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 páginas |
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38 East Thirty-seventh Amherst College Andover Theological Seminary Anson Greene Phelps appointed Bible Biblical Literature blessing BOARD OF DIRECTORS brother Brown added Cadetships Chair of Sacred Chair of Systematic CHARLES BUTLER China Christian Church History connection cordial DEAR December Divine duty East Thirty-seventh Street Edward Robinson Faculty faith fellowship foundation Founders friends Gallagher George 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 LOGICAL SEMINARY Lord ministry morning Note pastor Persia prayer Presbyterian Church present President Princeton pupils received religious Sacred Rhetoric SAMUEL Sandwich Islands Schaff second period Shedd Skinner Smith spoke as follows Students Syria Systematic Theology THOMAS tion to-day Turkey Union Seminary Union Theological Seminary University Place West Africa whole endowment Willard Parker William Adams William Earle Dodge York
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Página 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?
Página 76 - 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.
Página 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.
Página 35 - States, and also to embrace therewith a thorough knowledge of the standards of faith and discipline of the Presbyterian Church. 4. Being fully persuaded that vital godliness well proved, a thorough education, and a wholesome practical training in works of benevolence and pastoral...
Página 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.
Página 36 - ... are all essentially necessary to meet the wants and promote the best interests of the kingdom of Christ, the Founders of this Seminary design that its Students, living and acting under pastoral influence, and performing the important duties of church members in the several churches to which they belong, or with which they worship...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 35 - PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION That the design of the Founders of this Institution 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: 1.