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Horn, T. E. Schmauk, and L. D. Reed (all 1911), and there are also two instructors and four lecturers, while the library is administered by a librarian and three assistants. The alumni list numbers 808, while about 200 have taken partial and postgraduate courses. The number of students in attendance during 1910-11 is 55. Dr. Adolph Spaeth (q.v.), for thirty-seven years a professor, and for fourteen years the chairman of the faculty, died June 25, 1910. Graduates of the seminary are serving in all parts of the Lutheran Church, all parts of the country, and in many languages, as well as in other denominations. The Lutheran Church, Review, a theological quarterly, published by the alumni, is edited by Rev. Theodore E. Schmauk, president of the board of directors, assisted by the faculty. HENRY E. Jncoss.

12. Columbia (formerly Mount Pleasant): This theological seminary of the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South was loGated at Mt. Pleasant, Charleston Co., S. C., until 1911, when it was removed to Columbia, S. C. It was founded in 1831 as a classical and theological institute to provide ministers for Lutheran churches, especially in South Carolina and the adjacent states. It was created by the action of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina, under impulse given by the Rev. John Bachman, of Charleston, S. C., and the first professor was the Rev. John G. Schwartz, who died shortly after the inception of the institution. Temporarily located in Newberry County, S. C., the classical and collegiate institute was more permanently situated, in 1833, at Lexington, S. C., with Ernest L. Hazelius as the chief professor. In 1859 it was removed to Newberry, S. C., and became Newberry College, but its operations were crippled by the war, and the theological department was separated from the college and became the Theological Seminary of the General Synod (South) of the Lutheran Church in 1867. Its work was carried on at various places until, in 1872, it was located at Salem, Va., with Rev. E. A. Repass and Rev. T. W. Dosh as professors. In 1884 the seminary was discontinued, but two years later it resumed its life as the theological department of Newberry College, under the control of the South Carolina Synod. In 1892 it was adopted as the theological seminary of the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South, which was formed in 1886, and which superseded the General Synod (South). The institution continued at Newberry, S. C., until 1898, when it was removed to its present location at Mt. Pleasant, in the vicinity of Charleston, S. C. It stands for confessional Lutheranism according to the basis of the United Synod, and its chief influence has been to strengthen Lutheran consciousness and to promote homogeneity in the Lutheran Church in the South Atlantic States. The most prominent of its instructors was Dr. E. L. Hazelius, although Dr. J. P. Smeltzer and Dr. E. A. Repass were also men of note.

In 1910 the teaching force of the seminary consisted of two regular professors and three lecturers, and it is governed for the United Synod by a board of fourteen directors, elected by that body. In 1910 fourteen students were in attendance, all Lutheran,

from the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The amount of endowment is $50,000, and the library contains 5,000 books. A. G. VOIGT. BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. F. Schirmer, Historical Sketches of tAs

Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina, Charleston, S. C., 1875; W. B. Sprague, Annals of the American PulpiE, Vol. ix., New York, 1869; " Century Memorial Number" of The Lutheran Visitor, 1900.

13. Saint Anthony Park: This seminary, which is affiliated with the United Norwegian Lutheran Church, is located in St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, Ramsey Co., Minn., and was founded in 1890. It is under the direct control of the Annual Meeting of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church, which elects the professors and the board of trustees of the seminary, prescribes the course of study, holds title to all real estate, and has control of all funds. The institution was originally known as " Augsburg Seminary," and was located, from 1890 to 1893, in the buildings of the older institution of the same name, at Minneapolis, Minn., which have remained under the auspices of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North America, and which still constitute Augsburg Seminary. From 1893, the new seminary occupied temporary quarters until Jan., 1902, when it was removed.to its present permanent home. The aim of the institution is to educate men in the various branches of theology so as to fit them for the public ministry of the Gospel in the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, and for the foreign mission field. The confessional basis is the same as that of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church: " The canonical books of the Old and New Testament are the revealed Word of God, and, therefore, the only source and rule of faith, doctrine, and life "; and it also holds that the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, arid the unaltered Augsburg Confession and Luther's Smaller Catechism, are true and clear embodiments of the doctrine of the Word of God. Both the Norwegian and the English language are used in instruction, and the seminary course takes three years, the preparatory training for admission being the usual college course with the classical languages, although this latter requirement may exceptionally be waived.

The equipment of the seminary consists of about nine acres of land, on which are the main building (erected at a cost of nearly $100,000), the Muskego Church (the first church erected, at Muskego, Wis., in 1844, by Norwegian Lutherans in the United States; removed to the seminary grounds in 1905; and serving to house articles of interest from Norwegian church history in America), and two professors' houses. In 1910 there were five professorships, four held by M. O. Bockman (New-Testament exegesis and isagogics; president since 1893), E. K. Johnsen (Old-Testament exegesis and Hebrew), F. A. Schmidt (q.v.; dogmatics and symbolics), C. M. Weswig (church history and homiletics), the professorship of practical theology and missions being vacant. There are also four instructors. There have thus far been 363 graduates, and the enrolment in 1910 was 62. The total value of the property of the seminary is $140,000, and its endowment is $121,600, besides which it receives annual appropriations from the United Norwegian