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Bulletin
Vol. XLIX
OCTOBER 1955
Number 2
Board of Trustees
OFFICERS
PETER K. EMMONS, D.D., President
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BENJAMIN F. FARBER, D.D., Secretary
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The Princeton Seminary Bulletin
Vol. XLIX PRINCETON, N.J., OCTOBER 1955 Number 2
You, Too, Make Your Bundle of Sticks
The Peace of Man and the Peace of God
John A. Mackay 3
Charles A. Malik 6
Degrees, Fellowships, and Prizes 13
Memorial Service for Edward Howell Roberts
Addresses by Allan M. Frew, Arthur M. Adams, and
Robert Rankin 18
A Message to Princeton Seminary Alumni Bryant M. Kirkland 24
Princetoniana
Lefferts A. Loetscher 25
The Seminary’s Library Project John A. Mackay 30
Alumni News Orion C. Hopper 35
Book Reviews:
The Task of Christian Education, by D. Campbell Wyckoff
The Septuagint Bible, edited by C. A. Muses
According to the Scriptures, by C. H. Dodd
Spiritus Creator, by Regin Prenter
The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs, edited by Herbert Musurvillo
Ancient Christian Writers (Vols. 18, 19, & 20), edited
by J- Quasten and J. C. Plumpe
Oral Tradition, by Eduard Nielsen
Early Christian Interpretations of History, by R. L. P. Milburn
Life Looks Up, by Charles B. Templeton
We Knew Jesus, by John Calvin Reid
The Age of Reformation, by E. Harris Harbison
God’s Good News, by Gerald Kennedy
The Life to Live, by Frederick M. Meek
The Westminster Pulpit, Vols. VI & VII, by G. C. Morgan
God’s Way, Messages for Our Time, by Harrison Ray Anderson
The New Being, by Paul Tillich
The Whole Armor of God, by Ralph W. Sockman
A Survey of World Missions, by J. C. Thiessen
Missionary Principles and Practice, by H. Lindsell
Paul Calvin Payne
Henry S. Gehman
Otto A. Piper
Bruce M. Metzger
Donald H. Gard
Norman V. Hope
Donald Macleod
J. Christy Wilson
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TO READERS OF THE BULLETIN
Dear friends :
With this issue I assume the role of editor of The Princeton Seminary
Bulletin. I feel that President Mackay has honored me in placing this responsi-
bility in my hands. At the same time I accept it as another splendid oppor-
tunity to serve the Seminary.
My hope is to make the bulletin of real interest and usefulness especially
to our alumni who now number some 5,000 and are scattered across the
whole world. In order to make this journal what we all want it to be, I would
appreciate receiving suggestions from you. With your help it can become a
still more adequate channel of ideas, news, and inspiration.
Cordially yours,
Editor
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS
Lefferts A. Loetscher, Chairman
Donald J. Butler
Arlan P. Dohrenburg
Kenneth S. Gapp
Orion C. Hopper
John A. Mackay
Donald H. Gard
Edna Hatfield
Edward J. Jurji
Hugh T. Kerr
Bruce M. Metzger
Donald Macleod, Editor
Edward J. Jurji,
Book Review Editor
YOU, TOO, MAKE YOUR
BUNDLE OF STICKS
Words of Farewell to the New Graduates
by the President of the Seminary
IN the words of a hymn we have often sung together, “The day of march
has come!” Tradition requires that I say some last words to you as you
now take to the highways and byways of life.
I wish to leave with you just a little appendix to the very marvelous ad-
dress to which we have listened. The appendix takes the form of an image
which I hope may glow in your imagination, live in your hearts, and stir
your minds. It is the image of a man. That man is St. Paul.
I am not leaving with you the image of the Paul of the Damascus Road,
nor of the Paul who stood valiantly before Agrippa and bore a good witness
before Caesar, nor yet the image of the Paul who in mystic rapture found him-
self in the third heaven. The Paul whose image I leave with you is the Paul
who gathered sticks to lay upon a fire.
You recall that scene in Malta after a Mediterranean storm had wrecked
the ship in which Paul was traveling to Rome. Scores of sailors, soldiers and
prisoners, nerve-wracked, bedraggled, and sodden by the rain, are milling
around on the beach. There comes to the blazing bonfire, which the Maltese
natives have kindled, a man who throws a bundle of fagots on the flames.
This image of Paul is too often forgotten, yet it has long fascinated me. I
owe my soul to Paul who began to speak to me about Christ when I was a
boy. I have lived with him and listened to him these last fifty years. But the
Paul to whom I feel closest is the Paul who gathered the fagots for the
fire. He is so very human, and yet so sublimely Christian, gathering those
sticks. Yet everything he ever learned and experienced in his Christian life,
whether it was on the Damascus Road or in the third heaven, prepared him
for that hour.
What is it that the Paul of the fagots says to us? Let me try with the
utmost brevity to interpret his message.
This image says, Be ready to work with your own hands. Manual labor
was a common thing for the Tarsan. As a boy he had learned to make tents.
In his Christian ministry he took pride in his calloused hands with which he
supported himself and those who were with him.
The tradition which has taken Paul seriously has honored work. It is
in this tradition that our country comes. I know another great tradition, to
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which I personally owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude. It has a motto 11
in its cultural heritage which runs thus : “It is a shame for a gentleman to |
work; it is not a shame for him to beg.” I say to you, take seriously the image
of Paul the stick-gatherer; pitch in wherever you can with your hands. If j
a frontier church or parish house needs manual labor for its erection or up- t
keep, stand by and work. If there is no one else to do a physical job that is 1
part of a spiritual task, go to, throw yourself into the task. Take the lead
in achieving whatever can be accomplished with the labor of your hands.
Physical toil undertaken together is one of the glories of the Ecumenical
Work Camps. I saw flashes of this glory in the high Alps some years ago in
a work camp called Agape. If you possibly can, have a hobby which in-
volves manual labor. With your hands as instruments, you will find work
to be healing. In many an hour of crisis, or when wounds are in your heart,
you will find it has therapeutic value, even though the job be only to gather
sticks and build a fire when it is cold, and other folk are shivering.
There is another message in this image. Be willing to take the form of a
servant. The man who made his bundle of fagots had been won to his
Christian faith by one about whom he afterwards wrote that “He took the
form of a servant,” though he “was in the form of God.” On Malta’s isle
Paul bore living witness to the fact that the essential image of the Christian
religion is the servant image. The “servant of Jesus Christ” was not ashamed
to be the “servant of all.” Neither be you ashamed, nor I.
We cannot think of the St. Paul of the bundle of fagots without thinking
of the Christ of the towel. We cannot think of the Mediterranean isle after
that shipwreck without thinking of the Upper Room before the next day’s
storm on Golgotha. Throwing sticks on the fire, the Apostle Paul, stands at
the peak of human greatness. For that hour the mystic rapture had prepared
him so that he could see the little thing in the light of the eternal thing. In
that hour he might well have cashed in on the fact that he alone had been
the hero of the shipwreck and so allow others to serve him, the aloof and
awesome center of their gaze. But he just mingled with the throng like one
of the rest of them to lay his bundle of fagots on the blaze. So be it with
you and with me. Let us be servants of all.
That scene in Malta is a true symbol of our contemporary world. There are
lots of nerve-wracked, bedraggled, sodden, shivering folk who need warmth.
Gather sticks wherever you can find them, sticks from the forest or the plains,
sticks from the fields of knowledge or of sacred lore. Add them to the com-
mon human fire which our generation needs for warmth and friendship.
Whenever you can, sit around and talk with folk, and put them at their ease.
The atmosphere you create will be a good preparation for a word about Him
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“whose you are and whom you serve,” and who holds the secret to all true
living.
So, now that “the day of march has come,” be ready wherever and when-
ever the occasion offers to gather a bundle of fagots for the fire. And upon
the road, to journey’s end, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you.
THE PEACE OF MAN AND
THE PEACE OF GOD
Charles A. Malik*
THE search for peace seems to be
now seriously on. For who is not
today either talking about or protesting
peace ? When such is the case, however,
one cannot be too careful. For peace be-
comes the universal theme either be-
cause, in a world without peace, people
think peace is possible and perhaps even
attainable, or because, in a world with-
out peace, people are really in their
heart of hearts afraid lest peace be
fundamentally elusive. People start talk-
ing about a desirable thing either be-
cause it is possible or because it is
impossible. Which of these two contra-
dictory reasons is actually operative in
the present instance, and whether it is
politically expedient to have the two
reasons mixed up with one another,
certainly appearances by themselves
cannot decide.
One thing we may be sure of, how-
ever : nobody wants war. Having re-
flected on this matter for a long time
and knowing a little about the factors,
if not also, or as much, the policies, in-
volved, I am sure of this proposition.
But if nobody wants war, it does not
follow that people will settle down for
any kind of peace. In fact tension is pre-
cisely that state wherein people are
neither willing to go to war nor able to
achieve peace. The self-indulgent theory
that nuclear weapons have rendered
* Address delivered by Dr. Malik, Am-
bassador of the Republic of Lebanon to the
United States, at the Seminary Commence-
ment, June 7, 1955-
war obsolete and will therefore tend to
force people to accept any kind of peace
is both naive and dangerous. It is simply
untrue. For not even under the menace
of the bomb will peace become an auto-
matic thing.
The absence of the will to war is
most significant : it opens up the possi-
bility of peace ; it makes the search for
peace serious. Such an absence was not
the case either in 1914 or in 1939. But
peace itself will have to be won, organ-
ized, grounded, negotiated, sweated out.
The responsible elaboration of accept-
able conditions for peace, conditions
that will give security and peace of
mind to everybody, is the most urgent
task.
This is the tenth anniversary of the
founding of the United Nations, and in
two weeks important celebrations com-
memorating that event will be held in
San Francisco. During this crucial dec-
ade, an enormous volume of activity and
effort has gone into this business of
peace, both within and without the
United Nations. If you watched or took
part in this activity from within, you
could have seen how sincere, how seri-
ous, how deeply concerned the states-
men have been. They have literally
worked day and night to secure for us
at least a tolerable world. It would, my
friends, be ungrateful and untrue to say
that they have failed. The present rela-
tive quiet and unprecedented prosperity
are in large measure the cumulative ef-
fect of the care and toil of these men.
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There are natural, objective condi-
tions of peace over which the mind of
man, in the act of knowledge, is an
absolute lord ; and when sincere leaders
employ all their energies, all their gifts,
all their skills, all the accepted rules of
the game to discover and develop these
conditions, one can only understand and
be thankful. Human reason is as capa-
ble of knowing, expounding and mas-
tering the conditions of peace as it is of
mastering any situation in the natural
and speculative sciences. The concept,
then, of the peace of man, namely, of a
peace sought, elaborated, understood
and secured by the rational endeavor of
man, is a perfectly valid and perfectly
respectable concept.
The main lines of this objective peace
can be easily seen. Its principle is the
maintenance among sovereign and in-
dependent states of a certain order and
balance on every level of international
relationship. Thus, nationally, all peo-
ples and nations must either be permit-
ted to exercise the right to self-govern-
ment in freedom or be clearly on the
road to doing so. Juridically, the nations
must accept the rule of law under some
such instrument as the Charter of the
United Nations. Militarily, the arma-
ments of the nations must constitute a
finely equilibrated system, and every
plan of disarmament must maintain the
same order of equilibration at every
level of reduction.
Politically, the nations may, and ac-
tually do, enter into all sorts of balanc-
ing agreements and alliances, provided
the aim and spirit be purely defensive.
Economically, it is impossible to speak
of peace in this world which has shrunk
to a neighborhood so long as the stand-
ard of living in certain countries in the
West is 20 or 30 times the standard of
living in most of the countries of the
East, and this, regardless of whether it
has not been really the fault of the East
in preferring the culture of poetry and
imagination to that of science, technol-
ogy and the disciplined mind ; for the
make-up of unregenerate man is such
that he will rebel against excessive in-
equality even if it were his fault and
even if he knew it.
In the field of fundamental human
rights, so long as tyrannies over the
minds and souls of men continue in
large parts of the world unchallenged
and undisturbed, how can one honestly
talk of real and lasting peace? Man
craves for freedom more than for any-
thing else, and he will ever remain rest-
less and unhappy until he is free, free
not only politically and materially, but
above all free to seek, to find, to know,
and to be in the truth, in freedom and
in love.
Nor is it possible to speak of peace
while the so-called “proletarian revolu-
tion” gains in momentum, both directly
and indirectly, throughout the world ;
for while it is true that war is one thing
and revolution is another, it is equally
true that revolution is one thing and
peace another. Nor can a state of things
in which large sections of mankind are
systematically cut off from reasonably
free and normal intercourse — intellec-
tually, socially, economically — with the
rest of mankind be really called peace ;
for fear and mistrust, error and distor-
tion— these breeding grounds of war-
can only be dispelled if people meet one
another, whether bodily or intellectually.
In so far as peace is not worth the
ticket unless the civilization which ger-
minated in the Mediterranean and de-
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veloped and matured in the West is
able at least to hold fast to its funda-
mental persuasions, it is clear that the
peoples of this civilization, which com-
prises the Christian and Moslem worlds,
must rediscover and realize the natural
bonds of unity among them, and, in
varying degrees, and wherever possible,
forge new bonds of unity. Real peace is
a direct function of the unity of West-
ern civilization and of its faith in its
ultimate values, and where this faith is
shaken and this unity is broken, the
peace that supervenes is only a prelude
to disaster.
It is not difficult to apply these nine
principles of peace to the world situa-
tion today, whether in the Far East,
throughout Asia and Africa, in the
Communist realm, in the Middle East,
in Europe, in the Western Hemisphere,
or in the relations of these sections of
the human family to one another. When
one does that, with some grasp of the
facts, with some knowledge of history
and of fundamental social theory, and,
above all, with some grounding in the
first principles of human nature, one
readily perceives the actuality or possi-
bility of balance, or lack of it, among
the military, economic, political and in-
tellectual forces in the world today. I
am of the opinion that, if one is to re-
main absolutely faithful to the deepest
and most authentic visions that have
come down to us from the cumulative
development of the last 4000 years, one
cannot sit back and relax in the deluded
hope that peace, real peace, is humanly
either certain or possible. A period of
immense political and intellectual exer-
tion is ahead of us, and the issue is abso-
lutely in the balance.
These, then, are the principal struc-
tures of the peace of man. They are
objective conditions perfectly lucid to
the mind and perfectly open to man’s
natural endeavour. Without them we
cannot speak of that balanced tranquil-
ity of order which constitutes real
peace, both socially and internationally.
There is nobility, there is grandeur,
there is honour, there is today extreme
urgency in seeking these things, and
whoever is called, whether by his office
or by his interest, to secure for us this
peace of reason, which answers to man’s
inmost essence, is certainly engaged in
one of the noblest tasks. Man must al-
ways get on with the job of elaborating
his peace.
Ill
Unfortunately, this analysis — so clear
and reasonable and even soothing —
does not exhaust the facts. Man yearns
for peace, the peace to which he is im-
pelled by the very nature of things, and
yet somehow it always eludes him. No
sooner does he plug one leak in the dam
than another leak develops elsewhere.
Even if he knew all the natural condi-
tions of peace and strove with all his
heart to realize them, still there is no
guarantee that he will have peace. This
is not taking malicious pleasure in his
state : this is honestly facing it.
The objective situation, whether of
man or of history, is much more com-
plex and baffling. For on the one hand
we have and have had for 2000 years
the fact of Jesus Christ, and on the
other we have and have always had the
fact of the devil. And no analysis that
does not take these two crucial facts
into account can really claim that it
knows anything about the possibility or
impossibility of peace.
Socrates’ simple assertion that all
men seek the good is not true. He may
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have known better and this therefore
may have been part of his irony. For
man may know the good perfectly and
still he may rebel against it, for no
other reason than that he likes his re-
bellion, namely, than that the spirit of
dread and destruction has gotten hold
of him. The position, then, that all men
seek the good overlooks the possibility
of the devil, which the Greeks did not
know. And because they did not know
it their culture ended on a note of gloom
and despair : the very gloom and despair
which all man-centered culture must in-
evitably end in.
The devil’s commonest trick, espe-
cially in our enlightened age, is to con-
ceal or efface himself, causing people to
believe that he does not exist and mak-
ing them appear perfectly ridiculous if
they believed that he did. Therefore to
smoke him out of his hiding-places is
always one of the most necessary tasks.
For it is only as man knows the devil
and knows how he was overcome,
namely, on the Cross, that the shout of
victory can come forth from the bottom
of his heart — brokenly, thankfully, and
with tears of joy. “Where sin abounded,
grace did much more abound” (Rom.
5:20).
Nor is it true that all men seek or
want peace ; for again radical rebellion
may have taken hold of them. What
about those who believe that the very
nature of things is not peace, not under-
standing, not concord, not harmony be-
tween elements on the same level or
between different levels, but perpetual
opposition, antagonism, contradiction,
war ? What about those whose first
principle is the war of opposites, who
interpret all history and all culture and
value as the outcome of the strife of
classes, a strife determined by man’s
basest impulses, namely, envy, hatred,
pride and greed? He is not an honest
seeker of peace who is not metaphysi-
cally peaceful. Nor is he a peacemaker
in the Biblical sense who has not yet
completely overcome in his own heart
all envy, hatred, pride and greed. For
to be children of God means precisely
that we have risen above the strife of
the children of men, risen both in
thought and in the actual fellowship of
the Church to a certain knowledge and
a certain being in which there is only
transparency, trust, joy, forgiveness,
love and peace.
The peace of man is a necessary and
honorable thing, but it is different from
the peace of God. The peace of God is
the actual reign of the Holy Ghost in
the Church, here and hereafter. I can-
not derive this peace by reason, because
there is no reason why the Church
should exist, and yet it does. That is
one reason why “the love of Christ . . .
passeth (all) knowledge” (Ephes. 3:
19) and “the peace of God . . . passeth
all understanding” (Phil. 4:7). The
peace of God is a pure gift of God, but
a given and continuing and available
gift, “and the gates of hell shall not pre-
vail against it” (Matt. 16:18). And yet
man’s nature, man’s reason, man’s
peace, are in no way distorted or dis-
placed or destroyed by this gift : on the
contrary, they are perfected.
IV
The relationship between the peace
of man and the peace of God is not
something simple. There is always a
striving for peace in the world, quite
independently of the Church ; but the
Church also always works for its own
peace, namely, for the kingdom of
heaven, quite independently of the
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world. Sometimes the peace of man con-
tributes to the peace of God ; but the
peace of God has also received some of
its deepest upsurges when there was no
peace among men. Even when it is per-
secuted and slandered, the Church prays
for peace among men according to the
will of God. The business of saving souls
and therefore of affirming and extend-
ing the peace of God goes on just as
much on the battlefield as on peaceful
deathbeds at home. It is possible for the
peace of God to be itself too much and
too comfortably at peace with the peace
of man. No matter how much you try to
explain it or to explain it away, the state-
ment by the Prince of Peace Himself,
“Think not that I am come to send peace
on earth” (Matt. 10:34), and many
similar passages in the Bible, are most
disturbing. The classics of Christian
thought and doctrine were forged, not
in peace, but in the teeth of death and
of the utmost tribulation. And Christ
peacefully dying on the Cross is not a
very peaceful sight. We cannot there-
fore say that the peace of man is for the
sake of the peace of God, nor certainly
can we say that the peace of God exists
just in order to serve the peace of man.
They are simply misinformed about the
facts of God who seek to use God for
their own human peace.
Surely God loves man, His handi-
work, His own image and likeness, and
respects and guarantees his reason and
his peace. Surely He “will have all men
to be saved, and to come unto the
knowledge of the truth” (I Tim. 2:4).
Surely therefore there must be some
connection between His peace and the
peace of man.
Man in his peace is groping for the
peace of God. The peace of man, there-
fore, is itself only an image, a figure, of
the peace of God. Our schooling in the
peace of the world is in the last analysis
only to make us long more ardently for
the peace above — the secure peace, the
real and lasting peace where there is no
shadow of death, the peace where God
shall “be all in all” and we shall see
Him “face to face,” the peace where we
shall know even as we are known (I
Cor. 13 :i2).
The peace of man is necessary, but
how can it satisfy when we know it
will not last? It is only the lasting, the
eternal, that we really want.
We obtain a foretaste of this super-
natural peace even in this natural life,
the Holy Ghost quickening our souls.
That is why our faith is based upon
knowledge and experience, and that is
why, since this knowledge is only “in
part,” we live by faith. Our clear duty,
therefore, is, while we live, both to
deepen, as much as possible, this fore-
taste, by obedience, by understanding,
by forgiveness, by fellowship, by prayer,
by contemplation, and to wait in pa-
tience and hope — a sure and certain
hope, for God does not lie — for the full
revelation of that day. And this is a
fundamental law of the spirit, that the
more we desire and long for that peace,
the more we obtain — the Holy Ghost
willing — a foretaste of it, and the more
we are established in our faith.
The question arises whether in a
world of many faiths the Christian in
believing and living his faith does not
thereby offend. This is an old and im-
portant question and I shall endeavor to
answer it only in part. If others sin-
cerely believe and live — and we know
they do — why should the Christian be
prevented from doing, or be embar-
rassed to do, likewise ? While others are
advancing, it seems odd if the Christians
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retreat. There is — at least outside the
Communist world — an accumulated
fund of wisdom and of mutual under-
standing and adjustment whereby it is
perfectly possible to be absolutely sin-
cere in your religious convictions and
still not to offend. The sincere respect
one another even if they otherwise
differ. There is a vast area of common
concern between the Christian and his
brethren of other faiths, in matters civil,
social, intellectual and even spiritual.
The Christian who lives to himself —
which of course is a contradiction in
terms — may offend, but he who throws
himself wholeheartedly onto this realm
of common concern, even to the extent
of risking life and limb in the service of
his fellow men and in the defense and
promotion of all that is true, just, high
and noble, of all that belongs to the
common and national good, usually not
only does not offend, but commands the
highest esteem. It is of the essence of
Christian faith to love, understand and
serve all positive being, however it
manifests itself, for, as Augustine
taught, being and the good, properly
understood, are convertible. Thus there
does not seem yet to be any necessity
for the Christian to outgrow or put
aside or whittle down his fundamental
convictions just because his is only one
of many faiths.
V
The world of faith is so different
from the world of human care and ex-
citement. In the moment of fellowship
when the love of God is the only reality,
when we seem to be in the presence of
angels, when there is absolute trust
among those who have entered together
that moment, when we honestly do not
want to have anything that the others
do not have, when the inner peace and
joy is so overflowing that it cannot be
communicated ; in the moment of con-
templation when our heart burns within
us because God is so near, so sure ; in
the state of grace when we cannot lie
or dissemble, when there is only peace
and freedom and power, when we are
almost blinded because of the light that
has suddenly shone in us, when we
know we are forgiven, when there is no
limit to what we can do or love or see
or suffer ; in these moments of the ac-
tion of the Holy Ghost upon us, we
experience the peace of God which pass-
eth all understanding, we know the
peace which Christ has left with us, and
we understand perfectly how the Holy
Ghost teaches us “all things” and surely
guides us “into all truth.”
I know the kind of certainty that ob-
tains in mathematics, in the sciences, in
philosophy, in whatever there is of real-
ity in international and intercultural re-
lations, and in pure friendship ; but the
certainty and reassurance which the
Holy Ghost infuses into the soul when,
acknowledging on its knees its sins and
sincerely repenting itself of them, it
pores over the mysteries of the Bible,
even the most difficult of them, far sur-
passes any of these other certainties. To
the soul that has suffered and prayed,
that has taken its “journey into a far
country” and then returned home, that
has known and seen something of the
glory of God, to such a soul all human
relations stand constantly transfigured
under the judgment of the living God.
And when it plunges into the world of
faith, whether in the Bible, or in the
Sacraments and Liturgy of the Church,
or in the concrete tasks and challenges
which face us all today as Christians
and as a Church, it receives from on
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high an assurance and an illumination
beyond anything it knows. From the
world of men we can have no inkling
of the world of faith : it is “wholly
other.” But from the world of faith,
which is absolute activity and vision
and creation, we can easily see the world
of men exactly as it is — groping blindly
in the dark with its light and secret
outside itself. And then for the first
time we know what the compassion of
God really means.
VI
You young men who are especially
called to follow and serve the Lord, be
strong in your faith. The joy, the lib-
erty, the power of His company is suf-
ficient unto you. Your sufferings and
failings are nothing if you are sure of
His love and if you daily assure Him of
yours in return. He will see to your
salvation. “My grace is sufficient for
thee.” As Saint John Chrysostom su-
perbly put it: “And though thou fall
once, twice, many times in thy training,
despair not, but stand again, and
wrestle; and do not give up until thou
hast bound on thee the glorious crown
of triumph over the devil.”
Never doubt that your “redeemer liv-
eth, and that he will stand at the latter
day upon the earth.” It is of you that it
was written, “How beautiful are the
feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace.”
In serving the world, never lose your-
selves in it. Keep your secret, which is
your faith, absolutely inviolate. Do not
be over-anxious about the world ; for
you will serve the cause of peace best
if you serve the peace of God first.
Know that without the Holy Ghost in
the Church you can do nothing ; there-
fore always seek the active fellowship
and original unity of the Church. Iden-
tify yourselves wholeheartedly with the
ministry of the Church — preaching,
teaching, healing, comforting, convict-
ing, absolving, forgiving, administering
the Sacraments, invoking the Holy
Ghost, “proclaiming the acceptable year
of the Lord.”
Follow in the footsteps of the Apos-
tles, the Fathers, the Saints. Nothing is
safer, nothing is more straightening or
more strengthening than to live daily in
communion with this “great cloud of
witnesses” with which we “are com-
passed about.” The richest deposit of
experience, of vision, of victory, is yours
for the having. And the Christian who
does not steep himself in this tremen-
dous heritage of the Apostles and Saints
is hardly worthy of the name.
Never be ashamed of the name of
Jesus Christ or of His gospel, “for it is
the power of God unto salvation to
every one that believeth.” It is the only
new thing in the world : all else is as
old as the hills, even the latest vaccine
and the latest model of the bomb. Only
the eternal, only that which is “the
same yesterday, and today, and for
ever,” is really new. Aim therefore al-
ways at that which is at once eternal,
universal, personal and concrete.
Live in the knowledge that “the night
is far spent, the day is at hand.” Live in
the assurance that “he that endureth to
the end shall be saved.”
DEGREES, FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES
The following degrees were conferred
at the Commencement on June 7th :
Masters of Religions Education ( Prin .)
Betty Eileen Flower, A.B. University
of Washington, 1950
Joyce Agnes Kirkman, B.S. University
of Pennsylvania, 1948
El Souriany Makary, A.B. Cairo Uni-
versity, 1941 ; A.B. American Uni-
versity, Cairo, 1944; B.D. Coptic
Theological College, 1944
Virginia Irene Morris, A.B. John B.
Stetson University, 1949
Ann Marie Leean Muyskens, A.B. Con-
cordia College, 1950
Jane Warren Savage, A.B. Centre Col-
lege, 1952
Anita Jean Walker, A.B. University of
Arizona, 1952
Bachelors of Divinity
Daniel George Axt, A.B. University of
Wisconsin, 1952
Robert Arthur Barnett, A.B. Hanover
College, 1952
Donald Grey Barnhouse, Jr., A.B. Har-
vard University, 1944
Douglas Estill Bartlett, A.B. Bloom-
field College and Seminary, 1952
David George Beamer, A.B. Whitworth
College, 1952
Edward Lee Bland, A.B. Erskine Col-
lege, 1952
Richard Allen Bodey, A.B. Lafayette
College, 1952
John Robert Booker, A.B. Temple Uni-
versity, 1952
John Roland Chambers, A.B. Hough-
ton College, 1952
Jesse Evans Christman, A.B. Occi-
dental College, 1951
Sidney Robert Conger, A.B. Muskin-
gum College, 1952
Paul Aubrey Corcoran, B.S. University
of Pittsburgh, 1945 ; M.A. 1947
Alfred Thomas Davies, A.B. Davidson
College, 1952
Howard Bloodgood Day, Jr., A.B. La-
fayette College, 1951
Harold Ralph Dean, Jr., A.B. Hope
College, 1951
Donald Arthur DeMott, A.B. Princeton
University, 1952
Foster Quarll Doan, A.B. Lafayette
College, 1952
Joseph Carrigan Dolman, LL.B. Okla-
homa City College of Law, 1952
Richard John Dosker, Jr., A.B. Mary-
ville College, 1951
Arlo Dean Duba, A.B. University of
Dubuque, 1952
Elwin Bruce Ellithorpe, B.S. Univer-
sity of California, 1948
Duane Virgil Fifer, A.B. University of
Nebraska, 1951
Dale Dempsey Gorman, A.B. Park Col-
lege, 1951
William Raymond Grace, A.B. Catawba
College, 1952
Leonard Tydings Grant, A.B. Rutgers
University, 1952
Lincoln Tracy Griswold, A.B. College
of Wooster, 1952
James Alvah Guyer, A.B. Oklahoma
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
1952
Frank Stewart Hamilton, Jr., A.B.
Grove City College, 1952
Frank Edgar Havens, III, A.B. Occi-
dental College, 1950
Louis Dean Hay, A.B. Park College,
1952
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Robert Philip Heim, A.B. Lehigh Uni-
versity, 1952
Charles Brewer House, Jr., B.S. Uni-
versity of Nebraska, 1949
Donn Gerard Jann, A.B. Whitworth
College, 1951
James Robert Keever, Jr., A.B. David-
son College, 1951
Lawrence Howard Kellmer, Jr., A.B.
Whitworth College, 1950; B.E., 1951
Ernest James Lewis, A.B. Wheaton
College, 1951
Samuel Johnson Lindamood, Jr., A.B.
University of Arizona, 1952
Carrington Marshall Lowe, A.B.
Princeton University, 1952
Paul Arthur Lutz, A.B. Wheaton Col-
lege, 1951
Gerald Durand Lyman, A.B. Univer-
sity of California at Los Angeles,
1952
James Marsh MacKellar, A.B. Cornell
University, 1952
Richard John Manning, A.B. Moravian
College, 1952
Robbin Luke Marvin, B.S. Wheaton
College, 1943 ; B.Ed. Whitworth
College, 1948
George Ross Mather, A.B. Princeton
University, 1952
John Bell Mathews, A.B. Dartmouth
College, 1952
John Franklin McCleary, A.B. Lafa-
yette College, 1952
James Richard Memmott, A.B. Rut-
gers University, 1952
Wesley Parker Miles, A.B. Maryville
College, 1952
Paul Rene Miller, A.B. College of
Wooster, 1952
Richard Henry Miller, A.B. Alma Col-
lege, 1952
Robert Wahl Millspaugh, A.B. Hamil-
ton College, 1952
Kenneth Reece Mitchell, A.B. Prince-
ton University, 1952
Edward Rock Mooney, B.E.E. Rens-
selaer Polytechnic Institute, 1949;
M.E.E. 1952
Wayne Marshal Moulder, A.B. Uni-
versity of Iowa, 1952
Lewis Seymour Mudge, A.B. Prince-
ton University, 1951 ; B.A. (Hons.
Theol.) Oxford University, 1954
Elbert Leroy Nelson, Jr., A.B. Ohio
State University, 1952
Donovan Oliver Norquist, B.M.E. Uni-
versity of Minnesota, 1948
Ronald Eugene Ossmann, A.B. Bloom-
field College and Seminary, 1952
Francis Ralph Osterstock, B.S. Mora-
vian College, 1935 ; M.S. Lafayette
College, 1947
William Donald Pendell, Jr., A.B. Col-
lege of Wooster, 1952
George Agase Pera, A.B. University of
Pittsburgh, 1952
John William Pilley, Jr., A.B. Abilene
Christian College, 1950
John Craig Pollock, A.B. Westminster
College, Pennsylvania, 1949
Stephen Greenleaf Prichard, A.B. Oc-
cidental College, 1952
LaVerne Rae Rader, A.B. University
of Washington, 1952
Carl Dietrich Reimers, B.S. Northwest-
ern University, 1952
John Oliver Reynolds, A.B. University
of California, 1950
Lona Mae Rives, A.B. Syracuse Uni-
versity, 1947
Andrew Donaldson Robb, III, A.B.
Lehigh University, 1951 ; B.S. 1952
Paul Henry Rutgers, A.B. Michigan
State Normal College, 1952
Robert Elwood Sanders, A.B. Miami
University, 1947
Robert Winfield Shaffer, A.B. Wheaton
College, 1952
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Christopher Barrows Sheldon, A.B.
University of San Marcos, Lima,
Peru, 1951 ; Ph.D. University of Ma-
drid, Spain, 1954
Robert Brown Sheldon, A.B. Lafayette
College, 1952
John Latourrette Silvius, B.S. Univer-
sity of California, 1952
Joseph Joshua Skelly, A.B. George
Pepperdine College, 1952
William John Spangler, A.B. Swarth-
more College, 1949
Charles Edgar Staples, A.B. Lafayette
College, 1946; M.B.A. Harvard Uni-
versity, 1948
Robert David Steele, A.B. Westminster
College, Utah, 1952
Herbert Arthur Stocker, A.B. New
York University, 1952
Richard Alan Symes, A.B. Columbia
University, 1952
Leigh Pemberton Taylor, A.B. Whit-
worth College, 1951
Eugene Arthur TeSelle, Jr., A.B. Uni-
versity of Colorado, 1952
Richard Henry Thomas, A.B. Park
College, 1952
William Gray Tolley, B.S. Iowa State
College, 1947
Durward Robert Van Nest, A.B. Mary-
ville College, 1951
John Haselwood Visser, A.B. College
of Wooster, 1952
Jerry Goldsmith Walker, A.B. Univer-
sity of Texas, 1952
Robert Stanley Wallace, A.B. Sacra-
mento State College, 1952
Milton Guernsey Walls, Jr., A.B. Mac-
alester College, 1952
John David Warren, A.B. Washington
University, 1950; M.A. 1952
William Howard Webster, B.S. Penn-
sylvania State College, 1951
Foster Charles Wilson, Jr., A.B. Buck-
nell University, 1952
IS
Laurence Neil Woodruff, A.B. Univer-
sity of Cincinnati, 1952
Philip Hobart Young, A.B. University
of Pennsylvania, 1952
Francis Albert Younkin, B.S. Iowa
State College, 1952
Masters of Theology
Louis Theodore Almen, A.B. Gustavus
Adolphus College, 1946; B.D. Au-
gustana Theological Seminary, 1950
Erman Fay Bennett, B.S. College of the
Ozarks, 1950; B.D. Divinity School
of Duke University, 1954
Martin John Buss, A.B. Bloomfield
College and Seminary, 1951 ; B.D.
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1954
Paul Adrian Hanson, A.B. St. Olaf
College, 1947; Th.B. Luther Theo-
logical Seminary, Minnesota, 1950
Raymond Harms, A.B. Wartburg Col-
lege, 1951 ; B.D. Wartburg Theolog-
ical Seminary, 1954
Lewis Scott Hay, A.B. Presbyterian
College, 1949; B.D. Columbia Theo-
logical Seminary, 1954
Joseph Whitner Kennedy, A.B. Wof-
ford College, 1951 ; B.D. Union The-
ological Seminary, Virginia, 1954
Bruce Henderson Kenrick, Edinburgh
University ; B.D. New College, Edin-
burgh, 1954
Louis Kereszturi, Reformed College,
Kecskemet, Hungary, 1947; B.D.
Princeton Theological Seminary,
1953
Douglas Benjamin Klusmeyer, A.B.
Oklahoma City University, 1950;
B.D. San Francisco Theological
Seminary, 1953
Kosuke Koyama, Union Theological
Seminary, Tokyo, 1952 ; B.D. Drew
Theological Seminary, 1954
John Frederick Little, A.B. Waterloo
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College, 1949; B.D. Evangelical Lu-
theran Seminary of Canada, 1952
William Pierce Lytle, A.B. College of
Wooster, 1944; B.D. Princeton The-
ological Seminary, 1947
William Wismer Matz, A.B. Moravian
College, 1950; B.D. Moravian Theo-
logical Seminary, 1953
William Scott McPheat, A.B. Univer-
sity of Queensland, 1950 ; M.A. 1953 ;
B.D. Melbourne College of Divinity,
1954
Joao Tanaka Mizuki, Ph.B. University
of Sao Paulo, 1949; Th.B. Inde-
pendent Presbyterian Theological
Seminary, Sao Paulo, 1949
Robert Lancaster Montgomery, A.B.
Southwestern at Memphis, 1950;
B.D. Columbia Theological Semi-
nary, 1953
Stephen Tongwhan Moon, B.D. West-
ern Theological Seminary, Pitts-
burgh, 1953
David Royal Moorefield, A.B. Presby-
terian College, 1948; B.D. Columbia
Theological Seminary, 1951
James Allen Nichols, A.B. Phillips Uni-
versity, 1950; B.D. Phillips Univer-
sity, College of the Bible, 1953
Harold Hunter Oliver, A.B. Howard
College, 1952; B.D. Southern Bap-
tist Theological Seminary, 1954
Thomas Dorman Peterson, B.S. Van-
derbilt University, 1948; B.D. Van-
derbilt University School of Reli-
gion, 1952
Nathaniel C. Roe, B.S. Cornell Univer-
■ sity, 1947; B.D. Princeton Theolog-
ical Seminary, 1950
Wilfred Gus Sager, A.B. Texas Lu-
theran College, 1951 ; B.D. Wartburg
Theological Seminary, 1954
Alexander Douglas Scrimgeour, M.A.
University of Glasgow, 1950; B.D.
Trinity College, Glasgow, 1953
David Sek-Chong Tan, Taipeh Theo-
logical College, Formosa, 1947; B.D.
Knox College, Toronto, 1954
Harold Orville Tollefson, A.B. Augs-
burg College, 1950; Th.B. Augsburg
Theological Seminary, 1953
James Frazier VanDyke, A.B. King
College, 1949; B.D. Union Theolog-
ical Seminary, Virginia, 1954
Doctors of Theology
Walter George John Hards, The Bible
College of Wales, Swansea; B.D.
Princeton Theological Seminary,
1949
Dissertation : A Critical Translation and
Evaluation of the Nucleus of the
1536 Edition of Calvin’s Institutes
James John Heller, A.B. Texas Chris-
tian University, 1944; B.D. Prince-
ton Theological Seminary, 1947
Dissertation : The Resurrection of the
Dead in the Light of the Biblical View
of Life
Charles Sherrard MacKenzie, Jr., A.B.
Gordon College, 1946; B.D. Prince-
ton Theological Seminary, 1949
Dissertation: Pascal and Authority: A
Study of Pascal’s Contribution to an
U nderstanding of the Problem of Au-
thority as it Relates to the Christian
Life
James McConkey Robinson, A.B. Da-
vidson College, 1945 ; B.D. Colum-
bia Theological Seminary, 1946;
Th.D. University of Basel, 1952
Dissertation: Mark’s Understanding of
History
Alfonso Alejandro Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Havana University, 1940; B.D.
Princeton Theological Seminary,
1946
Dissertation : Implications of the Doc-
trine of Justification by Faith
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George Stob, A.B. Calvin College,
1930; Th.B. Calvin Theological Sem-
inary, 1935
Dissertation: The Christian Reformed
Church and Her Schools
Raymond Lee Strong, B.S. Harvard
University, 1944; B.D. Princeton
Theological Seminary, 1948
Dissertation: English Translations of
the Greek New Testament from 1611
to 1775
Fellowships and Prizes
The Fellowship in Old Testament to
Raymond Albert Martin
The Fellowship in New Testament to
James Richard Memmott
The Fellowship in Ecumenics to Ron-
ald Eugene Ossmann
The Fellowship in Practical Theology
to Arlo Dean Duba
Prizes on the Samuel Robinson Foun-
dation to Richard Arthur Baer, Jr.,
Marvin Dean Baker, Donald Grey
Barnhouse, Jr., David George Beam-
er, Theodore Goodwin Belote, Ed-
ward Henry Breitbach, Frederick
Dale Bruner, James Harold Burt-
ness, Arlo Dean Duba, Elwin Bruce
Ellithorpe, Duane Virgil Fifer,
George Thomas Friedkin, Dale
Dempsey Gorman, Robert Philip
Heim, John Robert Hewett, Donn
Gerard Jann, Bruce Henderson Ken-
rick, Young Coo Lee, Gerald Durand
Lyman, George Ross Mather, Burt
Edward McCormick, James Marsh
MacKellar, Paul Murrell McKowen,
Robert Kenneth Meyer, Wesley
Parker Miles, Edward Rock Mooney,
James William Morris, John William
Pilley, Jr., Henry Poettcker, Ruth
Lois Price, Stephen Greenleaf Prich-
ard, William Henry Pritchard, Jr.,
Robert Carl Sackmann, John Burton
Shaw, Richard Alan Symes, Edward
Fairchild Torsch, Gabriel Antoine
Vahanian, Durward Robert Van
Nest, John David Warren, Edward
David Willis, Ching An Yang, Will-
fred Wylene Young
The Scribner Prize in New Testament
to Lewis Seymour Mudge
The Greir-Davies Prizes in Homiletics
and Speech to: First, Robert Elwood
Sanders ; Second, Robert Arthur
Barnett, Donald Oliver Norquist
The John Alan Swink Prize in Homi-
letics to Donald Grey Barnhouse, Jr.
The Robert L. Maitland Prizes in New
Testament Exegesis to Donald Allen
Crosby, Lewis Seymour Mudge
The Robert L. Maitland Prize in Eng-
lish Bible to Terrence Nelson Tice
The John Finley McLaren Prize in
Biblical Theology to Lincoln Tracy
Griswold
The Benjamin Stanton Prize in Old
Testament to Donald Medford Stine
The Archibald Alexander Hodge Prize
in Systematic Theology to Donald
Allen Crosby
The First Mary Long Greir Prizes in
Speech and Homiletics to : Middler,
Henry Green Morgan ; Junior, Frank
Norwood Watson
The Second Mary Long Greir Prizes in
Speech and Homiletics to : Middler,
Charles Frederick Horbach, Morgan
Roy West ; Junior, Leon Foster War-
dell
The William Tennent Scholarship to
Margaret Eugenia Darby
MEMORIAL SERVICE
for
EDWARD HOWELL ROBERTS
ON Monday afternoon, June 6, 1955, a Memorial Service for the late Dean
Roberts was held in Miller Chapel with President Mackay presiding, assisted
by the Reverend Walter H. Eastwood and the Reverend Peter K. Emmons. Three
brief tributes to the work and witness of Dr. Roberts were given by the Reverend
Allan M. Frew of Detroit, Michigan; Reverend Arthur M. Adams of Rochester,
New York; and Reverend Robert Rankin, Executive Director of the Rockefeller
Brothers Theological Fellowship Program.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHMAN
Allan M. Frew
The death of Edward Howell Rob-
erts is an irreparable loss to us all. We
are met here today to pay tribute to his
life, and to the vital Christian faith that
animated him.
Dr. Roberts was a man of many inter-
ests and versatile gifts. It must be left
to others to speak of his avocations, but
it is within the framework of these re-
marks to mention two or three.
An accident led to Dr. Roberts’ spe-
cial interest in the physically handi-
capped. He became devoted to their
interests, and championed their cause
as worthy and competitive employables,
and profitable to industry, which in-
voked initial legislation to foster this
end.
Hymnody captured much of the in-
terest of Dr. Roberts, and he was a stal-
wart advocate of the great music of the
church. His Welsh antecedents gave a
natural bent to his favoring many of the
fine Welsh tunes, and his emphasis
upon them won many supporters among
succeeding Princeton classes.
As a father and head of his house-
hold he was tutor to us all. Together
with his beloved wife they made their
home a haven of hospitality and Chris-
tian friendship and a refuge of encour-
agement to students and faculty alike.
Edward Roberts’ vocation was the
Church of Jesus Christ, and it falls to
us to say a brief word about him as a
churchman. His churchmanship ex-
pressed itself in a three-fold manner :
1) In preaching, 2) In the Councils of
the Church at large, and 3) In his per-
sonal ministry to his parish.
Dr. Roberts loved to preach, and this
he could do uncommonly well. He dwelt
on the great themes of Scripture, and
his sermons revealed his diligence as a
student and reader of broad compass
and understanding. His Welsh passion
attained its perfect expression when he
dealt with the heart of the Gospel — the
crucifixion of Christ and His glorious
resurrection. One never sat under Dr.
Roberts’ preaching but what he came
away with a warmer, evangelical spirit,
and renewed devotion to Jesus Christ.
The wide experience, the unruffled
manner of thought, and the ever timely
humor of our dear friend made him to
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be sought out for service on the Coun-
cils and Committees of our denomina-
tion. He served as a member of the
Board of Christian Education, and be-
ginning in 1944 he was a delegate to
the Council of Theological Education.
A Committee service close to his heart
and to which he gave himself with un-
j selfish zeal was the work of the Com-
mittee on Chaplains and Service Per-
sonnel of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. This
Committee was assigned the task of se-
lecting, training, and supervising per-
sonnel for chaplaincy duty, and many
will rise to honor Dr. Roberts’ name and
work, especially during the wartime ex-
periences of the Committee.
We conclude with a word about his
ministry to his parish. “His parish?”,
some will ask. Yes, his parish; for it
was the Princeton Seminary student
bodies, the alumni, and his fellow mem-
bers of the Faculty. To each he con-
ducted a very special and invaluable
ministry. How numerous is the host
that will stand to call him blessed for
his ever frank, but always fair and wise
counsel in personal matters. Beyond
listing are the numbers of congregations
and alumni he has aided with his almost
uncanny ability to appraise congrega-
tion and candidate in our delicate proc-
ess of establishing a new pastorate. And
surely there is scarcely a single member
of Princeton’s Faculty over the years
who has not made Edward Roberts his
confidant, and gained sorely needed help
from his wise and warm heart.
Yes, Edward Howell Roberts stood
among us as an extraordinary church-
man, endeared to all. His departure
from us, though esteemed premature by
the measure of the ways of men and by
our reluctance to release him, yet in the
far wiser Counsel of God we can see the
application of the words of the Psalmist,
“Blessed is the man whom thou choos-
est, and causeth to approach unto thee,
that he may dwell in thy courts.” And
were his voice again heard among us
surely he would say. “To be absent from
the body and present with the Lord — it
is far, far better.”
COUNSELOR AND FRIEND
Arthur M. Adams
What can a man say of his friend ?
It is of the nature of friendship to in-
volve mutual self-revelations and shared
confidences of which one does not speak.
I knew Edward Roberts almost
twenty-five years. We first talked in the
corner office of Hodge where he sat
amid the towering file cabinets left by
Paul Martin, looking like Trinity
Church on Wall Street, and supplying
a spirit within the wheels of the Semi-
nary’s organization which makes the
metaphor apt. We talked at ease in his
home while his astringent wit played
over the pomposities of theological lan-
guage and set the outlines of our faith
in stark simplicity. We talked at the
table in Princeton Inn about life and
preaching and pastoral work and good
books. We talked in his study at the
heart of the campus, relaxed and enjoy-
ing those islands of unhurried time he
built like coral strands out of moments
amid pressing duties.
I see him now, a little embarrassed by
all this fuss, but appreciating our sin-
cerity. He is tilting his head to one side
and looking at us through shrewd eyes,
waiting to see whether we will make
fools of ourselves.
Had he been a man who sought hon-
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ors, I could tell of the recognitions that
came to him, but because he had found
God’s place for him, because he knew
that Christ died for him, he needed no
reassurance about his importance.
Had he been a man who tried to make
an impression I could impress you with
the sweep of his activities, with the rich
furnishings of his mind. But he would
cock his head and smile, and I would
feel foolish. Edward Roberts was one
of those rare people who ask nothing of
anyone except the privilege of sharing
all that God has put in their hands.
Had institutions meant most to him
I could show you the enterprises he es-
tablished and undergirded. He loved
this Seminary and gave himself to theo-
logical education, but he never lost
sight of the reason for what he was do-
ing : the men who were being trained
and the people in the churches that they
would serve.
Had he worn his heart on his sleeve
I could speak of the depth of his feeling
and the power of his convictions, but it
must not be so.
I can, without indelicacy, speak of
his personal interest in men. He cared
enough, busy though he was, to look
twice at each man who came to his
study, to listen with sympathy and pa-
tience. If you asked him about a man he
would pull out his file and draw him in
one or two strokes. He could do this
because he had taken the trouble to
know each man. Individuals mattered
to Edward Roberts and they sensed it
as soon as they walked into his office.
In this he followed his Lord.
His honesty made a deep impression
upon those who knew him well. He was
never given to talking about his fel-
lows, and it was hard to pry out of him
an unfavorable judgment of someone
else ; but he was never undiscriminating
and he was not afraid to face a man
with his faults. One young minister
who was very proud of his ceaseless
activity in the Lord’s service will not
soon forget the wry comment, “So, you
never take a rest. Just who is your ex-
ample? Jesus? Or the devil who works
without ceasing ?” However sharp were
his probings they were unresented be-
cause he had a knack of confessing his
own sins and inadequacies as he talked
with a man about the ways he ought to
grow. Some of us who knew him dur-
ing the period when he was learning to
preach without notes will remember
how honestly he shared his difficulties
with his friends.
His personal devotion to Jesus Christ
was felt by all who knew him. Friends
who vacationed with him in Maine,
students who turned to him in trouble,
ministers who sought his counsel, and
educators who worked at his side, all
have spoken of the impression that he
was a man under orders with the light
of a great devotion burning in his
heart. This personal dedication made
him an effective channel of the love of
God.
Standing in the radiance of his life
this afternoon one is reminded of the
picture in the Book of Revelation which
suggests that when the throne of Christ
is established in heaven or in a man’s
heart there is blessing for all who are
about and there is a rainbow round
the throne !
THE PIONEER OF
INTERSEMINARY
COOPERATION
Robert Rankin
Edward Roberts served from 1938
to 1942 as Executive Secretary of the
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American Association of Theological
Schools, and from 1952 to 1954 as its
President. During this latter period he
was chairman of the committee that
prepared the way for the survey of
theological education which is now in
progress. Also he was convenor of the
group which, under the auspices of the
Association, created the Rockefeller
Brothers Theological Fellowship Pro-
gram, and served as the administrator
of that program as it began its work.
Thus, in several of the most significant
areas of cooperative advance, he was
not only a participant but a leader. He
was, indeed, a pioneer of cooperation in
American theological education.
Let us be thankful that his time coin-
cided with a moment of fresh oppor-
tunity in this field, for American theo-
logical education, enriched by the
wonderfully productive life of this re-
markable man, has been the beneficiary
of a spirit and a quality which it could
not have had without him. One leader
of American Protestantism has put the
matter plainly : “If theological educa-
tion has advanced in these latter years,
as we sincerely believe it has, Ed is
one of the two or three men in the
United States to whom the largest credit
must be given.”
That comment suggests the tremen-
dous sense of indebtedness to Edward
Roberts which is felt by theological edu-
cators in all regions of American Prot-
estantism. It also suggests the method
we may best use at this moment to catch
a realization of the pioneering contribu-
tion he made to cooperative work in
theological education, and of the per-
sonal qualities he brought to the field.
Let us listen to some of the men who,
with Edward Roberts, sought to bring
the institutions of theological education
into fruitful relationship.
This is what one has written: “You
could hardly overstate the obligation the
A.A.T.S. sustains to Edward Roberts,
and by the same token you could not
stress too strongly the contribution he
made to interseminary affairs.”
Another has written : “Dr. Roberts
was one of the most dependable men
that I have ever worked with. One
could always count on him, not only to
do the job assigned to him, but to do
it exceedingly well. All theological edu-
cation in this country is indebted to him
for the significant part that he had in
the development of the American Asso-
ciation of Theological Schools. . . . His
service was especially notable as a
visitor on behalf of the Association, in-
specting and counseling particular theo-
logical seminaries. He never let him-
self be betrayed into a surrender of high
standards, but he always handled par-
ticular situations with discrimination
and sympathy. My conviction is that
his visits always gave something of a
lift to the spirit and well-being of the
institutions.”
Still another has written : “He was
one of the three people who . . . did
more than any other person in shaping
the work, and especially the accredita-
tion work, of the A.A.T.S. Dean
Roberts was not just another person in
the organization, or just another execu-
tive. It was his marvelous spirit of good
will and understanding that enabled
him to make such a great contribution
to so many seminaries, and to the Asso-
ciation as a whole. We all recognized
him as an outstanding theological edu-
cator. At the same time, he manifested
such an understanding and brotherly
spirit that we shall ever be grateful to
him for the prominent place he had in
our Association and in our lives. . . .”
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Another has said : “Edward Roberts
never failed to manifest the spirit of
brotherliness. That was the key to his
usefulness in cooperative endeavors. . . .
I have seen him presiding over meet-
ings when feelings ran high . . . yet not
once was there ever any sign of his
being in the least disturbed, but, with
quiet confidence, led the thinking of
the group along lines that issued not
always in complete agreement, but al-
ways in understanding and mutual re-
spect. ... A knowledge of his Chris-
tian loyalty and his ecumenical breadth
. . . made everybody listen attentively
to what Ed had to say. . . . He always
seemed to know the kind of question to
ask in getting at the heart of any mat-
ter. Yet he did not seem to be probing
as much as urging the other person to
search for the facts and the deeper
meanings.”
And still another : “He represented
what Ed like to be — one who never put
himself forward, but quietly, devotedly,
wisely, lovingly made the kind of con-
tribution that endures long after flashier
efforts are forgotten.”
* * * *
What was it that enabled Edward
Roberts to make such a contribution?
One must mention his professional
skills, his ministerial, teaching and
counseling abilities which made him
completely at home in the field, and
gave him insight into perplexing prob-
lems. Yet that does not answer the
question fully.
One must mention his wonderful
sense of humor, and his rare perspective
of people and situations which released
warmth and wit. The Princeton Semi-
nary faculty has already noted that
“he knew how to release a tense mo-
ment with a laugh or an anecdote.”
Certainly this special gift was of im-
measurable value to those persons and
groups with whom he worked. But
again, that would only partially answer
the question.
One could mention other things,
many other things to explain why he
was so well prepared for this task: his
wonderful family and the rich relation-
ships in his home ; his friendships ; his
churchmanship. Yet the answer to the
question would not become clear until
we encountered the heart of this man’s
life. Then the answer becomes clear:
he was a Christian. As one of his col-
leagues in the Association has said,
“. . . in his personal life as a great
Christian, he had the basic attitudes
which are necessary for working with
others. . . .”
Yes, that is it. Where some might
cast a shadow of insincerity, Edward
Roberts brought the light of integrity.
Where some might employ clever tac-
tics, he used simple honesty. Where
some might bring arrogance pro-
duced by uncertainty, Edward Roberts
brought clear humility, grounded in
faith. Where others might bring cold-
ness of mind and religious rigidity, he
brought a Christian faith so great that
he had room to appreciate and to un-
derstand the spiritual convictions and
insights of others. Where some might
bring superficial or conventional in-
terests to cooperative endeavors, Ed-
ward Roberts gave those endeavors
quality, depth and a holy spirit.
The explanation of his genius lay,
then, not so much in him, but in the
gospel which he sought to convey, the
gospel of his Lord, Jesus Christ. The
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gospel enabled him to understand and
to be understood, to love and to be
loved.
Thus endowed, he was prepared to
pioneer. His remarkable endowments
were used humbly, but with tremendous
benefit to those persons who lived and
worked round about him. He gave him-
self unstintingly to them and to the
whole field of theological education.
Thus today, in great part due to Ed-
ward Roberts’ faith and labor, a rela-
tionship of understanding and trust has
been established among theological
schools — a monument to a Christian
pioneer.
FORTIETH REUNION LUNCHEON
FOLLOWING the Commencement
exercises on Tuesday, June 7, four-
teen members of the Class of 1915 met
for luncheon in the small dining room
of the new Campus Center to observe
their fortieth reunion. The wives of
eight of the members were present also.
Of the men of 1915, who entered the
Seminary in the peaceful days before
World War I, eight are now deceased,
seven are “retired,” thirteen are ac-
tively serving churches, and the remain-
ing thirteen are in educational or other
work. The Honorable Charles H. Mal-
ik, Commencement speaker, was a guest
at the luncheon and spoke in an informal
and most interesting manner of his im-
pressions of the Bandung Conference
which he had recently attended. The
host at the luncheon was the Reverend
Hansen Bergen of Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin. Others present were : President
and Mrs. John A. Mackay of the Semi-
nary ; Rev. Peter K. Emmons of Scran-
ton, Penna., President of the Board of
Trustees; Rev. and Mrs. Samuel F.
Franklin of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Rev.
and Mrs. Michele Frasca of Endicott,
New York; Rev. and Mrs. Henry M.
Hartmann of Iselin, New Jersey; Rev.
and Mrs. W. R. Kruse of Media,
Penna. ; President and Mrs. L. E.
Smith of Elon College, North Carolina ;
Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Troupe of Notting-
ham, Penna. ; Rev. and Mrs. R. D.
Workman of Lajolla, California; Pro-
fessor Paul E. Keen of Naperville, Illi-
nois; Rev. J. S. LaRue of Hudson
Falls, New York; Rev. J. P. Lytle of
Prospect, Penna., and Rev. Elmer
Walker of Trenton, N.J.
A MESSAGE TO PRINCETON
SEMINARY ALUMNI
Dear fellow-alumni :
You will recognize the copy in this box, for it appears on the back of the
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Paul Verghese, a young native of India who was graduated from
Princeton Seminary in 1954. He was not only one of the most brilliant
men in his class, but a great Christian as well. He is now working
among the “untouchables” of India.
The letter enclosed a five dollar bill.
I am proud to be a fellow-alumnus of this man. He was graduated in 1954.
The letter was his first response to the Princeton Roll Call. I hope you will
wish to join him as a loyal alumnus this year.
Sincerely yours,
Bryant M. Kirkland, President
Princeton Seminary Alumni Association
PRINCETONIANA
Lefferts A. Loetscher
Commencement
THE Honorable Charles A. Malik,
Ambassador of the Republic of
Lebanon to the United States, was the
speaker at the One Hundred and Forty-
third Commencement of the Seminary
held on June 7 in the University Chapel.
The address will be found elsewhere in
the present issue of the Seminary Bul-
letin. There were ninety-six who re-
ceived the B.D. degree, seven the
M.R.E., twenty-eight the Th.M., and
seven the Th.D.
Faculty
This academic year witnesses a num-
ber of new appointments in the Faculty.
Dr. Homrighausen, in addition to con-
tinuing as Charles R. Erdman Profes-
sor of Pastoral Theology, will be Dean
of the Seminary, succeeding in this
office the late Dr. Roberts. Dr. Wilson
becomes Dean of Field Service. Mr.
Richard J. Oman will be Instructor in
Christian Philosophy, and Mr. John
E. Smylie will be Instructor in Church
History.
Beginning with the present number,
Dr. Macleod will be the new Editor
of the Seminary Bulletin, succeeding
Dr. Roberts in that function.
Faculty members spent the summer
in widely scattered places. Dr. Mackay,
after a time in Scotland and England,
attended a meeting of the Joint Com-
mittee of the International Missionary
Council and World Council of Churches.
He also attended a meeting of the
Central Committee of the World Coun-
cil of Churches of which he is a mem-
ber. The visit to Geneva, on which
the eyes of the world were fixed in
connection with the “meeting at the
summit” of international leaders, was
a memorable one.
Dr. Gehman had winter for much of
his summer — in the Southern Hemi-
sphere, where he had the honor of being
Guest Professor and successively giv-
ing courses at the Presbyterian Semi-
nary of the South, at Sao Paulo, and
the Presbyterian Seminary of the North,
at Recife, both in Brazil. Dr. Gehman,
who at one time taught Spanish, ac-
quired the related Portuguese language
for this visit, and lectured in Portu-
guese. He also spoke at a Ministers’
Conference in Campinas.
Dr. Homrighausen continued on his
sabbatical leave in the Far East, where
he lectured on Christian Education and
Evangelism in theological seminaries
and before ministerial groups in Hawaii,
Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Singapore, and Thailand, returning via
India and Beirut. Mrs. Homrighausen
joined him for the return journey. Dr.
Piper went to Germany for the sum-
mer, where he engaged in research in
various libraries, and visited his brother.
Mrs. Piper accompanied him, and had
the opportunity of visiting her sister.
Dr. Hope visited his native Scotland.
Dr. Lehmann continued on sabbatical
leave, which was devoted to research
study, principally in Strasbourg. Dr.
Jurji was lecturing at the Pacific School
of Religion in Berkeley, California. Dr.
Barrois spent some time in the Province
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of Quebec, Canada. Others, too, were
scattered in various places, while some
spent the larger part of the summer
in Princeton.
The television series of addresses
delivered by Faculty members over
WFIL-TV (Philadelphia) came to a
close on May 27 after running for four
months. Seventeen different members
of the Faculty participated. The entire
series was on the Bible, most of the
addresses being on individual Bible
books. Much appreciative mail came to
the station, and the Seminary has been
invited for a return engagement next
year.
Letters of very hearty commendation
have come to Dr. Mackay concerning
the work done by Dr. Kuist in India
and Pakistan when he spent his sab-
batical leave in service in those coun-
tries in the early part of 1954. A leader
on the field in India, writing in behalf
of the National Christian Council, said,
“Dr. Howard Kuist made a most valua-
ble contribution to the thought and life
of the Church in India by the Bible
study and teaching institutes which he
conducted in twelve different centres.
There has been universal satisfaction
as the result of his earnest and devoted
labour.” The Executive Committee of
the National Christian Council of India
also adopted a formal resolution of ap-
preciation. High appreciation was also
expressed by the executive of the
Southern Asia Committee of the Na-
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U.S.A.
Student Activities
The speaker at the annual Day of
Convocation on March 30 was Dr. Chad
Walsh, Episcopal clergyman, Professor
in the English Department at Beloit
College, and author of many books,
including Early Christians of the 21st
Century and Campus Gods on Trial.
His three addresses — morning, after-
noon, and evening — proved stimulating.
Dr. Charles Templeton was the
speaker at this year’s Senior Banquet
on May 5.
The All-Seminary Lawn Supper is
a recent institution whose genial fel-
lowship commends it to the whole Semi-
nary family. On May 24 Faculty, stu-
dents, wives, children, babies, friends,
neighbors, dogs, et cetera, gathered on
the Campus Center lawn for supper,
whimsical games, and general socia-
bility.
“Twelve Angry Men” were seen and
heard in a dramatic presentation by
that name given by students at the
Campus Center on May 4, and at the
First Presbyterian Church two days
later. This play by Reginald Rose uses
the deliberations of a jury to bring the
audience face to face with crisis. The
presentation, under the direction of Mr.
Brower of the Speech Department, was
highly effective.
Before the close of the spring term,
the student body elected officers for the
coming year, with the following results :
President, Stuart A. Plummer of North
Carolina ; Vice President, Robert G.
Kesel, of Illinois ; Secretary, Margaret
E. Darby of Connecticut; and Treas-
urer, John W. Thomson of Connecti-
cut. In recent years student officers
have been supplying excellent leader-
ship in student affairs, and a fine year
in campus life is in prospect with these
student leaders and others who shall
be elected and appointed to constitute
with them the Student Cabinet.
A great many of the students spent
the summer in field work of various
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kinds. Some served again under the
Students’ Chaplains’ Service in the Na-
tional Parks of the United States. This
work is quite new, but has now grown
to include the services of some ninety
students from various seminaries of the
country. Ten students of the Seminary
spent the summer in the “Ministers in
Industry” program of Dr. Marshall L.
Scott in Chicago. Previous experiences
of students in this program have proved
informing, sometimes disillusioning in
a salutary way. Half a dozen students
spent the summer in service at the
Dodge Community House in Detroit,
under the direction of a recent grad-
uate, the Reverend Charles T. Leber,
Jr. Two students were in charge of
a work camp project in Puerto Rico
under the Presbyterian Board of Na-
tional Missions, with fifteen men and
women students from colleges and uni-
versities of the United States serving
under their leadership. Some of the
Seminary student body served in var-
ious work camps in Europe. Very
many of course rendered religious
service under the direction of the Pres-
byterian Board of National Missions
scattered over the United States and
Alaska and Puerto Rico. Some were
in the student pastorates which they
hold during the winter. Others, who are
student assistants, continued through
the summer, often with increased re-
sponsibilities corresponding to the
greater amount of time they have avail-
able during vacation. All students who
desired the opportunity of religious
work during the summer were placed.
Princeton Institute of Tiieology
The Princeton Institute of Theology
had excellent sessions this summer and
the attendance exceeded that of last
year. The Institute Faculty was the
largest it has ever been with a total
of 21. A new and much appreciated
feature this year was the morning
Devotional Bible Hour, from 8 to 8 130,
led the first week by Dr. Metzger
and the second week by the Reverend
Ernest Gordon, new Dean of the Chapel
at the University and previously Di-
rector of the Westminster Foundation
there. Dr. Clarke was the speaker at
the Convocation Plour during the first
week. Other members of the Faculty
who gave elective courses were Pro-
fessors Cailliet, Wyckofif, Wilson,
Fritsch, Macleod and Beeners. One of
the evening speakers was Mr. Edwin
M. Wright, former missionary to Iraq
and Iran, the son of missionaries and
brother of the present Moderator of the
General Assembly. Mr. Wright is with
the United States State Department,
and gave a very interesting address on
“Foreign Relations.” A feature of the
Institute was a clinical course at the
New Jersey State Neuro-Psychiatric
Institute. In the absence of Dr. Mac-
kay and Dr. Homrighausen, Chairman
of the Faculty’s Committee on the In-
stitute, Dr. Wilson, Secretary of the
Institute Committee, presided. The In-
stitute has become an institution —
greatly welcomed by alumni and friends
of the Seminary.
THEOLOGY TODAY
The October issue of Theology To-
day is organized around the theme
“Kierkegaard and Existentialism,” in
recognition of the one hundredth an-
niversary of Kierkegaard’s death on
November 11, 1855. Dr. Hendry sup-
plies an editorial on “the Gospel in an
Age of Anxiety.” Dr. Joseph Harou-
tunian of McCormick Seminary writes
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the devotional article entitled “Protest
to the Lord.” Dr. Walter Lowrie,
famous as the translator of Kierke-
gaard, contributes an article “Transla-
tors and Interpreters of S.K.” Niels
Thulstrup, outstanding Kierkegaard
scholar of Denmark, writes on recent
Kierkegaard studies, especially in the
Scandinavian countries. Grundtvig and
Kierkegaard are discussed jointly by
Henning H0irup. The Dean of the new
Theological Faculty at the University
of Hamburg, Dr. Helmut Thielicke,
writes on “Nihilism and Anxiety.
“Existentialism is a Mysticism” is the
theme of Dr. Carl Michalson, Professor
of Theology at Drew Seminary. There
is a feature book review of the most
recent translation of a work of Kierke-
gaard— On Authority and Revelation.
The review is by Dr. Howard Johnson,
Canon of the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine. In view of the historic signifi-
cance of Kierkegaard, this is an un-
usually interesting and important issue
of Theology Today.
The Seminary Choir
This year the Seminary Choir took
its annual summer tour to the Pacific
Northwest, including British Columbia,
Canada. They left Commencement Day
in time to fill an engagement that eve-
ning at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From
there they went to Ohio, Michigan,
South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana,
Idaho, Washington, and British Colum-
bia. The journey back took them
through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming,
Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania. The time for covering
this extensive itinerary, with multiple
singing engagements almost every day
was less than two months.
As usual, comments on the Choir’s
summer work have been highly ap-
preciative, often enthusiastic. For ex-
ample, the Activity Director of a boys’
reform school in Oregon commented
particularly on the impression which
the Choir’s rendering of Negro spirit-
uals had made on the boys. The Choir’s
singing in the “maximum security unit,”
whose occupants seldom are allowed
to see outside visitors, was greatly ap-
preciated, as were visits made by Choir
members individually in the various
boys’ cottages. In these annual trips the
Choir renders notable spiritual service.
Next year it is hoped that the Choir
may be able to go to South America.
This, however, will require very spe-
cial financial help from the friends of
the Choir. It is hoped that churches
where the Choir has visited and is
known will interest themselves in mak-
ing possible this great project which
has large missionary and spiritual po-
tentialities.
Preachers and Lecturers
On invitation of the Faculty, the fol-
lowing preached in Miller Chapel on
appointed Tuesday evenings during the
past academic year :
The Reverend James T. Cleland,
D.D., Professor of Preaching, The
Divinity School, Duke University, Dur-
ham, North Carolina.
The Reverend Frederick B. Speak-
man, D.D., pastor of the Third Presby-
terian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania.
The Reverend Ralph W. Lloyd, D.D.,
Moderator of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. The
subject of his address was, “If I Were
in Seminary Again.”
Addresses have been delivered before
the student body by the following dur-
ing the past academic year :
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Professor Harold H. Rowley, Dean
of the Faculty of Theology, University
of Manchester, England. Subject: “In-
dividual and Community in the Thought
of the Old Testament.”
Dr. Werner Richter, Vice-Rector of
the University of Bonn, Germany. Sub-
ject: “Understanding Germany Today.”
Professor Oscar Cullman, Professor
of New Testament Exegesis and An-
cient Church History at the University
of Basel, and Professor at the Sorbonne.
Subject: “Missions and Eschatology.”
A special Day of Prayer was ob-
served on November 10th, with a ser-
mon in the morning by Dr. Hans Hof-
mann, followed by discussion groups.
In the afternoon Dr. Donald Macleod
led in a service of prayer. In the eve-
ning a Communion Service was con-
ducted by Dr. Henry S. Gehman and
the late Dr. Edward H. Roberts.
A Day of Convocation was held on
March 30th, with three addresses by
Dr. Chad Walsh, Professor of English,
Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin. Dr.
Walsh spoke on “They Sinned Brave-
ly,” “Prophets Without God,” and “The
Church Outside the Church.”
The Lectures on the L. P. Stone
Foundation were delivered April 12
to 20 by Dr. E. Harris Harbison, Ph.D.,
Henry Charles Lea Professor of His-
tory, Princeton University. His sub-
ject was “The Christian Scholar and
His Calling in the Age of the Ref-
ormation.”
Missionaries in Payne Hall
Payne Hall, in its thirty-third year
of service, has provided a home during
furlough for the following missionaries
and their children:
Ray C. Downs of Thailand
Raul Fernandez of Cuba
Willard M. Galloway of A.-E. Sudan
Alan H. Hamilton of Venezuela
Olaf Hansen of Japan
John F. Healey of Germany
Arthur J. Kamitsuka of Japan
Jacob W. Limkeman of the Canal Zone
William P. Lytle of New Mexico
Robbin L. Marvin of Thailand
Alfonso Rodriguez of Cuba
Nathaniel C. Roe of Africa
William West of Lebanon
James Wright of Brazil
The Students’ Lectureship on Missions
November 7, 8, and 9
“Fountainheads of World
Evangelization”
by
J. Edwin Orr. Th.D., D. Phil. (Oxon.)
*THE SEMINARY’S LIBRARY PROJECT
A STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SEMINARY
I WISH to present to you, my fel-
low citizens, the proposal of the
Theological Seminary to erect a new
Library building. I welcome the oppor-
tunity to outline this library project
and to give the reasons for it. In doing
so, I am eager to clarify some questions
which have caused perplexity. I hope
to remove certain misunderstandings,
and set the Seminary and its library
project in their true perspective.
I. Princeton Seminary desperately needs
a new Library.
“Princeton Seminary” — what do
these words convey? In the Princeton
of today a good deal of ignorance ob-
tains regarding the background and
work of the Theological Seminary. The
Seminary, it is true, has acquired na-
tional and world renown in the theo-
logical realm, but it has been a very
poor publicist of its own significance in
the community to which it belongs.
Princeton Seminary certainly quali-
fies to be regarded as “an old Prince-
tonian.” It was founded in 1812 at a
time when the district where it now
stands was largely farmland. To a con-
siderable extent this part of Princeton
grew up with the Seminary. Some of
its leading thoroughfares bear the names
of Seminary professors of the early
days. Alexander Street and Hodge
Road are reminiscent of two figures in
Princeton’s past who belong to the im-
mortal annals of Princeton Seminary.
Library Place owes its name to the fact
that it skirts the traditional site of the
Seminary’s Library buildings. The
Nassau Club of today is housed in
what was once the home of Samuel
Miller, one of the Seminary’s two
founders. Presidents Patton and Hib-
ben of Princeton University were both
graduates of the Theological Seminary.
The fact should be emphasized that
there is a respect in which Princeton
Seminary is quite unique among the
leading theological schools of the world.
While the institution belongs to one
of the great denominations of Prot-
estantism, it has always had in its
student body representatives of many
other denominations. At the present
time, while the great majority of those
who compose the Seminary’s student
body are Presbyterian, there are fifty
denominations represented on the cam-
pus. This past year the first Coptic
monk ever to study in the western world
has been a member of our Seminary
family. He will receive a Master’s de-
gree next Tuesday. We have also had
this year several representatives of the
great Mar Thoma Church of South
India whose traditions go back to the
first century of the Christian era. In its
* Because of some misunderstanding in the Princeton community concerning what was in-
volved in the new library project, a public meeting was held in the Campus Center on June 2,
r955, presided over by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, and attended by the Mayor, Borough
Council, leading citizens of the town, and friends from the University. The following is the
formal statement made by President Mackay on that occasion. Readers of the Bulletin will
be happy to know that the plans for the Robert E. Speer Library have been finally approved
by the Borough Council of Princeton.
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Graduate Department today, Princeton
Seminary trains professors for the theo-
logical colleges of many denominations.
One of the glories of Princeton Semi-
nary has always been its great Library.
Among scholars it has the reputation
of being one of the greatest theological
libraries in the Protestant world.
Under the leadership of some of the
early librarians, and with the full co-
operation of the faculty, the Seminary
aimed to bring together in one place
all the needed tools for theological re-
search in every realm. One of the
greatest of these librarians was Mr.
Joseph Heatly Dulles, the uncle of John
Foster Dulles. He was a brother of Mr.
Dulles’ father who himself was a gradu-
ate of the Seminary. It has thus come
about that Princeton Seminary today is,
in the j udgment of scholars, the possessor
of one of the very greatest collections of
religious literature in the world. This
collection of books in many languages
is used by research scholars from all
over the nation. It is also constantly
used and prized by students and teach-
ers in our sister institutions in Prince-
ton.
Today, however, the physical facili-
ties of the two buildings in which our
book collection is found are hopelessly
inadequate. They are inadequate to
provide space for the books ; they are
hopelessly inadequate to provide read-
ing room space for the students of an
institution which now numbers some
five hundred men and women, all of
whom are engaged in some form of
graduate work. There is something still
more serious. The Seminary is obliged
to live under the constant shadow of
what might happen if fire broke out.
Neither one of the present library build-
ings is fireproof, and there is the ever-
present danger that priceless, irreplace-
able volumes might be destroyed.
II. The Library which the Seminary
desires must meet certain basic re-
quirements.
First, the new Library building must
be a first-class structure both as re-
gards functional efficiency and physical
dimensions. It is the desire of the
trustees and the faculty that the in-
ternal arrangements in the new struc-
ture shall be in every way a model of
what a true working library should be.
They are equally agreed that it must be
adequate in size for present needs and be
capable of expansion to meet the needs
of tomorrow. Our goal is space for
half a million volumes.
Second, the new Library building
must be as suitably located as possible.
Its reading room must be so situated as
to be able to take advantage of the sun-
light. The building itself must be
placed as near as possible to the center
of Seminary life.
Third, it is equally clear that the
new Library must fit into the pattern of
Princeton’s physical development and
the traditional sensitivity of this com-
munity on questions historical and
aesthetic. It is taken for granted, there-
fore, that while the Seminary is no
intruder in the community to which it
belongs, and while zoning ordinances
were very different at the time when
the institution was founded from what
they are now, the Seminary today cer-
tainly desires in its plans for expansion
to take into account everything that is
regarded as appropriate for the over-
all pattern of Princeton’s development.
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III. The most suitable, and only ade-
quate location, for the new Library
is the traditional Library site.
Let it be borne in mind that the plot
of ground where the present two Li-
brary buildings are situated was given
for library purposes by Mr. James
Lenox, one of the early benefactors of
the New York Public Library. Al-
though the two buildings are very dif-
ferent in design, it was Mr. Lenox who
made both of them possible.
The site where these buildings are
located is the ideal site for the new
Library which the Seminary desires to
have. Why? For one thing, the direc-
tion in which the Seminary has ex-
panded is towards the south. The ac-
quisition, some years ago, of the old
Hun School property has made it
possible for about a hundred members
of the Seminary community to live on
Stockton Street. It is, moreover, true
that consideration has been given, over
long years, to other possible sites on
the side of Mercer Street where the
main campus is located. Each one of
these sites was studied and finally re-
jected as either unsuitable or as pos-
ing insurmountable problems. Accord-
ing to common agreement, the most
ideal site would be the ground where
Hodge Hall is now located. That, how-
ever, would involve tearing down the
Seminary’s largest dormitory at the
very time when dormitory space is
most desperately needed. Not only so,
but an attractive architectural design
was made of a library building which
would be located on the main campus
in the angle formed by Mercer Street
and Alexander Street. It was found,
however, that the available space in that
location was totally inadequate for a
library of the dimensions required.
It was finally decided, therefore, after
much agonizing thought, that the new
Library should be placed on the tradi-
tional Library site. Three years were
devoted to a study of the technical
problems involved in a model library
building. Under the direction of Mr.
Keyes Metcalf, the librarian of Harvard
University, a plan was finally agreed
upon. This plan was approved by the
Zoning Board of Adjustment which
laid down, however, one requirement.
It would be necessary that an ease-
ment of light and air should be given
by the Trustees of the Swann Estate
who hold in trust the adjoining prop-
erty to the north upon a part of which
the Borough Hall is located.
The Trustees of the Swann Estate
gave kindly consideration to the Semi-
nary’s plea. All concerned had the clear
impression that there would be no dif-
ficulty whatever in arranging for the
easement. On the basis of this under-
standing, and with the approval of the
Zoning Board of Adjustment, me-
chanical drawings for the new Library
building were undertaken and com-
pleted. To date the Seminary has paid
some $60,000 in architects’ fees.
In the meantime, the Board of
Trustees was agonizing with the prob-
lem of how to deal with the smaller
of the two existing Library buildings,
the charming structure popularly known
as “Old Lenox.” Long before the senti-
ment was expressed in the community
that this building should be preserved
inviolate in its present location, the
Board had studied all sorts of archi-
tectural designs which would incorpo-
rate “Old Lenox” into the new library
plan. When that was found impossible,
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or most unsatisfactory, an approach was
made to several contracting companies
to inquire how much it would cost to
move “Old Lenox” to another site.
The idea was also explored of leaving
“Old Lenox” where it now stands and
of demolishing the brick building which
the irreverent have known as “the
Brewery.” The Trustees were forced
to abandon this plan for two reasons.
To demolish the brick building where
the bulk of the books are and erect a
new library upon its site would hold
up the research work of the Seminary
for two years’ time. It would be neces-
sary, moreover, to raze at the same
time two very much-needed faculty
homes. Besides that, no room whatever
would be left for expansion.
Let it be clearly understood that the
Trustees and the Faculty, the Alumni
and the students of Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary are as sensitive as any
citizen to the charm of “Old Lenox.”
The Seminary wants this old building
to be preserved if at all possible. It is
ready to make a gift of it to the Borough
of Princeton, or to any interested and
concerned party, in order that it may
be located in the most suitable spot
which can be found. The cost of re-
moval to an adjoining site would be
from $150,000 to $200,000.
But why, it is asked, did the Semi-
nary go so far as it did without the
question of the easement having been
settled? What led the Trustees of the
Seminary and the Trustees of the
Swann Estate to believe that the ease-
ment problem would be easily solved?
The answer is the terms of the Will of
Josephine A. Thomson Swann. This
document says explicitly, “Said prop-
erty shall be held by my said Trustees,
their successors and assigns, in per-
petual trust for the use of the municipal
corporation known as ‘The Mayor and
Council of the Borough of Princeton,’
and the inhabitants of said Borough,
as and for a public hall and garden. My
Trustees shall expend, out of my estate,
the sum of twenty thousand dollars in
remodeling the said house and fitting
the same for gatherings, large and
small, and in affixing therein or thereto,
a tablet, upon which shall be engraved
the words ‘Thomson Hall.’ They shall
furnish an office in one of the buildings
on said property for the use of the
Mayor of said Borough, and also a
Council Chamber for the meetings of
the Municipal Council, without charge.
They shall maintain the said grounds
substantially as they have been laid out
and planted by me for use as a public
park.” If words mean anything, it is
perfectly clear to the lay mind that
what would happen if the easement were
granted would be simply this. The
erection of the new Library building
would be an added guarantee that the
terms of the trust would be kept in-
violate. For the required easement the
Seminary is prepared to pay the sum
asked for by the Trustees of the Swann
Estate, namely $2,500.
IV. The Seminary is prepared to
meet every reasonable requirement in
order that the new Library, when
erected, may commend itself to the
Princeton community and be worthy
of Princeton’s cultural tradition.
The record of the Seminary is surely
such that the appearance of its campus
and the design and quality of the build-
ings which have been recently erected
or remodeled within its bounds are a
manifestation of community spirit as
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well as of institutional pride. It has been
said to me repeatedly that, in the judg-
ment of our University School of Archi-
tecture, Miller Chapel, which was re-
modeled and relocated some twenty
years ago, is one of the finest examples
in the country of restored Colonial. The
architect who did the restoration, Mr.
George A. Licht, is the same person
who remodeled the First Presbyterian
Church and designed the Seminary's
new Campus Center, which is a build-
ing universally admired. It is this gen-
tleman who, with the cooperation of his
son, Mr. George T. Licht and Messrs.
O’Connor and Kilham, architects of the
University Library, has been the archi-
tect of the Seminary’s new Library
project.
As regards the Seminary’s commu-
nity spirit, the institution has always
been sensitive, and will ever continue to
be sensitive, to the best interests of the
community. Some years ago, when a
request was made by the Borough that
permission should be granted for wid-
ening Alexander Street, the Seminary
gave the needed strip of land without
accepting any payment in return. Not
only so, but, while the institution is tax
exempt, an annual contribution of sub-
stantial size, $5,000 to be exact, is made
to community funds.
It is natural, therefore, that the Semi-
nary should desire and hope that the
Borough of Princeton may give its con-
sent to the plea of the Seminary and of
the Trustees of the Swann Estate. A
united approach could thus be made to
the appropriate authorities in New Jer-
sey asking that the required easement
be approved. However, if the consent
of the Borough is not given, what will
happen? An institution which has be-
longed to Princeton for generations,
which occupies a pivotal position in the
religious world, and which is now in a
period of vital expansion, will be frus-
trated in its plans. At the same time, a
host of people across the nation and the
world would experience a sensation of
incredulity and dismay.
ALUMNI NEWS
Orion C. Hopper
Commencement Alumni Dinner
THE Annual Dinner Meeting of
the Alumni Association was held
on Monday, June 6, in the Campus Cen-
ter in connection with the 143rd An-
nual Commencement. Dr. Allan M.
Frew, ’35, President of the Alumni As-
sociation, presided. Seated at the speak-
er’s table were President Mackay, ’15,
Peter K. Emmons, ’15, James K. Quay,
Benjamin F. Farber, ’09, Arthur M.
Adams, ’34, S. Carson Wasson, ’35,
Charles R. Erdman, ’91, and Orion C.
Hopper, ’22. Dr. Adams was intro-
duced as a new member of the Board
of Trustees. Dr. Wasson offered the
prayer of invocation.
Dr. Erdman led in the singing of the
old favorites, and as usual, his Treasur-
er’s report was enthusiastically and
unanimously accepted.
After the group singing Dr. Frew
presented the guests and called the roll
of class reunions, of which there were
seven: The Class of 1900; The Class of
1905; The Class of 1910; The Class of
1915 ; The Class of 1925 ; The Class of
1940, and The Class of 1945. Special
recognition was given to the members
of the Class of 1891 and to a number
of the Class of 1950 who were attending
their fifth reunion.
Missionaries, chaplains, trustees, fac-
ulty and administration were welcomed
in order. Dr. Frew then welcomed the
youngest members of the Alumni Asso-
ciation by introducing Robert Elwood
Sanders, President of the Student As-
sociation, who responded in behalf of
the Seniors and Graduate Students.
Dr. Quay reported in behalf of the
Alumni Roll Call, and Dr. Hopper on
Alumni Relations, the General Assem-
bly Dinner, the Biographical Catalogue,
and made an announcement in refer-
ence to the Autumn Conference for
Princeton Seminary Alumni, Septem-
ber 21 and 22.
Dr. Morgan, ’25, presented the report
of the Nominating Committee for offi-
cers for the year 1955-56. The follow-
ing were elected to office :
President — Bryant M. Kirkland, ’38,
Pastor, First Presbyterian Church,
Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Vice-President — William F. MacCal-
mont, ’39, Pastor, Westminster Presby-
terian Church, Akron, Ohio.
Secretary — Seth C. Morrow, ’38,
Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Or-
ange, New Jersey.
Treasurer— Charles R. Erdman, ’91,
Professor of Practical Theology, Emeri-
tus.
For Council Members
Class of 1958 — Seth C. Morrow, ’38,
Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Or-
ange, New Jersey; Frederick B. Speak-
man, ’45, Pastor, Third Presbyterian
Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Nominating Committee for Officers and
Council Members for 1956-57
S. Carson Wasson, ’35, Chairman;
George E. Sweazey, ’30; Allan M.
Frew, ’35.
These committee nominations were
approved.
Dr. David Hugh Jones led the mem-
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bers of the Seminary Choir, past and
present, in the singing of a few choice
and favorite selections.
Dr. Frew then presented President
Mackay, whose message was the chief
address of the evening. His general
theme was Theological Education in the
United States.
The benediction was pronounced by
Dr. Hugh B. McCrone, ’98.
Committee for Nomination of Alumni
Trustee for the Class of 1959
Lloyd G. Ice, ’25, Chairman ; Stanley
K. Gambell, ’39; Ralph B. Nesbitt, ’19.
Alumni Dinner at the
General Assembly
Three hundred and twenty-one, the
largest number of Alumni and their
wives ever to attend an off-campus
Alumni Dinner, gathered in the Renais-
sance Room of the Hotel Biltmore, Los
Angeles, on Monday evening, May 21st.
Dr. Allan M. Frew, President of the
Alumni Association, presided.
Guests of honor at the speaker’s
table were : Clifton E. Moore, W. Sher-
man Skinner, C. Ransom Comfort,
Hugh Ivan Evans, John S. Bonnell,
Paul S. Wright (Moderator), John A.
Mackay, Peter K. Emmons, Eugene C.
Blake, Ganse Little, Charles T. Leber,
James W. Laurie, Charles B. Temple-
ton, James K. Quay, Raymond L. Lind-
quist, Arthur M. Adams, and Miss
Eleanor Powell. Dr. Adams was intro-
duced also as a new Trustee of the
Seminary.
Dr. Clifton E. Moore, Director of
Radio and Television for the Presbytery
of Los Angeles, introduced Miss Elea-
nor Powell, wife of Glenn Ford, and
leading star in the TV program, “Faith
of Our Children.” Miss Powell spoke
briefly about the growing success of this
religious telecast and intimated that it
may soon be presented on the major
national networks.
Dr. James K. Quay, Vice-President
of the Seminary, reported on the fi-
nances of the Seminary and the splen-
did progress of the Annual Alumni Roll
Call. The Alumni Secretary, Dr. Orion
C. Hopper, announced that the new Bio-
graphical Catalogue would be available
soon. He outlined also the plans for
the Autumn Conference, September 21-
22, and the activities of the other Alum-
ni Associations throughout the country.
A vote of deep appreciation was given
to Ganse Little, Frederick W. Cropp,
and Kenneth E. Grant for their thought
and effort in the preparations for the
dinner.
President Mackay shared with the
alumni information about the progress
of the Seminary and concluded with a
strong address on the subject, “Ardor
and Order.”
ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS
Philadelphia : The annual meeting of
the Philadelphia Alumni Association
was held on Thursday, June 9, at a
noon luncheon in Overbrook Presby-
terian Church. A unique feature of this
meeting was that the alumni were asked
to bring their families. Accommodation
and nursery care for the children were
provided in other parts of the church
building. The Reverend Alvin D. Smith
is pastor.
The Reverend Kenneth C. Stewart,
pastor of the Marple Church, Broomall,
and President of the Philadelphia Asso-
ciation, presided and expressed grati-
tude for the fine response of the alumni
to this type of meeting. Professors Don-
ald H. Gard and D. Campbell Wyckoff
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of the Seminary Faculty were present
and were asked to address the meeting
briefly. The Alumni Secretary, Dr.
Orion C. Hopper, gave a resume of the
activities of his office during the past
year, including matters of Senior place-
ment, the Fall Conference, and the Bio-
graphical Catalogue.
In a thoughtful and informative ad-
dress, President Mackay outlined some
of the immediate issues and problems in
the life and administration of the Semi-
nary. He called attention to ( i ) the Di-
mensional Issue — how large should we
grow and what is the ideal size. (2)
The Educational Issue — a professional
school mhst prepare men and women
for the work of the church and, at the
same time, provide facilities for gradu-
ate study. (3) The Confessional Prob-
lem : We belong to a great denomina-
tion and, therefore, our role as a
confessional seminary differs in some
important respects from the non-denom-
inational type. (4) The Spiritual Prob-
lem : Some emphasize order ; others,
ardor. The issue is a matter of balance
and proportion.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year : The Reverend Al-
vin Duane Smith, pastor of the Over-
brook Church, Philadelphia, President ;
the Reverend Lindley Ewing Cook,
pastor of the Princeton Church, Spring-
field, Pennsylvania, Vice-President ;
and the Reverend J. Milton Bell, pastor
of the Christ-West Hope Church of
Overbrook Hills, Philadelphia, as Sec-
retary-T reasurer.
Cleveland : A luncheon meeting of the
Cleveland Alumni Association was held
on Friday, April 29th, at the Noble
Road Presbyterian Church, Cleveland
Heights, of which the Reverend J. Mur-
ray Drysdale is the pastor. The wives
and children of the alumni were invited
also. Dr. Otto A. Piper from the Semi-
nary was the guest of honor, who in ad-
dition to his message, brought greetings
from Faculty and Administration. The
Reverend Floyd W. Ewalt, pastor of
the Bay Village Church, was elected
President for the coming year and the
Reverend Richard Ray Eshler, pastor
of the Northminster Church, Cuyahoga
Falls, was elected Secretary-Treasurer.
Alumni in Ireland : A very well or-
ganized group of Princeton alumni in
Ireland held its annual meeting in Bel-
fast on June 10 during the meeting of
the Irish General Assembly. The report
of this meeting has come to the Alumni
Secretary from the Reverend J. W.
Bruce, pastor of the First Donegore
Presbyterian Church, Belfast, North
Ireland, who writes as follows : “There
were eighteen members present in the
Presbyterian Hostel on June 10th, with
one of our oldest members, the Rever-
end George McCahon in the chair. Our
new President is the Reverend J. J.
Mulligan, B.A., of Donegall Pass Pres-
byterian Church, Belfast, a member of
the Class of ’31. Will you kindly also
mention in the Bulletin report, that the
new Moderator of the General Assem-
bly is a former Princetonian : the Right
Reverend J. C. Breakey, D.D., Fortwil-
liam Park Presbyterian Church, Bel-
fast.” The letter also expressed great
sorrow at the passing of Dr. Roberts
and said the Association had forwarded
a message of sympathy to Mrs. Roberts.
SYNOD ASSOCIATIONS
Pennsylvania : The Synod of Penn-
sylvania has enrolled within it the larg-
est number of Princeton Seminary
alumni. On the 15th of June the Alum-
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ni Secretary attended the Synod meet-
ing at Grove City.
Ohio : Our alumni within the Synod
of Ohio met in the lounge of Douglas
Hall, College of Wooster, on Thursday
afternoon, June 23. Dr. William F.
MacCalmont, a member of our Alumni
Council, presided. Dr. Charles T.
Fritsch brought greetings from the
Seminary Faculty and Administration.
Meetings such as these are heartily en-
couraged and alumni are urged to ar-
range such informal gatherings when-
ever possible at Synod meetings.
This Year’s Alumni Trustee
Frederick Edward Christian, ’34, has
been elected Alumni Trustee, Class of
1958.
Dr. Christian is pastor of the Presby-
terian Church, Westfield, New Jersey.
Election of Alumni Trustee
Class of 1959
“A Committee on Nominations shall
be elected at the Annual Meeting of the
Alumni Association, to which commit-
tee names may be suggested as nominees
by any member of the Alumni Associa-
tion.”
In line with the above action of the
Board of Trustees of the Seminary and
the Alumni Association regarding pro-
cedure in nominating Alumni Trustees,
nominations should be sent to the Chair-
man of the Nominating Commitee by
November 1, 1955.
The Chairman of the Nominating
Committee is the Reverend Lloyd G.
Ice, ’25, pastor of the Govans Presby-
terian Church, 5824 York Road, Balti-
more 12, Maryland. The other members
of the committee are the Reverend Stan-
ley K. Gambell, ’39, pastor of the Wood-
land Presbyterian Church, 428 South
44th Street, Philadelphia 4, Pennsyl-
vania, and the Reverend Ralph B. Nes-
bitt, ’19, associate pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, 7 West
44th Street, New York 19, New York.
Any alumnus has the privilege of sug-
gesting a name or names to the chair-
man or to any member of the committee.
From the nominations received, three
or more names may be selected by this
committee. Ballots with names and bio-
graphical data of the alumni selected as
candidates for Alumni Trustee of the
Class of 1959 will be sent to the alumni
as early in November as possible.
New Biographical Catalogue
The new Biographical Catalogue of
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1865-
1954, is now ready for distribution. An
official announcement has been mailed
to all alumni urging them to take ad-
vantage of the Advance Order offer of
$2.00 per volume. After September 15,
1955, the cost per volume will be $4.00.
This new edition contains 7,649 biog-
raphies of alumni of the Classes of 1865
through 1954, while the Index of Alum-
ni at the end of the volume includes the
names of all alumni since 1815
(10,076).
This volume is paper-bound and con-
tains 880 pages.
Checks are to be made payable to
Princeton Theological Seminary and
are to be included with order. All cor-
respondence should be directed to the
Alumni Office, Princeton Theological
Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey.
ALUMNI NOTES
[ 1909 ]
Herbert Booth Smith is serving as ad in-
terim pastor of the Indianola Presbyterian
Church, Columbus, Ohio.
[ 1912 ]
John William Claudy has been installed as
pastor of the Altamonte Springs Chapel, Al-
tamonte Springs, Fla.
[ I9M ]
Cecil Van Meter Crabb is pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Rock Island, Tenn.
DeForest N. Shotwell is now serving as a
Sunday School missionary in Elko County,
Nev.
[ 1916 ]
Earl Landis Stehman has become Minister
of Visitation at Calvary Church, Riverside,
Calif.
[ 1917 ]
Dirk Henry Middents is now pastor of the
First Church, Butler, Mo.
[ 1918 ]
Clarence A. Kircher is now director of
Cumerford Inc., Kansas City, Mo.
[ 1919 ]
Floyd Eugene Hamilton has been called to
the pastorate of First Church (U S.), Centre-
ville, Ala.
[ 1922 ]
Angus Charles Stewart Smith is now serv-
ing as minister of the Bala, Ont., charge of
the United Church of Canada.
[ 1923 ]
Henry Little, Jr., is serving the Board of
Foreign Missions in Hong Kong until May,
1956.
[ 1924 ]
Thomas Baxter has been called to the pas-
torate of First Church, Chelsea, Okla.
[ 1925 ]
Jarvis S. Morris has been called as associ-
ate pastor to the First Church, New Bruns-
wick, N.J.
t 1927 ]
Frederic William Helwig is now the pastor
of the Federated Church of Sackets Harbor,
N.Y.
Donald Kirkland West, pastor, First
Church, Medford, Ore., has been elected a
Trustee of San Francisco Theological Semi-
nary.
[ 1929 ]
Joseph R. Harris is now the vice-president
of the College of Wooster, Ohio.
Irving A. West, of the House of Hope
Church, St. Paul, Minn., was awarded the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Huron
College.
[ 1930 ]
Elmer C. Elsea has received the honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws from Huron Col-
lege. He is pastor of Central Church, Denver,
Colo.
Clyde E. Rickabaugh has been called to the
pastorate of Mahoningtown Church, New
Castle, Pa.
W. Sherman Skinner has been called to the
pastorate of Second Church, St. Louis, Mo.
[ i93i ]
Alva Mayes Gregg has been called to the
pastorate of the Forest Hills Church, Fair-
field, Ala.
[ 1932 ]
Samuel Allen Jackson is now serving as
pastor of Bedford-Central Church, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
Albert L. Tull has been called to the pas-
torate of the First Church of Farmersburg,
Ind.
[ 1936 ]
John A. Lampe, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church, Hamilton, Ohio, has received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Westminster College, Fulton, Mo.
[ 1937 ]
George Douglas Davies has been called to
the pastorate of the Prospect Street Church,
Trenton, N.J.
[ 1938 ]
Owen Solomon Leland Bovier has been
called to the pastorate of the First Church,
Clyde, Ohio.
Howard Lester Mather is now serving as
associate rector of Saint Paul’s Episcopal
Church, Burlingame, Calif.
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THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN
[ 1939 ]
Jacob S. Kim is a Radio Script Writer,
Takoma Park, Md.
Stanley S. Newcomb has been appointed
associate professor of Speech and Drama at
Hastings College, Hastings, Nebr.
[ 1942 ]
Benjamin Franklin Moss, Jr., has been
called to the pastorate of the North Church
of Denver, Colo.
Herman Reinhard Schuessler has been
called to the pastorate of the First Church,
Lexington, Mo.
Roy M. Shoaf is now pastor of First
Church, Quincy, Mass.
Bruce G. Tucker has accepted the call to
the pastorate of First Church, Ogdensburg,
N.Y.
[ 1943 ]
George W. Forell is Associate Professor,
School of Religion, State University of Iowa.
Charles L. Nord is Chief Medical Officer,
Psychiatrist, Lt. F.C., in service with United
States Public Health Service, Bureau of
Prisons.
James Ligon Price, Jr., is visiting profes-
sor of New Testament Theology at Duke
Divinity School.
Robert Joseph Rodisch, formerly associate,
is now pastor of the Second Church, Tulsa,
Okla.
John E. Woods has been called as pastor
of First Church, Glassboro, N.J. Mr. and
Mrs. Woods (nee Ruth McLaughlin, M.R.E.,
1951) were formerly missionaries to Colom-
bia, S.A.
[ 1944 ]
George Clayton Ames, Jr., pastor of the
First Church, Ambler, Pa., has received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Tusculum College.
Walter H. Gray is serving as the organiz-
ing pastor of a new Church in Granada Hills
under the Presbytery of Los Angeles.
Richard B. Hardy has been called to the
pastorate of the First Baptist Church of
West Hartford, Conn.
Harold W. Kaser has been called to the
pastorate of the First Church, Coshocton,
Ohio.
Carroll Hamilton Kitts is now serving as
pastor of the Covenant Church of Bisbee,
Ariz.
[ 1945 ]
William Daniel Livingstone, has been called
from associate to be the pastor of the First
Church, San Diego, Calif.
William B. Miller is pastor of the Second
Reformed Church, Fulton, 111.
James Melvin Nelson is now serving as
pastor of the Community Presbyterian
Church, Coolidge, Ariz.
Herbert S. Schroeder has been called to the
pastorate of First Church, Watertown, N.Y.
[ 1946 ]
Robert Anton Behnken has been called to
the pastorate of the First Baptist Church,
Benton Harbor, Mich.
James Hackett Johnson has been called to
the pastorate of the Scotia Union (Presby-
terian) Church of Scotia, Calif.
Harold Barry Keen has been called to the
pastorate of the First Church, Hightstown,
N.J.
Richard E. Newmann is now the associate
pastor of First Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
[ 1947 ]
Harold Lord Fickett, Jr., is now serving as
pastor of the Tremont Temple Baptist
Church, Boston, Mass.
Arthur Maurice Hughes is now pastor of
the Slifers Church, Farmersville, Ohio. The
Evangelical Reformed and the Evangelical
Lutheran Churches have been merged with
the Slifers Church.
Ethel Closson Smith is assistant professor
of Music at Eastern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa.
William B. Wann has been called to the
pastorate of the First Church, Woodlake,
Calif.
[ 1948 ]
Fred Christian Bischoff has been called to
the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church of
Wallington, N.J.
Weyman Reives Cleveland has been called
to the pastorate of the First Methodist
Church, Eastman, Ga.
Robert E. Hargis is doing graduate work
at the University of California.
Ralph H. Reed has been called to the pas-
torate of the East Brooklyn United Presby-
terian Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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[ 1949 ]
Robert Brown Bannister has been called to
the pastorate of the Community Presbyterian
Church of San Juan of Capistrano, Calif.
Jeanne Voorhees Bellerjeau has returned
to the mission field at Bangkok, Thailand.
John Butosi has been called to the pastorate
of the First Hungarian Evangelical and Re-
formed Church, McKeesport, Pa.
James G. Emerson, Jr., has been called to
the pastorate of the First Church, Forest
Hills, N.Y.
David Morsey is pastor of the Brethren
Church of La Crescenta, Calif.
Kenneth L. Slorpe has accepted a call to
First Church, Oceanside, Calif.
[ I95° ]
John Phillip Lee is now pastor of the Gra-
nada Hills Church, Northridge, Calif.
Albert Thurston St. Clair, Jr., has been
''ailed to the pastorate of Second Church,
East Liverpool, Ohio.
Loran Duane Woodfin is now pastor in
charge of organizing a new church at Linda
Mar, Calif.
[ i95i ]
J. Milton Bell has received the degree of
Doctor of Sacred Theology from Temple Uni-
versity, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bruce Davis is (Staff) Announcer WCLT
(Radio Station), Newark, Ohio.
Chalmers Holmes Goshorn, Jr., is now pas-
tor of the First Church, East Palestine, Ohio.
Charles Stanley Smith is now serving as
principal of Trinity College (Theological
Seminary) in Singapore.
Robert A. Wieman has been called to the
pastorate of Second Church, Rahway, N.J.
[ 1952 ]
Benjamin Hedges Adams, Jr., is now serv-
ing as the assistant pastor at the First Church,
Basking Ridge, N.J.
James F. Anderson has accepted the call to
the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church,
Catasauqua, Pa.
Catherine Marie Berger is now serving un-
der the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions as a teacher at the Hope School for
children, Elat, Ebolowa, French Cameroun,
West Africa.
William M. Boyce, Jr., has been called to
the pastorate of the St. Paul Church (U.S.),
Charlotte, N.C.
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Charles A. Darocy is now the pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Bedford, N.Y.
Charles DiSalvo is now chaplain at the Vet-
erans Administration Hospital, Lyons, N.J.
Myron Pat Douglass has accepted a call to
the pastorate of Duryea Church, Brooklyn.
N.Y.
Paul A. Hanson is now serving as pastor
of the Vinje Lutheran Church, Willman,
Minn.
Dan Ernest Hiett has been called to the
pastorate of the First Church of Junction
City, Kan.
Nelson Otis Horne has been called to the
pastorate of the Presbyterian Church, Tidi-
oute, Pa.
Donald Robert Lundquist is now attending
North Park Seminary for further study.
George Wayne Plummer is now serving as
assistant pastor, Ottilie Home for Children,
Jamaica, N.Y.
Harold W. Richardson has been called to
the pastorate of the First Congregational
Church of Thomaston, Conn.
[ 1953 ]
Richard Arden Couch has been called to the
pastorate of the Weequahic Church, Newark,
N.J.
George M. Hirose has been called to the
pastorate of the Japanese Church of Christ
Federated, Salt Lake City, Utah.
John Kuyper has been called to the pastor-
ate of the First Church, Groton, S.D.
Charles K. Norville has been called to the
pastorate of the Ashland Church (U.S.),
Ashland, Va.
Robert E. Palmer is now serving as assist-
ant pastor of the First Church, Santa Monica,
Calif.
Stuart Saul has been called to the pastorate
of the First Church, Kewanee, 111.
Ralph J. Stoudt is now serving as District
Scout Executive, Patrick Henry District,
Blue Ridge Council, B.S.A.
[ 1954 ]
John A. Baxter, Chaplain, U.S.N., is now
attached to Destroyer Squadron 10.
Robert Davis Baynum has been called to
the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church,
Manassas, Va.
Robert J. Clark has been called to the pas-
torate of the First Church and is also serving
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THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN
as director of the Pan-Presbyterian Inner
City Work, Kansas City, Mo.
Bryan H. F. Ernst has been called to an
assistant pastorate in Colombo, Ceylon.
William Wismer Matz is now serving as
pastor of the Hilltop Community Moravian
Church, New Hartford, N.Y.
Robert L. Shirer has been called as as-
sistant pastor of Huguenot Memorial Church,
Pelham, N.Y.
Marshall Lee Smith has been called to the
pastorate of the First Church, Liberty, N.Y.
John Wilcox has been installed as associate
pastor, First Church, Caldwell, N.J.
PLANS FOR THE CLASS OF 1955
Daniel George Axt, pastor, Stockton, N.J.
Robert Arthur Barnett, assistant pastor,
First Church, Arlington, Va.
Donald Grey Barnhouse, Jr., plans incom-
plete.
Douglas Estill Bartlett, assistant pastor,
Leonia, N.J.
David George Beamer, Minister to Youth,
Walnut Creek, Calif.
Edward Lee Bland, National Mission Field,
Charlotte, N.Car.
Richard Allen Bodey, pastor, Marshall
Memorial Church, Lebanon, 111.
John Robert Booker, pastor, Anne Car-
michael Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
John Roland Chambers, assistant pastor,
East Glenville Community Church, Scotia,
N.Y.
Jesse Evans Christman, assistant pastor,
First Church, Whittier, Calif.
Sidney Robert Conger, assistant pastor,
Falls Church, Va.
Paul Aubrey Corcoran, pastor, Big Spring
Church, Newville, Pa.
Alfred Thomas Davies, pastor, St. Clair
Church, Columbus, Ohio.
Howard Bloodgood Day, Jr., pastor, High-
land Church, Street, Md.
Harold Ralph Dean, Jr., pastor, Church of
Our Father (Unitarian), Rutherford, N.J.
Donald Arthur DeMott, assistant pastor,
First Church, New Rochelle, N.Y.
Foster Quarll Doan, further study, Har-
vard Divinity School.
Joseph Carrigan Dolman, pastor, Central
Church, Henderson, Tex.
Richard John Dosker, Jr., assistant minis-
ter of Christian Education, Glendale Church,
Glendale, Calif.
Arlo Dean Duba, further study, Princeton
Theological Seminary.
Elwin Bruce Ellithorpe, Board of Foreign
Missions, Spanish Guinea.
Duane Virgil Fifer, further study, Prince-
ton Theological Seminary.
Betty Eileen Flower, Director of Religious
Education, First Church, Caldwell, N.J.
Dale Dempsey Gorman, further study.
Leonard Tydings Grant, pastor, Fourth
Church, Camden, N.J.
William Raymond Grace, National Mis-
sions, Coal Mining Project.
Lincoln Tracy Griswold, pastor, Fairfield
Church, Fairton, N.J.
James Alvah Guyer, pastor, Village Church,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Frank Stewart Hamilton, Jr., assistant pas-
tor, Trinity Church, La Mesa, Calif.
Frank Edgar Havens, III, assistant pastor.
First Church, Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Louis Dean Hay, pastor, Rich Hill and
Pleasant Ridge Churches, Mo.
Robert Philip Heim, assistant pastor, Ken-
more Church, Kenmore, N.Y.
Charles Brewer House, Jr., assistant pas-
tor, Westminster Church, Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Donn Gerard Jann, assistant pastor, First
Church, Bartlesville, Okla.
James Robert Keever, Jr., Minister to Stu-
dents, Westminster Foundation, University of
Virginia.
Lawrence Howard Kellmer, Jr., assistant
pastor, Wyoming Church, Milburn, N.J.
Joyce A. Kirkman, Director of Religious
Education, Central Church, Houston, Tex.
Ernest James Lewis, assistant pastor, First
Church, Haddonfield, N.J.
Samuel Johnson Lindamood, Jr., assistant
chaplain, Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Carrington Marshall Lowe, pastor, Wood-
side Church, Newark, Ohio.
Paul Arthur Lutz, Minister of Education,
Westminster Church, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Gerald Durand Lyman, plans incomplete.
James Marsh MacKellar, pastor, Dryden,
N.Y.
Richard John Manning, pastor, Havenwood,
Md.
Robbin Luke Marvin, plans incomplete.
George Ross Mather, assistant pastor, Ab-
ington, Pa.
THE PRINCETON SEMINARY BULLETIN
John Bell Mathews, further study, Prince-
ton Theological Seminary.
John Franklin McCleary, pastor, Manokin
Church, Princess Anne, Md.
James Richard Memmott, further study.
Wesley Parker Miles, plans incomplete.
Paul Rene Miller, associate pastor, Han-
over Street Church, Wilmington, Del.
Richard Henry Miller, pastor, new church,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Robert Wahl Millspaugh, assistant pastor,
Rye, N.Y.
Kenneth Reece Mitchell, assistant pastor,
First Church, St. Louis, AIo.
Edward Rock Mooney, pastor, Westminster
Church, Allentown, Pa.
Virginia Irene Morris, Director of Reli-
gious Education, Westminster Church, Char-
lotte, N.C.
Wayne Marshall Moulder, pastor, Atlanta,
Texas.
Lewis Seymour Mudge, further study,
Princeton Theological Seminary.
Ann Marie Leean Muyskens, wife of the
Rev. David Pownall Muyskens.
Elbert Leroy Nelson, Jr., Army Chap-
laincy.
Donovan Oliver Norquist, further study
and Stated Supply, Miller Memorial Church,
Monmouth Junction, N.J.
Ronald Eugene Ossmann, pastor, Hillside,
N.J.
Francis Ralph Osterstock, pastor, Bayview
Church, Cliffwood Beach, N.J.
William Donald Pendell, Jr., assistant pas-
tor, Allen Park, Mich.
George Agase Pera, assistant pastor,
Wayne, Pa.
John William Pilley, Jr., assistant pastor,
Bellmore, N.Y.
John Craig Pollock, Division of World
Missions, Methodist Church.
Stephen Greenleaf Prichard, assistant pas-
tor, Huguenot Memorial Church, Pelham,
N.Y.
La Verne Rae Rader, Chaplain’s assistant,
Westminster Foundation, University of Colo-
rado, Boulder, Colo.
Carl Dietrich Reimers, further study, Har-
vard Divinity School.
John Oliver Reynolds, assistant pastor,
First Church, Medford, Ore.
Lona Mae Rives, now Mrs. Joseph C.
Fowler.
Andrew Donaldson Robb, III, Foreign
Missions, Colombia, South America.
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Paul Henry Rutgers, pastor, Columbus,
N.J.
Robert Elwood Sanders, assistant pastor,
First Church, Englewood, N.J.
Jane Warren Savage, plans incomplete.
Robert Winfield Shaffer, assistant pastor,
Sparta, N.J.
Christopher Barrows Sheldon, Foreign
Missions.
Robert Brown Sheldon, pastor, Bethlehem
Church, Grandin, N.J.
John Latourrette Silvius, plans incomplete.
Joseph Joshua Skelly, further study.
William John Spangler, pastor, Freeland,
Pa.
Charles Edgar Staples, Instructor, Depart-
ment of Bible and Religion, Lafayette Col-
lege, Easton, Pa.
Robert David Steele, pastor, Harmony
Church, Darlington, Md.
Herbert Arthur Stocker, assistant pastor,
First Church, Rome, N.Y.
Richard Alan Symes, further study.
Leigh Pemberton Taylor, Minister to
Youth, West Side Church, Seattle, Wash.
Eugene Arthur TeSelle, Jr., assistant pas-
tor, Munn Avenue Church, East Orange, N.J.
Richard Henry Thomas, assistant pastor,
Bound Brook, N.J.
William Gray Tolley, pastor, First Church,
Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
Durward Robert Van Nest, National Mis-
sions, Craig, Alaska.
John Haselwood Visser, pastor, Amanda,
Ohio.
Anita Jean Walker, now Airs. Herbert A.
Stocker.
Jerry Goldsmith Walker, pastor, Forest
Hills Church, Fort Worth, Tex.
Robert Stanley Wallace, pastor, Red Bluff,
Calif.
Milton Guernsey Walls, Jr., assistant pas-
tor, Westminster Church, Topeka, Kan.
John David Warren, pastor, Grace Church,
St. Louis, Mo.
William Howard Webster, pastor, Ebe-
nezer Church, Greenfield, Mo.
Foster Charles Wilson, Jr., pastor, Tioga
County Larger Parish, Pa.
Laurence Neil Woodruff, pastor, Alexander
Church, Athens, Ohio.
Philip Hobart Young, National Alissions,
Weaverville Larger Parish, N.C.
Francis Albert Younkin, Foreign Alissions.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Task of Christian Education, by
D. Campbell Wyckoff. Westminster
Press, Phila., 1955. Pp. 172. $2.75.
This book together with Smart’s The
Teaching Ministry of the Church are valu-
able aids, especially to the pastor who has to
be his own Director of Education, and in the
Presbyterian Church this means eighty-seven
■out of every hundred.
Fifteen years ago it would have drawn fire
from professional religious educators, but the
fact that its position with reference to the
old controversy between the “experience cen-
tered” and “content centered” theories of
teaching is now generally accepted, shows
that Christian education has moved, and in
the right direction.
Strong points in the book are the author’s
fine exposition of the relation of “experience”
to “content” and his interpretation of the
place of “content” and the kind of “content”
which belong in the teaching program.
Another excellent chapter is, “A Faith To
Be Taught,” with the author’s very real
awareness of the fact that many people (as a
matter of fact by far the largest number) “do
not think philosophically and theologically.”
Certainly they do not think in philosophical or
theological terms or categories. “These must
be taught and reached on the level of their
capacities. What Christian education is driv-
ing at is to bring one to the point where he
recognizes that Christ is the very center of
meaning for his life.” Such teaching does not
“depend on an exhaustive intellectual analy-
sis or an intellectual assent to a set of doc-
trinal positions.”
The chapter on the Bible gives about as
clear an understanding of the principles of
Biblical interpretation and the reasons for the
Bible being central and normative for Chris-
tian teaching as can be put in that number of
pages.
Also, the chapters, “Education for the Life
in Christ,” and “How Personality Becomes
Christian,” are clear and discriminating and
will help every teacher of religion, whether
in the home or Church school, to understand
better what he is doing and how to go about it.
Not so strong are the chapters, “What Per-
sonality Is” and “Methods and Tools,” and
the paragraphs dealing with public education
and developing a sound leadership strategy.
Possibly the difficulty here is that the au-
thor is trying to make the book as inclusive
as its title. It is impossible in 172 pages to
give more than “a lick and a promise” to all
of such a numerous array of subjects. Higher
Education is brushed off with less than two
pages.
The tremendous problem of the “uncon-
scious” rates one short paragraph which con-
fuses rather than clarifies, by seeming to refer
to the “unconscious self” and the “not-self.”
Strangely enough, the weakest chapter is
the one on methods. Methods are not tools.
Methods are ways of using tools. Group dy-
namics should not be mentioned without an
exhaustive and illuminating exposition of
what is meant by “group dynamics.” Here
again brevity is a liability. There is not much
virtue in a treatise on methods which does
little more than list methods, particularly if
the list is erroneously drawn.
Evangelism definitely is not a method. It is
a goal — the goal of all Christian teaching. It
is the over-all objective of the whole witness-
ing church. At this point education itself is a
method, and by far the most effective method
of evangelism. Its goal is reflective Christian
commitment — and ever recurring and continu-
ing commitment at ever higher and more
meaningful levels; in other words — evangel-
ism.
There appears also a wistfulness about the
fact that Christian teaching must be done for
the most part by volunteers. The Jewish peo-
ple have not solved their problem by using
highly trained, paid instructors. In pre-Hitler
Germany and in the Roman Catholic states of
Europe teaching done in the schools by pro-
fessionals did little more than to demonstrate
that that is not the answer.
“Depending on volunteers is rather danger-
ous.” True, but in communicating a faith
that calls for loving, costly commitment there
will never be any teacher so effective as the
one who teaches because his heart is in it.
This should be increasingly evident to one
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who writes the most prophetic and significant
sentence in the book. “Perhaps we may reach
the place where Christian nurture is looked
at realistically enough so that parents may
ask the Church and Church school to supple-
ment what they are doing in the home.”
There is no teacher in the world so good
as the consecrated parent, and he is a volun-
teer. The deepest emotions and most profound
loyalties are touched only in the home. We
have talked too much and planned too much
in terms of the Church and the home. What
we need to do is to think and plan in terms
of the Church in the home. Then, and then
only, will Christian education truly function.
Someone, before long, is going to write a
book on this. Meanwhile, readers will find
this book profitable and it is to be hoped that
Dr. Wyckoff will write another in which he
takes his time to develop more fully some of
the insights which page and space limitations
have forced him to treat rather sketchily in
this one.
Paul C. Payne
Board of Christian Education
The Septnagint Bible — The Oldest
Version of the Old Testament, in the
translation of Charles Thomson, as ed-
ited, revised, and enlarged by C. A.
Muses. The Falcon’s Wing Press, In-
dian Hills, Colorado, 1954. Pp. xxvi -f-
1426. $6.50.
The Septuagint is very valuable in textual
studies, because it is the oldest translation of
the Hebrew Old Testament. In some places
it represents a text different from that of the
Masoretes, but many of the emendations of
the Hebrew proposed by commentators on
the basis of the Septuagint will have to be
dismissed as ill founded. Frequently the
Greek translators made a free rendering, or
they introduced changes for logical reasons.
In many cases it is clear that the Septuagint
reflects certain theological views, but even in
such instances the translators remained with-
in bounds and did not set out to rewrite the
text. On the whole, we can safely say that the
Hebrew text behind the Septuagint was closer
to the Masoretic text than has generally been
supposed, and restraint must be exercised in
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emending the Masoretic text on the basis of
the Greek version.
Charles Thomson was secretary both of the
Continental Congress and of the Congress of
the U.S.A. from 1774 to 1789, and upon his
retirement from that office he continued his
work as a translator of the Bible. His Eng-
lish rendering of the Septuagint was pub-
lished in Philadelphia, 1808, and represents
an achievement in American scholarship. Ac-
cordingly his interpretation has historical im-
portance in the story of Biblical translations,
and this edition may have an influence in en-
couraging students of the Bible to study both
Greek and Hebrew. At any rate, the student
of the Bible must not imagine that a compari-
son of Thomson’s rendering with the King
James Version or the Revised Standard Ver-
sion will give him competence in Biblical
criticism ; nor can he suppose that this trans-
lation will give him any authority to pass an
opinion on the actual meaning of a particular
passage. Any one who wishes to speak au-
thoritatively about the Bible must study both
Hebrew and Greek seriously and use the Bib-
lical languages for exegetical purposes.
For a history of the Septuagint the reader
is referred to H. B. Swete, Introduction to
the Old Testament, revised edition (Cam-
bridge, 1914) and the brief article on Versions
in the Westminster Dictionary of the Bible
(1944).
Henry S. Gehman
According to the Scriptures, The
Sub-structure of New Testament The-
ology, by C. H. Dodd. Scribner’s Sons,
New York, 1953. 145 pp. $2.75.
This volume contains one of the most out-
standing series of Stone Lectures that have
ever been delivered here at Princeton. I hap-
pened to be away from the country when they
were given in 1950, but my misfortune has
turned into luck. For had I been present I
might have failed to read this revised and re-
written version of the lectures.
New Testament scholarship, which was al-
ready deeply indebted to Dr. Dodd for the
clear and cogent way in which he had elabo-
rated the elements of the early Christian
kerygma in his Apostolic Preaching, has one
more reason for extolling his acumen. Stu-
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dents of the New Testament were for consid-
erable time conversant with the hypothesis
that the early church used a book of OT
testimonies in its disputations with opponents.
While he finds no evidence of a written docu-
ment extant in the New Testament age, Dr.
Dodd thinks that the evidence clearly sup-
ports the view that a number of Old Testa-
ment passages were in common use in the
oral teaching of the Primitive Church. Fur-
thermore he makes it probable that these
“proof texts” did not consist of single verses
but rather comprised whole chapters and ex-
tensive passages, e.g. Pss. 22, 24, and 118;
Isa. 6:1-97; 42:1-44:5; 52:13-53:12; Dan.
7 and 12, etc. Quotations in the New Testa-
ment should therefore be understood as re-
ferring to the whole passage of the Old
Testament, from which they were chosen.
The selection of some of these passages
goes probably back to Jesus, but many new
ones were added in the New Testament age
and later by the teachers of the Church. On
that basis the early Christians formed such
theological ideas as the Church as the people
of God, the Messianic titles of ‘Son of Man,’
‘Servant’ and ‘Lord’ as given to Jesus, and
the interpretation of his death as a redemp-
tion for many, an offering for sins and the
shedding of the blood of the Covenant. This
would confirm the view that the theology of
the Primitive Church originated in Jewish
rather than Hellenistic soil.
There are some minor details in which this
reviewer would not fully agree with the Cam-
bridge professor. I wonder, e.g., whether Dr.
Dodd’s application of the form-critical method
is not in some instances too rash, e.g. when
he derives a late date of I Peter from the
fact that whereas Paul uses the Old Testa-
ment quotations in an argumentative way,
they are simply adduced in I Peter. The dif-
ference might be explained as the result of
differences in the relationship between the
writer and the recipients of the letters, or
they might be caused by different methods of
teaching. Similarly the way in which the au-
thor ascribes to the Primitive Church all
kinds of theological inventions lacks a clear
criterion by which innovations can be distin-
guished from the traditional handling of
texts. Has not Dr. Dodd’s own investigation
brought out the fact that the Disciples owed
to Jesus not only a few proof-texts but also
a very definite pattern of interpretation of
the Old Testament? Would not their own
selections follow that pattern? One might
also wish that the study be extended to the
narratives of the Old Testament, many of
which seem to have served to the evangelists
or their predecessors as models and types for
the stories they had to tell. Thereby another
area of the Old Testament that was of direct
relevance for the proclamation of the Chris-
tian kerygma, would have been opened up.
But these desiderata and minor disagreements
should not obscure the fact that among the
numerous books of the learned author this
one is a new milestone in the investigation of
New Testament history.
Otto A. Piper
Spiritus Creator, by Regin Prenter,
translated by John M. Jensen. Muhlen-
berg Press, Philadelphia, 1953. Pp. xx,
31 1. $3.00.
For ages the Holy Spirit has been the step-
child of Protestant theology. The doctrine has
been left almost exclusively to Holiness
Movements and similar offshoots of the evan-
gelical faith. The result has been a serious
impoverishment both of the life of faith and
of the theological thinking in our churches.
The historians tell us that the Holy Spirit
played a central role in Calvin’s thought,
and the student of the Westminster Confes-
sion cannot fail to notice the frequent and
emphatic references to God’s Spirit made
therein. The principal reason for the neglect
of the Spirit’s work is probably to be found
in a shift to “pure objectivity” in the doc-
trine of the means of grace and the Ordo
salutis, on the one hand, and a purely sub-
jective view of faith, on the other.
Dr. Prenter’s book comes at the right
moment. Over against the strong Unitarian
tendencies that characterize a great deal of
American Protestantism, the author enables
us to understand what the place of the Spirit
in a trinitarian view, as Luther held it, looks
like. Luther noticed the fundamental differ-
ence between the human mind and spirit, on
the one hand, and the Spirit of God, on the
other. When the Spirit becomes a power in
our life, our self is unable to assert itself ;
we become purely receptive in our dealing
with God. In turn it is the Spirit by which
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we are given the assurance that the once-
for-all work of Christ is meant for us per-
sonally. Luther, who so energetically had
emphasized that in the Scripture alone God
can be found, did no less emphatically point
out that the Bible by itself does not save,
except when the Spirit of God grants us the
understanding of its message.
The author develops his theme in two
parts. The first presents the views held by
the “young” Luther (until 1522) whereas the
second develops his later views, particularly
as Luther advocated them in his controversy
with the “Spiritualists” or Schwdrmer. This
study makes it obvious that Luther never
gave up the idea of the sovereignty of the
Spirit and the initiative taken by him in the
believer’s life of faith. This leads to the
paradoxical fact that the means of grace are
necessary for our life of faith, yet insufficient
apart from the Spirit’s work. This view con-
trasts with the Roman Catholic idea that
the means of grace have an intrinsic super-
natural energy by means of which they con-
tribute to our salvation.
Dr. Prenter’s study is no easy reading.
But the patient reader will find himself richly
rewarded. He will understand that the great-
ness of Luther the Reformer has its roots
in his experience of the power and the sov-
ereignty of the Holy Spirit. Unlike the original
Danish edition of 1946 and the German one
of 1954 the English translation has omitted
the author’s copious footnotes and quotations
from Luther. Those desirous of making a fur-
ther study of the subject should therefore
consult either of the original versions.
Otto A. Piper
The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs, Acta
Alexandrinorum, edited with commen-
tary by Herbert A. Musurillo, S.J. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1954.
Pp. 299. $5.60.
During the past century evidence from the
Greek papyri has been accumulating for the
existence of a considerable body of pagan
literature corresponding to the Acts of Chris-
tian Martyrs. Professor Musurillo here col-
lects and edits in a most praiseworthy man-
ner all of the so-called Acts of the Pagan
Martyrs. These texts, which extend in date
from the reign of Tiberius (a.d. 14-37) down
to the reign of Caracalla (a.d. 211-217), ap-
pear to be based on official court minutes of
the trials of notable Alexandrian Greeks
who were punished and/or persecuted by
the Roman authorities. Many of the texts are
violently propagandist and anti-Roman in
tone, having been reworked in the interests
of enhancing their literary vividness. Most
of them celebrate the courage of those who,
scorning the “barbarian” power of Rome, met
a violent death. On the whole, this type of
literature reflects the political tensions ex-
perienced by the Greeks under Roman rule,
and arose probably in connection with the
outlawed political clubs of Alexandria.
One naturally asks the question whether
the authors of the Acts of Christian Martyrs
consciously imitated these cleverly colored
accounts of pagan heroes slain by Roman
tyranny. With admirable balance of judg-
ment Musurillo decides that, whereas cer-
tain external features exhibit quite striking
parallels between the two corpora of litera-
ture, yet on the whole the reader feels that
he moves in quite different worlds, and it
is to strain the evidence to postulate (as
Geffcken, Holl, and Aly have done) deliber-
ate imitation and direct dependence on the
part of Christian hagiographers.
Musurillo is to be congratulated on the
publication of this scholarly collection and
assessment of documents of interest to every
serious student of the Graeco-Roman world
and of early Christian literature.
Bruce M. Metzger
St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Lord’s
Prayer, The Beatitudes, translated and
annotated by Hilda C. Graef. The New-
man Press, Westminster, Md., 1954.
Pp. 210. $3.00.
Origen, Prayer, Exhortation to Mar-
tyrdom, translated and annotated by
John J. O’Meara. The Newman Press,
Westminster, Md., 1954. Pp. 253. $3.25.
Rnfinus, A Commentary on the
Apostles’ Creed, translated and anno-
tated by J. N. D. Kelly. The Newman
Press, Westminster, Md., 1955. Pp.
166. $2.75.
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These three monographs constitute vol-
umes 18, 19, and 20 of the growing series,
Ancient Christian Writers, The Works of
the Fathers in Translation, edited by Profes-
sor Johannes Quasten of the Catholic Uni-
versity of America, Washington, D.C., and
by Professor Joseph C. Plumpe of the Pontif-
ical College Josephinum in Worthington,
Ohio. It may be stated at the outset that
these volumes maintain the justifiably high
reputation which the series as a whole has
previously attained.
Gregory of Nyssa, long neglected by patris-
tic scholars, finds a sympathetic and capable
editor in Miss Graef, the Senior Assistant
of the projected Oxford Lexicon of Patris-
tic Greek. One of the great mystic theolo-
gians of antiquity, Gregory was occupied
throughout much of his life with questions
pertaining to the vision and knowledge of
God. In his expositions of the Lord’s Prayer
and of the Beatitudes, this Cappadocian
Father finds frequent occasion to mingle al-
legorical interpretation with moral exhorta-
tion. One of his favorite subjects is the view
that if a man’s life is pure, the original divine
image, in which man was created and which
was darkened by sin, will shine forth in new
splendor. By contemplating this image in
ourselves we can form a conception of the
divine perfections. The chief defect of Greg-
ory’s theology, which he shares with almost
all Greek Fathers, is the tacit assumption that
it is entirely in the power of man to reach
the goal o'f perfection by co-operating with
divine grace — if indeed grace is mentioned
at all.
Apart from this deficiency, which is doubt-
less to be accounted for partly by the con-
sideration that neither Augustine nor Pelagius
had as yet argued the subject, “the picture
of Gregory of Nyssa that emerges from the
two works here presented should be attrac-
tive to the modern reader. It is that of a
man thoroughly conversant with human na-
ture in general and the needs of his con-
temporaries in particular ; not a Desert
Father, living in isolation from the world
around him — a world that presents many fea-
tures similar to our own — but steeped in its
culture and interested in all it has to offer”
(pp. 19-20).
In her annotations Miss Graef contributes
not a few useful word studies involving a
comparison between Gregory’s usage and
that of his contemporaries.
Two of the “practical” works of Origen,
the eminent Alexandrian theologian and
scholar, are edited by John O’Meara, Pro-
fessor of Latin at University College, Dublin.
Of Origen’s treatise on Prayer a modern
scholar has observed, “No writing of Origen
is more free of his characteristic faults, or
more full of beautiful thoughts.” Here Origen
considers the arguments advanced by those
who reject prayer, the advantages to be
secured by prayer, the four kinds of prayer
(supplication, prayer, intercession, and
thanksgiving), and concludes with a detailed
exposition of the Lord’s Prayer.
In his Exhortation to Martyrdom, Origen
consoles two close friends, a deacon and a
priest, who were languishing in prison dur-
ing the persecution of Maximin Thrax. Be-
sides being of great historical value as a
first-class source for the persecution of
Maximin, the document is equally important
in revealing Origen’s own conviction and
courage, his faith and religious loyalty.
That master of research in early Christian
Creeds, Dr. J. N. D. Kelly, Principal of St.
Edmund Hall, Oxford, has provided an ex-
cellent edition of Rufinus’ Commentary on the
Apostles’ Creed. Though this North Italian
Father cannot be acclaimed as one of the
great Christian writers of the fourth cen-
tury (his dates are 345-410), his literary
achievement ought not to be minimized. The
great bulk of his writings consist of transla-
tions from Greek into Latin, and, were it
not for his labors, many valuable treatises of
Origen would be unknown today.
Unlike his own original compositions,
which are of little moment, Rufinus’ Com-
mentary on the Creed not only had a wide-
spread influence in succeeding centuries, but
is today a particularly valuable source for
the comparative study it contains of the
divergent texts of the Apostles’ Creed as re-
cited in Rufinus’ home town, Aquileia, and
in Rome. The reader will also gain from
this treatise an insight into the care with
which catechumens were instructed in prepa-
ration for the reception into church member-
ship. Furthermore, the commentary is of no
little significance because of the evidence it
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presents regarding the canon of the Bible and
the Old Latin version of the Scriptures.
Perhaps it will not be amiss to offer a more
detailed account of Rufinus’ comment on a
clause in the Creed about which many pres-
ent-day members of the Church have ques-
tions. Rufinus observes (chap. 18) that, “In
the creed of the Roman church, we should
notice, the words descended to hell are not
added, nor for that matter does the clause
feature in the Eastern churches. Its mean-
ing, however, appears to be precisely the
same as that contained in the affirmation
buried.” In his note on this passage, Dr.
Kelly points out that, “The Descent to Hell
makes its first creedal appearance in the
Fourth Formula of Sirmium, the so-called
Dated Creed of 359. . . . The clause featured
very early in Syrian quasi-creedal Material,
and, although it never established itself in
the official creeds of the East, it was proba-
bly under Eastern influence that it was
admitted to Western formulae. ... In
their original connotation the words proba-
bly did little more than emphasize the reality
of Christ’s death. . . . When later theologians
speculated on Christ’s activity in Hades,
two streams of interpretation emerged. Ac-
cording to one, He spent His time preaching
to those who had not had an opportunity of
hearing His message ; according to the other,
which eventually prevailed in the West, He
performed an act of triumphant liberation
on behalf of the Old Testament saints” (p.
121). It should be noted that throughout all
this it is “Hades” or “inferna” (the realm
of the departed, the lower regions) which
appears in the Creed, and not Gehenna (the
place of damnation, or “hell” according to
the modern usage of this word).
As in previous volumes of this series, these
three publications are characterized by idio-
matic translations, informative introductions,
and scholarly notes. Students of Patristics
will certainly have nothing but praise for
the excellence of the editions of the Fathers
already comprehended in this series, and will
wish the two general editors the best of
success during the years as the series grows
to its projected scope of about one hundred
volumes.
Bruce M. Metzger
Oral Tradition, by Eduard Nielsen.
Allenson, Chicago, 1954. Pp. 108. $1.25.
Under the leadership of Professor Ivan
Engnell the last twenty years of biblical study
in Scandinavia have seen a growth in a cer-
tain school of thought concerning criticism
of the Old Testament and particularly of the
Pentateuch.
According to the Scandinavian scholars,
whose work has only come to the English-
speaking world during the last five or ten
years, the exaggerations of an extreme ap-
proach such as that of Wellhausen, with its
strict distinctions of JEDP in written sources
behind the Pentateuch, must now give way
to what it calls “the traditio-historical in-
vestigation.” The emphasis in this book by
the distinguished Professor Eduard Nielsen
of the University of Aarhus is upon an oral
transmission of Holy Scripture.
One chapter deals with the role of oral
tradition in the Near East. Nielsen empha-
sizes the known fact of the high value placed
upon oral transmission in the Near Eastern
world, and illustrates this by citing the
Mesopotamian Isra-myth, the Islamic prac-
tice of memorizing the Qur-an, and some
Mishnaic and Greek quotations. The author
insists on the reliability of oral tradition.
Then Nielsen applies these precedents to
the transmission of the Old Testament as
written literature first in the period between
the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C. and
the time of the Maccabees. It was at this
time, the author argues, that writing at-
tained importance as a means of preserving
the oral tradition.
In his concluding chapter the author ex-
amines Jeremiah 36, Micah 4-5, and Genesis
6-9, and finds in them proofs of the traditio-
historical thesis as opposed to that of the
literary-critical school.
The book represents a clear consensus of
one approach to the mode of transmission of
the Old Testament texts. The reviewer, how-
ever, prefers to see a more open approach to
the interdependence and sequence of events
which exist between the oral transmission of
stories and accounts and the written one.
Certainly the texts of the various periods of
the Pentateuch were circulated in Palestine
and elsewhere in written form before the
destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C. ( cf .
Exodus 5 :6, 10, 15 ; Deuteronomy 24 :i ; Judges
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8:14). We have yet to see the end of the
consideration of the sources for our Old
Testament texts. One of the tasks of stu-
dents in the field is to delineate the relation-
ship between oral and written transmission.
In presenting one view, Nielsen has done
good service.
Donald H. Gard
Early Christian Interpretations of
History, by R. L. P. Milburn. Harper
and Brothers, New York, 1954. Pp.
221. $3.00.
Christians should have, and generally in
fact have had, a special interest in history ;
for the basic contention of the Christian
faith is that certain historical events — par-
ticularly the life, death, and resurrection of
Jesus Christ — are charged with redemptive
significance for mankind. In this book — the
Bampton Lectures for 1952 — Dr. R. L. P.
Milburn, Fellow and Chaplain of Worcester
College, Oxford, investigates “what Christian
writers from the second to the fifth century
thought about the method and stuff of his-
tory, in the attempt to discover whether
their approach to such matters was in fact
vitiated by a casual heedlessness or by doc-
trinal interests, and in the hope that their
achievement may throw some light on the
historian’s task, its risks and opportunities.”
(Page 4). .
The Christian writers whom Dr. Milburn
thus considers treated history in different
ways. The Second Century Apologists such
as Justin Martyr, viewed history mainly as
the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies
in Jesus Christ. Origen, the head of the
Catechetical School in Alexandria and the
great exponent of the allegorical method of
Biblical exegesis, stressed the interpretation
of history as essentially symbolic of a fuller
supernatural truth. Eusebius, the Fourth Cen-
tury bishop of Caesarea, compiled a straight-
forward chronicle of events which has earned
for him the title of “Father of Church His-
tory.” The barbarian conquest of Rome in
410 compelled Christian thinkers to offer
such a Christian understanding of history as
would refute the view that Rome fell because
of its abandonment of its ancient Paganism ;
and the greatest of such Christian apologetic
interpretations was Augustine’s “City of
God.” These centuries with which Dr. Mil-
burn deals, however, witnessed not only a
large and impressive output of Christian his-
torical scholarship ; they also saw the emer-
gence of certain apocryphal legends, of which
the story of the bodily assumption of the
Virgin Mary — in 1950 enacted into a Roman
Catholic dogma — is the most widely known
today.
To these various manifestations of Chris-
tian interest in history during those early
centuries Dr. Milburn devotes successive
chapters of his book. His conclusions he
thus summarizes. While “they (the authors
whose work he considers) were on occasion
tempted to mould facts to suit their presup-
positions,” yet “the most responsible and in-
fluential of their number had sufficient feel-
ing and scholarship and integrity to preserve
the delicate balance that has to be main-
tained between interpretation and chronicle
and to shrink from mishandling a record
of events in history whereby God displayed
to mankind a portion of his Truth.” (p. 20.)
So far as the present reviewer is aware,
though much has been written on such
outstanding Christian thinkers and writers
as Origen and Augustine, this is the first
overall survey of the work done by Chris-
tian writers in the field of history during the
period from 100 to 500. It constitutes a brief
but admirable introduction to the subject.
Norman V. Hope
Life Looks Up, by Charles B. Tem-
pleton. Harper and Brothers, New
York, 1955. Pp. 192. $2.50.
The fourteen chapters which make up this
book are sermons, or rather religious talks,
designed to explain simply but clearly the
meaning and implications of Christian dis-
cipleship.
In the judgment of the present reviewer
the chief importance of Dr. Templeton’s book
is that it clears away some popular mis-
understandings concerning Christian faith
and ethics. Thus, it points out that Chris-
tianity is not to be identified with doctrinal
orthodoxy, important and desirable as that
is : it is rather a personal experience of God’s
redeeming grace in Jesus Christ, issuing in
Christlikeness of character. Again, this book
emphasizes the fact that Christianity is not
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something harsh and void and negative, but
a new life of richness, fullness and deepest
satisfaction. Therefore while it is a religion
for all men and women at every stage in
life, it is peculiarly for the young who, in
the glad morning of their day, are seeking
to live life under the highest leadership. At
the same time this book explains that Chris-
tianity is not a religion of ease and sloth :
growth in grace and in Christlikeness de-
mands the diligent discipline of prayer and
Bible study, and the courage to stand for
Christ’s way of life no matter the cost.
One reviewer, after paying just tribute to
this book, goes on to say that “the only
thing (he misses) in this bright and thrust-
ing evangelism is the Gospel.” This state-
ment he qualifies at once by adding “Not
really, of course. It is there all through, pre-
supposed, assumed. But it comes through so
obliquely, and always and only in terms of
its effects.” If the reviewer means that this
book is not a systematic theology of Chris-
tian evangelism, he is undoubtedly correct.
Dr. Templeton, as a keen student and suc-
cessful practicing evangelist, of course has
such a theology of evangelism ; and it may
be presumed that he will expound it sys-
tematically when the occasion arises. But
the whole of this present book is about the
Christian Gospel : it deals with nothing ex-
cept what it means to be a Christian, in the
New Testament sense, and it spells out the
implications of this transforming experience
in the devotional and ethical life. If that is
not the Christian Gospel, it would be dif-
ficult to know exactly what the Christian
Gospel is.
It ought to be added that this book ex-
hibits those qualities of verve, virility and
vividness which all those who have heard
Dr. Templeton associate with him. It ought
to be widely circulated not only among
professed Christians, but also among un-
decided outsiders, especially young people,
who wish to know what it means to be a
follower of Jesus Christ, the Lord of all good
life.
Norman V. Hope
We Knew Jesus, by John Calvin
Reid. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing-
Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
1954. Pp. 148. $2.00.
Dr. John Calvin Reid, the distinguished
minister of the Mt. Lebanon Presbyterian
Church of Pittsburgh, Pa., is the author of
several notable volumes of sermons — such as
“On Toward the Goal”- — and of practical
parables for young people, like “Birdlife in
Wington.” Here in this, his latest book, he
presents a series of Lenten messages. They
consist of twelve character studies of men
who knew Jesus Christ during the days of
His flesh, and who in particular were as-
sociated with Him in His passion and resur-
rection— e.g. Judas, Herod, Pilate, the re-
pentant thief. In presenting these studies Dr.
Reid has adopted the ingenious and highly
effective plan of allowing each character to
speak in the first person, interpreting his
final condemnation or salvation in the light
of the wisdom which comes from the “hid
battlements of eternity.”
In the judgment of the present reviewer
these character studies have all the marks
of great preaching. They are based on sound
biblical scholarship; they are vivified by the
author’s sanctified imagination ; they are
sharpened by his acute insight into human
motivation and character ; and they do what
all good sermons should, namely, present
their hearers or readers with an urgent
challenge to Christian commitment and god-
ly living.
It is greatly to be hoped that this arrest-
ing book will be read not only by preachers
seeking stimulus and suggestion for Lenten
sermons, but by laymen, especially in the
younger age groups, who wish to under-
stand more fully the nature of Jesus Christ’s
challenge as the Lord of all good life, and
who desire to respond more meaningfully
to it.
Norman V. Hope
The Age of Reformation, by E. Har-
ris Harbison. Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, New York, 1955. Pp. 145. $1.25.
This compact and well written essay is a
volume in the series on the development of
western civilization which Cornell Univer-
sity is sponsoring and publishing. It deals
with the turbulent and climactic Sixteenth
Century in Europe, a century which the
author, Dr. Harbison of Princeton Univer-
sity, appropriately calls “The Age of Ref-
ormation.” By using this expression Dr.
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Harbison draws attention to the fact that
the Sixteenth Century witnessed not only
the massive break away of Protestantism from
the Roman Church, but also that Catholic
reaction which Leopold von Ranke described
as “the Counter Reformation.”
In his Introduction Dr. Harbison thus
states the objective he had in mind in writ-
ing this book : “What the present account
tries to do is to ask the most significant ques-
tions, to suggest answers upon which recent
scholarship is generally agreed, to point to
the wide area in which we know either too
little or too much to be clear and precise
about any answer, and to hint at the frame
of mind in which any answers to historical
problems should be formulated.” (Page 2.)
This may seem to be a rather tall order for
a book of one hundred and forty-five pages ;
but Dr. Harbison has admirably succeeded
in accomplishing his purpose. Into the brief
compass of this book he has compressed not
only a succinct summary of the most sig-
nificant events, but also a penetrating anal-
ysis of the causes underlying them.
This is a book which can be used with
great profit not only by the college students
for whom it is primarily designed, but also
for all who wish to be better informed about
the eventful history of Europe in the Six-
teenth Century.
Norman V. Hope
God’s Good Nezvs, by Gerald Ken-
nedy. Harper and Brothers, New York,
1955. 182 pp. $2.50.
When one finds himself as Number 79 in
the list of distinguished lecturers on the
Lyman Beecher Foundation at Yale, un-
doubtedly he asks himself, “What can I
say?” Maybe it was just at this point that
Gerald Kennedy, Methodist Bishop of the
Los Angeles area, decided to talk about
“God’s Good News” in his lecture series.
This theme is always new. And certainly
it is the core of all effective preaching.
Few clergymen produce as many books as
Dr. Kennedy, the youngest bishop of his
denomination. His itinerary is staggering,
yet he has written twelve books, numerous
sermons, reviews, and articles, without any
sign of slackening in his own avid reading
habits or of failing to keep abreast of con-
temporary thought. His concern in this lec-
ture series is that the Gospel be made rele-
vant through preaching and that its newness
be proved by showing its adequacy to modern
issues and problems. In seven full and read-
able chapters he presents various facets of
the Good News as a message about God,
action, law, concern, eternity, redemption,
and truth.
Everything Bishop Kennedy writes is in-
teresting. He is a master of the use of illus-
tration— where does he find so many apt
ones? — and he weaves them into the fabric
of his message with uncommon skill and
facility. These lectures, it may be added,
shy clear of homiletical theory, but are
packed with good advice on the nature and
necessary quality of preaching. One senses
continually the strength and virility of his
Gospel. He knows the Bible well and, what
is more, he sees how and where it should
touch our common life.
If one were to offer a single criticism of
this book, it would be that it lacks organiza-
tion. Its pattern is similar to a long series
of sermonettes without much reason why
each appears where it does. Paul Scherer
used a somewhat similar strategy in his
Yale Lectures in 1943, but his is superbly
unified and each section is an integral part
of the larger proposition. Each section of
Dr. Kennedy’s book is a nutritious piece,
but the arrangement is still a sort of miscel-
lany of which any one item can be read
independently of the whole.
To speak more generally: Now that the
Yale Lectures have exhausted all one can
say about the theory of preaching, one would
hail with satisfaction a series that would
come to grips with such vital and contempo-
rary issues as — How can the neo-orthodox
theology be effectively preached? Has it
relevancy to our generation? If not, why fuss
about it? Or, someone says that among the
modern poets are more prophetic voices than
in the pulpit. If so, in what ways? And why?
Donald Macleod
The Life to Live, by Frederick M.
Meek. Oxford University Press, New
York, 1955. Pp. 151. $3.00
This second volume of sermons by Fred-
erick M. Meek establishes for him a legiti-
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mate place among the very thoughtful and
effective preachers of today. Here are seven-
teen addresses based upon nine Beatitudes
and eight other significant sayings and ex-
periences of Jesus. His topics are arresting
and suggestive, but do not ever appear as
verbal stunts or as ends in themselves. One,
for example, intrigues you by its alliterative
ring, “The Day’s Dominant Desire,” and
another by its paradoxical slant, “Seeing
What Eyes Cannot See.”
Dr. Meek’s preaching has much to com-
mend it to his readers and hearers. Indeed,
by the many students and professional people
who hear him from his Boston pulpit, he
is rated highly as an interpretative and pro-
phetic voice. His materials and approach are
usually fresh and interesting and his over-
all style is livened by his ability to create
vivid sentences and telling aphorisms. These
sermons, moreover, are timely. Dr. Meek has
an obvious awareness of the moral diseases
of society and is not content to raise a mere
cavil against them. He meets each challenge
on its own ground and before the sermon
ends, he has demonstrated again the finality
of Christianity for faith. To read this volume
is a helpful experience. Few would disagree
with Dr. Luccock’s estimate : “In my opinion
these are not only good sermons, but ex-
ceptionally good sermons. . . . Dr. Meek is
one of our most effective preachers, and here
he is at his best.”
Donald Macleod
The Westminster Pulpit, by G.
Campbell Morgan, Volumes VI and
VII. Fleming H. Revell, Westwood,
N.J., 1955. Pp. 352. $4.00 per vol.
$36.00 per set.
The publication of G. Campbell Morgan’s
sermons in an attractive set of ten volumes
has been greeted with acclaim and satisfac-
tion by the many admirers of this great
expositor whose memory is still fresh among
us. Already the seventh volume is available
and by mid-November the tenth and final one
in the series will appear. The complete series
will provide 3,500 pages of exposition by one
who represents the best among Biblical
preachers of the first half of the twentieth
century. A recent and happy feature has
been the printing of a Topical and Textual
Index as a separate pamphlet. We hope, how-
ever, that the publisher will append this use-
ful index to the final volume.
Donald Macleod
God’s Way: Messages For Our Time,
by Harrison Ray Anderson. Fleming H.
Revell Company, Westwood, N.J., 1954.
Pp. 160. $2.50.
This is the first book of sermons by Har-
rison Ray Anderson, minister of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and former
moderator of the General Assembly. There
are twenty-two titles and they include such
arresting and provocative topics as “How
Men Know God’s Will,” “Not Radical
Enough,” “Beyond Disillusionment,” “Stum-
bling over Jesus,” and “The Danger of the
Demagogue.” These messages are, as the
publisher says, “broad in scope,” “gospel-
based,” and directed to “current-day prob-
lems.”
One would like to endorse this description
and let the matter stand. But, in the opinion
of your reviewer, whose work involves the
constant reading of books of sermons for
review and of students’ sermons for class
criticism, the homiletical effort of this book
calls for some painful surgery. And if there
is such a pedagogical category as “How not
to preach,” this is it.
In the first place, this volume is badly
written. It has what one might call a
“bumpy” style which comes from a staccato
pattern of sentence structure and from a
lack of continuity of thought. Page after
page, moreover, has its quota of inaccuracies,
ambiguities, archaisms, colloquialisms, punc-
tuation faults, and all the rest. Even the ex-
cuse of sheer hurry cannot account for this
undue degree of literary mediocrity.
What is more disappointing, however, is
a conspicuous lack of purpose in almost every
sermon. Again and again, one asks, What
has the author set out to do in these mes-
sages Biblical texts are used as badges. Life
situations and contemporary problems are
either listed or outlined. But these two mat-
ters, the Bible and life, never seem to get
together. Hence exegesis and exposition are
almost totally absent and in their places a
vague irrelevancy is presented as adequate
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to the moral emergencies of these times. No
sermon can meet the need of the hour if it
lacks a clear delineation of the contemporary
situation and if it fails to enunciate the cure
and how it must be applied.
Among the most obvious examples of care-
less writing in these chapters are: Sermon II,
“End of An Era,” is almost twenty years
out of date; the Second World War in
Europe began in 1939, not 1941 (p. 62) ; no
man could read the Bible through in one sum-
mer with even one commentary per book
(p- 156) ; the story of the “Chicago pro-
moter” does not make any sense (p. 54) ;
ambiguity, such as, “One evening I met the
student minister at the University of Colorado
walking away from it” (p. 21) ; story about
the Russian lady (p. 39) is inaccurate;
Wesley did not start the English Reforma-
tion (p. 46) ; on p. 101, “word” should read
“world” ; and on p. 145, in the Scottish dialect
the quotation should appear in this way :
“Ah, meenister, I ken noo, and I’ll be in the
kirk in the mornin’.”
Donald Macleod
The New Being, by Paul Tillich.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, N.Y., 1955.
Pp. 179. $2.75.
To read this volume of sermons and short
addresses is a chastening experience, be-
cause it constrains any one of us to ask : Why
should I ever presume to preach? These
chapters were not intended to be models of
homiletical craftsmanship, but for more im-
portant reasons they are commended to the
interest and attention of every preacher who
can secure for himself a copy.
After a distinguished teaching career for
twenty-two years at Union Theological Semi-
nary, Dr. Paul Tillich has assumed recently
a lectureship at Harvard Divinity School.
Several years ago, to the delight of a great
circle of friends and admirers, he published
a provocative little book of sermons, The
Shaking of the Foundations. This Second
volume, The New Being, is a reply to many
of the issues and questions raised by the
previous one.
This series of addresses falls into three
main parts: The New Being as Love; the
New Being as Freedom; the New Being as
Fulfilment. And under these groupings are
gathered twenty-two chapters, of which any
major one is worth the price of the whole
book.
As a preacher, Dr. Tillich possesses some
qualities to an unusual degree. He has in-
terpretative powers which make his sermons
a stimulating experience to read and a strong
witness to the vitality of the Christian Gospel.
Who can refrain from going back and re-
reading his definition of forgiveness (p. 8),
his interpretation of faith (p. 38), his ex-
planation of authority (pp. 83-91)? With
fresh insights he takes such routine theo-
logical terms as reconciliation, resurrection,
or joy, and exposes new meanings and im-
plications which become starters for a whole
series of studies.
At the same time, however, Dr. Tillich
never fails to be practical. He is unfailingly
close to life because he plumbs the depths
of life. Again and again he takes well-known
passages and incidents from the Bible and
through his able unfolding of their meaning
he shows how we too belong there and can-
not avoid the claim and relevance of God’s
Truth. None of us has ever found himself
so shamefully among the Pharisees as in
Chapter I, “To Whom Much is Forgiven,”
or so clearly of the Martha temperament as
in Chapter XX, “Our Ultimate Concern.”
His approach is always basic and although
he does not name our contemporary problems
and headaches, yet he deals comprehensively
with their underlying causes and prescribes
skilfully the way out. Such a sentence as this
is common : “He who tries to be without
authority tries to be like God, who alone
is by Himself. And like everyone who tries
to be like God, he is thrown down to self-
destruction, be it a single human being, be
it a nation, be it a period of history like our
own.” (p. 85.)
Finally, Dr. Tillich is a preacher for
preachers. By this, one does not mean that
he provides for them a spate of illustrations,
for he uses them very sparingly. It does
mean, however, that the strength of his
presentations stirs up those who have been
content with preaching the flimsy “success
religion” of Saint Horatio Alger. And fur-
ther, the fertility of his thinking will provide
any serious preacher with the germ ideas
for a season’s preaching, which would not
be considered as plagiarism, because the
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ordinary garden variety of plagiarist could
not lift one of Tillich’s ideas.
Donald Macleod
The Whole Armor of God, by Ralph
W. Sockman. Abingdon Press, New
York, 1955. Pp. 78. $1.00.
Here are seven brief devotional messages
from the pen of one of America’s best known
and most loved preachers. Convinced that
“religion involves the whole life of man in
relation to God,” Dr. Ralph Sockman makes
clear our duty and strategy in realizing and
nourishing this spiritual relationship. Basing
his observations upon Paul’s catalogue of
the pieces of the Christian’s armor in Ephe-
sians 6:14-17, he shows how each true be-
liever can stand confidently against all evil
and through his victory give encouragement
to a world which sorely needs it.
These addresses give us Dr. Sockman at
his usual best, vivid with illustrations, con-
sistently interesting, and deeply spiritual.
What is more, this is his sixteenth published
volume, written as the former ones in the
midst of a busy pastorate and a full itinerary
of speaking engagements, yet he shows no
sign of repetition or of wearing thin. At the
above listed price, this book is a “steal.”
There is something here to help preacher and
layman alike in their attempt through faith
and righteousness to overcome the world.
Donald Macleod
A Survey of World Missions, by John
Caldwell Thiessen. Inter-Varsity Press,
Chicago, 1955. Pp. 504. $5.95.
Statistics of missions are given in the
“World Christian Handbook” issued every
two years or so by World Dominion Press
in London. The world outreach and history
of Christian expansion has been well covered
by Dr. Kenneth Scott Latourette in his
standard seven volume work. There have
also been a number of late books concerning
the revolutionary changes in the world and the
necessary adjustments of Christian missions
to the new and fluid world that is emerging.
Now comes “A Survey of World Mis-
sions,” by John Caldwell Thiessen and we
believe he has prepared a volume which
will be useful for reference in mission classes
and also of great value to the pastor in
looking up facts concerning the work of
missions in many parts of the world.
This is an inclusive book but naturally
can only give an outline of the subject in its
500 pages. The subject is treated both his-
torically and by geographical areas. Each
section has been checked by a person with
long missionary acquaintance with the area.
A list of these authorities is given in the
preface. Distinctive features most useful to
pastors and students are the short sketches
of noted missionaries and national Christians
and the charts giving in abstract the es-
sential facts about the different countries
where mission work has been carried on.
We shall put this book on our list for stu-
dents to read and pastors will get help from
it to interest their people in the world task
of the Christian Church.
J. Christy Wilson
Missionary Principles and Practice,
by Harold Lindsell. Fleming H. Revell
Co., Westwood, New Jersey, 1955- Pp-
384. $4.50.
Here is a new book bearing exactly the
same title as that by Robert E. Speer pub-
lished in 1902 and many succeeding editions.
Another classic book on the theme is that
of Arthur J. Brown, “The Foreign Mis-
sionary” of which an edition revised by the
author was published in 1950. The present
author has studied well these previous text-
books and has brought the discussion up to
date, the first chapter being on “Missions
Today,” in which the author does not seem
to grasp fully the extent of the present world
revolution and the effect it is bound to have
on missions.
He goes on to discuss “The Missionary
Motive and Imperative,” but here again does
not seem to grasp the fundamental truth
that the basis of the missionary enterprise
is the fact that God is a missionary God, and
we are commanded to continue the mission
He began when He sent His Son on a mis-
sion to a lost world. His motives are Biblical
but seem not to get at the basic missionary
motive which must be the glory of God.
The mandate of Christ, the need of the
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The volume goes on to follow through on
the various phases of the missionary enter-
prise and the respective types of missionary
work in the traditional pattern of Evan-
gelism, Education, Medicine and Literature.
He mentions radio and mass communication
but passes over Literacy work as a tremen-
dous arm of evangelism and the economic
background of the church which is a most
important factor in most mission lands.
In some statements the author tends to
make too wide generalizations, we feel. For
instance on page 335, “Whatever training is
offered by seminaries, that training is not
geared to the requirements of those who are
interested in becoming missionaries, and
therefore is bound to be lopsided. The stu-
dents who do not anticipate becoming mis-
sionaries are in a worse plight yet. A casual
examination of the average seminary product
will show that he has a severely limited and
unenlightened point of view about the nature,
function and design of the church.”
This is hardly true of the seminaries we
know best. In the institution which has sent
out more missionaries than any other gradu-
ate seminary, graduates certainly have an ex-
cellent understanding of the “nature, function
and design of the church” through their re-
quired course in ecumenics under John A.
Mackay. There are also very strong courses
in missions in the Presbyterian seminaries,
as in Yale, Union, Southern Baptist at
Louisville and a long list that could be
mentioned.
The chapters on missionary adjustment on
the field and spiritual life on the field and
prayer and the Holy Spirit are valuable.
There is quite a good bibliography and an
index. The volume should be very helpful
to candidates and new missionaries.
J. Christy Wilson
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