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southern suburbs of Atlanta, Ga., with a beautiful campus of thirteen acres on the crown of a large hill overlooking the city. It was founded in 1901, when a company of ministers, under the lead of the Rev. Frank E. Jenkins, purchased the property that has since been its home. The institution was established, and has since been sustained, by the Congregationalists, although its privileges have always been offered, without charge, to all denominations. Funds for its maintenance have come largely from the North, and its control is in the hands of a board of trustees, thirty in number. During the first four years, Rev. J. Edward Kirbye was its president; and from the beginning leading educators of the South have been represented among its teachers. At present (1910) there are forty-one men enrolled, coming from a dozen states, and eight are to be graduated, from as many commonwealths. The seminary-extension work has increased in even larger measure, this being an effort to reach by home-study students who can not attend. The library of 10,000 volumes is free to all teachers and pastors in the South, the beneficiaries paying postage. An effort is being made to increase the endowment, now amounting to $10,000. The faculty consists of five professors, the Rev. E. Lyman Hood being president. Their purpose is to train consecrated men to become spiritual interpreters of the Scriptures, forceful preachers of the Gospel, and helpful pastors of the churches. E. LYMAN HOOD.

8. Bangor: Bangor Theological Seminary is located in Bangor, Penobscot Co., Me., and was chartered by Massachusetts in 1814. The persons named in the charter as trustees were Revs. John Sawyer, Kiah Bailey, Eliphalet Gillet, William Jenks, Mighill Blood, Asa Lyman, David Thurston, Harvey Loomis, Hon. Ammi R. Mitchell, and Samuel E. Dutton. The first president of this board was Rev. Edward Payson (q.v.), and the first instructors were Mr. Jehudi Ashmun (afterward colonial agent in Liberia) and Rev. Abijah Wines. The seminary was designed to provide an evangelical ministry for the state (then the district) of Maine, for at that time Andover was the only other Congregational seminary in existence, and it could not supply the needs of the region. Bangor Seminary was originally located at Hampden, but in 1819 it was removed five miles up the Penobscot River to its present location. During the ninety-four years of its existence the seminary has sent out 879 graduates and has educated, for one or more years, 300 other students. It has numbered among its instructors men eminent for piety, scholarship, and influence. Not to name any still living, mention may be made of Enoch Pond (q.v.), to whom, more than to any other man, the success of the institution was due, who for fifty years was connected with it as professor and president; Dr. Pond's successor in the chair of history, Levi L. Paine (q.v.), a stimulating master of his classroom; the scholarly Leonard Woods, Jr. (q.v.), afterward president of Bowdoin College; and his successor in teaching Biblical literature, Daniel Smith Talcott, a ripe scholar; George Shepard, eminent as a pulpit orator; Samuel Harris (q.v.), who began his career of teaching theology by twelve years of instruction in Bangor; and Lewis

F. Steams (q.v.), a worthy occupant of the same chair, whose early death was a loss to the country at large. The names just given indicate that, although the seminary is Congregational, it has never been partizan in spirit. Its position is fairly comprehensive, as indicated by the denominations represented by its student body. According to its latest catalogue, of its 44 students, 28 were Congregational, 11 Methodist, 2 Baptist, 2 Presbyterian, and 1 Lutheran, and of these 31 came from the United States, 7 from Canada, 3 from Great Britain, 1 from Macedonia, 1 from Asia Minor, and 1 from Japan. At present its staff numbers 7 professors, 5 giving instruction, 2 instructors, and 7 lecturers, and it is governed by a self-perpetuating board of trustees, whose number is usually fifteen. It has productive funds amounting to $300,000, and the value of the buildings is set at $100,000, while its library numbers more than 27,000 volumes. F. B. DExlo.

Bxsraooanrar: E. Pond, Historical Address, Bangor, Me., 1870; Historical Catalogue, Bangor, Me., 1901.

4. Chicago: The Chicago Theological Seminary, located at 20 North Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, 731., was organized Sept. 27, 1857, by delegates from Congregational churches in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri, was incorporated Feb. 15, 1855, and began work Oct. 6, 1858. Its full corporate name is " The Board of Directors of the Chicago Theological Seminary." Among the names of its founders were Stephen Peet, Philo Carpenter, Truman Post, A. S. Kedzie, and G. S. F. Savage, and the earliest professors were Joseph Haven, Samuel C. Bartlett (q.v.), and Franklin W. Fisk. Among their successors were G. N. Boardman (q.v.), S. I. Curtiss (q.v.), H. M. Scott (q.v.), E. T. Harper, and W. D. Mackenzie (q.v.), while among the present professors are President Ozora S. Davis, Graham Taylor (q.v.), C. A. Beckwith (q.v.), and F. W. Gunsaulus (q.v.). The institution is organized as the seminary and its institutes, and its administration consists of the triennial convention, the board of directors, the faculty, the board of insttttction (consisting of all regularly appointed teachers in the institution and the librarian), and the board of examiners. The seminary is unique in its relation to the churches of the Middle West, since it has continued to be governed as at first by a Triennial Convention, composed of delegates from each of the sixteen states west of Ohio and east of the Rocky Mountains, and including the board of directors and the faculty. The Triennial Convention elects the twenty-four directors who are chosen for six years, half appointed each three years, from members of the Congregational or other evangelical churches within the constituency. The faculty are elected by the board of directors, while the board of examiners are appointed annually from the same states which send delegates to the Triennial Convention. Associated with the seminary are three institutes: German, established 1882, DanishNorwegian, founded 1884, and Swedish, begun in 1885, all of which were reorganized as institutes in 1893, their aim being to provide a trained ministry for foreign-speaking peoples. In 1902 the Chicago School of Church Music was established, to give practical training in the conduct of music in public