hope was awakened that Dr.
Benson would see his way to publish
the lectures and so add one more to the
valuable series of books that have
grown out of the L. P. Stone Founda-
tion.

The Students Lectures on
Missions

The course was given this year by
the Rev. John Van Ess, D. D., of the
Reformed Church of America, Mission-

ary to Arabia. Dr. Van Ess graduat-
ed in the class of 1902 and went imme-
diately to the field, where he has been
one of the company of men who have
built up the remarkable mission in
Arabia. At the same time he has
gained recognition as a scholar in the
field of Moslem literature and religions.
Dr. Van Ess spoke informally but with
a deep conviction and out of a wide ex-
perience. His subject was “The Mis-
sionary and His Message.” He dealt
with the attitude of mind of the candi-
date for the mission field and with the
problems and methods of the mission-
ary on the field, especially in missions
among the Mohammedans, and in his
last lecture discussed the situation, po-
litical, social and religious, that at pres-
ent exists in the Mohammedan world,
and more especially in the Arabian por-
tion of it.

Visiting Preachers and Lecturers

On invitation of the Faculty the fol-
lowing ministers preached in Miller
Chapel :

The Rev. Samuel C. Craig, D. D., of Prince-
ton, N. J.

The Rev. Robert S. Inglis, D. D., of Newark,
N. J.

The Rev. Jesse M. Corum, D. D., of Norris-
town, Pa.

The Rev. Clarence E. Macartney, D. D., of
Philadelphia, Pa.

The Rev. George Johnson, Ph.D., of Lincoln
University, Pa.

The Rev. Louis F. Benson, D. D., of Phila-
delphia, Pa.

The Rev. Sylvester W. Beach, D. D., of
Princeton, N. J.

The Rev. Franklin B. Dwight, of Princeton,
N. J.

The Rev. Harold McAfee Robinson, D. D.,
of Philadelphia, Pa.

The Rev. John Van Ess, D. D., of Arabia.

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

9

The Rev. Nathaniel J. Sproul, D. D., of
Salem, N. J.

The Rev. Maitland Alexander, D. D., of
Pittsburgh, Pa.

A special Day of Prayer was ob-
served on February 4th, with an early
morning communion service conducted
by President Stevenson, and addresses
in the morning, afternoon and evening
by the Rev. Henry Howard, D. D.,
Acting Minister of the Fifth Avenue
Church, New York City.

Addresses have been delivered be-
fore the Seminary on various phases of
religious life and work by the Rev. J. S.
Conning, D. D., Secretary of the Board
of National Missions; Robert E. Speer,
D. D., Secretary of the Board of For-
eign Missions; Professor Robert Dick
Wilson, D. D., of Princeton, N. J., Rev.
Robert M. Labaree, D. D., of Lincoln
University, Pa., Rev. Silvester W.
Beach, D. D., of Princeton, N. J., Rev.
J. Christy Wilson, of Persia; Rev. F.
Paul McConkey, D. D., of Philadel-
phia, Pa., Rev. Henry W. Frost, D. D.,
of Princeton, N. J., Rev. Alexander
Alison, Jr., D. D., of Bridgeport, Conn.,
Rev. W. F. McMillan, D. D„ of Phila-
delphia, Pa., Rev. Francis Shunk
Downs, Secretary Board of Foreign
Missions; Rev. David S. Kennedy,
D. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., Rev. John
McDowell, D. D., Secretary of the
Board of National Missions, Rev. A. C.
Gaebelein, D. D., of New York City;
Rev. T. E. Little, of New York City;
Rev. Floyd E. Hamilton, of Korea ;
Rev. A. Z. Conrad, Ph.D., D. D., of
Boston, Mass., Rev. Paul Kanamori, of
Japan; Rev. Rockwell S. Brank, D. D.,
of Summit, N. J., Rev. William N.
Blair, D. D., of Korea; Rev. Harold
Paul Sloan, D. D., of Haddonfield,

N. J., Rev. G. W. McPherson, D. D.,
of Yonkers, N. Y., Rev. Abraham L.
Latham, D. D., of Chester, Pa., Rev.
George Johnson, Ph. D., of Lincoln
University, Pa.

At the meeting for the presentation
of Missions on Sunday at ten a. m., the
following spoke : the Rev. Paul Mar-
tin, of Princeton; Rev. Norman C.
Whittemore, of Korea; Rev. C. H.
Yerkes, of China; Mr. E. H. Greyling,
of South Africa; Rev. E. M. Clark, of
Japan; Mr. H. M. Coulter, on Missions
to Mormons ; Rev. F. E. Hamilton, of
Korea ; Rev. C. L. Crane, of Africa ;
Rev. J. C. Wilson, of Persia; Rev. R.
R. Gailey, of China ; Mr. J. T. Alam on
Missions to North American Indians;
Rev. M. A. Hopkins, of China; Rev.
Paul Hosier, of China; Rev. Wendell
Taylor, Student Volunteer Secretary;
Mr. R. E. Good on Mission Work in
Canada; Rev. S. C. McKee, of China;
Rev. C. E. Rettew, of the Philippines;
Mr. R. M. Ewing on the Forman Chris-
tian College.

Henry W. Smith

Mr. Henry W. Smith, Instructor
Emeritus in Elocution, died on March
9th, after an illness of three days. He
was in his seventy-seventh year. Mr.
Smith was the senior member of the
Seminary Faculty. He was born in
Williamstown, Mass., February 25,
1849; was graduated from Williams
College in 1869, studied voice culture
and elocution in Boston and taught in
Williams College and Boston Uni-
versity.

Mr. Smith began his service with
the Seminary in 1878, forty-eight
years ago. This term of service is the

10

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

more notable because, as Mr. Smith
was not long since heard to express it,
he had as a teacher been in association
with all those who have taught in the
Seminary in the hundred and fourteen
years of its history, except five profes-
sors, namely, the three Alexanders, Dr.
Miller and Dr. Breckinridge. Dr.
Charles Hodge’s death occurred in
1878, just after Mr. Smith began his
connection with the Seminary. During
his long term of service, Mr. Smith
held the esteem of both Faculty and
students as a conscientious instructor
in a correct theory and practice of elo-
cution, and as always a courteous, kind-
ly Christian gentleman. In addition to
his work in voice culture, the Seminary
benefitted by his musical ability and
leadership. Though Mr. Smith was
made emeritus a year ago, he continued
instruction of elective classes and criti-
cism of sermons until the time of his
death. His wife, nee Isabella Hubbard,
died in 1914. He is survived by his son,
Mr. Murray D. Smith.

Professor John D. Davis, Ph. D.,
D. D., LL. D.

Princeton Theological Seminary, its
Alumni and friends, and the Church at
large have suffered a great loss in the
death, on June 21st, at the Jefferson
Hospital, Philadelphia, of Professor
John D. Davis, D. D. Immediately
after the Seminary Commencement he
had a minor operation for a cyst in the
throat. His recovery from the opera-
tion did not proceed well, and his un-
expected death was due to a hemor-
rhage in connection with the wound.

Dr. Davis was born in Pittsburgh,

Pa., on March 5, 1854, being the son of
Robert and Annie Williams Davis. Be-
fore entering college he was a bank
employee. He entered Princeton Uni-
versity in 1875 and was graduated in
the class of 1879. This class is nota-
ble for the number of its members, in-
cluding President Woodrow Wilson,
who in after life became eminent in
various walks of life. In this class Dr.
Davis graduated as first honor man and
Latin Salutatorian. Having been
awarded the Fellowship in Philosophy
by the University, he studied in the
University of Bonn, and in 1881 en-
tered Princeton Theological Seminary,
was graduated in 1883 and awarded
the George S. Green Fellowship in He-
brew. He served as Instructor in He-
brew in the Seminary during the ses-
sion of 1883-84 and studied on his Fel-
lowship in the University of Leipzig,
1884 to 1886. On his return he re-
sumed his duties as Instructor in He-
brew and in 1888 became professor of
Hebrew and Cognate Languages. In
1892 the title of his professorship was
changed to Semitic Philology and Old
Testament History, and in 1900 he suc-
ceeded Dr. William Henry Green as
Helena Professor of Oriental and Old
Testament Literature. He was award-
ed the degree of Ph. D. by Princeton
University in 1886, was honored by the
same University in 1898 with the de-
gree of Doctor of Divinity, and by
Washington and Jefferson College in
1902 with the degree of Doctor of
Laws. In 1894 Dr. Davis published
“Genesis and Semitic Tradition,” and
in 1898 “A Dictionary of the Bible,”
which has been several times revised
and enlarged and has had a steadily in-
creasing sale and is the most used and

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

ii

influential one volume Bible Diction-
ary. It has been translated into several
foreign languages and preparation is
now being made for its appearance in
Portugese and Spanish. He was the
writer of critical notes in the Westmin-
ster Teacher from 1899 to 1907, and
contributed frequently to Biblical and
archeological journals.

The external facts of Dr. Davis’ life
may thus be briefly summarized be-
cause so much of his history is bound
up in the service of Princeton Seminary
from his student days until his death.
Long as this service was, the value of
it is measured not merely by its dura-
tion, but by the quality of the man as
a personal influence and a teacher.

An older generation of the Alumni
remember him as their teacher of He-
brew and pay tribute to him as a mas-
ter in the teaching of language. The in-
struction was so orderly and clear cut,
never thrusting on the student’s at-
tention matters for which he was not
prepared, never omitting anything
needed, combining rule and vocabu-
lary and practice, that it is remembered
as a marvel of economical instruction.

A later generation of students feel
themseves deeply indebted to him for
his courses in Biblical Literature, es-
specially his curriculum courses on Old
Testament History, in the Poetic Lit-
erature of the Old Testament, and in
Introduction and Exegesis of the Pro-
phets, as well as for numerous elective
courses and for guidance in studies of
private research in Old Testament sub-
jects. He possessed the rare faculty
of not only instructing his students in
regard to the specific passages or Bib-
lical questions before them, but in such
broad, accurate and fundamental prin-

ciples of interpretation that they were
trained both to meet the difficulties im-
mediately before them, and to face
squarely and undismayed new adverse
critical theories of the Old Testament
as these might from time to time arise,
and to become progressively intelligent
and appreciative students of the Bible.

His students pay him reverence as a
strong conserving and constructive in-
fluence in their theological education.
And what he did for the students of
the Seminary, he did for the Church at
large in his Bible Dictionary and other
publications and in public addresses.

In the class-room and out of it he
moved among his colleagues and the
student body as a man of high spiritual
ambition and attainment, yet an exam-
ple of modesty and humility, a wise
counsellor and a man with a vision like
unto the prophets whose words he ex-
pounded.

In 1889 he was married to Mar-
guerite Scobie of San Francisco, who
survives him, as also do his children :
Miss Jean Scobie Davis, Professor of
Economics at Agnes Scott College, De-
catur, Ga. ; Nathaniel Peniston Davis,
American Consul at Pernambuco, Bra-
zil ; Anne, wife of Professor Mowbray
Velte of Forman Christian College,
Lahore, India; Philip Haldane Davis,
Instructor in Classics at Vassar Col-
lege, and Miss Lois Elizabeth Davis,
about to enter Bryn Mawr College.

The funeral service was held on June
23rd at his late residence, and his body
was laid to rest in the Princeton Ceme-
tery.

(Delay in the issuing of this number of the
Bulletin has made it possible to insert this
notice of Dr. Davis’ death.)

12

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

The Grace Carter Erdman Prize
in English Bible

At the May meeting of the Board of
Directors the following action was tak-
en : “The Rev. Pardee Erdman having
expressed a willingness to contribute
one thousand dollars towards the es-
tablishment of an English Bible Prize
in memory of his wife, Mrs. Grace Car-
ter Erdman, the Directors and Trus-
tees of the Seminary accept the gift
with the understanding that the money
will be invested and the income each
year set aside for a prize of $50 to be
awarded by the Professor of Practical
Theology to that member of the Senior
Class who has done the best work in
English Bible during his course in
Princeton Seminary, covering at least
two years.”

Professorship in Religious
Education

Under date of March 26, 1926, Mr.
Thomas W. Synnott, of Wenonah,
New Jersey, President of the Board of
Trustees of the Seminary, addressed a
letter to the Board of Directors from
which the following are extracts:

“As you may perhaps be aware, I
have been especially interested as a
member of the Board of Christian Edu-
cation in the establishment of Bible De-
partments for the systematic teaching
of the Bible in our Presbyterian col-
leges. To fit men for the proper con-
duct of these departments requires, in
addition to the regular theological
course, a certain amount of special
training. I understand that there is a
demand for such training to fit theolog-
ical students for work as Directors of

Religious Education in our Presbyter-
ian churches, and also that furloughed
missionaries who are called to teach on
the foreign field feel the need of a spec-
ialized preparation. As a Trustee of
the Seminary, I believe that we should
fall in line with what other Presbyter-
ian Seminaries have felt called upon to
do, and establish a department of Re-
ligious or Bible Education. Those who
engage in teaching the Bible at home or
abroad should be well grounded in that
strong evangelical faith for which
Princeton has always stood. I desire,
therefore, to make to you the following
proposition.

I will make available a fund of $60,-
000, the annual income of which shall
be used for the part payment of the
salary of a regular professor of Relig-
ious Education.

This is on the condition that the
Trustees set aside the undesignated
contributions of the Alumni to the En-
dowment and Enlargement Fund, and
amounting to $50,000, as a special alum-
ni fund, the annual income of which
shall be used to pay the balance of the
salary of this professor of Religious Ed-
ucation.

The increased interest in the study
of the Bible is shown by the fact that
in 1914 the Bible Chair Endowment
Funds held by and for our Presbyterian
Colleges amounted to but $300,000,
while today it is $2,130,000, and col-
leges find it difficult to obtain properly
qualified instructors for these Bible
Chairs.”

The Board of Directors took action
upon Mr. Synnott’s letter: “Resolved,
That the Board of Directors accept
with thanks the generous offer of Mr.
Thomas W. Synnott, and do hereby

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

13

establish a Professorship of Religious
(Christian) Education ; and we submit
1 herewith the letter of Mr. Synnot con-
taining the offer of $60,000, the income
of which, together with that of the
1 Alumni Fund, shall be used for the sal-
ary of a professor of Religious (Chris-
tian) Education.

The details in regard to the exact na-
ture of the course and its place in the
curriculum will be determined later.

Princeton Community Hospital

Princeton Seminary is deeply inter-
ested in the effort being made this
summer by the town of Princeton to
provide an adequate Community Hos-
pital. Last year Princeton University
completed a beautiful and splendid-
ly equipped Infirmary, in which,
through a gift made by Mr. E.
Francis Hyde in the name of the
Seminary toward its building, and
through the Seminary’s further con-
tribution to its endowment, the mem-
bers of the Seminary Faculty and
the student body have the same privi-
lege in this University Infirmary as the
Faculty and students of the University.
But this does not provide for the fami-
lies of the Faculty, of married students
and of missionaries resident in the Cal-
vin Payne Hall. For these the new
hospital will provide in case of illness.
A fund of more than six hundred and
two thousand dollars has been sub-
scribed for the building of the hospital
and its permanent endowment. The
building will be located on the north
side of the town, and is planned to con-
tain fifty-four beds, and to provide ade-
quate operating, emergency, clinic and
laboratory facilities. Through the gen-
erosity of officers and friends of the

Seminary, funds have been contributed
in the name of the Seminary.

Congratulations to

Dr. J. Ritchie Smith

By a reception on May the eigh-
teenth, Dr. and Mrs. J. Ritchie Smith
celebrated Dr. Smith’s completion of
fifty years of service as an ordained
minister of the Presbyterian Church.
These years have been occupied by
pastorates in the First Church of
Peekskill, N. Y., in the Market Street
Church, Harrisburg, and in the Pro-
fessorship of Homiletics in Princeton
Seminary.

Dr. Smith received most cordial con-
gratulations from a very wide circle
of friends. They were especially grati-
fied to learn of his recovery from a re-
cent serious automobile accident and
that he is definitely planning to re-
sume his work in the Seminary next
September.

Seminary Chorus

For the fourth year the Rev. Findley
D. Jenkins, Instructor in Systematic
Theology has, in addition to his work
in this department, contributed to the
life of the Seminary by the training
and conduct of the Seminary Chorus.
Under his skillful leadership and con-
duct the students of the Chorus, and
through them the Seminary, have been
educated in accurate and artistic ren-
dering of religious music of a high or-
der. The Chorus has given musical
services in churches in Philadelphia,
Elizabeth, Newark and Princeton dur-
ing the year, and taken part in the ex-
ercises of the Seminary Commence-
ment.

Mr. Jenkins has felt compelled to re-

14

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

sign the leadership of the Chorus be-
cause its demands upon his time and
energy have proved to be too great a
burden in connection with his teaching
duties in the Seminary. In the Facul-
ty’s annual report to the Board of Di-
rectors there is an item: “The Faculty
has learned with regret that Mr. Jen-
kins will be unable to continue as Di-
rector of the Seminary Chorus, and de-
sires to express its high appreciation
of the service that he has rendered,”
and asked that some arrangement be
made by the Directors and Trustees
whereby musical training along the line
which Mr. Jenkins has developed may
be provided for the students during the
coming year.

The Next Seminary Year

The One Hundred and Fifteenth
Session of the Seminary will open on
September 28th with matriculation of
new students in the parlor of Hodge
Hall and the drawing for the choice of
rooms by entering students at three
o’clock in Stuart Hall.

New students will please bring with
them when matriculating, if they have
not sent them in advance, their creden-
tials as described in the catalogue,
namely, letters of commendation from
their pastors and their college diplomas
or other official evidence of the degrees
received and the year when these de-
grees were given. A student coming
from another seminary shall bring a
letter of dismissal from such seminary,
together with a full statement of the
courses already accomplished there,
and students wishing to receive credit
for theological studies taken in con-
nection with their college course shall
bring official evidence that such courses

have been taken. Candidates for the fei
Master of Theology degree shall bring j p
both their college and seminary di- j
plomas or other official evidence of
them. - I jl(

The opening address of the Seminary
year will be given in Miller Chapel on
Wednesday, September 29th, at eleven 1 1
o’clock, and lectures and recitations
will begin the same day.

To facilitate the making up of an ac-
curate list of prospective students, the
Registrar of the Seminary, the Rev.

Paul Martin, will appreciate it if all
those who plan to come to the Semi-
nary will write him to that effect in Au-
gust or early September.

The Alumni Dinner at the General
Assembly

The Princeton Alumni Dinner at the
Assembly was through the courtesy of
the Brown Memorial Church held in
the parish house under the supervision
of the ladies of the church. Two hun-
dred and sixteen at table made a larger
gathering of Alumni than at any pre-
vious Assembly. Addresses were made
by the Rev. W. O. Thompson, D. D.,
Moderator of the Assembly ; the Rev.
Charles R. Erdman, D. D., Retiring
Moderator of the Assembly ; the Rev.
John B. Laird, D. D., Vice-President
of the Board of Directors ; President J.
Ross Stevenson, D. D.; the Rev. K. H.
Huffman of Baltimore, and by the Rev.
William A. Waddell, D. D., President
of Mackenzie College, Brazil.

The Stuart Professorship of Apol-
ogetics and Christian Ethics

The close of the session of 1925-26
is marked by the retirement from the
teaching staff of the Seminary of Pro-

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

15

fessor William Brenton Greene, Jr.,
D. D. Dr. Green’s connection with the
Seminary dates from his student years,
1877-1880. During the years 1883-1893
he served as a Director of the Semi-
nary. He was pastor of the First
Church of Boston, Mass., and the
Tenth Church of Philadelphia. He ac-
cepted a call to the Stuart Professor-
ship of the Relations of Philosophy and
Science to the Christian Religion and
held this chair from 1892 to 1903. In
1903 he became Stuart Professor of
Apologetics and Christian Ethics and
has filled this chair until the present
date.

At its May meeting, the Board of Di-
rectors accepted his resignation and
made him Professor Emeritus of Apol-
ogetics and Christian Ethics. The Sem-
inary is deeply indebted to Dr. Greene
for his services as a teacher in curricu-
lum classes and also in his highly
prized elective courses. More than
this, during these long years he has
gone in and out among us as ever the
high-minded, conscientious Christian
gentleman whose presence and exam-
ple has been a molding force in shaping
men for the high office of the ministry.
It is hoped that as Professor Emeritus
he may long continue to exercise this
influence.

The Board of Directors of the Sem-
inary at its May meeting elected The
Rev. J. Gresham Machem, D. D., now
Assistant Professor of New Testament
Literature and Exegesis, to fill the
chair of the Stuart Professorship of
Apologetics and Christian Ethics. The
General Assembly, on the recommen-
dation of its Standing Committee on
Theological Seminaries, postponed the
question of the confirmation of the

election. A special committee of three
ministers and two elders was appoint-
ed to make a sympathetic study of con-
ditions affecting the welfare of Prince-
ton Seminary and to report to the next
General Assembly.

Books by Seminary Professors

Three new books by members of the
Seminary Faculty have appeared in the
last twelve months :

The Epistle to the Romans, An Ex-
position. By the Rev. Charles R. Erd-
man, D. D., LL. D. Philadelphia,
Westminster Press. 160 pp. This
forms one of the series of expositions
of the New Testament of which the
following have already been published :
The Gospel of John, The Gospel of
Matthew, The Gospel of Mark, The
General Epistles, The Acts, The Gos-
pel of Luke, The Pastoral Epistles of
Paul.

What is Faith ? By the Rev. J. Gres-
ham Machen, D. D., New York. The
Macmillan Company. 263 pp.

The Holy Spirit in the Gospels. By
the Rev. J. Ritchie Smith, D. D. New
York. The Macmillan Company. 394
pp.

The Library

At the May meeting of the Board of
Trustees the librarian reported that
during the year the Library had ac-
quired 135 bound volumes by gift and
1,586 by purchase ; these with 21 pam-
phlets bound in the Library make an
addition of 1,742 bound volumes and
bring the total now in the Library to
122,126. The number of pamphlets
added was 2,199, making the present
total of pamphlets 43,453. Work on
the library of the late Professor War-

i6

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

field has been completed. From it
there have been added to the shelves
2,611 volumes and 1,924 pamphlets.

Since the November Bulletin the Li-
brary has received the following books
for the Alumni Alcove :

Persuasive Evangelism, Philadelphia,
1925, by the Rev. Marshall Harring-
ton, ’99.

What is Faith? New York, 1925, by
the Rev. Professor J. Gresham Machen,
D. D., ’95.

An Introduction to the New Testa-
ment, 1925, by the Rev. Donald W.
Richardson, ’06.

The Logic of Evolution, Boston,

1925, by the Rev. Charles B. McMul-
len, Ph.D., ’00.

A Guide to the Study of the English
Bible, revised edition, Durham, N. C.,

1926, by Hersey E. Spence and James
Cannon III, '18.

Hymns, original and translated, Phil-
adelphia, 1925, by the Rev. Louis F.
Benson, D. D., ’87.

Twentieth Century Sermons for
Twentieth Century People, 1926, by the
Rev. Charles C. Walker, D. D., ’88.

Things most surely Believed, New
York, 1926, by the Rev. Gerrit Ver-
kuyl, Ph. D., D. D„ ’04.

Fundamental Christianity, New
York, 1926, by the Rev. Francis L. Pat-
ton, D. D., LL. D., ’65.

The Theology of Religion, New
York, 1926, by the Rev. William S.
Bishop, D. D., ’91.

Putting on Immortality, New York,
1926, by the Rev. Clarence E. Macart-
ney, D. D., ’05.

The Holy Spirit in the Gospels, New
York, 1926, by the Rev. Professor J.
Ritchie Smith, D. D., ’76.

The Beliefs of the Shiahs, translat-

ed from the Persian by the Rev. J.
Christy Wilson, T9.

Catechism of Presbyterian Church
Government by Alexander T. McGill,
translated into Urdu, Allahabad, 1878,
by the Rev. Elwood M. Wherry, D. D.,
’67.

The Christ of the Old Testament,
Richmond, Va., 1926, by the Rev. Pro-
fessor Edward Mack, D. D., ’89.

The following pamphlets by alumni
have been received :

From the Rev. Ralph W. Nelson, T8,
Fundamentalism and Experimental
Logic, and A Behavioristic Approach
to the Christian Idea of God; from the
Rev. James Robinson, D. D., ’93, Fif-
tieth Anniversary of the First Presby-
terian Church in Bethlehem, Pa.; from
the Rev. Herbert Adams Gibbons, Ph.
D., Litt. D., ’08, The Far East and the
Pacific as a Phase of European Poli-
tics, Philadelphia, 1925 ; from the Rev.
George L. Guichard, ’97, The Kingdom
of Heaven : an Analytical Study of the
Gospel of Matthew, Detroit, 1925 ; from
the Rev. James A. Matheson, ’94, A
Brief History of the Allentown Pres-
byterian Church, Allentown, N. J.;
from the Rev. Professor Frederick W.
Loetscher, D. D., LL. D., ’00, Three
Sights Worth Seeing, Princeton, N. J.,
1926; from the Rev. Norbury W.
Thornton, M. A., ’79, A Patriotic Tri-
umvirate of States; from the Rev. Fin-
ley D. Jenkins, T9, Is Jesus God? re-
print from the Princeton Theological
Review of October, 1925, and January,
1926 ; from the Rev. George G. Mayes,
D. D., ’91, Sion Presbyterian Church,
Winnsboro, S. C. : Historical Sketch
1799-1926; from the Rev. Paul F. B.
Hamborsky, Ph. D., ’05, Mit ismeriink
mi Reformatus Egyhaznak? What is

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

17

the Reformed Church to our Knowl-
edge? by John Muranti and Paul F. B.
Hamborsky, Philadelphia, 1925, and
from the Rev. Colin D. Campbell, ’99,
The Nature of Literature (1) the Defi-
nition, Regina, Sask., 1926 ; from the
Rev. Professor Hastings Eells, Ph. D.,
T9, The Genesis of Martin Bucer’s
Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, re-
printed from the Princeton Theological
Review, vol. XXIV, April, 1926 ; Mis-
sionary Work in Mexico, reprint from
the Methodist Quarterly Review for
April, 1926, by Bishop James Cannon,
Jr., ’88 ; Calvinistic View of Church and
State, by the Rev. A. v. C. P. Huizinga,
a graduate student, 1904-05.

Alumni Notes

1855

The Rev. Ezra F. Mundy, retains the honor
of being the oldest living graduate. He is
nearing the completion of the 93rd year. Mr.
Mundy was present at the Commencement ex-
ercises in May.

1865

The Rev. Prof. George L. Raymond, L. H.
D., has suffered the loss of his wife, who died
Dec. 12, 1925, in Washington, D. C.

1869

The Rev. William W. Heberton, D. D., has
resigned as treasurer of the Board of Min-
isterial Relief and Sustentation after a service
of forty years and a half.

1874

The Rev. George C. Yeisley, D. D., has
been released from the First Church of Hud-
son, N. Y. Dr. Yeisley has been pastor of this
church since 1875, more than fifty years.

1875

The Rev. Leigh R. Smith has been released
from the church at Morrison, Iowa.

1882

The Rev. William K. Foster has changed his
address from 248 S. St. Bernard Street, Phila-
delphia, to 4600 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.

The Rev. Charles Lee, D. D., and his con-
gregation, the First Church of Carbondale,
Pa., celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his
pastorate, Nov. 8-12, 1925.

1883

The Rev. James W. Skinner, D. D., was
elected moderator of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, U. S., at its meeting
in Pensacola, Fla.

1885-1886

The Rev. Samuel R. Hope, a graduate stu-
dent, 1885-86, has resigned his church in Madi-
son, N. C., and changed his address to 626
S. W. 12th St., Miami, Fla.

1886

The Rev. Prof. William P. Finney, D. D.,
has accepted the appointment as Manager of
the Department of Historical Research and
Conservation of the Office of the General As-
sembly, and began his new duties on April 1,
1926.

1890

The Rev. Allan M. Paterson, D. D., was in-
stalled pastor of the church at Woodbury
Heights, N. J., May 5, 1926.

1891

The Rev. Prof. Charles R. Erdman, D. D.,
LL.D., has been elected President of the Board
of Foreign Missions, to succeed the late Rev.
J. C. R. Ewing, D. D., K. C. I. E.

The Rev. Samuel C. Hodge has suffered the
loss of his wife, who died Dec. 13, 1925, in
West Chester, Pa.

The Rev. James R. Keri* was elected moder-
ator of the Presbytery of West Jersey at its
spring meeting.

1893

The Rev. William F. Dickens-Lewis, D. D.,
was elected moderator of the Presbytery of
Cleveland for his third consecutive year at its
spring meeting.

The Rev. James Robinson, D. D., with his
congregation, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of the First Church of Bethlehem, Pa., Nov.
15-18, 1925.

The Rev. Oscar W. Zeigler will have charge
of the regular services of Christ Church, Balti-
more, Md., during the summer.

1894

The Rev. Hugh McNich, D. D., has been in-

i8

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

stalled pastor of the church of San Juan Ca-
pristrano, Calif.

1895

The Rev. John M. Gaston, D. D., and Miss
Eva Montgomery were married, Dec. 4, 1925,
in Philadelphia, Pa.

The Rev. Lewis S. Mudge, D. D., LL.D., and
Miss Anna Evelyn Bolton were married, Dec.
1 7, 1925, in Philadelphia, Pa.

The Rev. Mott R. Sawyers, D. D., was elect-
ed moderator of the Presbyterty of Des Moines
at its recent meeting.

The Rev. J. Paul Shelley, Ph.D., was re-
leased from the Chestnut Street Church of
Erie, Pa., Nov. 18, 1925, to take effect Jan. 1,
1926.

1896

The Rev. William L. Freund has moved from
Princeton to Atlantic City, N. J.

The Rev. William L. Schmalhorst has suf-
fered the loss of his wife, who died March
14, 1926.

1897

The Rev. John Bamford, pastor of the First
Church of Barnesville, Ohio, has accepted a
call to the Northminster Church of Springfield,
Ohio.

The Rev. William T. McKinney was in-
stalled pastor of the West Chester and Sharon-
ville churches, Ohio, Nov. 29, 1925.

The Rev. Samuel W. Steckel, D. D., was
released from the Westminster Church, Atlantic
City, N. J., Jan. 19, 1926.

The Rev. James C. Stout, professor of
Church History in the Biblical Seminary in
New York City, received the honorary de-
gree of D. D. from the College of Wooster
in June, 1925.

The Rev. John Van de Erve, M. D., was
elected moderator of the Presbytery of Charles-
ton (South) at its spring meeting.

1898

The Rev. George H. Bucher has suffered the
loss of his wife, who died April 6, 1926, in New
Wilmington, Pa.

The Rev. Charles R. Nisbet, D. D., was
elected moderator of the Presbytery of Upper
Missouri (South) at its spring meeting.

1899

The Rev. Henry W. Bloch has received the
honorary degree of D. D. from the Oglethorpe

University of Atlanta, Ga. He has also been
made a Major in the Reserve Army of the
United States by President Coolidge.

The Rev. Louis S. Brooke, D. D., was in-
stalled pastor of the Memorial Church, Detroit,
Mich., April 11, 1926. Dr. Brooke was elected
moderator of the Presbytery of Detroit at its
spring meeting.

The Rev. William B. Frith was installed
pastor of the church at Jordan, N. Y., Jan. 26,
1926.

1900

The Rev. George F. Baker was released from
the pastorate of the Amwell United First
Church, N. J., on Jan. 26, 1926.

The Rev. Leon C. Hills, D. D., has resigned
the Capitol Heights Church of Denver, Colo.

The Rev. Charles M. Rauch, D. D., has re-
signed the Brookline Church of Chicago, 111.

The Rev. Herbert Ure has resigned the
church of Woodbury, N. J., to take effect June
20, 1926, of which he has been pastor for five
years.

1901

The Rev. Thomas Walker Malcolm, D. D.,
was elected moderator of the Presbytery of
Brooklyn-Nassau at its April meeting.

1903

The Rev. J. Edgar Park, D. D., has resigned
the Second Congregational Church of Newton,
Mass., to accept the Presidency of Wheaton
College, Norton, Mass.

The Rev. William J. Sharp has resigned the
First Church of Centralia, Wash.

1903- 1904

The Rev. Samuel Edgar, a graduate student,
1903-04 and again, 1916-17, was released from
the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Esk-
ridge, Kans., Sept. 1, 1925, and was installed
pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church
of Santa Ana, Calif., Oct. 9, 1925.

The Rev. Julius Kempf, a graduate student,
1903-04, a missionary in China, in a recent trip
up the West River was held up by bandits,
stripped and robbed ; but was allowed to re-
turn to Canton.

1904- 1905

The Rev. Arnold V. C. P. Huizinga, a gradu-
ate student, 1904-05, after a six months’ so-
journ in Italy and France, has returned to his
home in Thompson, Conn.

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

19

1905

The Rev. Frederick W. Evans, D. D., has re-
signed the Harlem Church of New York City,
to accept a call to the Church of the Redeemer
of Paterson, N. J. His installation took place
Feb. 25, 1926.

The Rev. Harry G. Finney, D. D., was in-
stalled pastor of the Central Church of Fay-
etteville, Ark., Jan. 10, 1926.

The Rev. William D. Williams has been re-
leased from the Parkside Church of Madison,
Wis.

1906

The Rev. George S. Fulcher was installed
pastor of the First Church of Monmouth, 111.,
Dec. 22, 1925.

1907

The Rev. William S. Bingham was recently
installed pastor of the church at Punta Gorda,
Fla.

1908

The Rev. John B. Ferguson was installed
pastor of the church of Hopewell, Ind., May
24, 1926.

The Rev. Herbert Adams Gibbons, Ph.D.,
Litt.D., has been elected to the presidency of
the Persia Society of America, succeeding
President Judson, of the University of Chicago.
Dr. Gibbons has also been elected President of
the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Asso-
ciation, of Boston, Mass.

1909

The Rev. Benjamin F. Farber, D. D., has
been released from the Sixth Church of Pitts-
burgh, Pa., that he may accept a call to the
Fourth Church of New York City. He was
installed pastor of the latter church, March
31, 1926.

The Rev. Walter E. Montgomery has been
appointed principal of the Tainan Theological
College, Formosa. This college serves the
needs of the whole island at present and has an
enrollment of twenty-eight students.

The Rev. Frederick N. Niedermeyer re-
ceived the honorary degree of D. D. from the
College of the Ozarks at its last commence-
ment. He was given leave of absence for a
trip around the world, beginning in January,
1926, and lasting about four and a half months.

1910

The Rev. Reid S. Dickson, western repre-
sentative of the Board of Ministerial Relief
and Sustentation, has been elected by the Board
an associate secretary to succeed Rev. Robert
Hunter, deceased.

The Rev. James Fisher has resigned the
church of Raymond, S. D.

The Rev. James M. Thompson has resigned
the churches of Cameron and Rock Lick, W.
Va.

1911

The Rev. Frank H. Stevenson, D. D., has
been elected President of the Board of Direc-
tors of Lane Theological Seminary.

1912

The Rev. John W. Claudy has resigned the
Watson Memorial Church of Pittsburgh, Pa.

The Rev. Olin M. Jones, during the recent
illness of Prof. G. H. Wailes (’97), took the
latter’s classes in Hebrew in the Reformed
Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia, Pa.

The Rev. William Stewart has resigned the
church at Donora, Pa.

1913

The Rev. Hilton R. Campbell, Ph.D., has
resigned the Hopewell Church of Thompson
Ridge, N. Y.

1914-1915

The Rev. Drury L. Jones, a graduate student,
1914-15, was elected moderator of the Presby-
tery of Fayetteville at its spring meeting.

1915

The Rev. Peter K. Emmons was elected mod-
erator of the Presbytery of New Brunswick at
its spring meeting.

1916

The Rev. Edwin F. Montgomery of Jackson-
ville, Fla., has accepted a call to the church
of Lake City, Fla.

The Rev. A. T. Tomshany, pastor of the
church at Battle Creek, Mich., has in his church
for a second year the largest Bible class in
the state, which he himself conducts. It now
numbers 750 members.

1918

The Rev. Howard E. Anderson has changed
his address from Ludhiana, India, to American
Presbyterian Mission, Saharanpur, U. P., India.

20

THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN

The Rev. Donald G. Barnhouse has accepted
a call to Grace Church, Philadelphia, Pa.

The Rev. D. Rhea Coffman has accepted a
call to the church at Long Branch, N. J.

1919

The Rev. Leroy Y. Dillener has accepted a
call to the First Church of Woobridge, N. J.,
and was installed pastor, Jan. 28, 1926.

1920

The Rev. William E. Baskerville was install-
ed pastor of the church at Lebanon, Ore., April
28, 1926.

The Rev. Harry D. Fleming is now assist-
ing the pastor of the First Church of Lan-
caster, Pa. His address is 154 East Walnut
Street, Lancaster.

The Rev. William Masselink received the
degree of Th.D. from the Louisville Baptist
Seminary in the department of Biblical Theo-
logy in 1924.

The Rev. Andrew Veeteh Wu and Siok-
Cheng Chi-tek were married, Feb. 17, 1926, in
Kulangsu, Amoy, China.

1921

The Rev. Roland B. Lutz, now pastor of the
Faith Church, Baltimore, Aid., celebrated with
his congregation the golden jubilee of the
church, Feb. 7-14, 1926. President Stevenson
delivered one of the addresses at the celebra-
tion.

1922

The Rev. Charles V. Hassler has resigned
the Chanceford Church of Woodbine, Pa.

The Rev. Orion C. Hopper was installed pas-
tor of the church at Cranford, N. J., Jan. 28,
1926. President Stevenson preached the sermon
at the installation.

The Rev. Willis B. Kilpatrick has entered
upon the pastorate of the Calvary Church of
Newburgh, N. Y.

1923

The Rev. William D. Johnson was installed
pastor of the First Church, Oskaloosa, Iowa,
May 16, 1926.

The Rev. Theodore C. Meek and Miss Ruth
Yant were married, Dec. 2, 1925, in Toledo,
Ohio. Mr. Meek is pastor of the Mahoning
Church, Danville, Pa.

The Rev. George J. Riester has resigned the
First Church of Woodbury Heights, N. J.

1924

Mr. Andrew S. Layman, who has been pursu-
ing his studies in Edinburgh, employed the
spring vacation traveling on the continent with
his wife, going as far as Naples. They will
return to this country in July.

1925

The Rev. Robert M. Campbell has entered
upon the pastorate of the Tenth United Presby-
terian Church of N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Mr. Earl Dubbel has accepted a position as
Professor of English at Juniata College, Penn-
sylvania.

The Rev. William S. Irwin has accepted a
call to the First Church, Beloit, Kans.

1925-1926

The Rev. Chen-Yuan Chen, a graduate stu-
dent, 1925-26, will return to China to become
pastor of a Presbyterian church in Peking.

The Rev. Kenji Kikuchi, a graduate student,
1925-26, is to serve as minister of the Japanese
Presbyterian Church, Oakland, Calif.

The Rev. Byron Christopher Nelson, a gradu-
ate student, 1925-26, has accepted a call to the
Lutheran Church of Perth Amboy, N. J.

The Rev. James Sprunt, a graduate student
1925-26, has accepted a call to the Presbyterian
Church of Chase City, Va.

The Rev. Parks W. Wilson, a graduate stu-
dent, 1925-26, was installed pastor of the church
at Ashland, N. J., May 4, 1926.

Princeton Theological Seminary Library

012

01467 8389

FOR USE IN LIBRARY ONLY
PERIODICALS

FOR

FOR use IN LIBRARY only.