1918-1919 Academic Catalog

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SEMINARY Gailey; and in 1876 the Rev. Matthew Gailey was elected to the vacancy. In 1890 the Rev. James Y. Boice, D. D., was elected Profes– sor of Homiletics, Church History and Pastoral Theology. Upon the death of the Rev. Matthew Gailey in 1902, the Rev. James Steele took up the work of his chair, and in 1903 was formally elected Professor of Hebrew and Church History. In 1906, Dr. David Steele died, and the Rev. James Steele resigned. The Rev. W. J. Smiley was in that year elected Professor of Hebrew and Church History, while Dr. Boice taught Theology, Homiletics and Greek until the removal of the Seminary from Philadelphia in 1913, when he retired from the active work of the professorship and was elected Pro– fessor Emeritus, retaining this honor until his death in 1916. In 1913, the Seminary was removed to Cedarville, Ohio, to be operated in connection with Cedarville College. The fol– lowing faculty was appointed: Rev. David McKinney, D. D., LL.D., Dean and Professor of Systemaitic and Pastoral Theol– ogy; Rev. \!\/. R. McChesney, Ph. D., D. D., Secretary and Professor of New Testament Language and Literature; Prof. F. A. J urkat, A. M., Professor of Church History and Old Testament Language and Literature; and Rev. Leroy Allen, Ph. B., Professor of Homiletics, Biblical Theology, Archaeol– ogy and Sociology. In 1914, Rev. Dr. Dav_id McKinney resigned, and Doctor McChesney was chosen Dean and Professor of Theology in addition to his chair of New Testament. Professor Jurkat was - elected Secretary. Upon the election of Doctor McChesney to the Presidency of Cedarville College, in 1915, the Rev. James L. Chesnut, D. D., was chosen Dean and Professor of Systematic and _ Pastoral Theology, Doctor McChesney retaining- the chair of · ew Testament, and the other instructors remaining un– changed. Thus for over a century, with brief intermissions, the Sem– inary has continued its work of preparing young men for the gospel ministry. The results of its labors are to be looked for, not merely in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, but in many other denominations that have been enriched in spiritual lead– ership by those who have gone out from the church of their nativity but have carried with them the fruits of the scholar·· ship and thorough theological training which distinguished the old Seminary. 43