Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1919

118 MINUTES OF THE SYNOD OF THEchurch heartily cooperate in the furtherance of the enterprise.We recommend that Robert Park and James A. McAteer beheard by Synod on the above project.3. That the Board of Trustees be authorized to enlargethe dormitory if such an undertaking proves feasable.JAMES S. McGAW.J. D. EDGAR.R. A. BLAIR.ROBERT J. CRAWFORD.GEORGE A. McKEE.REPORT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERINTENDENTS OF THETHEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.The Board of Superintendents of the Theological Seminarywould respectfully report: The session of the Seminary openedon September 17, 1919, with a lecture by Dr. R. J. G. Mc­Knight on the "Discipline of the Heart."The enrollment of the students was as follows:First Year—Josiah Willson Dodds, Frank Lee Stewart.Second Year—John French Carithers.Third Year—Melville Kennedy Carson, Alvin WoodrowSmith.On December 3, after an illness of three weeks, FrenchCarithers, the only member of the second year class was calledby death. On February 13, Dr. David Burt Willson after a prolongedillness passed away. He had filledthe chair of BiblicalLiterature in the Seminary for forty-one years (1875-1916) andfor the past three years has been professor emeritus, and alsoa member of the Board of Superintendents.The regular meeting of the Board was held on April 29.Oral examinations were conducted by the professors in SystematicTheology and on the interpretation of Revelations. Sermonswere preached by the students. Both the examinationsand the sermons showed careful and effective work being doneby the professors and the students.We would call to the attention of the Synod one of themost serious problems facing our church—the small number ofmen in the Seminary, preparing for the ministry. There willbe no senior, class and there are only two in the middle class.We believe that this condition is in some measure due to thewar and that our young men who had planned to enter theSeminary in the past two years were called to the service ofwar. But this is not the only reason. There must be a seriouslack somewhere and this Board would ask that you would giveearnest consideration to this matter. The Board has authorizedthe professors of the Seminary to canvass the Churchfor students. Will you not assist them all you can? "Theharvest is great and the laborers are few." Will you not "praythe Lord of the Harvest that he will send forth laborers intoHis harvest?"to Medicine Reformed 1916—Professor David and Presbyterian Burt a student Willson, of Biblical Theological of a Law, Doctor languages for of Seminary, forty-one Divinity, and years—from and literature a a Doctor member in 1875 the of