Services in Adams Chapel at the Dedication of the New Buildings of the Union Theological Seminary, 1200 Park Avenue, New York City. December 9, 1884Printing house of W. C. Martin, 1885 - 82 pages |
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38 East Thirty-seventh 66 CHARLES 66 EDWARD 66 GEORGE 66 SAMUEL 66 WILLIAM Amherst College Andover Theological Seminary Anson Greene Phelps appointed Bible Biblical Literature blessing BOARD OF DIRECTORS brother Brown added Cadetships Chair of Sacred Chapel CHARLES BUTLER China Christian Church History connection DEAR December Divine duty East Thirty-seventh Street Edward Robinson Faculty faith fellowship foundation Founders friends Gallagher gift Greene Street Harvard Hebrew Henry Henry Boynton Smith Hitchcock India institution instruction James Brown John Crosby Brown Joseph Addison Alexander lectures LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE Library LL.D Lord ministry morning Note PARK AVENUE pastor Persia prayer Presbyterian Church present President Princeton Professorship pupils received religious Sacred Rhetoric Sandwich Islands Schaff second period Shedd Skinner Smith Students Syria Systematic Theology THOMAS tion to-day Turkey Union Seminary Union Theological Seminary University Place whole endowment Willard Parker William Adams William Earle Dodge
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Page 61 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 38 - Do you believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice?
Page 76 - I mean to say is but this : there will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.
Page 35 - RESOLVED unanimously, in humble dependence on the grace of God, to attempt the establishment of a Theological Seminary in the City of New York. 2. This Institution (while it will receive others to the advantages it may furnish) is principally designed for such young men in the cities of New York and Brooklyn as are, or may be, desirous of pursuing a course of theological study, and whose circumstances render it inconvenient for them to go from home for this purpose.
Page 36 - Founders to provide a Theological Seminary in the midst of the greatest and most growing community in America, around which all men of moderate views and feelings, who desire to live free from party strife, and to stand aloof from all the extremes of doctrinal speculation, practical radicalism and ecclesiastical domination, may cordially and affectionately rally.
Page 36 - By the foregoing advantages, the Founders hope and expect, with the blessing of God, to call forth from these two flourishing cities, and to enlist, in the service of Christ and in the work of the ministry, genius, talent, enlightened piety and missionary zeal; and to .qualify many for the labors and management of the various religious institutions, seminaries of learning, and enterprises of benevolence, which characterize the present times.
Page 36 - ... furnish the means of a full and thorough education in all the subjects taught in the best theological seminaries in this or other countries. 3. Being fully persuaded that vital godliness, a thorough education, and practical training in the works of benevolence and pastoral labor are all essential to meet the wants and promote the best interests of the kingdom of Christ...
Page 35 - ... from home for this purpose. 3. It is the design of the Founders to furnish the means of a full and thorough education, in all the subjects taught in the best Theological Seminaries in the United States, and also to embrace therewith a thorough knowledge of the standards of faith and discipline of the Presbyterian Church.
Page 35 - A number of Christians, both clergymen and laymen, in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, deeply impressed with the claims of the world upon the Church of Christ to furnish a competent supply of well-educated and pious ministers of the Gospel; impressed also with the inadequacy of all existing means for this purpose ; and believing that large cities furnish many peculiar facilities and advantages for conducting theological education...
Page 35 - That the design of the Founders of the Seminary may be fully known to all whom it may concern, and be sacredly regarded by the Directors, Professors and Students, it is judged proper to make the following preliminary statement...