1931-1932 Academic Catalog

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 47 be operated in connection with Cedarville College. The follow– ing faculty was appointed: Rev. David McKinney, D. D., LL. D., Dean and Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology; Rev. W. R. McChesney, Ph. D., D. D., Secretary and Professor of New Testament Language and Literature; Rev. F. A. Jurkat, A, M.. LL. D. Professor of Church History and Old Testament Language and Literature; and Rev. Leroy Allen, A. M., Pro– fessor of Homiletics, Biblical Theology, Archaeology and Sociology. In 1914, Rev. David McKinney resigned, and Dr. McChesney was chosen Dean and Professor of Theology in addition to his chair of New Testament Language and Literature. Professor Jurkat was elected Secretary. Upon the election of Dr. 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, Dr. McChesney retaining the chair of New Testament, and the other instructors remaining unchanged. Dr. Chesnut died in 1918, and Dr. McChesney was again elected Dean and Professor of Theology. In 1922 Professor Allen resigned. Rev. W. P. Harriman, A. B., '12. was elected to the Department of Homiletics and Biblical Theology, and Rev. B. E. Robison, B. D., to the Depart– ment of Pastoral Theology, Archaeology and Sociology. Rev. Robison resigned in 1927. In 1925, Dr. Harriman resigned, and Rev. Ingmire, Pastor of the local M. E. Church, was elected to the chair of Homiletics, Archaeology, and Religious Education. Rev. C. M. Ritchie, D. D., Ph. D., upon the resignation of Rev. Ingmire, was chosen in the fall of 1928 to take the Chair of Homiletics and Christian Education. In 1929, Dr. Ritchie resigned. Thus for over a century, with brief intermissions, the Seminary 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 leadership 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 has distinguished the 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 the youth preparing for future usefulness in the church just the sort of professional education that will fit them for present and future needs and conditions.