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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. XXI PRINCETON, N. J., November, 1927 No. 3

September twenty-seventh was the opening day of the Seminary year. On
it new students matriculated and made choice of rooms. On another page will
be found a further statement in regard to the matriculation this year.

The formal opening of the Seminary followed on Wednesday, the twenty-
eighth, with exercises in Miller Chapel, at which President Stevenson presided
and welcomed the old and new students. It was the pleasure of the Seminary
to have as the speaker of the occasion the Rev. George Alexander, D. D., Pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church of New York City, who graduated from the
Seminary fifty-seven years ago in the class of 1870, and who for forty-three
years has served as a Director of the Seminary, far out-reaching any other
member of the Board in his term of service. Dr. Alexander’s address, embody-
ing the rich experience of his life-time ministry, is printed in this issue of the
Bulletin from a stenographic report.

The Directors of the Seminary have as last year engaged the Rev. John H.
Raven, D. D., Professor of Old Testament in the New Brunswick Theological
Seminary, to serve as Acting Professor of Old Testament in the Seminary
this year in conjunction with his teaching in New Brunswick. Professor George
Johnson, Ph.D., of Lincoln University, has also been engaged to give part time
service in the Department of Apologetics. He is also giving the theoretical por-
tion of the course in Religious Education. The part of this course dealing
with the practical methods of Religious Education is being conducted by the
Rev. Harold McAfee Robinson, D. D., Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of
Christian Education, with the assistance of other members of the staff of this
Board. The Senior year course in Christian Sociology is also being given by
this same group from Philadelphia. The Rev. Courtenay H. Fenn, D. D., of
Peking, China, and the Rev. Ralph B. Nesbitt of India, are assisting in the De-
partment of Missions. Dr. Fenn has also been asked by the Department of
Homiletics to assist in the criticism and reading of sermons. The training of
a double quartette to sing in the Seminary Chapel and the instruction of a vol-
untary class in music has been committed to Mr. Raymond E. Rudy, Organ-
ist of Trinity Episcopal Church, Princeton.

The Stone Lecturer for this session is Professor Alexander Souter, D.
Litt., of the University of Aberdeen. The date of these lectures will be No-
vember 28 to December 2, and his subject “St. Augustine.” Dr. Souter was
also the Stone Lecturer in 1924-25, his subject then being “The Earliest Latin
Commentaries on St. Paul’s Epistles.”

The Mission Lecturer for this year is the Rev. Albert D. Dodd, who has
been since 1903 a missionary in China. In recent years his station has been
Tenghsien, Shantung.

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The Glory of the Ministry

The Opening Address by Rev. George
Alexander, D. D.

Mr. President, members of the Faculty, in-
terested friends of Princeton Seminary, par-
don me if I ignore your presence and address
myself exclusively to the young men who are
here seeking preparation for the gospel min-
istry, and especially to the class which to-day
enter upon their novitiate.

I am sure you, my younger brethren, will not
expect from me any formal or scholarly dis-
course, but only such a familiar talk as can
appropriately be given by one who at the end
of the course is looking into the faces of youth
who are girdling themselves for the race. “Nos
morituri salutamus!”

What I have to say is so largely in the na-
ture of reminiscence, personal experience and
personal reflection, that I trust you will ex-
cuse any excessive use of the first personal
pronoun.

Just fifty-nine years ago my name was in-
scribed on Dr. McGill’s ancient book and I
was matriculated a student in Princeton Sem-
inary. The two years that followed in these
halls were the most significant and formative
of my life. I hope that your Seminary course
may be that for you, all of you. The things
which I should like to say are the things
which, it now seems to me, might have been
profitable if I had heard them three score
years ago.

First of all, let me express the hope that
you have made sure your calling. That is a
great hour in the history of any youth when
he awakes to the consciousness that his life,
to use Horace Bushnell’s phrase, is a plan of
God, that God has thought of him and has a
way of life for him. It is a great hour when
he accepts that calling and endeavors to shape
his course in accordance with the plan of God
for him. It is a tragedy if any youth makes
the great refusal when the Master calls. With-
in the past three months letters have come
to me from two octogenarians, both of them
bewailing the fruitlessness of their lives in
spiritual values; both of them confessing that
in early life they were conscious of a defi-
nite call to the Christian ministry, but were

lured away from that path by the attractions
and rewards of another profession. They are
Christian men, men of unblemished repute. One
of them attained distinction as a member of the
United States Congress, both of them are now
yearning for an opportunity to do something
for God before there comes “twilight and eve-
ning bell, and after that the dark.” Sooner
or later the youth who turns away when Christ
calls, is sure to go away sorrowing.

But the tragedy is not less when any one
having heard that call and accepted it, puts
his hand to the plow with a backward look
and a divided heart. Your President has sug-
gested that I speak upon the Glory of the Chris-
tian Ministry. There is no glory in the min-
istry for the minister whose whole heart is not
in the task. There is no glory in it for the
minister who ever wishes that he were some-
thing else than a minister. There is no glory
in it for one who cannot at the close of his
career and all along the way, say as the Apos-
tle Paul said to his young comrade, “I thank
my God who has enabled me, for that he
counted me faithful, putting me into the minis-
try.”

There is no glory in the ministry for one
who refuses to heed the counsel which
Shakespeare put in the mouth of Wolsey,
“Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition,
by that sin fell the angels.” You are naturally
and properly thinking of your future task, and
desiring that it may be under conditions that
will afford scope for your powers and incentive
to excellence. You should desire this. But
thank God if He answers your prayer by per-
mitting you to begin your ministry in ob-
scurity,— in contact with plain people where
you will see human nature without any veneer
or varnish. The most miserable failures in the
ministry I have known have been by men
placed too early in the fierce light that beats
upon a metropolitan pulpit. I recall now a
remark made to me by a friend in my Senior
Year. “Haven’t you made a mistake in ac-
cepting a pastorate of a little mission church
in a disreputable suburb of a stagnant city?
You might have done better.” Well, I could
not possibly have done better. For fourteen
years of joyous service the people of that
humble parish taught me far more than I
taught them. They taught me first of all to
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lectics or as a work of literary art, but as an
instrument to do something with, — a good in-
strument, if it wrought conviction in those
who heard and moved them to better thinking
and to better living.

Do not interpret this as an apology for
slovenliness in pulpit work.

The most satisfying among modern preach-
ers, the most enriching to me was John Henry
Jowett, and his diction was flawless. He
might spend an hour searching for the word
that would express his thought with precision
and with absolute clarity. The sermon with
him was a polished instrument, but an instru-
ment. He never lost sight of his objective.
On the other hand, Henry Ward Beecher, who
would probably be rated by most people as
the greatest preacher that America has pro-
duced, once said to me, “I never made but one
finished sermon, when I was a Presbyterian
minister in Indianapolis, and that caused me so
much humiliation that I never repeated the
offense.”

The mention of his name recalls an episode
in Seminary life which may perhaps be inter-
esting, even if not informing. In 1870 Mr.
Beecher was at the zenith of his reputation and
his power. The class of 1870 had the temerity
to invite him to come to Princeton and address
them during the week preceding their gradu-
ation. To our surprise and to the consterna-
tion of the Faculty, he accepted. It was an
inconsiderate thing for us to do, as his the-
ology was not exactly of the Princetonian type,
but ‘‘boys will be boys.” The Faculty very
wisely concluded to make the best of a some-
what embarrassing situation. Dr. Hodge in-
vited him to his home and the class to meet
him there. Everything passed without unto-
ward incident and the address furnished the
suggestion for the establishment at Yale of the
Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching. Be-
fore his lecture our committee asked him
whether he wished the desk removed from the
platform of the Second Church where he was
to speak. His answer was characteristic, “If
it is all the same to you, I should prefer to
dispense with that devil-invented obstacle to
the spread of the gospel.” He spoke to us on
“Fishing for Men.” His address was packed
with personal experience and humor and wis-
dom. In the course of it he drew an amusing
picture of a theological student issuing from

the Seminary with his half dozen well molded
sermons with which to electrify and transform
the world. “Young gentlemen,” said he, “mold
your sermon to fit the man you expect to reach
with it.” That was his way of saying what
Paul meant when he said, “I am made all
things to all men might by all means I save
some.” It is glorious to preach the unfailing
Gospel, when you have learned to trust in the
power of the Word and when you have the
privilege of seeing the Word preached mixed
with faith in them that hear it.

Matching the glory of preaching the gos-
pel is the glory of tending the flock of Christ.
That is, if a man has the pastoral spirit. If
he loves people, not simply humanity in the
abstract, but men and women and children. If
he is willing to get down underneath their
burdens, to share their interests, to help them
in their perplexities, to guide them in the way
of life, there is in it a glorious reward. If he
has not pastoral spirit, he had better begin to
qualify for a swivel-chair position. The hap-
piest minister that I ever knew, in spite of
many handicaps and hindrances, — the happiest
minister and the most tireless and devoted pas-
tor was a graduate of this Seminary, who held
it close to his heart, Theodore L. Cuyler. One
day on the way to Princeton he dropped into
the car seat beside me. He was almost stone
deaf, and in what was intended to be a confi-
dential tone, but which rasped the atmosphere
and set all the passengers agog, he said,
“Brother George, I am the spoiled child of
Providence.” When near the end of his days,
one evening he was addressing a group of
ministers and recalling the great and good
whom he had known that had passed on to the
heavenlies, anticipating the joy of meeting
them. Suddenly a change came over the spirit
of his dream and he added, “Brethren, after all
the world is so beautiful and life is so sweet,
and people are so dear, that I sometimes feel
like old Father Taylor, the preacher to the sail-
ors in Boston. As he neared the end and his
friends were gathered by his bed, someone said,
“Ah, Father Taylor, you will soon be with the
angels.” “With the angels,” said the old man
feebly, “I think I would rather be with
folks.”

Great is the reward in inward sat-
isfaction which comes to the minister

from faithfulness in tending the flock of

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Christ. It is also a service which commands
the respect and the reverence even of the most
worldly. Geoffrey Chaucer was a man of the
world; it was his delight to satirize the indo-
lent dignitaries of the church, but there were
two in that company of Canterbury who chal-
lenged the homage of his soul. One was the
“Clerk of Oxenford” in threadbare courtesy
who,

. . . was levere have at his beedes heed
Twenty bookes, clad in blak and reed
Of Aristotle and his philosophye,

Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye.

The other was a good man of religioun:

And was a povre Persoun of a toun ; . . .
But riche he was of holy thought and work.
He sette nat his benefice to hyre,

And leet his sheep encombered in the myre,
And ran to London, unto seynte Poules,

To Seken hymn a chaunterie for soules,

Or with a bretherhed to been withholde ;

But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde,
So that the wolf ne made it nat myscarie;

He was a shepherde and no mercenarie. . .

He wayted after no pompe and reverence,

He maked him a spiced conscience,

But Cristes lore, and his apostles’ twelve,

He taughte, but he folwed it hymselve.

In preaching and in pastoral service you will
have trials and deprivations, but do not allow
any man to pity you. Above all, do not get
into the habit of pitying yourself. A grumbling
parson who is always moaning over the hard-
ships of his lot is a pitiable object. Of course
he has trials; so has the merchant, so has
the banker, and where they have one compen-
sation the true minister of Christ has ten. Think
what it means to have one’s mind engrossed
with the noblest thoughts, hands and heart oc-
cupied in the worthiest service, dealing not
with mere things like the merchant nor with
symbols of things like the banker, but with im-
mortal souls that have in them the power of
an endless life. Why, if I should awake some
fine morning and find myself a captain of in-
dustry or a Napoleon of finance confronted
with his tasks, I should be tempted to ask, “Is
thy servant a dog that he should do this?”
Glory in your ministry and thank God con-
tinually for the privilege of such service.

Well, if you will suffer a closing word of
exhortation from a Princeton man who has

traveled far on the Sunset Trail and can re-
port that going is still good, it will be this:
That you make the most of these months which
are just before you, not only in the acquisition
of the implements of your future calling, not
merely in the technique of that calling, but let
me emphasize what your President has already
said, and counsel you make these coming
months a time for soul culture, for spiritual
growth. That is of far more account than
mere intellectual attainment or perfection in
technique of your calling. I have known min-
isters who told me that they look back upon
their Seminary course almost with horror, that
it was for them a time of disappointment, un-
settlement, disallusionment, that took the bloom
and freshness from their religious experience
and left a blight which would have been fatal
if the exigencies of their calling had not
thrown them back upon God for a fresh access
of spiritual power. It was th'e reverse in my
experience. It was a time for deepened Christian
experience, enlargement and clarification of the
outlook upon life. And if you ask what made
it such, I should say in part the instruction of
the class-room. For example, the course of
Caspar Wistar Hodge in The Life of Christ,
supplemented I confess by some less orthodox
outside reading. In that class-room I got a
new conception of Christ, not merely as a
soteriological expedient, but as a Divine man
who lived and walked among men and who is
ready to be the Great Companion of those who
are willing to walk with him to-day. That
meant more than I can tell. Not less
influential in the shaping of my inner life
were the prayers of his father, Dr. Charles
Hodge, in this place and in the oratory, which
brought to me a new conception of our relation
with the Heavenly Father and of the possi-
bilities of communion with the Highest.

I am not sure but that a more important fac-
tor still was fellowship with my own class.
In the class-room, on the campus, in the
prayer room that fellowship was invaluable. I
prized it then; I would have prized it more if
I could have looked into the future and known
that the scholarly and cultured Imbrie would
frame the symbols and shape the organized life
of the Church of Christ in Japan; that Greg-
ory who gained distinction in the realm of
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score and ten, die battling for a lost cause.
It would have given new meaning to our con-
tacts on the campus if I had recognized in
our squad, which vanquished the University
football team, such men as Chambers, whose
Armenian students not long ago erected a
tablet to his memory in Stuart Hall ; and Lu-
cas, the veteran Saint of the Church of India ;
and Hewitt, devoted pastor and inspiring col-
lege president. Yes, and one whom you did not
name, Mr. President, George MacKay, the
apostle of Formosa, first on the football team,
first in the class in Hebrew, and glorious in
his service to his divine Master. So I say,
prize your fellowship with your comrades in
this time of training not only for what they
are, but for the possibilities in them of becoming
more than they are. Do not allow any cliques, or
any theological differences, to drive you apart.
I am not deprecating discussion or even con-
troversy, because I believe there is real edu-
cational value in the attrition of minds that
differ in structure or training, but when con-
troversy results in dividing into hostile camps
men who are supposed to love with sincerity
the same Lord and to be destined to the same
service, then it is deadly.

I wonder if there is any one here to-day
who was present at the semi-centennial of Dr.
Charles Hodge more than half a century ago.
It was an occasion which brought together
such a distinguished company as does not often
gather even in Princeton. If any here were
present, you will recall the fact that the mo-
ment of deepest interest was when that aged
professor rose to address his former students
after fifty years of instruction in the science
of divine things. He said that his aim and
the aim of those who labored with him had
been to make all their teaching pivot on the
person and work of Jesus Christ. “Over these
portals,” said he, “I would write Jesus only.”
Then stretching out his hands towards the
audience and turning to those clustered about
him on the platform, with eyes suffused, and
face almost transfigured, he repeated twice in
a voice deep and rich but trembling with emo-
tion, “Jehovah Jesus ! Jehovah Jesus !” It is
He who is calling us to His service. He is
still saying, “Apart from me ye can do noth-
ing.”

New Students

The students in residence in the
Seminary this session whose names
were not in the catalogue last year are
as follows :

GRADUATE STUDENTS

John G. Anderson, Carrollton, Mo., Trinity
University (Texas) ; Lane Seminary, 1918.

Fukuitsu Aoki, Ono, Japan, Shinshu Agri-
cultural College, Biblical Seminary, 1926.

Ernst Bizer, Tailfingen, Germany, Marburg
University, 1927.

Rolf Didrik Brandt, St. Paul, Minn., A. B.,
Luther College, 1924; Luther Seminary, 1927.

John Henry De Haan, Pella, Iowa, A. B.,
Calvin College, 1924; Theological School of
the Christian Reformed Church, 1927.

Nicholas De Vries, Paterson, N. J., A. B.,
Calvin College, 1926; Theological School of
the Christian Reformed Church, 1926.

Rhodas Clyde Douglas, Hashing, China, A.
B., University of Florida, 1913; B. D., Union
Seminary (Virginia), 1918.

Stephen Jackson England, Enid, Okla., A.
B., Phillips University, 1924; A. M., 1925; B.
D., Phillips University, Theological Depart-
ment, 1926.

George Fischer, Haddonfield, N. J., Staats
Realschule, Elbogen, Cze., 1918; Th.B., Evan-
gelical Theological College (Texas), 1927;
Th.M., 1927.

Howell Samuel Foster, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Reformed Episcopal Seminary, 1927.

Felix Bayard Gear, Beckley, W. Va., A. B., Da-
vis-Elkins College, 1923 ; B. D., Union Seminary
(Virginia), 1926.

George Bradley Hammond, Mexico City,
Mexico, B. Arch. University of Michigan,
1916; Th.B., Princeton Seminary, 1924.

Henry White Herrman, Whitestone, N. Y.,
University of Cincinnati Law School, Prince-
ton Seminary, 1896.

Howard David Higgins, New York City, A.
B., Columbia University, 1927 B. D., Re-
formed Episcopal Seminary, 1927.

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Roy Emery Jones, Lake Park, Iowa, A. B.,
Buena Vista College, 1912; Omaha Seminary,
I9I5-

Frederick Harold Leach, Detroit, Mich., A.
B., Wheaton College, 1924; Th.B., Evangel-
ical Theological College (Texas), 1927.

Raymond Clinton Miller, Riegelsville, Pa.,
A. B., Muhlenburg College, 19 22; A. M., Get-
tysburg College, 1924; B. D., Yale Divinity
School, 1925.

George Coit Moore, Livingston, Texas, A.
B„ Austin College, 1902; B. D., Union Sem-
inary (Virginia), 1908.

Leopold Paul Moore, Jr., Sakbayeme, West
Africa, A. B., Ursinus College, 1920; Th.B.,
Princeton Seminary, 1923.

Tsunenobu Muranaka, Tokyo, Japan, Meiji
Gakuin College, 1922; Meiji Gakuin Seminary,

1925-

Magnus Nodtvedt, Moorhead, Minn., A. B.,
St. Olaf College, 1917; A. M., Columbia Uni-
versity, 1920; Luther Seminary, 1925.

Bohumil Potmesil, Prague, Czechoslovakia,
Gymnasium, Prague, 1922; B. D., John Hus
Seminary, 1926.

Chang Keun Song, Seoul, Korea, Toyo Uni-
versity, Japan ; Aoyama Gakuin Seminary,
1926.

Leslie Raymond Sovocool, Graceham, Md.,

A. B., Moravian College, 1925 ; B. D., Mo-
ravian Seminary, 1927.

Kohei Takeda, Nagoya, Japan, Kobe Sem-
inary, 1919.

William Henry Toedtman, Miamisburg,
Ohio, A. B., Capital University, 1923 ; Evan-
gelical Lutheran Seminary, 1927.

Tetsuji Tsuchiyama, Osaka, Japan, A. B.,
Pasadena College, 1915 ; B. D., Drew Sem-
inary, 1918.

William Redd Turner, Columbus, Ga., Uni-
versity of Georgia; Union Seminary (Vir-
ginia), 1927.

Lowell Anderson Van Patten, Sterling,
Kansas, A. B., Sterling College, 1923; Th.B.,
Princeton Seminary, 1926.

Chester Eugene Whittier, Yaounde, West
Africa, A. B., University of Minnesota, 1917;

B. D., McCormick Seminary, 1923.

Milton Arthur Yaeck, Watertown, Wis., A.
B., Moravian College, 1925; B. D., Moravian
Seminary, 1927.

SENIORS

Herbert Braun, Philadelphia, Pa., B. S.,
University of Pennsylvania, 1924.

Harry Michael Coulter, Berwick, Pa., A.
B., Wheaton College, 1924.

Philip Mason Smith, Philadelphia, Pa., B. S.,
Temple University, 1924.

Harold John Snitker, Waukon, Iowa, A. B.,
Mission House College, 1925.

Zoltan Szikszay, Trenton, N. J., Francis Jo-
seph University, Hungary.

Marion Francis Stuart, Perry, Mo., A. B.,
Westminster College (Mo.), 1925.

Paul Woolley, Brookline, Mass., A. B.,
Princeton University, 1923.

MIDDLERS

Wayne Wallace Gray, Tutwiler, Miss., A.

B. , Southwestern University, 1926.

Charles Huston Haines, Germantown, Pa.,
A. B., Princeton University, 1921.

Hugh Jack, Downhill, Ireland, A. B., Trin-
ity College, Dublin, 1927.

George Jackson, Belfast, Ireland, A. B.,
Queen’s University, Belfast, 1926.

Barnard Maurice Luben, Coopersville, Mich.,
A. B., Hope College, 1926.

Christian Gunerius Olson, Brainerd, Minn.,
A. B., Augsburg College, 1926.

Frederic George St. Denis, Vancouver, B.

C. , Canada, University of British Columbia.

JUNIORS

Samuel James Allen, Philadelphia, Pa., C. E.,
Pennsylvania Military College, 1926.

Samuel Edward Arendt, Monmouth, 111.,
A. B., Monmouth College, 1926.

Henry Shepard Atkinson, East Northfield,
Mass., Princeton University.

Henry Clay Banks, Norwood, Pa., A. B.,
Lafayette College, 1927.

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James McClure Barnett, Beaver Falls, Pa.,

A. B., University of Pittsburgh, 1926.

Norman Edgar Barnett, Brackenridge, Pa.,

College of Wooster.

William Treman Blackstone, South Pasa-
dena, Calif., A. B., University of Southern
California, 1927.

Jack C. Boerman, Hudsonville, Mich., A. B.,
Calvin College, 1927.

Harold J. Braden, Georgetown, Pa., College
of Wooster.

Ebenezer Cobb Brink, Elizabeth, N. J., A

B. , Hamilton College, 1927.

Adolph Franklin Broman, Austin, Minn., B.
S., University of Minnesota, 1922.

Menno Jacob Brunk, Harrisonburg, Va., A. B.,
Elizabethtown College, 1926.

John Williams Cannaday, Philadelphia, Pa.,
A. B., Roanoke College, 1927.

Harold Taber Commons, Waltham, Mass.,

A. B., Williams College, 1927.

Alexander Thompson Coyle, Westhampton
Beach, N. Y., A. B., Harvard University, 1927.
Frederick Barnard Crane, Dryden, N. Y., A.

B. , Lafayette College, 1927.

Everett Clark De Velde, Wheaton, 111., B.
S., Wheaton College, 1927.

Joseph Craig Dickson, Pittsburgh, Pa., A.
B., Westminster College (Pa.), 1927.

Chester Arthur Diehl, Grundy Center, Iowa,

A. B., Wheaton College, 1927.

George William Douglass, Camden, Ohio,
College of Wooster.

James Willard Dye, Broadacre, Ohio, A. B.,
College of Wooster, 1927.

Bransford Eubank, Byrds, Texas, B. S.,
Texas Agricultural & Mech. College, 1922.

Daniel LeRoy Fegley, Lykens, Pa., A. B.,
Lebanon Valley College, 1927.

Arthur Edward French, Jr., Sharpsburg, Pa.,

B. S., Westminster College (Pa.), 1926.

Charles Fricke, Chicago, 111., A. B., Goshen

College, 1927.

Emil William Geitner, Nutley, N. J., A. B.,
Upsala College, 1927.

Frederick Lawrence Gibson, Palm Beach,
Fla., A. B., Western Maryland College, 1914.

Robert Edward Glenn, Elmhurst, N. Y., Foyle
College, Ireland.

George Faulk Graham, Davenport, Wash.,
A. B., Whitman College, 1927.

William Glen Harris, Crafton, Texas, A. B.,
Trinity University (Texas), 1927.

John Ross Hays, Emmitsburg, Md., A. B.,
Lafayette College, 1927.

John Kistler Highberger, Greensburg, Pa.,

A. B., Washington and Jefferson College, 1927.
Howard Adams Hill, Carthage, Mo., A. B.,

Park College, 1927.

Luther Merriman Hollister, North Kings-
ville, Ohio, B. S., College of Wooster, 1927.
Herbert Vinton Hotchkiss, Ithaca, N. Y., A.

B. , Cornell University, 1917; A. M., Prince-
ton University, 1926.

John Andrew Hunter, Jr., West Middlesex,
Pa., B. S., Westminster College (Pa.), 1924.

John Cockins Inglis, Columbus, Ohio, B. S.,
Washington and Jefferson College, 1925.

Christian Morris Jenson, Wheaton, 111., A.
B., College of Wooster, 1927.

Charles Edward Johnson, Virginia, Minn., A.
B., St. Olaf College, 1927.

Russell Foster Johnson, Birmingham, Ala.,
A. B., Birmingham Southern College, 1926.

Kenneth McLellan Kepler, Shanghai, China,
A. B., Princeton University, 1927.

Jacob Marcellus Kik, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
A. B., Hope College, 1927.

John Willard Koning, Cedar Grove, Wis.,
A. B., Carroll College, 1927.

Arthur Kollen Korteling, Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, A. B., Coe College, 1927.

Allen Clarence Lee, Dunn, N. C., A. B., As-
bury College, 1927.

Kyu Yong Lee, Won-san, Korea, Honolulu
Seminary.

Donald Franklin Lomas, Green Bay, Wis.,

A. B., Carroll College, 1926.

John Nevius Lukens, Burlington, N. J., A.

B. , Princeton University, 1925.

Robert Samuel Marsden, Philadelphia, Pa.,
A. B., University of Pennsylvania, 1927.

George S. Maxwell, New Wilmington, Pa.,
A. B., Westminster College (Pa.), 1926.

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Mathews Ewing McPhail, Clarksville, Tex-
as, A. B., Trinity University (Texas), 1925.

Clement Bricker Meyers, Greencastle, Pa.,
Lebanon Valley College.

Clair Archie Morrow, Eagle Rock, Calif.,

A. B., Occidental College, 1924.

Gerrit E. Mouw, Grundy Center, Iowa, A.

B. , Central College (Iowa), 1927.

Philip Nicholas, Philadelphia, Pa., A. B.,
Park College, 1927.

Harold John Ockenga, Chicago, 111., A. B.,
Taylor University, 1927.

Ralph Stewart Peterson, Preston, Minn., A.
B., College of Idaho, 1927.

Robert Alexander Porter, Londonderry, Ire-
land, A. B., Trinity College (Dublin), 1927.

John Cornelius Primus, Wellsburg, Iowa,
A. B., Macalester College, 1925.

Joseph Everett Pringle, Grove City, Pa.,
Lift. B., Grove City College, 1927.

Paul Elwood Rickabaugh, Harrisburg, Pa.,

A. B., Wheaton College, 1927.

Van Dusen Rickert, Jr., Pottsville, Pa., A.

B. , Princeton University, 1923 ; A. M„ 1924.
Arend Roskamp, Grundy Center, Iowa, A.

B., Calvin College, 1927.

Harry John Scheidemantle, New Castle, Pa.,

A. B., Muskingum College, 1927.

Tadahito Shizuoka, Kagashima, Japan, A.

B. , Pasadena College, 1927.

William Sherman Skinner, Gouverneur, N.
Y., A. B., Colgate University, 1927.

Paul Louis Stumpf, Chicago, 111., A. B.,
Wheaton College, 1927.

George Edgar Sweazey, Fulton, Mo., A. B.,
Westminster College (Mo.), 1927.

Duane Richard Terry, Glendale, Calif., A.
B., Occidental College, 1927.

Robert Max Tignor, Urbana, Ohio, A. B., Col-
lege of Wooster, 1927.

Ralph Wesley Todd, San Antonio, Texas, A.
B., Asbury College, 1926.

Clarence Erb Ulrich, Harrisburg, Pa., A. B.,
Lebanon Valley College, 1927.

Merlin Fred Usner, New Orleans, La., A. B.,
Maryville College, 1927.

Robert Lucius Vining, Maplecrest, N. Y.,
A. B., College of Wooster, 1927.

Oliver Jenkins Warren, Charleston, S. C.,
B. S., College of Charleston, 1926; A. M.,
1927-

Henry Garner Welbon, Seoul, Korea, A. B.,
Maryville College, 1927.

Evan McCray Welsh, Wheaton, 111., A. B.,
Wheaton College, 1927.

Robert Harvey Wood, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
A. B., Maryville College, 1927.

Thomas Yff, Chicago, 111., A. B., Calvin Col-
lege, 1927.

Ernest William Zentgraf, Jr., Stapleton, N.
Y., A. B., Cornell University, 1927.

PARTIAL STUDENTS

Herbert Fergus Thomson, Canton, China,

A. B., McGill University, 1912; A. M., 1913.
Ralph Manson White, Soochow, China, A.

B. , Park College, 1913.

Fellows 7

Graduate Students 41

Seniors S3

Middlers 69

Juniors 80

Partials 4

254

Enrollment

As indicated in the Summary in the
preceding article, the number of stu-
dents to be listed in the 1926-27 cata-
logue is two hundred and fifty-four.
This number is attained through the
matriculation of one hundred and nine-
teen students who have not been pre-
viously connected with the Seminary
and one hundred and thirty-six who
were connected with the Seminary last
year or in some earlier year. This is
the largest catalogued enrollment of
the Seminary in its history except in
the one year 1895-96, when there were
two hundred and sixty-three names in
the catalogue student list.

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The enrollment this year has taxed
the capacity of the Seminary. When
the fullest use had been made of the
dormitory accommodations, there still
remained, beside the married students
living in town, a considerable number
for whom rooms were not provided. To
meet this emergency the house beside
the Chapel, which has been occupied
so many years by the late Dr. Davis,
has been equipped as a dormitory and
filled with students.

Missionaries in Residence

The Seminary has the pleasure of
welcoming the following missionaries
and their families to residence in Payne
Hall :

Mr. C. A. Allen of Siam.

Rev. R. C. Douglas of China.

Rev. C. H. Fenn, D. D., of China.

Rev. G. R. Hammond of Mexico.

Rev. W. R. Johnson of China.

Rev. G. S. McCune, D. D., of Korea.

Rev. L. P. Moore of Africa.

Rev. R. V. Reeder of China.

Mr. P. C. Speers of India.

Mr. H. F. Thomson of China.

Mr. R. M. White of China.

Rev. C. W. Whittier of China.

The Selected Writings of Benja-
min Breckinridge Warfield

At the time of his death in 1921, the
late Dr. Benjamin Breckinridge War-
field was the leading Calvinistic theo-
logian in the English speaking world.
An Editorial Committee proposes to
publish through the Oxford Universi-
ty Press, in a series of volumes, Dr.
Warfield’s contribution to theological
thought by reprinting the important

articles which he contributed to the
various Bible Dictionaries and Ency-
clopedias and to the theological re-
views, especially Tbe Princeton Theo-
logical Review.

The first volume, entitled “Revela-
tion and Inspiration,” has just been is-
sued from the press. It contains two
articles on the Idea of Revelation, and
a number of exegetical and critical ar-
ticles on the Biblical idea of Inspira-
tion and the grounds of belief in the
plenary inspiration of Scripture.

The second volume will contain Dr.
Warfield’s major articles on several
Biblical doctrines, such as The Trinity,
Predestination, Faith, The Person of
Christ, etc.

The third volume will comprise the
historico-critical articles on the Per-
son and Work of Christ. These arti-
cles are of importance from the apolo-
getic point of view, and set forth the
doctrine of the Person and Work of
Christ in relation to modern critical
New Testament discussion. They ex-
hibit the author’s well known ability
as a master in the field of New Testa-
ment criticism. Of especial significance
among these articles may be mentioned
the articles on The Two Natures and
Recent Christological Speculation,
Christless Christianity, The Essence of
Christianity and the Cross of Christ.

Volumes four, five and six will con-
tain articles on Historical Theology.
They will include the articles on Au-
gustine, Calvin, and The Westminster
Confession. These articles are author-
itative on their respective subjects.

The seventh and eighth volumes will
contain the articles on Perfectionism.

There will be a ninth volume of mis-
cellaneous articles and a tenth volume

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containing the most important of Dr.
Warfield’s book reviews.

It is as yet impossible to set an ex-
act price for all of the volumes, but
the publishers will accept advance or-
ders for complete sets, to be delivered
as and if published, at a price propor-
tional to that of Volume I.

Volume I, now ready, may be or-
dered through your bookseller, or di-
rect from the publisher, Oxford Uni-
versity Press, American Branch, 35
West 32nd Street, New York. It is
bound in cloth, 8vo (9^2x634), PP- xiii
4-456, price, $3.00.

Paul’s Hymn of Love

A Christmas booklet, prepared by
Dr. Charles R. Erdman, is being pub-
lished by the Fleming H. Revell Co.,
New York City. It is an exposition of
the Thirteenth Chapter of I Corinth-
ians, and is entitled “Paul’s Hymn of
Love.”

Fellows

It is the privilege of the Fellows of
the Seminary, with the consent and ad-
vice of the Professors under whom
they take their fellowships, to study at
approved institutions in the United
States and abroad. This year those
studying on Fellowships have chosen
the following places of study: A. A.
MacRae, Fellow in Semitic Philology;
E. H. Rian, Fellow in Church History,
C. J. Woodbridge, Fellow in Old Testa-
ment Literature, and B. M. Christen-
sen, Fellow in Apologetics, are at Berlin ;
A. E. Tibbs, Fellow in New Testa-
ment Literature, at Edinburgh; N. B.

Stonehouse, Fellow in New Testa-
ment Literature, at Amsterdam ; L. G.
Ice, Fellow in Church History, at
Princeton.

Professor Kajiwara

Word has recently been received
from President D. B. Schneder of the
North Japan College, Sendai, Japan,
announcing the death of Professor
Chohachiro Kajiwara of the Theologi-
cal Department of the College. Profes-
sor Kajiwara was a graduate of Prince-
ton Theological Seminary, in the class
of 1897. He previously studied for two
years in Princeton University. In
1898 he returned to Japan and imme-
diately started independent Christian
work in his native town. Being with-
out any fixed income he endured much
privation, but worked on zealously and
courageously. In 1900 he was called
to a professorship in the Theological
Department of the North Japan Col-
lege, where he labored continuously
until the time of his death. In addi-
tion to his work in the Theological De-
partment, he taught the Bible in the
classes of the college and in addition
engaged most actively in evangelistic
work and in Bible teaching in all parts
of the country. Some twenty years
ago he was engaged by the government
to teach “morals” in the Post Office
Training School and was thus brought
into contact with hosts of young men
who afterwards became postmasters
or postal clerks throughout the prov-
ince. All of them learned to esteem
him and the Christian teaching which
he gave. In more recent years he
taught a Sunday morning Bible Class

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which was attended by the most phe-
nomenal success.

The most impressive feature of his
life was his deep love for Bible study.
His one important publication was
“The Mind of Paul,” which has had a
wide circulation. In 1906 he came to
America on a leave of absence and
spent a considerable part of the year
in Princeton. Pie had many friends in
this country. His loss is very keenly
felt, not only in Sendai, but through-
out the Christian circles of Japan.

The Library

The Library has received from their
authors the following books for the
Alumni Alcove since the issue of the
May Bulletin:

From the Rev. Prof. Henry van
Dyke, D. D., LL.D., ’77, The Golden
Key, N. Y., 1926; from the Rev. Robert
E. Flickinger, D. D., ’78, The Flickin-
ger Family History, Des Moines, Iowa,
1927, and from the Rev. Louis F. Ben-
son, D. D., ’87, The Hymnody of the
Christian Church, N. Y., 1927.

The following pamphlets have been
received for the Alumni Alcove : From
the Rev. H. G. C. Hallock, Ph.D., ’93,
Hallock’s Almanac and Miscellany (in
Chinese), 1927, Shanghai; from the
Rev. President John Edgar, D. D.,
LL.D., ’03, Inaugural Address as Pres-
ident of Wheaton College, Norton,
Mass., 1927 ; from the Rev. Charles
Vincze, a graduate student, 1922-23,
The Office of the Ministry : address de-
livered Sept. 5, 1927, in the Magyar
Reformed Church of Perth Amboy, N.
J. (two copies, type-written), and from
the Rev. Albert W. Pierce, ’00. From

Coquina Beach to Coral Strand : a
Sketch of the Progress of the Pres-
byterian Church, U. S. A., in Florida
from 1824 to 1927 (two copies).

Necrology

Since the list was closed for the last
Necrological Report notice of the death
of the following alumni has been re-
ceived :

The Rev. Oliver Stone Dean, D. D., ’63,
died Aug. 13, 1927, in Passaic, N. J.

The Rev. George C. Pollock, D. D., ’64, died
May 4, 1927, in Boston, Mass.

The Rev. Francis J. Fairbanks, ’65, died
Sept. 14, 1927, in Merchantville, N. J.

The Rev. Henry U. Swinnerton, Ph.D., ’66,
died May 12, 1927, in Cherry Valley, N. Y.

The Rev. George T. Le Boutillier, ’67, died
May 23, 1927, in St. Johnland, Kings Park,
N. Y.

The Rev. Arthur Rose, D. D., ’67, died Oct.
31, 1926, in Belfast, Ireland.

The Rev. Elwood M. Wherry, D. D„ ’67,
died Oct. 5, 1927, in Indiana, Pa.

The Rev. William W. Curtis, D. D., ’70, died
April 17, 1927, in Los Angeles, Calif.

The Rev. Joseph P. Graham, D. D., ’72,
died May 9, 1927, in Pasadena, Calif.

The Rev. John J. Graham, ’75, died April
11, 1927, in Geneva, Ohio.

The Rev. John A. Ewalt, D. D., ’77, died
June 5, 1927, in Gahanna, Ohio.

The Rev. John P. Campbell, D. D., ’78, died
Nov. 6, 1927, in Caledonia, N. Y.

The Rev. Samuel H. Young, D. D., ’78,
died Sept. 2, 1927, in Clarksburg, W. Va.

The Rev. William T. Elsing, D. D., ’82, died
July 24, 1927, in Merano, Italy.

The Rev. William T. Doggett, ’84, died April
23, 1927, in Danville, Va.

The Rev. Smith Ordway, D. D., '87, died
Oct. 26, 1927, in Auburn, N. Y.

The Rev. Thomas N. Potts, D. D., ’89, died
July 6, 1927, in Newport News, Va.

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The Rev. Edgar H. Rowe, ’89, died April 7,
1927, in Richmond, Va.

The Rev. Pedro Rioseco, ’91, died May 14,
1927, in Philadelphia, Pa.

The Rev. William W. Warne, ’91, died Sept.
6, 1927, in Norwich, N. D.

The Rev. Thomas M. Morrison, ’92, died
May 10, 1927, in Binghamton, N. Y.

The Rev. Henry N. Nicholas, ’92, died Oct.
26, 1927, in Coaldale, Pa.

The Rev. John T. Dunn, ’96, died Jan. 31,
1923. Place unknown.

The Rev. John B. McCreery, ’00, died July
4, 1927, in Gardenville, N. Y.

The Rev. Edwin L. Eagleson, a graduate
student, 1904-05, died June 11, 1927, in Wheel-
ing, W. Va.

Alumni Notes

1880

The Rev. Sylvester W. Beach, D. D., a di-
rector of the Seminary, has suffered the loss
ef his wife, who died June 21, 1927, in Paris.

1882

The Rev. Walter L. Alexander has resigned
the Pine Avenue Church of Findlay, Ohio.

1883

The Rev. James W. Parkhill, D. D., has been
released from the church of Pierceton, Ind.

1887

The Rev. Alexander Waddell has suffered
the loss of his wife, who died, after a linger-
ing illness, July 22, 1927.

1890

The Rev. Prof. William H. Johnson, D. D.,
was inaugurated President of Lincoln Uni-
versity Oct. 20, 1927. President Johnson has
been a professor in Lincoln University since

1903.

The Rev. D. Ruby Warne has retired from
the active pastorate and may be addressed at
730 Riverside Ave., Trenton, N. J.

1891

The Rev. Albert Evans, D. D., was honor-
ably retired from the active ministry by the
Presbytery of Chicago, Oct. 3, 1927.

1897

The Rev. Joseph Hunter, D. D., was elected
moderator of the Synod of New Jersey at its
fall meeting. He received the honorary de-
gree of D. D. from Tusculum College in
June, 1927.

1898

The Rev. Charles W. Harris, D. D., has
been appointed head of the Bible Department
and chaplain of Lafayette College.

1899

The Rev. Edward S. Brearley has been re-
leased from the pastorate of the Hopewell
church, N. J., on account of the state of his
health, the release taking effect Oct. 15, 1927.

The Rev. Clinton W. Lowrie, D. D., has been
released from the Fullerton Avenue Church of
Chicago, 111.

The Rev. Harry B. Vail has accepted a call
to the First Church of Ironton, Ohio.

1902

The Rev. Ralph E. Clark has accepted a call
to Calvary Church, Independence, Ore.

1905

The Rev. Prof. Oswald T. Allis, Ph.D., re-
ceived the honorary degree of D. D. from
Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, in June,
1927. Dr. Allis and Miss Ruth Robinson were
married in Princeton, Sept. 21, 1927.

The Rev. George A. Brewer, D. D., has been
elected a member of the Board of Christian
Education.

1907

The Rev. Albert C. Dudley, Ph.D., has been
released from the Englewood Church of Chi-
cago, 111.

1907-1908

The Rev. Charles S. Sholl, D. D., a graduate
student, 1907-08, was elected moderator of the
Synod of Louisiana (U. S.) at its fall meet-
ing.

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1909

The Rev. Asa J. Ferry, D. D., and his con-
gregation of the Edgewater Church of Chi-
cago, 111., engaged in the dedication of a large
and imposing new Community House during
the week of June 12 to 19, 1927.

The Rev. Jesse Halsey received the honorary
degree of D. D. from the College of Wooster
at its commencement in June, 1927.

1911

The Rev. Henry Geddes was released from
the church of Delphos, Ohio, in September,
that he might accept a call to the church of
Logan in the same state.

1912

The Rev. Wallace H. Carver, after a ten
years’ pastorate in the Second Church of Rah-
way, N. J., has gone to the Northminster
Church of Evanston, 111., taking up his work
there on Feb. 1, 1927.

The Rev. John Muyskens, Jr., was installed
pastor of the First Church of Wheeling, W.
Va., June 17, 1927.

1913

The Rev. Reuben A. Torrey, Jr., missionary
in China, is detained temporarily in this
country, and has been appointed by the Board
of Foreign Missions as acting district secre-
tary of the Southern District, with offices in
St. Louis.

1915

The Rev. Walter E. Jordan and the congre-
gation of Calvin Church, Philadelphia, cele-
brated in October the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the founding of the church. Mr. Jordan
has been pastor of this church since 1920.

1918

The Rev. Donald G. Barnhouse was installed
pastor of the Tenth Church, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Oct. 4, 1927.

1919

The Rev. Leroy Y. Dilliner has accepted a
call to the church at Eatontown, N. J.

The Rev. Thomas Murray, D. D., was in-
stalled pastor of the First Church of Denver,
Colo., Sept. 30, 1927.

The Rev. Andrew K. Rule has been installed
Professor of Church History in the Presby-
terian Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky.

The Rev. Paul H. Walenta, pastor of the
Park Avenue Church (U. S.) of Norfolk, Va.,
has accepted a call to the Fulton Avenue
Church (U. S. A.) of Baltimore, Md.

1920

The Rev. William E. Baskerville has been
released from the church at Lebanon, Ore..

The Rev. William Masselink, Th.D., and
Miss Mary Clarice De Boer were married Oct.
25, 1927, in Leota, Minn. Their address is
Holland, Mich.

The Rev. Russell H. Woltz was installed
pastor of the Lithopolis, Ohio, group of
churches, Sept. 27, 1927.

1922

The Rev. William F. Wefer was released
from the church at Dayton, N. J., June 28,
1927, to take effect Aug. 31, 1927, and has been
installed pastor of the church of the Good
Shepherd, New York City.

The Rev. Edmund F. Miller has accepted a
call to the Wakefield Church of Germantown,
Philadelphia.

1922-1923

The Rev. Roy D. Echlin, a graduate student,
1922-23, was installed pastor of the church of
Nevada, Iowa, Oct. 11, 1927.

1923

The Rev. Charles E. Graf, was installed pas-
tor of the Second Church of Chester, Pa., July
7, 1927.

The Rev. Nathaniel U. McConaughy was in-
stalled pastor of the church of Iron Mountain,
Mich., Sept. 26, 1927.

1925

The Rev. Edward Masselink, Th.D., was or-
dained and installed pastor of Trinity Re-
formed Church of Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct.
6, 1927.

The Rev. Thomas H. Mitchell has accepted
a call to the churches of Indian Trail and Siler,
N. C., Southern Church, with his address at
Indian Trail, N. C.

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The Rev. Jarvis S. Morris has taken up his
work as pastor of the Central Church of
Russellville, Ark.

The Rev. Charles Sharp has accepted a call
to the church of Cookeville, Tenn.

1925-1926

The Rev. Henry A. Lynch, a graduate stu-
dent, 1925-26, has accepted a call to the church
of Geneseo, Kans.

1926

The Rev. Oscar L. Daley and Miss Dorothy
Alma Sweeny were married June 20, 1927, in
New York City.

The Rev. Norman S. McPherson and Miss
Florence May Fairbanks were married Aug.
23, 1927, in Yonkers, N. Y.

1927

The Rev. Klair L. Armstrong and Miss Bes-
sie Grace Cunningham were married June 29,
1927, in Coatesville, Pa.

The Rev. Gladstone P. Cooley was ordained
and installed pastor of the church of Blooms-
bury, N. J., July 20, 1927.

John Philip H. Goertz was ordained by
the Presbytery of Brooklyn-Nassau, Sept. 28,
1927.

The Rev. Albert J. Sanders and Miss Edna
May Farnham were married June 4, 1927, at
Buck Hill Falls, Pa. They have gone as mis-
sionaries to the Philippines, and their address
is Tacloban, Leyte, P. I.

Charles F. Van Horn, Jr., was ordained and
installed pastor of the Honey Brook Church,
Honey Brook, Pa., June 28, 1927.

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