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which is the governing body and determines the general policy of the institution. The executive officer of the board is the president of the faculty, who has authority to act in matters that pertain to the policy and government of the institution in the interval between the board meetings. In the year 1909-10 ten students were enrolled in the theological department-all Methodist Protestants-two from Oklahoma, one from Arkansas, and seven from Texas. The endowment amounts to $4,000, and the number of books in the library is about 500.
3. Westminster (Westminster, Md.): This seminary was founded in 1882 at Westminster, Md., and had its inception in a resolution adopted by the Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church in March, 1881, appointing a committee to mature some plan by which systematic theology might be taught those graduates of Western Maryland College who were.preparing for the Christian ministry. This committee reported to the conference in 1882, recommending that a department of theology be established in the college and that a minister of the conference be placed at the head of that department, to be styled the principal of the School of Theology. The conference adopted this recommendation, but at a special meeting of the board of trustees, held in May, 1882, to confer with the principal upon the organization of the department of theology, and upon the recommendation of the principal (Dr. T. H. Lewis), it was resolved that it was impracticable to establish such a department in the college, and that an independent theological institution should be organized. To aid in this design the board purchased and presented to the school of theology a tract of land adjoining the college, and offered to indorse a loan for the purpose of erecting a building thereon for the use of the school. This was carried out, and work was begun in 1882, while in Jan., 1884, at the recommendation of the principal, the institution was incorporated by the Maryland Legislature. The earliest instructors of the seminary were Drs. J. T. Ward, T. H. Lewis, J. T. Murray, and L. W. Bates, while other prominent teachers on its faculty have been Drs. B. F. Benson and J. D. Kinzer. The institution stands for evangelical Christianity with a progressiveness that is not radicalism, and a conservatism that is not stagnation; and among its alumni are pastors of prominent churches, professors and presidents of Methodist Protestant colleges, and missionaries in China and Japan. In 1910 there were five instructors (Rev. Hugh Latimer Elderdice, president), and a governing board of ten (five ministers and five laymen). To this board three ministers and two laymen are elected by the Maryland Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church every fourth session succeeding the session of 1884, while two ministers and three laymen are elected by the General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and hold office for four years. This board holds the property, elects the faculty, and exercises general supervision over the interests of the seminary. There is also a board of visitors, composed of one minister and one layman, appointed by each patron Annual Confer-
cute-i.e., each conference appropriating a collection to the seminary. In 1910 there were forty students from thirteen annual conferences, all Methodist Protestants excepting one. The endowment amounts to about $8,000, and the number of books in the library is about 2,500. H. L. ELDERDICE.
%. New Jerusalem Church.-1. Cambridge: The New Church Theological School was established in the year 1866, and was incorporated May 17, 1881, by members of the General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America. During the first twelve years it was located at Waltham, Mass., but in 1878 it was removed to Boston, and in 1889 to Cambridge, Mass., where a convenient and ample property was secured in the immediate neighborhood of Harvard University. The first president and instructor in theology was the Rev. Thomas Worcester, and others early connected with the school were the Rev. Samuel F. Dike and the Rev. T. O. Paine (q.v.). Among its more recent instructors have been the Rev. John Worcester (q.v.) and the Rev. T. F. Wright (q.v.). The purpose of the school and its distinctive work is the preparation of ministers for the New Church, giving them thorough instruction in the Sacred Scriptures and in the doctrines of the New Church as unfolded from the Word in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. Twelve managers and fourteen directors, with the president and treasurer, care for the spiritual and material welfare of the school, which had in 1910 five professors, four students, and an endowment of $266,825.74.
X1 a. Presbyterian (Northern).-1. Auburn: This institution is located in Auburn, Cayuga Co., N. Y., where it was founded in 1818. The proposal to establish such a seminary under the control of the local presbyteries was made in the Presbytery of Cayuga, in Jan., 1818, was adopted in the same year by the Synod of Geneva, and, after. approval by the General Assembly in 1819, was chartered in 1820 and opened for students in the following year. Its work has since been continuous, except in 1854-55. The seminary had its origin in the religious revivals that swept through the new settlements early in the last century, and in the consequent quickening of missionary work and the increasing demand for ministers. Foremost among the founders of the institution was Rev. Dirck C. Lansing, and the first faculty consisted of him and of M. L. Perrine, H. Mills, and J. Richards. Originally there were four chairs of instruction, one for each of the departments now known as exegetical, historical, dogmatic, and practical theology. In 1867 the exegetical department was enlarged by establishing the chair of Hebrew language and literature, and in 1893 the faculty was strengthened, especially in the department of practical theology, by the election of a president, who is also professor of pastoral theology, church polity, and sacraments. In 1903, the assistant professorship in the New-Testament department was created, in 1904 the chair of theism and apologetic, and in 1907 the assistant professorship in the Old-Testament department. In 1909, the assistant professor in the New-Testament department became professor of New-Testament language and criticism, and the
