1919-1920 Academic Catalog

HISTORY OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY fessor of Homiletics, Church History and Pastoral Theology. Upon the death of the Rev. Matthew Gailey in 1902, the Rev. 1i~e:11;t:f~~t!d 0 ~r~iest~~ ~trti:c~~:~~a~~~uar~~ i~is 1 t~;.was In 1906, Dr. David Steele died, and the Rev. James Steele resigned. T he Rev. W. J. Smiley was in that year elected Professor of Hebrew and Church History, while Dr. Boice taught T heology, 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 lHcKinncy, D. D., L L.D., Dean and Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theol– ogy; Rev. V,,f_ 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., P rofessor of Homiletics, Biblical Theology, Archaeol– ogy and Sociology. In 1914, Rev. Dr. David 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. of g:dc:~:n~ e~iN:;c, 0 ~nDrg;r ~~~c~:!~Ya1~~etL.PC~!~~~ 1 ir. D. D., was chosen Dean and Professor of Systematic and Pas– toral Theology, Doctor McChesney retaining the chair of New Testament, and the other instructors remaining unchanged. Dr. Chestnut died in 1918, and Dr. i\•lcChesncy was again elect– ed Dean and Professor of Theology. 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 P resbyterian 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. It is the aim of the present control of the Seminary to main– tain all of the best traditions of the past, and yet to afford to 51