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invested funds now amount to about $625,000, apart from grounds and buildings; the library contains about 23,000 bound volumes.

EDGAR YOUNG MULLING.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: John R. Sampey, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, The first Thirty Years, Baltimore, 1890; F. H.

8. Southwestern: The permanent home of this institution since Oct., 1910, has been Forth Worth, Tarrant Co., Tex. The seminary was founded in 1901 as the Theological Department of Baylor University, Waco, Tex., and originated in the desire of Dr. B. H. Carroll, one of the most eminent preachers, denominational leaders, and theologians of the Southern Baptists, to supply the 1,000,000 Baptists of the Southwest with an educated ministry. Dr. Carroll had been for nearly thirty years pastor of the First Baptist Church, Waco, and president of the board of trustees of the university, and was at that time secretary of the educational commission of the Texas Baptist Convention. To aid in the development of this department of the university Prof. Albert Henry Newman (q.v.), at that time a member of the theological faculty of McMaster University, Toronto, Canada, was induced to accept a position in Baylor University, and with him was associated Prof. R. N. Barrett. Dr. Carroll soon became dean of the theological faculty and began giving comprehensive courses of lectures on the English Bible, and a reasonably full course of theological studies was provided from the beginning.

Dr. Barren died in 1903 and was succeeded by Dr. B. H. De Ment (q.v.; now professor in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), who in turn was succeeded in 1904 by Dr. L. W. Doolan. By 1905 it had become practicable, through the efforts of Dr. Carroll, to enlarge the faculty. Dr. Calvin Goodspeed, an eminent Canadian theologian, was called to the chair of systematic theology, apologetics, and polemics, and Dr. C. B. Williams to that of New-Testament Greek, while Dr. Carroll retained the chair of English Bible, Dr. Newman that of church history and history of doctrines, and Dr. Doolan that of Hebrew and cognate languages and literatures. In 1907 Dr. J. D. Ray was appointed professor of homiletics, missions, and pastoral duties, and in 1908 Dr. L. R. Scarborough became professor of evangelism and field secretary, and Dr. J. J. Reeve succeeded Dr. Doolan. From 1905 the designation " Baylor Theological Seminary " was employed.

By the autumn of 1907 the conviction had been reached that the interests of both seminary and university demanded the separation of the two institutions and the removal of the former to another city, and university and seminary officials cooperated in securing the concurrence of the State Convention in measures to that end. The Convention (Nov.' 1907) appointed a board of trustees and arranged for securing a charter from the state of Texas, and this was accomplished in March, 1908, the title " Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary " having been previously adopted. The sessions 190$-09 and 1909-10 were, however, conducted in the buildings of Baylor University.

In Oct., 1909, the trustees of the seminary accepted the offer of the Baptists and others in Fort Worth to contribute $100,000 or more for the erection of a building with ample grounds, if the authorities would choose Fort Worth as its habitat. A building costing nearly $150,000 has been erected, and lands, in addition to the site, supposed to be worth at least $100,000 have been deeded to the trustees.

As already intimated, the seminary is under the control of the Baptist denomination and aims to assist in providing a thoroughly educated, reverent, conservative, consecrated ministry for the home and foreign field. The trustees, twenty-five in number, appointed by the state convention, with provision for additional members to be appointed by other southwestern state conventions, constitute the governing body, but the internal management is almost entirely in the hands of the faculty.

The charter provides also for a Woman's Training School, and provision has been made for the immediate inauguration of this department of work, the seminary professors being the chief instructors, and a number of special courses by other lecturers having been arranged for. The number of students enrolled for the session 1909-10 was 201. With few exceptions the students are Baptists, though the institution is freely open to Christian students of all evangelical denominations. Thirteen states and four foreign countries (England, Persia, Portugal, and Mexico) were represented in the student body. Besides the Fort Worth building lots mentioned above, a cash endowment of over $200,000 and a considerable sustentation fund have been subscribed through the efforts of Drs. Carroll and Scarborough, and others. A. H. NEWMAN.

9. Virginia Union: This school, which is, properly speaking, the theological department of Virginia Union University, is located at Richmond, Va., and is a union of three schools established for freedmen immediately after the Civil War: Dr. Edward Turney's school, opened in Washington, D. C., in 1865, and sustained for the most part by the National Theological Institute and University; Wayland Seminary, opened in Washington, D. C., in 1866 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and united with Dr. Turney's school in 1869 under the name of Wayland Seminary and under the presidency of Dr. G. M. P. King; and a school in Richmond, Va., first conducted for a year (1865-66) by Dr. J. G. Binney under the American Baptist Home Mission Society, reopened in 1867 by Dr. Nathaniel Colver under the National Theological Institute and University, but transferred to the American Baptist Home Mission Society in 1869, presided over for thirty years (1868-98) by Dr. Charles H. Corey, and called successively Colver Institute (1867-76), Richmond Institute (1876-86), and Richmond Theological Seminary (1886-99). In 1899 it was united with Wayland Seminary under the name of Virginia Union University, and entered a group of fine granite buildings on the northern borders of Richmond. Gen. T. J. Morgan, Secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and Dr. Malcolm McYicar, the first president of the university, were the chief agents in securing the union of the schools and the erection of the buildings.