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Discipliana Vol-05-Nos-1-4-April-1945-January-1946

Claude E. Spencer

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Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, History of Religion Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons, and the United States History Commons DISCIPLIANA Published quarterly by Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri Entered as Second Class Matter April 26, 1944, at the Postoffice at Canton, Mo., under Act of August 24, 1912.

VOL. 5 APRIL,1945 NO. 1

CAMPAIGN OUTSTANDING FOR FUNDS GIFTS

Each year since 1938 the Ministerial During the past quarter a number of Association has solicited its membership, outstanding gifts have been made to the local and out-of-town, for funds to pre- collection. The library of the late R. O. sent to the college at Commencement Bailey, Canton, Mo., was given to us by time for the support of the Robison Mrs. Bailey and son, Lynn. Mrs. C. A. Collection. These funds, practically the Burrus and daughter, Joanne, after the only source of income for the collection, death of Mr. Burrus, sent his library to were given as a living endowment in the college and there were a number of honor of Dr. Henry Barton Robison, for books of Disciple interest. Dr. C. J. whom the collection was named. The Armstrong, who is retiring from the amount of money received ranged from pastorage of the First Christian Church $30.00 'to $120.00 each year. in Hannibal, Mo., allowed us to select any books we wanted from his library. The 'Christian Fellowship, successor to the Ministerial Association, will again The Lloyd Library and Museum of carryon the tradition of the Ministerial Cincinnati, 0., sent us a number of Association and solicit its membership books written by John uri Lloyd. Mr. for funds. Commencement this year is and Mrs. James Washburn, LaBelle, Mo., set for Monday, May 7, and the Chris- gave a car trunk load of periodicals, the tian Fellowship group expects to have property of Mrs. George Washburn, who a nice sum ready to present to the col- died this winter. lege. From all these sources many books If the collection is to grow and expand periodicals and pamphlets not in th~ its services to the brotherhood, much collection were secured as well as lots more money is needed than has been of duplicates for exchange purposes. available in the past. DISCIPLIANA urges its readers to take advantage of The Bailey Gift the opportunity at this time to help the The Bailey gift contained the follow- Christian Fellowship in its campaign ing items needed in the collection: for funds by sending some money for Christian Standard, 1909, 4 nos.; 1911, 3 the use of the collection. Any amount nos; 1912, 1 no.; 1914,2 nos.; 1921,4 nos; from fifty cents up will be thankfully Ashley S. Johnson's leaflets, Did Jesus received. Rise Again; Is it Sinful to Use Tobacco; Money is also needed for the publish- A Scriptural View of the Good Confes- ing of DISCIPLIANA, which costs ap- sion; A Scriptural View of Repentance; proximately $200.00 a year. If ten per- What Must I do to be Saved? sons were to give $10.00 each, fifteen persons give $5.00 each, and twenty-five Ansley-Reasons for leaving the persons give $1.00 each, the amount Methodist Church; Allen-The Great Quetsion; Are You a Christian; Brandt would be raised. Surely there are fifty people enough interested in our work to Why Am I a Christian; Haggard-The do this. . Way of Salvation; Hiram College Min- isterial Association-Counsel to Converts; All checks should 'be made payable Hoffman-What Shall I do to be Saved? to Culver-Stockton College, and should Ingold-Design of Baptism; Lowndes- be sent to Claude E. Spencer, Box 226, The Disciples of Christ; Paul-Some- Canton, Mo. where in All the World, 1920 ed.; Slusher 2 DISCIPLIANA, APRIL, 1945

We, the Church of Christ; Tyrrell-Bible 2 vols.; History of the Vegetable Drugs Study Obligatory; Golden Wedding Cele- of the United States; References to bration of Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Hedges, Capillarity; Felix Moses, the Beloved Jew 1932; Anonymous pamphlets, Your Need of Stringtown on the Pike; Etidorpha of Salvation; Logic of Infidelity; and The Right Side of the Car; Our Willie; Why Not A Christian. Origin and History of All the Pharma- copeial Vegetable Drugs; and Old Dog Stevenson-Studies of the Books of Turk. For brief information concern- the Bible, 1st ed.; Ray's Algebra; A ing Mr. Lloyd, see Disdpliana vol. 3, no. Key to Ray's Algebra; Key to Ray's 1, p. 3. Higher Arithmetic; Laurence-How to Conduct a Sunday School, 9th ed., 1905; The Washburn Gift Selby and Syrn,es Debate; Taylor- This gift amounted to thousands of Studies in the Epistles and Revelation, numbers of periodicals, pamphlets and scholar's ed.; McLean-Handbook of Mis- promotional letters covering the years sions, Christian pub. co., imprint; and 1909 and 1944. The material came to us House-Tracts, Charts, and Discourses, so recently that not all of it has been vols. 1 and 3. sorted, but we can give a list of the Coombs-Campaigning for Christ; titles of the periodicals, many of which McGarvey-New Commentary on Acts; supply gaps in our files and will allow Pounds-Norman McDonald; Scoville- us to have the ·volumes bound. Christian- Crowns of Rejoicing; Dowling-Choral Evangelist; Christian Standard; Chris- Festival; Sewell-Christian Hymns; tion Philanthropist; American Horne Men and Millions Movement promotional Missionery; Missionary Intelligencer; literature, 6 pieces; Christian Union Li- Youth's Quarterly; Missouri Message; brary, October, 1912; Christian Century, Missouri Christian Message; Pure February 25, 1915; American Horne Mis- Words; Girlhood Days; Boy Life; Our Young Folks; Young Evangelist; Our sionary, July 1911. Task; Missouri Movement; Tokyo Chris- In addition to the above-listed items (Continued on .page eight) there were books, pamphlets, periodicals and reports for our exchange shelf. The Armstrong Gift CHASE'S SERMONS From Dr. Armstrong we secured the Mr. Urban L. Ogden,pastor of the following books not in the collection: First Christian Church, Quincy, Ill., Ames-The New Orthodoxy, 1918 ed.; presented the collection with a leather Ainslie-The Way of Prayer, 1930 rev. bound notebook containing the sermon ed.; Brown-Poems of Pep and Point for outlines of Ira Joy Chase as written and Public Speakers; Corey-Among Cen- used by Mr. Chase. tral African Tribes, 2d ed. cloth; Mc- Keever-Training the Boy; Newton- Born in 1834 of Baptist parents, Mr. Best Sermons of 1924; Page-Jesus and Chase became a member of the Chris- Christianity, 1st ed.; Stidger-If I Had tian Church in 1857, was ordained a min- Only One Sermon to Preach on Immor- ister Feb. 23, 1868, by D. Pat Henderson, tality (contains sermon by Burris Jen- one of the founders of Culver-Stockton. kins); Willett-The Ruling Quality. After having served in several pastor- ates through the Mid-west, Mr. Chase In addition to the above titles there was elected Lieutenant Governor of were twenty-six. books for our exchange Indiana and became Governor in 1891 shelf. The general library of Culver- upon the death of Governor Hovey. Nomi- Stockton also received more than one nated for re-election in 1892 by the Re- hundred fifty non-Disciple books. publican party, he was defeated with the entire party ticket at the election. His Lloyd Library Gift death occurred at Lubec, Maine, 1895, Through the courtesy of Corinne M. during an evangelistic tour. Simmons, Assistant Librarian of the Lloyd Library and Museum and a mem- The collection has a copy of Mr. ber of the College Hill Christian Church, Chase's eighty-four page book, The Cincinnati, 0., the collection received Jewish Tabernacle, Two Lectures, pub- these books written by John Uri Lloyd: lished in 1883 by the Standard Publish- Druge and Medicines of North America, ing Company. DISCIPLIAN A, APRIL, 1945 3 GUEST COLUMN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY by D. Pat Henderson Editorial note: D. Pat Henderson, first president of the Board of Trustees of Culver-Stockton College, made many trips through the South before the Civil War, soliciting funds and enrolling students in the new Christian University. The following article is composed of excerpts from an address made in New Orleans, La., and printed in the Daily Picayune, July 15, 1856, and reprinted in the Millennial Harbinger for April, 1857. Christian University is situated in versity building as a centre and Vicks- Lewis county ... near the west bank of burg as the extremity of the radius, a the Mississippi river, about forty miles circle described round that centre will above Hannibal, twenty-five miles below include or pass through" the States of Keokuk, and nearly midway between Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Arkansas, Louis- Quincy on the south and Keokuk on the iana, l\;Iississippi, Alabama, George, Ten- north. Here the Mississippi makes its nessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Wis- boldest sweep westward, at the western consin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kan- extremity of which lies Cottonwood sas-fourteen States and three Terri- Prairie, a beautiful inclined plane in tories of this Union; an empire embrac- the form of a crescent, about two miles ing all the Staple-growing States, wheth- and a half long and one in breadth. This er of food or "raiment-a territory which plane rises from the margin of the river now supplies much and is capable of at an elevation of about seventy feet to supplying the world with the necessaries the mile. It is arrested by a circle of of life. hills of the most picturesque and beau- tiful outline. Two of the summits of these Its accessibility from all parts of the hills have been selected for the male and Union is also a striking advantage in its female colleges of the University. The location .... And here we may remark, building for the male department al- that there is no point more eligible in ready crowns one of them; a superb and the whole West for Southern parents, solid structure, built in the severest ar- having children to educate, to build sum- chitectural taste and of the most sub- mer residences to which they may re- stantial materials, capable of accommo- pair and supervise their instruction and dating five hundred students .•.. training for several months of the year, whilst excursions on the prairie, to the The summit of another hill, about Falls of St. Anthony, and other localities three-quarters of a mile from the Uni- of the West, would make such a resi- versity edifice, and separated from it by dence an agreeable and healthful resort, a deep valley rejoicing in the glories of apart from and in addition to the con- a forest as yet intact, unprofaned by siderations mentioned in connection with the woodman's axe, is destined for the the University .... female department of the University .... The hills and copses are alive with Apart from the advantages of mere g!1me, the prairies with grouse and par- physical beauty, the founder of this In- tridges, the lakes with every description stitute was guided in the selection of this of water fowl, and the numerous rivu- site by other and more interesting con- lets and large streams of the neighbor- siderations. The country of the table hood afford the finest angling conceiv- lands, as well as the prairie lands in- able. There is no place where a nat- tervening between the hills and the river uralist could gather together a finer is the healthiest known in the West. The collection of the birds and beasts of climate is excellent, the air pure and the America .... water abundant and of the best qual- ity .... Christian University has yet a nobler claim upon the confidence and support . If the .cottonwood Prairie is remark- of the country. Here the fonudation of able in regard to the country immedi- all knowledge and the basis of all morals ately around and the States in view of are laid in the oracles of God. The chair University Hill, its centrality to the of Sacred Literature has already been great Valley of the Mississippi is not endowed by one of the daughters of the less conspicuous. If we take the Uni- West, who lived to know her Master's 4 DlSCIPLIANA, APRIL, 1945 will and to do it. And here the simple ACCESSIONS truth of God will be taught as thundered from Sinai, muttered at Horeb, as (Books received by purchase or ex- preached upon the Mount, and murmured change, December 26, 1944, to March 31, in Gethsemane, as finished on the cross 1945.) and illustrated in the resurrection.-The Alber-God's Twin Laws; Arceneaux Bible will be a leading text-book, just as -Mormonism, A System of Infidelity; it fell from the mouths of prophets and Beaty-Paying the Pastor; Black-The apostles, neither mangled by creeds nor Bible Way, an Antidote to Campbellism; diluted by the traditions of men. It is Brown-Superfluous Man; Bruner- not designed to inculcate any system of Great Questions of the Last Week; The belief, nor llropagate any form of sec- tarian faith. They pUrlJOse merely to Christian-Evangelist, 8 numbers; Chris- tian Standard, 2 numbers; Christian ground the scholar deep in th knowledge Worker (Iowa), 10 numbers; The Clarion, of that truth, before which the temples of the heathen have crumbled and the May, 1944; Condit-Rules of Order; altars of Baal have been broken; so that Cook's New York City Evangelistic when the graduate of Christian Univer- Work, vol. 1, no. 1; Crystal-Christian sity shall spread his sails before the and His Money; Fite-God's Plan for storms of life, he may have anchor in Financing the Church. Heaven and a pilot to secure his en- Forrest-Essays on Philosophy and trance here. . • • Life; Iowa Christian Missionary So- ciety Yearbook 1922; Lanier-Mistakes of Later Day Saints; Nations-Consti- CAMPBEL.L-RICE tution or Pope; Rally News, vol. 1, no's 1-3; Walker-Scriptural Basis of Chris- DEBATE tian Unity; Wells-A Talent for Mur- That the first printing of the Camp- der, Dell edition; West-Seventh Day bell-Rice debate contained a very grave Adventistm, 3rd ed.; West-Why I Be- error is probably known by only a very came a Christian; Winter-Historical few people. On page 258, ninth line Sketches of the Disciple Churches of from the bottom of the page, a sen- Licking County, Ohio; and Wolff-How tence reads "Not only Mosheim, Neander, Shall a Christian Regard the War. but all historians, as well. as professor Stuart, trace trine immersion to the times of the apostles", in the first print- VISITORS ing. Later, corrected printings leave out Earl Heald, graduate student, Phillips the word trine. University. spent several days in Janu- There is also a slight difference in ary working with material in the col- the imprint of the title pages. The lp.ction. first printing reads: Published,1 Lexing- Dr. A. T. DeGroot, Professor of the ton, Ky.; By A. T. Skillman & Son;1 Cin- History of Religions, Drake University, cinnati: J. A. James;-Louisville; D. S. workerl one day in the collection. He was Burnett; I New York; R. Carter;-Pitts- j!athering material for his The Res- burg: T. Carter.1 Stereotyped by J. A. toration Principle which will be pub- James. CincinnatLI 1844. Later print- lished this fall. ings read: Published,1 Lexington, Ky.: By A. T. Skillman & Son;1 Cincinnati: M. E. Willcockson, graduate student, Wright & Swormstedt, J. A. James;1 University of Chicago, spent two week Louisville; D. S. Burnett;-N. York; R. ends early in March working with ma- Carter;1 Pittsburgh: Thomas Carter. I terials in connection with the thesis for 1844. a Ph. D. degree. Other visitors were Frank Leonard, In 1917 The Standard Publishing Com- '16, Monmouth, 111., Chester Hensley, pany reprinted the book from the later '39, Ft. Madison, Ia., and Urban L. Og- printings with this note: "An exact re- den, Quincy, Ill. production, made by a new process de- veloped and perfected by The Standard PublJshing Company of Cincinnati; 0., Seemingly, we have no way of deter- of the original edition of this book pub- mining the number of copies sold before lished in 1844 by A. T. Skillman & Son, the error was discovered by Mr. Camp- Lexington, Ky." bell. DISCIPLIANA, APRIL, 1945 5

Minard-S Points for Youth in War GIFTS Time; Thomas-An Adventure in Stew- (Material added to the collection by ardship; The Twentieth Century Quar- gift, December 26, 1944, to March 31, terly, 1st quarter, 1943; The Christian 1945, and not mentioned elswhere in Family, vol. 1, no. 1, May, 1943. (Keokuk this issue.) county, la., churches); Madison Parish Visitor, vol. 1, no 2, March 1943 (Earl- Arnie Abrams, '32, St. Louis, Mo., ham, la.); Bulletin of the All-Alaska sent nos. 1-3, 5-12, 1938-1941, Union Christian Missions Committee, IngLe- Avenue Pulpit. Each number contains a wood, Calif., vol. 1, no's 1 and 3; post- complete sermon by Union Avenue's card view of the Central Church of Hampton Adams. Christ, Centerville, la.

J. Harrison Daniel, Charlotte, N.C., Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, sent 3 sent copies of his tracts The Assurance catalogs. Our file is complete from of Pardon; The Church in God's Word; 1927 to date. Christ's Kingdom and His Second Com- ing; Facing the Facts; The Importance Basil Holt, Maywood, Ill., sent a copy of Christ's Name; God's Appointed Day of his tract Baptism, together with post- of Worship; How We Got Our Churches; card views of the Christian Church, In Brief-Churches of Christ; The Angolia, Ind., and the Lake James As- Thief, Was He Saved on the Cross; The sembly Grounds, Angolia: Unpardonable Sin; and Why the Church of Christ. J. R. Hutcherson, '31, Aurora, Ohio, sent Ames-Letters to God and the F. E. Davison, South Bend, Ind., sent Devil; Jones-Blundering into Paradise; a pamphlet, published recently by the Garrison-A Modern Plea for Ancient Indiana School of Religion, Two Notable Truths; and Archer-Youth in a Believ- Addresses. The addresses are by Mr. ing World. Davison and Dr. Carl Agee. Mrs. Finis Idelman, West Hartford, Ben F. Dixon, '14-'17, Washington, Conn., sent a copy of The Millenial Har- D. C., sent the following items: 5th An- binger, new series, vol. 4, 1840; and The nual Catalog of Hiram College, 1872; Christian Union Quarterly for April and a photostat copy of Lamar-What is the July 1934. Christian Church; or, Who are the Dis- ciples of Christ?; Dixon-Syllabus of a Mrs. Frank Leonard, Monmouth, Ill., Course in Family History, mimeo- brought an almost complete file of The graphed; Dixon-Archives Exhibit; and World Call, 1919-1942. Although these Dixon-Shores of Tripoli. are duplicates many of the numbers will be used to replace worn out copies in Drake University Library sent The our files when ready for binding. Drake University Record, vol. 38, no. 2, February 15, 1942. J. Edward Moseley, Oakland, Calif., has sent several packages of church pro- B. S. M. Edwards, '07, King City, Mo., grams, clippings and promotional ma- sent a copy of Pontius-When Sorrow terial. Inclqded was a copy of Page- Comes. Jesus or Christianity, Richard R. Smith, publisher: Eureka College, Eureka, Ill., sent 12 copies of the annual catalog, 1895 to Bruce Nay, Atlanta, Ga., sent the fol- 1941. Our file is complete from 1924 to lowing items: Lucas-Is the Christian date. Church Orthodox? ; Lamar-Baptist Baptism or Christian Baptism; Miller- Chester Hensley, '39, Fort Madison, History of the Woman's Society for la., brought a package of assorted ma- Georgia Missions; Shelnut-Rally Day terial when he visited the campus for Program for Georgia Missions; W. S. the Founders Day program. Included G. M.-Not Enough to Go Around; W. were the following items: Cowden-A S. G. M.-Programs for February, Narrower or a Broader Church; Dillin- March, April, May, June and July, 1907; ger-Horseplay; Dillinger-The Chris- and Lend a Hand by M. S. H. tian Church; Armstrong-The Growin~ Program of Peachtree Church, 1943; Corey George L. Peters, Canton, contributed -Propagation of the Christian Ministry; his usual supply of papers, pamphlets 6 DlSCIPLIAN A, APRIL, 1945 and programs. Included were Bader- Impressions; and Victory Dinner Pro- Heralds of the Evangel; and Smith- gram, First Christian church, Glade- Therefore Seeing We Have This Minis- water, which includes three pages of try. history of the church. Millard L. Riley, Kansas City, Mo., sent a coy of Church History and Victory Celebration of the Memorial Christian PERIODICALS Church. The collection has been placed on the W. E. Schultz, '05, Bloomington, Ill., mailing list of these periodicals during sent a clipping about the First Christian the past three months: Church of Bloomington with a copy of Open House Program commemorating Canadian Christian Chronicle, North the 108th anniversary of the First Calgary, Alberta, Canada, C. H. Phillips, Church. editor. This mimeographed periodical is now in the second volume. Mrs. Rees Shanks, Canton, gave a postcard view of the First Christian North West Christian College Bulletin, Church, Springfield, Ill. Eugene, Oregon, Kenneth Johnston, editor, started publication with the Henry Shaw, Elyria, Ohio, sent the January 1945 number. following items: Johnson-My Story; The Ohio Magazine, February, 1945, The Plea, a monthly publication edited which contains an article about Myers by Fred W. Smith, Elizabethton, Tenn., Y. ,Cooper; and Shaw-A Brief Account in the interests of the First Christian of the Disciples in Summit County, Ohio. Church of Elizabethton, and the Dis- ciples of the North East District of Mrs. Flora Beal Shelton, Los Angeles, Tennesse. Mr. Smith was formerly Calif., sent a copy of Asia and the Amer- editor of the Central Christian, Hunt- icas, March, 1945, which had Tibetan ington, West Virginia. Folk Songs, translated by her. The T. C. U. Writer's Exchange, Fort Howard Spangler, Cleveland, Ohio, Worth, Texas, a quarterly mimeo- sent the Yearbook of the' Euclid Avenue graphed periodical about Texas Chris- Church for 1919 to 1929 and a copy of tion University authors (student, fac- Leamon-Barabbas, a drama. The latter ulty, and former student). It was started was documented with a biographical in 1940 by Assistant Professor Arte- sketch of the author (now Mrs. Elmer misia B. Bryson and has been edited by W. Siegerling), a statement from the her since that time. Our collection now author concerning the play, and a copy has the periodical complete except for of the poem Barabbas, by William E. volume one. Brooks, which was the inspiration for the play. Western Colorado Christian, Montrose, Colo., edited by Erskine E. Scates. The The United Christian Missionary So- March 1945 issue was numbered vol. 2, ciety, Indianapolis, continued to send no. 3. promotional material. Included was Epistles from Resistencia, the Story of S. S. McWilliams, Colegio Ward, a New Mission Station in Northern Ar- Buenos Aires, Argentina, sent a copy of gentina by Sarli. EI Mensajero, S8ptember 1944. Charles F. Ward, Plattsburg, Mo., sent a copy of the Centennial Yearbook, 1943, of the Christian church at Platts- WANTED: Prospectus of Pittsburg burg. and the Centennial. 100,000 copies were ready for free distribution late in Juiy C. C. Ware, Wilson, N. C., sent a copy 1909. Surely there are a few copies re- of the Minutes of the 71st annual as- maining undestroyed of so large an sembly of the Disciples of Christ, Golds- edition. borough-Raleigh district, 1943. L. H. West, Gladewater, Tex., sent the following items: The Christian Man at WANTED: Parts 3 and 4 of the Res- Work, 1939, 1940; Hines-A Layman's toration Handbook by F. D. Kershner. DlSCIPLIANA, APRIL, 1945 7 NEWS NOTES ternate years. The names of the courses were The Teaching of the Disciples and The History of the Disciples. Professor Martha Nell Bowman, '43, graduate George W. Buckner, Sr., was the teacher. student at The College of the Bible, In 1911 the name of the first course was Lexington, Ky., has been awarded a changed to The Position of the Dis- $250.00 Christian Board of Publication ciples. Scholarship "because of her standing in her studies and her spirit and general The Position of the Diseiples was attitude in connection with her work." dropped from the catalog of 1915 and has not been offered since that time. The History of the Disciples was continued B. S. M. Edwards, '07, has recently until 1928 when it also was not offered. moved from Chapin, Ill., to King City, Mo., where he is pastor of the Christian Other faculty member, besides Mr. Church. Buckner, who offered the courses, ac- cording to the catalogs, were V. T. WOltU,H. M. Garn, George L. Peters, and H. B. Robison. At the present time, we Founders' Day was observed January do not know just how many times the 31 this year. Frank W. Leonard, '16, First courses were taught or how many stu- Christian Church, Monmouth, Ill., gave dents were enrolled. That is a subject the address, Faith of Our Fathers. for future research.

The official description of the course Sherman Moore, '20-'21, has resigned to be offered next year follows: "222. from the pastorate of The First Chris- The Disciples of Christ in American Cul- tian Church, Boulder, Colo., to go to the ture. An orientation of the historical First Church, Riverside, Calif. scene and the religious movements in the United States is made. The rise and role of the Disciples is viewed in the political, economic, and sociological per- Religion major students reorganized spective. The course is planned for all the Ministerial Association last fall. The students interested in the American cul- new name is the Christian Fellowship. ture as it widens into world culture." All students interested in religion are 2 hours credit. o:t'fered fellowship as membership is not limited to religion majors.

William Harper is president; Vernon NEW COLLECTION Ball, vice-president; and Eunice Hinchey, secretary treasurer. Meetings are held In August 1944 Reuben Butchart pre- the first Tuesday in each month, and sented to Victoria University Library, several out-of-town visitors have ad- Toronto, Canada, one hundred forty vol- dressed the group of about thirty mem- umes of the Writings of the Disciples bers. Dr. John B. Alexander, Head of of Christ. Thirteen of the volumes were the Department of Religion, is the spon- Canadian. Mr. Butchart plans to place l'Ior. thirty-seven additional titles in the col- lection as soon as he has completed his work upon his The Disciples of Christ in Canadas Since 1830. COURSE REVIVED The special book plate used in these The 1945 catalog of the college lists books reads as follows: "The Writings for the firRt time since 1927 a course of the Disciples of Christ (Canadian and in the history of the Disciples of Christ. American Collections) arising in the The new course will be taught by Dr. L. origin and development of the Disciples L. Leftwich. of Christ or the Churches of Christ from the inauguration of the movement by So far as we can learn, the first course Thomas and Alexander Campbell in in Disciple history was offered in 1908 Pennsylvania in the year 1809. A gift to when the catalog carried an announce- the Library and Archives by Reuben ment of two courses to be offered in 111- Butchart." 8 DlSCIPLIANA, APRIL, 1945 350 pages, size 81;2 x 11, with paper and DCHS NOTES binding similar to that used in Library of Congress Catalog of Printed Cards. A word of explanation should be made There will be three columns of typed p.oncerning gifts of books and other ma- material to a :page. terial to the historical society. Upon the receipt of such gifts the curator marks The content is arranged alphabeti- the book as the property of the his- cally by author, with the dates of birth torical society, catalogs it if there is not and death, and place of birth and death a copy in the Robison collection, makes of the author. Under the author's name a separate shelf list entry, and places is listed alphabetically the titles of his the book on the shelves of the Robison books and pamphlets, together with the collection. If the book is a duplicate, it place of publication, publisher, year, is placed on shelves reserved f~r the number of pages, and illustrations. In storing of historical society materIals. cases oontents notes and other notes are used. Different editions of the same title are listed. In some cases the title An outstanding gift was made by Mr. alone is used as the compiler was unable W. H. Hanna, vice-president of the so- to secure bibliographical details con- ciety, when he gave the following items: cerning that particular title. Following Philippine Christian, vol. 4, 1909, and the list of separate titles is arranged vol. 7, 1912; Dalan ti Cappia, vols. 1 and those articles published in books 6 1910 and 1911; Williams-English- by other authors, including prefaces and Iiocano Manual and Dictionary; The introductions. Then follows books edited Outstanding Mistakes of Romanism (In by the author and last is books about Ilo.cano); Hanna-Explanation of Mar- the author. Secular books are listed as riage (In Ilocano); Williams-Manual well as religious ones. for the Disciples of Christ (In Ilocano) Annunciation- The Sabbath-Advocates The advance .pre-publication price to (In Ilocano' Shane-A History of Cone- members of the historical society will maugh Pre~bytery; and a hymn book in be $5.00, and reservation should be made the Ilocano dialect with the first fifty- by July 1st (payment on delivery of one hymns translated by Mr. and Mrs. book) in order to secure this price. Price Hanna when they were missionaries in upon publication will be $7.50. The eleven the Philippine Islands. institutional members of the society will receive one copy each, without cost. Additional copies wanted should be or- Orval Peterson, Yakima, Wash., sent dered at the pre-publication price to a number of programs and annual re- members. ports of various western churches. Orders should be addressed to The Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Dr. A. T. DeGroot, secretary-treas- Canton, Mo. urer, is planning a membership drive. He hopes to add several hundred mem- bers in the next few months. OUTST ANDING GIFTS

AUTHOR CATALOG (Continued from page one) tion; The Lookout; Missionary Tidings; An Author Catalog of Books and Pam- Missouri Missionary Council Advance; phlets of the Disciples of Christ and Re- Missionary Advance; Missouri Advance; lated Religious Groups will be the title Missionary Organizations Bulletin; and of the check list of Disciple literature Front Rank. which the curator of the society, Claude E. Spencer, has been working on this The Burrus Gift winter. When the final typewritten copy Included in The Burrus library which will go to the litho printer is uncertain, we received a few weeks a.go were many due to a threatened shortage of secre- Disciple items. All were duplicates ex- tarial help 'during the summer months. cept these two: Campbell-Rice Debate, The finished book will be ready for de- Standard Publishing Company's fac- livery not later than December. simile edition, 1917; and Laird-More The book will contain a'pproximately Zest for Life. DISCIPLIANA, APRIL, 1945 9

These sermons, all built around the New Books Received theme of the The Sermon on the Mount, Bales, James D. were orginally delivered over the radio station WTSP, September 4-28, 1944. The Apostles or Apostates. Have the Lat· author is pastor of the Howard Avenue ter-day Saints Perverted the New Testa- Church of Christ, Tampa, Fla. ment Teaching Concerning the Apostles of Christ? Searcy, Ark., 707 E. Raee St., The author, December 1944. 59p. Paper Jones, G. Curtis. covers. Repairing Our Religion. Boston, Chris- A refutation of the claim made by topher Publishing House, 1945. 127p. the Latter-day Saints that Christ made provision for a perpetual quorum of Timely thoughts and similes to stimu- twelve apostles in His chl,lreh. late and improve Christianity during these days of global strife and reconstruc- tion" is the sub-title of this book by the Conner, L. Burl. minister of the First Christian Church of Washington, N. C. The introduction The New Pioneers. Privately printed. is by George Hamilton Combs. Worth- (Can be secured from the J. M. Monroe while reading. Agency, P. O. Box 781, North Adams, Mass.) 1944. 35p. Mimeographed. Pa- per covers. Serey, R. L.

A collection of eleven commencement The Christian Trumpet. Oklahoma addresses, service club lectures, and pep City, Okla., East Sixth Street Christian talks, together with miscellaneous in- Church, 1944. 47p. Papers covers. spirational paragraphs. The author, a former Culver-Stoekton student, '25-'26, Sermons by the pastor of the East is now Registrar of The McVeigh Sixth Street Church, Oklahoma City. Schools, Pittsfield and North Adams, Mass., and has had a wide and varied experienee in the ministry, the field of Smith, Foy L. business education, and in the ArmY Ail Corps. Lord's Day Evening Sermons, volume one. El Dorado, Ark., 217 S. Flenniken, The author, 1944. 85p. Paper covers. Dennis, Fred E. Forceful sermons .preached by the Fifty Short Sermons, volume two. minister of the Block and Hardy Street Grand Rapids, Mich., Wm. B. Eerdmans Church of Christ in El Dorado, Ark., at Publishing Company, 1944. 184p. the evening service, and published as volume one of a proposed series of such The author, an evangelist of the sermons. church of Christ, is a staff writer for the Gospel Advocate, in which many of these sermons were first published. This Kenneth A. Kuntz, '38, pastor of the book, which has proved very popular, is First Christian Church Qf Chillicothe, now in the second printing. Other titles Mo., made. a e/illl to the campus during by the same author are Musings, 1936, March. He needed some material for a and Fifty Short Sermons, volume one, study of Barton W. Stone. 1942. The book is for sale by the author, 514 Cutler St., Marietta, O. WANTED: Books 2, 3 and 4 of Local Church Life Training Courses by S. S. Hunton, Paul S. Lappin. Twenty Sermons From the Sermon on the Mount. Tampa, Fla., Rindaldi Printing company, 1945. 79p. Paper WANTED: The Christian-Evangelist, covers. April 6, 1922. 10 DISCIPLIANA, APRIL, 1945 "J. C. Todd, dean of the Indiana School HERE AND THERE of Religion, is planning to write a story of Bible teaching in state universities." From the March 1945 The Christian Call An interesting bibliographical detail of Kansas Bible College. concerning J. W. McGarvey's Credibility and Inspiration is brought to light in J. M. McCaleb's John William McGarvey J. H. Barfield, Birmingham, Ala., is in the Gospel Advocate for January, working on a history of the Disciples in 1945. The first copies distributed bore Georgia. the title Creditability and Inspiration. The error was noticed by one of Prof. McGarvey's students and later copies For Sale: "Volume 6 and 7 of The had the correct title. Unfortunately our Christian Baptist, 1828-1830, together copy is one of the later copies. Who with a copy of Christianity Restored. can send us one of the errors? Price $7.50". Don't crowd! This ad ap- peared in The Christian Standard of April 10, 1907. With the winter issue of 1945 The Disciples Rural Fellowship Bulletin, no. 15, became a printed quarterly. Ed- ward D. Hamner, Washburn, 111., is the THESES editor. These additions should be made to your supplement of Theses Concerning the Disciples of Christ. Florida Christian College is the name of a proposed new college to be located near Tampa, Fla. Ammerman, Edward Clifton.

Some Aspects of the Development of the Young People's Conference Move- Ellwood C. Nance, Instructor in the ment in Kentucky from 1935 through United States Army Chaplain School, 1943. M. R. E., College of the Bible, Harvard University, and editor of Faith 1944. of Our Fighters is the author of Ours is a Reading Army in The Publishers Week- ly, February 17, 1945. McAllister, Lester G.

The Philosophy of Higher Education A series of articles entitled Great Among the Disciples of Christ. B. D., Evangelists of the Restoration Move- College of the Bible, 1944. ment by Enos E. Dowling, Bibliographer of the Sehool of Religion Library, Butler University, is appearing currently in Miller, J. P. the Christian Standard. The first, deal- ing with Walter Scott, was printed in Bert Wilson, Apostle of Christian the January 27, 1945, issue. Since then Stewardship. B. D., College of the Bible, other issues have dealt with Benjamin 1944. Franklin, Elijah Goodwin, and K,nowles Shaw. Seriven, Ronald B. In the February 11, 1945, number of Re-thinking the Ideals of our Fathers. The Lookout was started the serial story B. D., College of the Bible, 1944. White Pilgrim by Frances Hensley. It is the fictional life of Joseph Thomas, "Newlight". Mrs. Hensley of Slater, Silvertone, Ray Guilford. Mo., is the author of a number of ex- cellent historical stories concerning Prospects for a Union Between the early leaders in the Restoration move- Northern Baptists and the Disciples of ment. Christ. B. D., College of the Bible, 1944. DISCIPLIANA, APRIL, 1945 11

A member of the Ministerial Associa- DISCIPLIANA, published Janu- tion, Carl Robison, the managing editor, ary, April, July, and October by was responsible for the finances, mailing, Culver-Stockton College in the in- terest of The Henry Barton Robi- etc., until his graduation in 1943. Claude son Collection of Literature Re- E. Spencer, librarian of the college, han- lating to the Disciples of Christ. dled the editorial work. Because of the Founded by the Ministerial As- decreased membership of the Ministerial sociation of the College, volume 1, number 1, was issued March, Association, the library has assumed 1941, volumes 1-3 were mimeo- responsiblity for the publication since graphed. April 1943. Claude E. Spencer, Editor. With the April 1944 number DIS- CIPLIANA became a printed publica- tion and the mailing list was increased VOL. 5 APRIL, 1945 NO.1 from six hundred fifty to over a thou- sand names. DISCIPLIANA is sent to OUR FIFTH individuals who are interested in the YEAR collection. preservation and use of the literature of our church, to individuals, For ten years plans had been made who may have materials which we need, for a publication whi<:h would give to the to institutions and organizations of the brotherhood news concerning The Henry brotherhood. and to the publishers of our Barton Robison Collection of Literature literature. Relating to the Disciples of Christ. A periodical was needed that would list From the start there has not been a our accessions, acknowledge gifts, list charge for subscription. During the our wants, and through brief, concise first two years it was finan<:ed by the articles add to the knowledge about the Ministerial Association, largely from its literature of the Disciples and related resident membership. The last two religious groups. Several dummy issues years money for publication has come were made up under the title of Disciple from former students, faculty members, Historian, but no attempt was made to and friends who appreciate the work we publish these trial numbers. There was are trying to do. a question in our minds as to whether We are starting our fifth year with there was enough material available the knowledge that the collection re- for four issues a year. There was also ceived more gifts (material and money) the question of finance. from more individuals than ever before. Finally in the fall of 1940, the Min- The collection has served more people isterial Association of the college be- through correspondence and by direct came interested in the project and raised service than ever before. From the let- enough money to finance the publication ters we have received we believe that our of the quarterly in mimeographed form. readers have enjoyed DISCIPLIANA and The first number, with the name DIS- have profited by reading it. CIPLIANA, ten pages of green paper, was issued in March 1941. Two hundred Weare starting our fifth year with fifty copies were distributed. A month the faith that the collection will continue later another printing of two hundred to grow and to be of increasing service fifty copies was made for distribution to the brotherhood, and with the hope at the International Convention of the that DISCIPLIANA will again merit Disciples of Christ at St. Louis. your attention. POSTMASTER-If undeliverable, notify us on Form 3578

A CATALOGER'S PERPLEXITIES IV Complete Author Fullness

In catalo·ging books and periodicals it is necessary that the full names of the authors together with the dates of birth and death be used. This is called complete author fullness. In the case of little known authors this question of complete author fullness becomes quite a problem, which sometimes is never solved. We are listing in this issue a number of names of authors for which we need information in order to have complete author fullness, and we hope that some of our readers may be able to send us the needed information. Aden, S. B., 1806-1879; Alexander, Sarah Cornelia (Borden); Allen, Edward L., 1845- Anderson, R. P.; Anderson, Geologe M., 1863-1932; Anderson, James, 1937-; Ansley, F.; Armstrong, J. N., -1941; Bacon, Langston, -1933; Ballentine, William, -1836; Barnes, Ellis Botsford, -1925; Bartlett, Samuel H., 1862-1945; Bastian, N. So; Bates, Daniel; Bays, Davis H., 1839-1905; Beaty, James; Belshe, E. P. Bennett, Abe F., -1942; Bittle, Leonard F.; Black, William F., 1840-1908; Boles, Marion; Bote- ler, Mattie M., 1859-1929; Brents, Thomas W., 1923-1905; Brinkerhoff, J. H. G., 1844- 1915; Buff, H. T.; Burnett, Thomas R.. -1916; Burns, A.; Butler, Thomas D., .1920. Calvin, Frank N., 1865-1925; Cameron, Emory C., 1894-1936; Carr, Oliver A., -1912; Caton, N. T.; Church, Samuel S., 1822-1858; Coan, Asa W., 1833-; Cobb, Abner P., 1853-1923; Coler, George P., 1853-1915; Collins, Almer M.; Comings, A. G.; Con- nelly, Thomas P.; Cooley, Hattie A.; Cooley, Lathrop, -1910; Cox, Josiah W., 1821-; Crihfield, Arthur; Crutcher, John Henry, -1919; Davies, Mrs. Eliza; Dawson, Floyd F., -1842; Devoir, Solomon; Dodd, S. To, 1835-1896; Donan, Peter, -1881; Dutt, Meade Ervin, -1930; Eaton, W. Wentworth; Elley, George W., 1801-1884; Ellmore, Alfred, 1838-; Evans, Madison, -1866; Ezzell, S. Ro, 1834-1910; Floyd, John D., 1839-1919; Frazee, William D.; Fuller, Corydon Eustathius.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Henry Barton Robison Collection of Literature Relating to the Disciples of Christ located at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, is one of the largest of several libraries which are actively engaged in collecting, preserving, and making availa>ble for use the books, periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts, and illustrative materials dealing with the religious groups which grew out of the Restoration move- ments fostered by Abner Jones, James O'Kelly, Barton W. Stone, Thomas and Alex- ander Campbell, and other reformers of the early 19th century in America. The Collection begun in 1924 and named by the MinisterialAssociation in honor of Dr. H. B. Robison, Head of the Department of Religion from 1910 to 1944, contains not only religious material but the secular writings of the members of the church. Gifts are depended upon entirely for its acquisitions. Publishers and authors are requested to send co.pies of all printed materials to the Collection. Money is needed for the purchase of rare items not to be had by gift, the purcha.se of equipment and supplies, and the securing of adequate secretarial service. A safe place is offered to churches for the storage of their records. All correspondence concerning the Collection should be sent to Claude E. Spencer, Librarian Culver-Stockton College P. O. Box 226 Canton, Missouri DISCIPLIANA Published quarterly by Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri Entered as Second Class Matter April 26, 1944, at the Postoffice at Canton, Mo., under Act of August 24, 1912.

VOL. 5 JULY 1945 NO.2

WALTER SCOTT MANY PERIODICALS ANNIVERSARY PROPOSED CURRENTLY RECEIVED The Guest Column writer in this issue The Collection is receiving one hun- proposes a brotherhood observance of dred thirteen periodicals currently. the sesqui-centennial anniversary of Since it has not been possible for us to the birth of Walter Scott in 1946. In write letters of appreciation to each the interest of that .possible observance publisher, we are .publicly acknowledging we are listing Scott's writings and books our gratitude in DISCIPLIANA. The written about him. following list includes only those of Scott's Periodicals more than local church interest. Walter Scott, who planned to publish Alabama Christian a periodical, The Millennial Herald, Apostolic Times starting in July 1827, but was persuaded Arkansas-Louisiana Christian to become an evangelist for the Mahon- Bethany Bible Student iug Association instead, did start a Bethany Bible Teacher monthly, The Evangelist, January 2, Bethany Church School Guide 1832, which was published from Cincin- Bethany Intermediate - Senior Quar- nati, Ohio, until November, 1833 (vol. terly 2 no. 11) when it was moved to Carthag~, Bethany Intermediate-Senior Teacher Ohio. In August, 1835 (vol. 4 no. 8) It Bethany Junior Class was moved back to Cincinnati. Bethany Junior Teacher The Evangelist was not published in Bethany Pocket Quarterly 1836 as Scott substituted The Gospel Re- Bethany Primary Class stored in the place of the periodical. Ac- Bethany Primary Teacher cording to the title page of the book it Bethany Service Leaflet was "The Evangelist for the Current Blue and White year." Brite College of the Bible Caller Evidently Mr. Scott considered this Brotherhood and Service News as volume 5, because upon resuming Bulletin of the Disciples Rural Fel- publication of The Evangelist. again lowship from Carthage, Ohio, in January, 1838, Bulletin Kentucky Female Orphan he marked the issue volume 6 new School series. From July, 1839, to the end, Canadian Christian Chronicle probably 1844, we do not have a knowl- Canadian Disciple edge of the publication. Chesapeake Christian With Robert Forrester, Scott started Christian Banner the Protestant Unionist, a weekly, in Christian Call Kansas Bible College Christian Courier Pittsburgh in 1844, and continued it Christian -Evangelist there until 1848 when it was moved to Christian Foundation Cicinnati and merged with the Christian Christian Horizon Age. Christian Leader Of the EvangelisttheRobisoncollection Christian Messenger (California) has volumes 1 and 2 complete, volume 3 Christian Messenger (Georgia) lacks the January 1834 number, volume 4 Christian News (Iowa) lacks the December 1835 number, volume 5 Christian Plea The Gospel Restored, volume 6 lacks the Christian Standard January 1838 number, and volume 7 Christian Uni.ty Quarterly lacks August to December 1839. The Christian Visitor continued on page 16 see next page 14 DISCIPLIANA, JULY 1945

Christian Woman Truth Advanee Christian Worker (Kansas) Truth in Love Christian Youth Fellowship Twentieth Century Christian College of the Bible Bulletin Values College of the Bible Quarterly Vindieator Dra.ke University Bulletin on Religion West Coast Christian Echoes from the Woods West Virginia Worker Firm Foundation Western Colorado Christian Florida Christian Word and Work Footprints of Time World Call Front Rank Our aim is to he placed on the mailing Gists of Truth list of every Disciples of Christ and Gospel Advocate Church of Christ periodical. Gospel Age Gospel Light Gospel Proclaimer WANTED: Green Owl Henderson, M. J.-Blackbirds on the Hearthstone Wing, 1942. Highway House News Henry, F. A.-Captain Henry of Geau- Illinois Christian ga, 1942. Illinois Christian Education Herald Herbert, S. B.-Revelation, 1886. Indiana Christian Indiana Tidings Herndon, E. W.-The Church, 1886. Junior Quarterly for the Teaeher Heron, Henrietta-Jot it Down, 1922. Junior World Kansas Messenger Hill, H. G.-Paradox and Principle, Kentucky Christian 1938. Keystone Bulletin Hill, H. G.-As Others See Us, 1908. Lookout Minister's Bulletin Hill, J. L.-Negro, 1930. Minnesota Bible College News Hill, J. L.-Preparation and Delivery Mission News-China Mission of Public Addresses, 1928. Mission News-Congo Mission Mission News-India Hill, J. L.-The Transition, 1919. Mission News-Paraguay Hill, J. L. - New American Reader, Missionary Counsel 1892. Missouri Missionary Counsel Advance NBA Family Talk Hindle, J. C.-Reminiscences (Eng- NCC Bulletin lish) 1923. Neb-raska Christian Hinsdale, Albert-Chronicles of the North Carolina Christian Hinsdale Family, 1883. . Northern Christian Ohio Work Hinsdale, B. A.-History of the Uni- Oklahoma Christian versity of Michigan, 1906. Old 'Fashioned Faith Hinsdale, B. A.-How to Study and Ordained Elder Teach History, 1893. Oregon Christian Our Missions Overseas (England) Hodge, F. A.-John Locke and Formal Pension Fund Bulletin Discipline, 1911. Plea Holland, E. G.-Niagara and other Restorer Poems, 1861. River Plate Reflections Rocky Mountain Area Bulletin Holliday, F. C.-Campbellism Ex- Scroll posed. Shane Quarterly Hollingsworth, E. E. - Fragments Showers of Blessings (poems) 1904. "Show Me" Missouri News Holmes, Arthur-Principles of Char- Social Action News Letter acter Making, 1913. Southern Christian Courier Stand patter Holtzclaw, H. F.-Agricultural Mar- TCD Writers Exchange keting, 1931. Tennessee Christian Holtzclaw, H. F.-The Principles of Truth Marketing, 1935. DISCIPLIANlA, JULY 1945 15 GUEST COLUMN WALTER SCOTT-CHRISTIAN PIONEER Editorial note: The editor of DISCIPLIANA has received the following article suggesting an observance. of the 'sesqui-centennial anniversary of the birth of Walter Scott. We believe that such an observance would create an interest in the fundamental principles of our movement which would have a lastiJ:lg effect upon individuals and churches. The author wishes to remain anonymous.

After one hundred and fifty years of pamphlets might be brought to light ~ith the birth of Elder Walter Scott, the Dis'- a proper evaluation of his role in the ciples of Christ should discover anew restoration of the Christi-an Church. this piOneer of Christian Faith and give him a place of honor which he is due In 1874, thirteen years after the death beside Thomas and Alexander Campbell of Walter Scott, a friend, William Bax- and Barton W. ,stone. ter, published a volume entitled, Life of Elder Walter Scott, which pointed out the Walter Scott was born to devout greatness of the scholarly man. Periodic Scottish parents on October 31, 1796. He reference has been made of him in our sprang from the same racial stock as did Brotherhood publications; but no con- the famous Scottish poet, ,sir Walter sistent planning has been carried on to ·Scott, after whom he was named. He bring the unique contributions of Walter was prepared for the Presbyterian min- Scott to the attention of our churches istry at the University of Edinburgh. so that his importance to New Testament He came to Amel"ica in 1818 and taught Christianity may be felt. Since 1946 .school in New York and then in Pitts- will give us time to plan for a Sesqui- ~urgh. Here he was associated with Centennial celebration of his birth, we Haldanean immersionists and liberal ought to make this ·a Brotherhood event Baptists. He hegan to read the Bible with appropriate ceremonies in all of anew and preach the "Gospel Restored." our churches and colleges. A pioneer In a quiet scholarly way he. became an long fOrgotten Can now come into his rightful place of understanding and re- evangelist and preached and taught ;with spect.' . great power. Thousands of converts were made to the new movement which was The greatest contribution which Wal- latr 'known as the Disciples of Christ or ter Scott made to American Christianity the Christian Church. . was in his clarification and simplifica- tion of the New Testament steps into About 1822 Walter Scott met Alex- the Kingdom of God. Scott found five ander Campbell, who -was some ten years simple steps: faith, repentance, confes- his senior and who had become the sion, . baptism, and forgiveness. He leader of the new reformation movement worked these out in a five-finger exer- in western Pennsylvania. They were cise and taught them to every person instantly drawn to one another, and in he met. He. brought rationality to the comj:>aringtheirviews found close agree- confused pioneer: he spoke as one hav- ment. Scott had a great influence upon ing authority; he preached with ·a mov- Campbell in. his working out of the ing eloquence. movement and. sUR,Plied a deep philo- sophical current to the combined mOve- While the Campbells and other lead- ments. It was Scott who persuaded ersin the movement which produced the Campbell not to oppose the dissolution . Disciples were University men, Walter of the Mahoning Baptist Association in Scott was more than a' well-trained manj Austintown, Ohio, in August 1830, which He was a philosopher and a .gre·at teach- really made the separation of the Dis- er. He was an interpreter for our m:ove. .ciples from the Baptist a fact. ment of Locke, Sandeman, Carson, Ward- law, Glas and Haldane. He was also a Research on the life and teachings of master of the Greek and Latin Scrip- Walter Scott has been greatly neglected tures. This, with it passionate devotion in our Brotherhood. The spotlight has to .Christ and humanity, places Walter been more upon the Camllbells and Scott among the really great Christian Stone. More of Scott's sermons and Pioneers of history. 16 DISCIPLIANA, JULY 1945

WALTER SCOTT Theses Concerning the Disciples of Christ listed only two items about Scott. ANNIVERSARY PROPOSED In 1930 Edward D. Small wrote The Con- continued from page 13 tribution of Walter Scott to the Disciples collection has duplicate copies of Feb- of Christ, as a B. D. thesis at Vanderbilt, ruary 1834 and May 1835 for exchange. and in 1941 Herbert J. Wilson presented There are no copies of the Protestant at Butler for the M. A. degree a thesis Unionist in our library. The Contribution of Walter Scott to the 19th Century Reformation. Scott's Books A History of the Mahoning Baptist Probably the earliest separate publi- Association by Mary Agnes Monroe cation written by Scott was A Discourse Smith, an M. A. thesis at West Virginia on the Holy Spirit, the 2d. ed. being University, 1943, contains much Scott printed by Alexander Campbell in 183!. material. Other books followed: The Gospel Re- stored, 1836; The Union of Christians, Some interesting biographical facts 1852; The Death of Christ, 1852; and not found elsewhere are given concern- The Messiahship, 1859. All of these ing Scott in an article, Walter Scott and books, with the exception of The Gospel Bacon College by Frank N. Gardner in Restored went through several print- The Christian-Evangelist, Mar<;h 25, ings and editions. Perhaps some pam- 1937, pp. 383-385. phlets were published about which we have no record. WANTED: Scott was joint editor. with Alexander Campbell, B. W. Stone, and J. T. John- Hdotman, G. W. - Short Nature son of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Sketches for Children and Young Songs, 1834, which had several revisions People, 1934. and many printings during the next Hoshour, S. K.-Observations and twenty years. Notes by the Way, 1867. About Scott Hoshour, S. K.-The Puzzled Dutch- man. The only book written about Scott is Hostetler, Joseph---ealumnies Refuted. William Baxter's Life of Elder Walter Houghton, W. R.-True Life, 1898. Scott, published in 1874, just thirteen Howard, J. R.---ehristianity Illus- years after his death. In 1926 the Beth- trated. and press issued an edition of the book abridged by B. A. Abbott. Hudson, J. W.-Abbe Pierre's People, 1928. Sketches of Scott are to be found in Hudson, J. W.-College and New H. L. Boles' Biographical Sketches of Gospel Preachers, 1932; T. W. Grafton's America, 1920. Men of Yesterday, 1899; J. J. Haley's Hudson, J. W.-Eternal Circle, 1925. Makers and Molders of the Reformation Hudson, J. W. - Old Faiths Perish, Movement, 1914; W. L. Hayden's Cen- 1939. tennial Addresses. 1909; E. E. Snoddy's Hudson, J. W.-Why Democracy Texas State Convention Addresses, 1931; Hudson, J. A.-The Man and the Mo- M. -C. Tiers' The Christian Portrait Gal- lery, 1864; and in all of the general his- ment, 1927. tories of the Disciples such as Tyler, Hudson, J. A.-Peter Fenwick, 1930. Gates, Moore, Garrison -and Walker. Huegel, F. J.-High Peaks in Redemp- In 1927 an observance was made of tion, 1939. the centennial anniversary of Walter Huegel, F. J.-That Old Serpent- Scott's conversion of William Amend. The Devil, 1939. Two pamphlets were produced, one The Humbert, H. F.-To Believe the Best, Walter Scott Centennial AnniversaTY, L94!. 1827-1927, had 24 pages and was illus- Hunley, J. B.-Shelton and the Crim- trated, the other Pageant, One Hundred son Trail. Years of the Lisbon, Ohio, Church, Cen- Hussey, J. B.-The Australian Colo- tennial Anniversary, 1827-1927, by H. S. Burnett, had 32 pages. Both were pub- nies, 1855. lished by Blair Thaw Scott, a grandson Hutson, T. S.-Poetic Considerations, of Walter Scott. 1915. DISCIPLIANA, JULY 1945 17 GIFTS W. C. Bower and H. L. Willett); Dinger -The Lord's Table; HaleY-Pocket (Material added to the collection by Bible Handbook, 8th, 11th, 12th and 13th gift, April 1 to July 10, 1945, and not editions; Jones-Ornamented Orthodoxy; mentioned elsewhere in this issue.) This Great Business of Being Chris- tian; and The Tender Pilgrims; Newton From the Armstrong gift mentioned -Best Sermons of 1925; The Eternal in the April issue, another title has been Christ; His Cross and Ours; Living up added to the collection: Baker-Short to Life; The Mercy of Hell; The Stuff History of Christianity, which contains of Life; and Sword of the Spiri.t; Scott a chapter Christianity in Modern Europe God and Man, limited ed., 1929, 65p.; by W. E. Garrison. Tyler-History of the Disciples of E. Hugh Behmyer, librarian of Beth- Christ; and Winder-That They may be Won. any College, has supplied us with the following Bethany catalogs: 1919-1926, Earl Heald, Enid, Oklahoma, sent a 1931-1932,1942-1944. Our files now have copy of The Christian Standard, January 1854, 1857, 1871, 1873, 1918-1926, 1928- 23, 1943, which was missing from our 1932, 1934, 1936-1937, 1939, 1941-1944. files. Can you supply a missing number? From the library of the late Dean L. .Roy Blalock, Canton, gave a copy of S. Hopkins, which was given to the col- Hutton and Keith-Worship Highways. lege, the following items have been William L. Blessing, Denver, Colorado, placed in the collection: Burnett-Rev. sent a copy of his pamphlet Mechizedek, B. W. Stone, Did He Join the Disciples the Miracle Message of the 20th Cen- of Christ?; The Origin and Principles tury. of the Christians, rev. ed.; Coffin-The Power of Our Tasks; The Christian . D. Clay Cook, '15-'19, Buffalo, N. Y., Church at its Present Task; Davey- sent a copy of the 75th Anniversary Primer on Trees and Birds; Helfenstein Program of the Richmond Avenue -Evangelism of the Youth; Horace Church of Christ of Buffalo, together Mann Centennial, 1837-1937, suggestions with a newspaper clipping concerning for commemoration in Massachusetts; the anniversary of the church. and Sims-Elements of Rural Sociol- F. E. Davison, South Bend, Ind., sent ogy, 3d. ed. a copy of The Church and the San Fran- cisco World Conference which contains L. L. Leftwich, '22, Canton, gave a four radio messages given by him over copy of his B. D. thesis, University of WSBT. Chicago, 1925, Methods of Social Science in the Discovery of Religious Attitudes. Tice Elkins, Alamo,gordo, New Mexico, sent copies of the following pamphlets W. G. Loucks, Cincinnati, sent copies written by him: A Few Mistakes of the of his: Outline Studies in Personal Work; "Church of God"; Sirs, What Must I do Outline of Studies in Christian Life; to be Saved? and The Unity Christ A Punctuality Conscience; and Story of Prayed For; Home Sweet Home; and the Ohio Conference Movement. Soul of Man, 2d. ed. John Stuart Mill, Kansas City, Mo., Charles M. Fillmore, Indianapolis, sent sent a copy of Mortgage Burning Day copies of the following songs composed Program, of the University Heights by him:Bring BackMyFl'ag;God Made it Christian Church, which includes a his- So;Father, I am Coming Home;Coronate tory of the church; and a newspaper the Prince of Peace; and Thank God for clipping concerning the Hickman Mills America. He also sent a copy of' Have Community Church. Faith in God, an "abstract of the sermon delivered by Mr. Fillmore to the family J. Edward Moseley, Oakland, Cali- and friends of John Dillinger in connec- fornia, in addition to several packages tion with his death and burial." of letters, clippings, bulletins, etc., sent the following items: Gellerman- From the Harold Griffis library, Oak- Martin Dies; Heron-Discussion and land, California, came the following Program Suggestions for Young People titles: Ainslie-Messages of the Disci- for use With "We Who are America"; ples for the Union of the Church; Ames Perkins-The Emperor's Physician; and and others-Experiments in Personal volumes 2, 6, 7, and 8 of the American Religion (contents include chapters by Pulpit Series, with sermons by Edgar 18 DISGIPLIANA, JULY 1945

DeWitt Jones, ,stephen J. Corey, Hamp- C. C. Ware, Wilson, North Carolina, ton Adams, and A. W. Fortune. sent Centennial History of the Charlottesville Christian Church; Min- James Neal, of Springdale, Arkansas, utes of the 65th Annual Convention, sent a copy of Baird-Church Member- Colored Churches of Christ, 1936; ship. Church Directory, Elizabeth City, North Carolina; and other small items. Geor,ge L. Peters, Canton, continued his gift of periodicals, pamphlets and From an anonymous source was re- promotional material. ceived the following Central Provinces Evangelist, 6 numbers 1940-1943; May- A copy of the Yearly Report, 1944, nard-A Christian Meditation; Thorn- First Christian Church, Philadelphia, ton-Pocket Lesson Commentary, 1917; Pa., Harold R. Browne, '39, minister. Meacham-Manual for Funeral Occa- sions; and 2 copies of Spayd-That Form Mary Evelyn Rankin, '44, Kansas of Doctrine, an 88 page booklet. Who City, Miss,ouri, sent a number of news- wants the extra copy? paper clippings and several orders of worship of the Hyde Park Christian Church. From Galen Lee Rose, Berkeley, Cali- PERIODICALS fornia, was received more than fifty Weare receiving the following peri- volumes of books and pamphlets, mostly odicals new to the collection: from the library of S. A. Neshitt. The following items will be cataloged for the Florida Christian Advocate, Tampa, collection: Bader-Pastor's Ready Refer- Florida, a monthly edited by Paul S. ence; Dungan-Book of Jeremiah, a Hunton. Vol. I no. 1 was dated June 1, paraphrase; Reatitudes and Business 1945. Elliott-How to do Business; Foster- Popular Amusements; .McLean-Dou- Gospel Broadcast, Des Moines, Iowa, bling the Preacher's Power, two differ- a weekly edited by Eugene S. Smith. ent printings; Nelson-Position of the Our first copy is Vol. 5 no. 27, July 12, Disciples of Christ; Small-Gospel Ser- 1945. This periodical was formerly mons in Diagram; Synopsis of the Pro- published from Dallas, Texas. ceedings of the 57th Annual State Con- The Bible Banner, Oklahoma City, vention of Christian Churches in Cali- Oklahoma, formerly published as a fornia (North) 1912; Pulpit Diagrams, monthly by Foy E. Wallace, Jr., has vol. 1, no's 1-3, 1898, ed. by Z. T. been changed to a quarterly, number one Sweeney; Dowling-Normal Instructor, having the date of June, 1945. The parts 1 and 2; Grafton-Alexander Banner had been suspended since Vol. Campbell, first printing, 1897 imprint 7, no. 2, October, 1944. date; Hinsdale-The Jewish Christian Church; Lowber-The Devil in Modern Society, 1st ed. 1888 and 5th ed. 1892; Milligan-Reason and Revelation, 8th POST CARDS ed. Chase and Hall imprint; Scheme of Through the kindness of Georgia Redemption, rev. ed. 6th; McGarvey- Robison Beale, A. N. Allen, '24, and J. New Commentary on Acts, 2 vol. in one, Edward Moseley, we have added the with an inserted letter in the author's following views to our collection: Hiram handwriting. concerning an error in the College, Ohio; Union Avenue Christian book; Pickerill-Youth Adventures with Church, St. Louis; First Christian God; Standard Ecclectic Commentary, Church, El Paso, Texas; Christian Or- 1898; and vol. 9 of The Pulpit which con- phans Home, St. Louis; Hyde Park Dis- tains a sermon Words of Warning by ciples of Christ Church, Chicago; First B. B. Tyler. Christian Church, Topeka, Kansas; W. E. Schultz, '06, Bloomington, Illi- Christian Church, LaBelle; Christian nois, sent a number of items including College, Auburn, Georgia; and Univer- the program of Dedicatory Service of the sity Christian Church, Seattle, Wash- Second Christian Church, Bloomington. ington. Harvey Baker Smith, Marshall, Mis- souri, sent a copy of Marshall Christian John Fox, Jr., was a nephew of Mrs. Church Centennial 1842-1942, which O. A. Carr. Perhaps he belonged to contains a historical statement. our brotherhood. Who knows? DISCIPLIANiA, JULY 1945 19 NEWS NOTES ACCESSIONS Harold Kime, '25, Pasadena, Gali- (Items received by purchase or ex- fornia, sent a copy of Social Studies for March 1945 which has an article by him, change, April 1 to July 10, 1945, and not A Sheaf of Tests on the Western Hemis- mentioned elsewhere in this issue.) phere. American Home Missionary, February Lt. Ben F. Dixon, '14-'17, Washington, and October, 1910, May 1912; Christian D. C., sent a copy of the Hospital Corps Messenger (Canda), January, February, Quarterly for July 1945, which contains May, August 1920, and September 1921; his "The White Lily", a 2.0 page ,article Davis-Rebellion of Leo McGuire; Lips- about hospital ships. Ben is a member comb--A Commentary on the Acts of of the editorial staff of the Quarterly. the Apostles; Krewson-Facts About Instrumental Music; West-A Totali- Chester Hensley, '39, Fort Madison, tarian Church, a Menace to Liberty and Iowa, is doing graduate work at Chicago Democracy; Wright-Ma Cinderella' this summer and living in the Disciples and the Fifth General Catalog of nel~ Divinity House. Chester's First Church Tau Delta Fraternity, 1884, (founded at Fort Madison recently sent a check at Bethany College, 1860). for five dollars for the Robison Collec- tion, thus becoming the first church in the brotherhood to allot us a place in its budget. "NEW LIGHT" MATERIAL Late in June, Mrs. Howard Kennedy The collection recently purchased a Beale (Georgia Robison) visited in Can- copy of a book with the following title ton for a few days, and deposited with page: A I DEFENCE I OF THE I the Collection a considerable lot of ma- DOCTRINE of the TRINITY: ICON- terial belong to her father and mother. TAINING I A REFUTATION I OF THE She reported that Dr. Robison was en- OBJECTIVES BROUGHT AGAINST joying good health and was visiting his IT, BY IT'S I OPPOSERS IN GENERAL daughter, Mrs. Sarvis, in Oskaloosa, AND THE PEOPLE' I WHO CALL Iowa. THEMSELVES I CHRI-STIANS I IN P ARTICULAR I BY SAMUEL LUCKEY. I But there were false proph- ets also among the people, even I as there CHRISTIAN TRACT SERIES shall be false teachers among you- In 1899 the Oracle Publishing Com- even denying I the Lord that brought pany, Chicago, started printing a new them-2d. Pet. ii. 1. I Their rock is not series of tracts under the general title our rock, even our enemies themselves Christian Tract Series. These were be- I ing judges. - Deut. xxxii. 31. I issued monthly, with vol. 1, no. 1 dated TROY, N. Y. I PRINTED BY PARKER February 10. The author was J. S. AND BLISS, I FOR THE AUTHOR I Lamar and the title was The Great 1818. I There are 288 ,pages in the book Revival and the Little Tent Meeting. as follows: 5 unnumbered, vi - xx, 1 un- The only other copy we have seen was numbered, 22-287, and 1 unnumbered. no. 4, dated May 10, by D. ,R. Dungan, The book seems to be a reply to a printed titled Beatitudes and Business. attack upon the author, title not given, Evidently no's 2 and 3 were issued by Frederick Plummer,. a Christian. March 10 and April 10. Who were the Does anyone have any information con- authors and what were the titles? Were cerning the earlier book? any others issued after no. 4? Who can tell us? Undoubtedly the series was advertised in the Christian Oracle, but "A little tract entitled The Facts in we do not have a copy of the 1899 volume the Case, explanatory of Eld. J. H. Wag- in our collection. oner's failure to publish my debate with him, contains a greater number of con- structive falsehoods than any other It is said that Opie Read had at the document of the same size in the English time of his death an unpublished manu- language," said W. B. F. Treat in the script, The Campbellite. What was his Christian Record for September 1&75. connection with our movement? . We need the tract! 20 DISCIPLIANA, JULY 1945 DCHS NOTES Author List by the curator, Claude E. Spencer An Author Catalog of the Disciples of Christ and Related Religious Groups J. Edward Moseley, president of the will 'be published in late fall or early winter. Members can reserve copies at Disciples of Christ Historical Society, the pre-publication price of five dol- and Claude E. Spencer, curator, spent lars. To non-members the price before many hours, June 12 and 13, discussing publication will be six dollars. List the affairs of the society and making price after publication will be seven dollars and fifty cents. As present plans plans for the future. The secretary- provide for only one hundred twenty- treasurer, Alfred T. DeGroot, was un- five copies for sale, advance reservations able to be present due to the fact that will be necessary in order to secure a he was leaving Des Moines in a few days copy. Orders should be sent to the for Los Angeles, where he will be dean curator. of Chapman College. Gifts After Dr. ,DeGroot and Mr. Hanna, vice-president, have given their approval, Books and pamphlets for the society with corrections, additions and objec- have been received from Bertha Park, tions, the notes of these discussions will Ohio Christian Woman's Missionary be sent to the members of the executive Society; Louis Warren, Fort Wayne, In- committee and perhaps to the entire diana; and J. F. Bellville, Elmira, New membership. York. Mrs. Harold Griffis, Berkeley, California, gave more than a hundred Riley volumes from her late husband's library to the society. A number of these were The curator takes responsibility for placed in the Robison Collection and the publication of one item of the dis- the remainder are available for distri- cussion as he feels that both Dr. DeGroot bution to members, institutional and in- and Mr. Hanna will fully approve. dividual.

"We recognize the abiding interest Duplicates which Edgar C. Riley evidenced in the formation of an outstanding collection From gifts received during the past of literature relating to the Disciples at four years the society has a few hun- Kentucky Female Orphan School. Not dred duplicates. Although the curator only did Mr. Riley collect the material, has not had time to mimeograph and but he also made it available for use in send out lists, he suggests that mem- a modern, fire-proof building. As a bers, individual and institutional, send charter member of the Disciples of their want lists to him. The wanted Christ Historical Society he enthusiasti- books, if available, will be sent for the cally contributed valuable suggestions postage charges. from the early days of the organization. As a member of the executive committee The Robison Collection also has a he attended all the meetings and at the large duplicate stock, sometimes as high last meeting of the committee he pro- as five hundred volumes. These volumes posed that the society make immediate are available to everyone on an ex- plans to raise an endowment of a million change or sale 'basis. dollars together with additional funds for a headquarters building. A commit- New Members tee, with Mr. Riley as chairman, was named to make a preliminary survey of From the Vine Street Visitor, Nash- the possibilities of this proposal. ville, Tennessee, May 3, 1945, we quote "The Young Business Girl's Circle, no. Everyone connected with the society 6, at their April meeeting voted to take will become increasingly aware of his membership one hundred percent (10) accomplishments, and as we strive to in the Disciples or Christ Historical So- realize his hopes, of his stature as a ciety." leader. Membership during the past three Because of these facts, his sudden months has more than doubled. We hope death on January 15, 1945, means an to give some interesting statistics con- irreparahle loss to the society." cerning the members in our next issue. DISCIPLIANA, JULY 1945 21

two titles Dr. King wrote a number of HERE AND THERE articles for the medical journals. The Passing of David Lloyd George Reuben Butchart, Toronto, Canada, by'S. S. Lappin in the Christian Standard has sent to the compiler of Periodicals for April 7, 1945, calls attention to the of the Disciples of Christ and Related fact that England's World War I Prime Religious Groups corrections of and ad- ditions to the Canadian periodicals. Minister was a Welsh Disciple. These changes eventually will be in- corporated in an new edition of the list.

The Front Rank is publishing a series A feature article for the October DIS- of visits to six seminaries of the Dis- CIPLIANA will 'be a check list of The ciples which give graduate training. The Scroll, periodical published by the Camp- first article dealing with The Disciples bell Institute. The collection has secured Divinity House of the University of Chi- from Mr. Edward A. Henry, Cincinnati, cago appeared in the July 8 issue. Ohio, an almost complete file from 1903 to 1926, and now lacks only five numbers of having a complete set to date.

Charles C. Ware, secretary of the North Carolina Christian Missionary Another article contemplated for early Convention, curator of the Historical publication is a listing of novels with Collection of the North Carolina Chris- Disciple characters or backgrounds. We tian Convention, editor of the North shall welcome correspondence with any Carolina Christian, member of the execu- person who has suggestions to make. tive committee of the Disciples of ,Christ Weare in doubt as to the religious Historical Society, and author of sev- affiliation of two authors who had Dis- eral books and pamphlets, two of which ciple backgrounds. James Lane Allen are indispensable reference works, Bar- has been listed many times as a Disciple ton Warren Stone and North Carolina author, but we have never been able to Disciples of Christ, can literally "smell" locate his church membership. In later Disciples material. life he became a member of one of the Some time age he purchased in Wash- denominations. The other author is ington, D. C., a copy of Stories of a Edwin Markham, who attended a Dis- Country Doctor by Willis Percival King. ciple college in California. Who has Upon reading the book Mr. Ware decided any information concerning these men? from internal evidence that the author was a Disciple. After much correspond- ence, Mr. Ware has concluded that his We are still hunting for copies of hunch was right; Dr. King at one time Star's Road, a novel dealing with stu- was a member of the Christian Church dent life at Butler University, by Lloyd at Sedalia, Missouri. Stern, and published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1932. Another urgent book is The Trans- Now we can add a new name with gressor, a novel with an ·attack upon several new titles to our want lists. For Ashley Johnson and Johnson Bible Col- your information Dr. King was born at lege, by Frank Thompson, which was Macon, Mo., December 21, 1839, and died published by R. G. Bader in 1919. in Kansas City, Mo., July 12, 1909. For additional biographical information see The Missouri Historical Review, vol. 4, . p. 49, and A Memorial and Biographical A book recently purchased for the Record of Kansas City and Jackson collection is a novel, Alec Maury, Sports- County, Mo., 1896, pp. 135-139. man, ,by Caroline ·Gordon, published by Scribner's in 1934. Edward Coffman in There are four editions of Stories of his History of the First Christian Church a Country Doctor, which was published of Russellville, Ky., says that the book first about 1894 in New York. A later is based' on the life of James Morris Gor- edition was published by the Burton don,. 1861-1944. Mr. Gordon, a teacher company in Kansas City in 19Q7.Perjury of Greek, became a Disciple minister in for Pay was published by the Burton 1908 and was pastor of the Russellville company in 1906. In addition to these church from 1918 to 1924. DISCIPLIANA, JULY 1945 ,.22 Professor of Philosophy; Phillips Uni- New Books Received versity, Eriid, Oklahoma, will be of in- terest to a large group of Culver-Stock- Flynt, Faye De Beck ton Alumni for Dr. Nelson was Professor Our Living Book. St. Louis, The of Philosophy at Culver-Stockton, 1924~ Bl;!thany Press, 1945. 1927. The purpose of Soldier, You're It, dedicated to his son in the service and A course of Bible study for interme- addressed to soldiers, is to help the sol- diates _or junior high school groups in dier straighten out his thinking in re- vacation church schools, published for gard to the war, the church, the state, the International Committee on Co- and to livinlr. operative Publication of Vacation and -Weekday Church School CurriQulum. The teacher's book, cloth bound, has 192 Osborn, G. Edwin pages. The pupil's book made up in work book style has 32 pages. A Faith to Live By. St. Louis, Chris- tian Board of Publication, 1945. 96 pages. Ellis, Lloyd Eugene, compo A guide to Christian living in our com- A Directory of Western Churches of plex modern world is the third volume in Christ; Alriie'di, California, 1504 Fern- A Bethany Course in Christian Living side Blvd., author, 1945. 95 pages. series. The 1945 edition of this directory which has been compiled for several years ~ontains the membership lists of Stratton, Hillyer Hawthorne' thirty-eight congregations. Addresses Thinking Where Jesus Thought. St. of congregations of the Churches of Louis, Bethany Press, 1945. 254 pages. Christ in Western North America are also given, together with a preacher list. The teachings of Jesus applied to modern day problems. The author, pas- tor of the First Baptist Church, dedi- Humbert, Harold Franklin cates his 'book "To Disciples of Christ the author knows and loves," and lists Christ Across the Centuries. St. Louis, thirty names from Hampton Adams to . Christian Board of Publication, 1945. B. Fred Wise, and including George 104 -pages. Walker Buckner, Jr., '14. The preface is by Edgar DeWitt Jones, Lit. D., '32. Volume four in A Bethany Course in Christian 'Living deals - with the' influ- enceof Jesus in changing life, inspiring art and music, and raising the, level. of Rice, Perry James civiliza tion. The Life and Labors of Henry Cor- nelius Kendrick, A Minister of the Chris- tian Gospel. Los Angeles, California, McAllister, Lester G. 1944. 29 pages. Our Church at Work Around the World. St. Louis, Christian Board of Publication, 1945. 32 pages. Smith, LeslieR. A workbook on Christian missions From Sunset to Dawn, a Book-of Medi- prepared for young' people, illustrated tations to Help Those in Grief. New , with picture and maps. York and Nashville, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1944. 125 pages. A small book filled with comforting Nelson, Ralph Waldo thoughts for those people who have suf- Soldier, You're It! New York, Associ- fered the -loss of a loved one. To be ation Press, 1945. 132 pages. Cloth and given to the bereaved by the minister. The author, pastor of the Central Chris- - paper editions. tian Church, Lexington, Kentucky, pre- Any book written by Dr. Nelson, now pared the book for his own personal use. DISCIPLIANA, JULY 1945 23

pages. Each edition and printing would DISCIPLIANA, published Janu- be listed. Location of every item would ary, April, July, and October by be made with each entry so that re- Culver-Stockton College in the in- search workers would know exactly terest of The Henry Barton Robi- where to find necessary material. son Collection of Literature Re- Such a bibliography could be published lating to the Disciples of Christ. in mimeograph form at a reasonable Founded by the Ministerial As- cost and could point the way for a series of similar ,bibliographies of other sociation of the College, volume Disciple leaders. 1, number 1, was issued March, 1941, volumes 1-3 were mimeo- Let a Scott Bibliography be the con- tribution of the librariansandbiblio- graphed. graphers of the Disciples to a useful Claude E. Spencer, Editor. observance of the Sesqui-Centennial of the birth of Walter Scott.

Vol. 5 JULY 1945 No.2 With the death May 15, 1945, of SCOTI' BIBLIOGRAPHY L. S. Hopkins, dean of Culver- DISCIPLIANA proposes that a Scott Stockton for twenty-three years, Bibliography be prepared through the the Robison Collection lost a sym. co-operative efforts of individuals and collections interested in the preserva- pathetic friend. Because of his tion and use of materials concerning Christian connection background the reformation and restoration move- ment in America. Research concerning Dean Hopkins had an appreciation Scott has been neglected for the investi- and an understanding of our work gation of the two Campbells and Stone. not found in many lay,nen. Lack of a knowledge of source materials and their location may account for some of this neglect. DlSiCIPLIANA offers this outline as FINANCES a guide to the contents ofa Scott Bib- A report will be made in the October liography. number concerning the money recently 1. Scott as author. received for the Collection and for DIS- CIPLIANA. A list of contributors will a. pamphlets be given. b. books If you intended to make a contrihution c. articles in periodicals but have neglected to do so, now is the II. Scott as editor. time to send us a letter with a check. a. books b. periodicals Information, Please? Does anyone know the whereabouts of the original III. About Scott. manuscripts of Thomas Campbell's a. pamphlets Declaration and Address and Barton W. b. books Stone's Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery? c. articles in periodicals The bibliography would'show the cor- WANTED: Several copies of Religion rect title of each work, place of publica- Follows the Frontier by W. E. Garrison, tion, publisher, date, and number of Harper and Bros., 1931. POSTMASTER-If undeliverable, notify us on Fonn 3578

A CATALOGUER'S PERPLEXITIES Complete Author Fullness 2 In our last issue we listed the names of a number of Disciple authors about whom we needed more information concerning their full names and dates of birth and death. Thanks to Reuben Butchart, Toronto, Canada, Henry K. Shaw, Elyria, Ohio, and George L. Peters, Canton, we now have these names complete: Bacon, Langston, 1851-1933; Barnes, Ellis Botsford, 1867-1925; ,Bartlett, Samuel Hender- son, 1862-1945; Beaty, James, 1831-1899; Calvin, Frank Newman, 1865-1925; Cam- eron, Emory Clae, 1894-1936; Coler, George Perry, 1853-1915; and Eaton, W. Went- worth, 1811-1889. You will note that the first name of W. Wentworth Eaton is still lacking. We are now printing a second list with the hope that someone may be llIble to supply the missing information. Gilbert, Alfred N., 1835-1892; Glasier, Jessie C.; Goodspeed, Emma; Granfield, D. M., -1895; Gregg, Samuel K., 1859-1930; Haggard, Rice H., 1769-1819; Halstead, St. John, -1938; Hamilton, George W., 1845-1909; Hand, G. R., -1888; Harlow, W. E., 1860-1922; Harward, H. G., -1944; Hawkins, Madison Co,1816-1872; Herndon, Eugene W., -1904; Heron, Henrietta, -1944; Hill, Osmer C., 1839-1899; Holman, Thomas; Howard, John R., 1807-1870; Jackson, J. J.; Jameson, Love H., 1811-1892; Kendrick, Carroll, 1815-; Lancaster, J. P.; Lard, Moses E., 1818-1880; Lockhart, William Stock- ton, -1937; Longan, George W., 1819-1891; Lord, M. N.; Lotspeich, G. B; Lowell. J. I., 1799-1858; Lucas, J. R., 1831-1906; Lucy, S. P.; MacClenny, Wilbur Eo; Mac- lachlan, H. D. C., -1929; Martindale, Benjamin F., -1916; Masters, J. W., 1854-1924; Metcalfe, V. Minor, 1832-1896; Miller, George A., 1864-1938; Mitchell, Nathan J., 1808-1886; Mizelle, W. H.; Moore, Ambrose B., 1861-1933; Moore, Charles Chilton, 1837-; Morgan, Leslie W., -1928; Morrill, Milo True; Mountjoy, John W., 1844-1886; oMudd, Alexander; Myers, J. C., 1842-; Myhr, Andrew Iverson, -1933.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Henry Barton Robison Collection of Literature Relating to the Disciples of Christ located at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, is one of the largest of several libraries which are actively engaged in collecting, preserving, and making available for use the books, periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts, and illustrative materials dealing with the religious groups which grew out of the Restoration move- ments fostered by Abner Jones, James O'Kelly, Barton W. Stone, Thomas and Alex- ander Campbell, and other reformers of the early 19th century in America. The Collection begun in 1924 and named by the MinisterialAssociation in honor of Dr. H. B. Robison, Head of the Department of Religion from 1910 to 1944, contains not only religious material but the secular writings of the members of the church. Gifts are depended upon entirely for its acquisitions. Publishers and authors are requested to send co.pies of all printed materials to the Collection. Money is needed for the purchase of rare items not to be had -by gift, the purcha.se of equipment and supplies, and the securing of adequate secretarial service. A safe place is offered to churches for the storage of their records. All correspondence concerning the Collection should be sent to Claude E. Spencer, Librarian Culver-Stockton College P. 00 Box 226 Canton, Missouri !)ISCIPLIANA Published quarterly by Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri Entered as Seeond Class Matter April 26, 1944, at the Postoffice at Canton, Mo., under Act of August 24, 1912.

VOL.5 OCTOBER, 1945 NO. 11

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL THE SCROLL A Contemporary Impression A Check List Although Van Wyck Brooks in his When Dr. Edward A. Henry of Cin- The World of Washington Irving places cinnati, Ohio, sent us his copies of The Alexander Campbell in Ohio instead of Campbell Institute publications, we found West Virginia, he does a service by that these combined with what we al- calling attention to the fact that W. C. ready had gave us an almost complete Howells, the father of William Dean file. The missing numbers are June 1919 (if published'I); March and April 1920; Howells, worked in Campbell's printing June 1920 (if published ?); February office. Upon checking his source, Recol- 1921; and February 1925. lections of Life in Ohio, 1813-1840, by W. C. Howells, we find an interesting Since there are so few complete files cvntemporary opinion of Campbell as of the Scroll and its predecessors we well as a description of the printing of- think that our readers will like to have fice. a chronological study of some of the bibliographical details of this little jour- Mr. Howells says "Whatever the nal about which so much controversy opinion of the people with whom Mr. nas raged. Campbell came in contact away from home may have had of him, at home and The first number of The Quarterly among his neighbors he was regarded Bulletin of the Campbell Institute was as greatly disposed to lord it over his issued in 1903 with October 1 as the poor and dependent friends." Howells date; no's 2, 3 and 4 appeared with the found that he "'had little natural sym- dates of January 1, April 1, and July 1, pathy with those who had not or could 1904, respectively, No volume no. was given. not acquire a worldly competence." How- Volumes 2 and 3, so stated on the cover, ever, "his manner was. amiable and so- were issued, from October 1, 1904, to cially he was always accessible to the July 1906. All numbers except April and man who understood the conversational July 1906 were issued as of the first art of listening, especially if that man of the respective months. An extra num- liked to hear Mr. Campbell talked' of." ber called Special Bulletin of the Camp- bell Institute, with the date August 10, When Howells walked from Wells- 1906, was issued with the same format burg, Ohio, to Bethany, he "found the as the Quarterly Bulletin. Edward office on the bank of the creek, so near Scribner Ames was the editor of the the water's edge that the pressman wet periodical which was issued for mem- the paper for presswork by dipping it bers only. The size of these first three directly into the stream, selecting a big volumes was 4 x 9 inches. stone to lay the paper board upon and another for the dry paper, while he With volume 4 the name was changed stood half-leg deep in the water, which to The Scroll, and the size was in- gently played over his bare feet." As creased to 5 x 7 inches. Ten numbers Howells describes the printing office, it were issued consecutively from Septem- was a building only sixteen feet square, ber 1906 to June 1907. No editor was unconnected with any other building. As listed, but we understand that Dr. Ames it was very crowded that summer with continued in that capacity. The little the work Mr. Campbell was having done, journal became a journal of opinion and which included the printing of the solicited subscribers. Ten numbers, from Campbell-Owen debate, stands were put September 1907 to June 1908, were is- continued on page 28 see page 34 26 DISCIPLIANA, OCTOBER 1945 sued as volume 5, with Dr. Ames as edited by W. E. Garrison. In 1921-22 editor, so stated. and 1922-23 ten numbers were published from September to June each year. Vol- Volume 6 had a short life as only ume 20, 1923-24 had ten numbers from two numbers appeared, September and October to July. Volume 21, 1924-25, had October, 1908. No editor was listed, and eight issues starting with October and the publication was under the supervi- ending with a number labeled 8-9-10, sion of an editorial committee. May-June-July, 1925.

Finding that a need existed for a Dr. Ames again became the editor means of communication with and be- with volume 22, 1925-26, and has re- tween members, Edward A. Henry, sec- mained the editor to date. Volume 22 had retary of the Institute in 1909 started a nine issues starting with S-eptember and mimeographed Circular Letter. The ending with a double number, May-June, Letter was issued from August 1909 to 1926. July 1910 with a special Letter undated which probably appeared in August. No Volumes 23-29 appeared as a page in yearly date was given on any of the The Christian, Kansas City, Missouri, numbers. The March 1910 number was from December 25, 1926, to December 2, erroneously marked February and the 1933. May and June Letters omitted the month marking. Each issue consisted of two Volume 30 with no. 1 dated January sheets of letter size paper 'of which 1934 had nine issues, January to June the first sheet was the printed Campbell and September-October (no's. 7-8) to Institute letter-head. Letters from August December. Volume 31 had ten numbers, to March used blue ink; the remainder January to' June and September to De- of the numbers had black ink. cember, 1935.

After a year of the Circular Letter, In 1936, the old publishing schedule, the Institute authorized the publication with the volumes beginning in the fall of the Campbell Institute Bulletin in and ending in early summer was re- 1910. The numbering of the volumes was sumed. Volume 32 was a short volume, continued from The Scroll. Volume 7 had .just six numbers from January to June 10 numbers from October 1910 to July 1936, and the June number was erro- 1911. Edward A. Henry, Orvis F. Jordan, neously marked July. and George A. Campbell were the edi t- ors. Volume 33 began in September 1936 and ended June 1937, but the March, Orvis F. Jordan became the editor of April, May and June numbers were volume 8 and remained the editor to the erroneously marked no. 6, 7, 8, and 9 end of volume 15. Volumes 8, 9, 10, 11, instead of 7, 8, 9, and 10. 12, 13, and 14 appeared regularly, no. 1 Volume 34 was never issued since being October of each year, and no. 10 volume 35, 1937-38 follows volume 33. being July the next year. 1'he reason for the skip in numbering With volume 15, no. 3, December 1918, was to account for the year when the the name was changed back to The Circular Letter was issued, but unnum- Scroll. If a no. 10, July 1919 was issued, bered. we do not have a record and no copy is The 1937-38 year had ten issues, Sep- in our collection. tember to June, but there were four Lee E. Cannon became the editor of errors in numbering. November was volume 16, and numbers were issued from marked 2 instead of 3, December, 3 in- October 1919 to June 1920. We have no stead of 4, May, 8 instead of 9, ancl record of a July issue. June, 9 instead of 10. Volume 17 had Clarence Reidenbach Volume 36, 1938-39, September to as the editor. Nine numbers were issued June had no errors in numbering, but from October 1920 to June 1921. The volume 37, 1939-40, with ten numbers, October number was erroneously September to June, had its January marked volume 6, September 1920, no. 1940 issue erroneously marked December, 11. 1939, no. 4. Volumes 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 have been published, September to June Volumes 18, 19, 20, and 21 were each year with correct marking. DISCIPLIANA. OCTOBER 1945 27 GUEST COLUMN REMINISCENCES OF THE CAMPBELL MANSION by Frances Hensley Editorial Note: Frances Hensley is well known to many Disciples as the author of several serial stories about the leaders of the restoration move- ment which have appeared in The Lookout. The work of Alexander Campbell and Thomas Campbell, Barton W. Stone, Walter Scott, John Smith, and Joseph Thomas have been brought to the attention of young people through the medium of fiction by Mrs. Hensley, who spent months of research in gathering material for each of her stories. We are happy that Mrs. Hensley could spend some time in the Robison Collection a few years ago. Recently Mrs. Hensley moved from Slater, Missouri, to Clin- ton, Missouri, where her husbal1d, E. B. Hensley, is pastor of the First Christian Church. "Historic" was an absolutely indis- funeral of Mrs. J. T. Barclay, wife of pensa,ble word when we were in Beth- our first missionary. Mrs. Barclay spent any. We used it both seriously and hu- her last years there and died at an ad- morously. Even the clock in the tower vanced age. Afterwards I lived in the was familiarly dubbed "Old Historic." Mansion at intervals throughout my col- I remember my own introduction to lege life. I think I lived there the first Bethany. A student was showing us time as part time nurse and companion to Miss Virginia Thompson (a grand- around-pointing out one place of his- daughter of Mr. Campbell's), who was toric interest after another. There were ill for some time after the death of her so many of them that, at last, pointing mother and came to Bethany to recup- to an ancient shed-like building on the erate. At that time the Mansion shel- banks of the Buffalo, I exclaimed- tered a large family--one of Mrs. Bar- "Is that historic, too?" clay's sons and his family, several stu- dents and Professor Johnson, besides "Yes-the Millennial Harbinger was Miss Virginia and myself. Out in the printed there." kitchen was "Aunt Carolyn" and her granddaughter. After that I just listened. Mrs. Barclay's husband was living The place of greatest interest was the then, too-but he was with us only in old Mansion-girlhood home of Margaret body; like many brilliant men Dr. Bar- Brown and Alexander Campbell's home clay was "dying at the toP." He was throughout the most fruitful years of living in the past and in far-away .places his life. Practically every student and -in Cyprus, Beirut, Tangiers where every vistor to Bethany visited the he had served as U. S. Consul. We were Campbell Mansion at least once. That his former associates, representatives of meant a great many visitors---especially other governments. His mental condition, when we remember that it was not a instead of making him a pathetic figure, public show place but the home of Mrs. wrapped him in an atmosphere of ro- J. J. Barclay, youngest daughter of mance and high adventure. Alexander Campbell. It was a long walk from the College to the Mansion-along The long dining room was hung with a country road until we reached a gate paintings-mostly portraits of the Gamp- through which we could see the octagonal bell family painted by artists well known study in the shade of the great trees. in their day. Speaking of one portrait of From this gate we followed a curving her father, Mrs. Barclay once called path bordered by trees, which Alexander attention to the eyes-how beautiful and Campbell had planted years before, down to expressive they were. That portrait had the Mansion itself. There was another, been painted when she was a tiny girl. larger gate directly in front of the Man- The artist, she said, had had no easy .time sion, but pedestrians used this first gate. getting the eyes to suit him. The occasion of my first visit was the At last he was satisfied. But while he 28 DISCIPLIANA, OCTOBER 1945 was resting from his labors little Decima ever; especially on Sundays and at decided that she was not yet satisfied Commencement time. Mrs. Barclay and with those eyes. So, taking the brush in I used to hurry home from church, hop- her small hand, she repainted them ac- ing to get through the mid-day meal be- cording to her own ideas~blue circles fore the first callers arrived. Sometimes with black dots in the centers. Poor, we succeeded. One morning a group of long suffering artist! visitors found us at breakfast. Yet Mrs. Barclay was never impatient. She With another picture, also hanging in felt that these visitors were paying the dining room, the young artist had homage to her beloved father, and wel- had better success. This is a copy of comed them gladly. "Napoleon and the Young King of Rome" painted by Mrs. Barclay when Just five days after my commence- she was a young girl. She had had her ment I left the 'Campbell Mansion for own troubles in painting that picture, the last time. I was going to the Old she would laughingly recall-and point Church-to be married to the afore-men- out that the child was wearing a slipper tioned "other student", E. B. Hensley. "because I couldn't get the toes right." My wedding dress was a present from Mrs. Barclay. It didn't take long for the history of the place to lay a strong hold on my imagination. The spirits of· those who had wrought so mightily in the past ALEXANDER CAMPBELL seemed to linger in the old rooms. Miss continued from page 25 Virginia kne~ this and found it amusing. She was somethingofaprankster; just be- fore the lights went out at 11 o'clock up for three or four printers to set type she would contrive an errand to the cav- out of doors under sheds. t)mous old kitchen. As it was a Sabbath Not only does the Howells book con- day's journey from the room we occupied tain the material concerning Campbell, to that kitchen, I'd be caught in the dark but also has a chapter dealing with the -I would come back running and stum- practices of the Ghristians or "new- bling through the ghost filled rooms to lights." find her laughing on her couch. Since our collection does not contain Not all the pilgrimages were to the a copy of the book, we borrowed a copy Mansion. One most interesting one from the University of Cincinnati gen- started from the Mansion when Professor eral library for the purpose of checking Johnson and some students visited the the statements made by Brooks. Natur- site of the Brush Run Church. Aunt ally we should be pleased to receive a Carolyn prepared a wonderful picnic copy of the book which was published by lunch for us. On our way back we stopped the Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati, to see the stable built from the timbers 1895. taken from that church. Shortly after- ward these timbers were brought to Bethany and set up between the Study and the Mansion in what was supposed WANT TO SELL? to be a restoration of the Brush Run Church. Mrs. Barclay didn't particularly Several copies of W. T. Moore's Com- like it. In fact it wasn't very convincing prehensive History of the Disciples of --

Hundred Years of Service, 1845-1945, GIFTS a 39 page, well illustrated booklet. (Material added to the collection by J. Edward Moseley, Indianapolis, In- gift, July 11 to October 4, 1945, and not diana, sent among other items the fol- mentioned elsewhere in this issue.) lowing books and pamphlets: Ainsworth --Sydney Black; Brown-Call of Service; James D. Bales, Searcy, Arkansas, Bro-Let's Talk About You and Every sent a copy of his mimeographed A Day A Prayer; Butchart-America's Sy Ilabus on Acts of Apostles. Business; Dusty Idols; I Heard Him Roy Blalock, Canton, gave a picture Call; Ways of God; and Youngest Mem- of the 1945 Culver-Stockton Young ber; Humbert--Along Came Mother; People's Conference Group. Irelan-Fifty Years With Our Mexican Neighbors; Japan Christian Yearbook, William L. Blessing, Denver, Colorado, 1937; Miller (Mrs. J. L. Lobingier) SL1lt a copy of his Advanced Teaching Dramatization of Bible Stories; Fair- 011 Divine Healing (mimeographed) and banks-Service of Dedication for Church House of Prayer for all People. School Teachers; Lloyd George-Where Are We Going; and Slings and Arrows; The First Christian Church of Barry, Lobingier-How Big Is Your World, Illinois, sent a copy of its Centennial students, ed.; Morrison-Christian and program, August 19-26, 1945, which con- the War; Standards for City Church taiJled a four-page historical sketch of Plants, W. S. Athearn, director; Scoville the church. -Christian Gospel H)-'mns; Trout---For- Dr. A. T. DeGroot, Los Angeles, Cali- ward in Missions and Education; and fornia sent Circulars 1 and 2, dealing Wright-Fun and Festival From India. with R. B. Neal's Anti-Mormon Tracts. Mr. Moseley also sent several packets of clippings, reports, and other pamphlet W. F. Hamann, '90, Canton, gave a material. copy of Hall-Some American Evils and Their Remedies, first edition, 1889. Bruce Nay, Atlanta, Georgia, sent a -number of old periodicals including H Basil Holt, Maywood, Illinois, sent a numbers of the Gospel Advocate, 1889- copy of a little known 32-page pamphlet, b04; 13 numbers of the Christian Stan- Alexander' Campbell, by Thomas Hag- dard, 1889-1899; single numbers of the gel', London, The Religious Tract Society. Missionary Voice, 1895, and the Mission- This makes the second copy we have. ary Weekly, 1892. He also sent a F. C. M. S. Children's Day poster, and To the Harold C. Kime, '25, formerly of Pasa- Laymen of Our Brotherhood in Georgia dena, California, now of the Colegio by Youngblood. Americano, Quito, Ecuador; sent an al- most complete file of Discipliana; An- Dr. George L. Peters, Canton, not only nual Reports of the Central Christian brought his usual supply of promotional Church, Pasadena, for 1939, 1941, and material, including Social Action, Mis- 1942; and a copy of the Dedication Flora souri Church News, etc; but found the Abbott Herrin~ Library, Central Chris- following pamphlets among his papers: tian 'Church, December 29, 1943. Burnham-Second Annual Report of the Commission of Christian Union; Carpen- Dr. S. Vernon McCasland, Charlottes- ter-College Girls and Missions; Chilton ville, Virginia, sent copies of his Abuses -The Hour Has Arrived; Cowden-Dis- of the Restoration Plea; The Lord's ciple Priesthood; Danielson and Slattery Supper; Genesis of the New Testament Narratives of the Resurrection of Jesus; I"or The Ungraded School; Jefferson- and The John B. Cary Memorial School The First Freedom; Kershner-The "Restoration" Plea of the Disciples of of Religion of the University of Vir- Christ; Klippelt---Benefits of the Young ginia. The latter is a history of the Vir- ginia Bible Chair established by the Ladies Mission Circle; Lewis-Uncle Christian Woman's Board of Mis- Johnny Appleseeds; Lhamon-The New sions. Dr. McCasland also supplied some Creed of the Disciples of Christ; Mat- needed information concerning James W. thews-The Business of Missions; Meigs Zachary and his writings. -Heathenism; Moss-Women Leaders; Spencer-What the Disciples of Christ The First Christian Church of Ma- Practice and Teach; Thomson- Educa tion comb, Illinois, sent a copy of its One of the Negro. Does It Pay?; Wilson- 30 DISCIPLIANA, OCTOBER 1945

Social Security for Ministers; and Wright -Christian Church Disciples of Christ; PERIODICALS Christians or Disciples of Christ; Doctrine Again the collection is receiving and Progress of the Christian Church; Should the Church Recognize Christian Sound Words published at Houston, Science; and The Unity of All Christians. Texas, by John O'Dowd. The August issue was volume 11, no. 8. The First Christian Church of St. Jos- eph, Missouri, sent a copy of its 32 page centennial booklet, A Century of Prog- ress. 1845-1945. James Deforest Murch, member of the Executive Committee of the Disciples of Mrs. C. F. Swander, Portland, Oregon, sent Parrish-The Minister and the Christ Historical Society, formerly with Spirit of Unity; and Swander-How I the Standard Publishing CO.,isnow editor Became a Tither. of UEA-United Evangelical Action, Mrs. C. C. Tedford, Moberly, Missouri, Cincinnati. We are receiving his paper, sent a number of items including: Flem- which is published twice each month by ing-The Land of the Pharoahs and the the National Asso~iation of Evangeli- Land of Christ; several Christmas cals. Greetings from Jennie V. Fleming; Cal- endars from the India Mission, 1936 and 1938, and some newspaper clippings con- cerning Frank R. Gillihan, '11-'15. The Cross and the Flag, Detroit, Mich., is being received currently by the Dis- C. C. Ware,. Wilson, North Carolina, ciples of Chdst Historical Society. has recently sent out a little 12 page Gerald L. K. Smith, the editor and pub- pamphlet by the North Carolina Chris- lisher, was formerly pastor of the Uni- tian Missionary Convention and entitled, versity Place Church in Indianapolis. Disciples of Christ in North Carolina, The Letter, a new weekly service from Articles of Incorporation, Constitution Washington, D. C., is also being re- and By-Laws, Reports of Commission ceived. on Church Polity. W. A. Welsh, Lufkin, Texas, sent a copy of the Yearbook, 1945-1946 of the A new loeal church paper to the col- First Christian Church of that place. lection is Monroe Doctrine, of the Monroe Street Christian church of Los Angeles, Dr. Edward A. Henry, Cincinnati, California. Volume 1, no. 1, dated August Ohio, sent 3 different printings of the 5, 1945, was published under the aus- Constitution and Membership of the pices of the young people of the church. Campbell Institute, and copies of Prac- Our thanks to desk editor, Eunice Rose. ticing Christian Union and The Disciples of Christ. both by Ames, and some other pamphlets. The Oklahoma Christian, with volume 10, no. 1, July 1945, took on a larger form, with a new editor, Carl V. Covey. DISCIPLIANA finds itself in the em- barrassing position of having to adver- tise for copies of its own issues. Upon The NOI·thern Christian, published by publication, six copies are put away for the Minnesota Christian Missionary So- our own use. The remainder are stored ciety, doubled its size with volume 57, and sent out on request. We find that no. 7, August 1945. Vernon S. Stagner we have urgent need, in order to com- is the editor. plete library files of other institutions, for the following numbers: Vol. 1 No's 2, 3, and 4 With volume 10, no. I, September 3, Vol. 2 No's 1, 3, and 4 1945, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer R. Child be- Vol. 3 No.4 came the new editors of The Nebraska Vol. 4 No's 1 and 3 Christian. The retiring editors, Mr. and You will earn our gratitude by sending Mrs. F. H. Stephenson, served the paper copies you do not want. for nine years. DISCIPLIANA, OCTOBER 1945 31

dresses of 72 members, while the second DCHS NOTES report, 1942-1944, listed 116 members. by the curator, Claude E. Spencer Now there are 363. The addition of 247 members during the past year is due to Our Membership the energy of our secretary-treasurer, Dr. A. T. DeGroot, who promoted a With members located in 32 states, the membership campaign. If every member District of Columbia, Canada and Eng- will help Dr. DeGroot, the membership land, the Disciples of Christ Historical can be doubled before the meeting next Society is truly representative of the year. brotherhood in a regional sense. When one examines the list of individuals, one Plans rEoalizes that it also represents all the The officers of the society, J. Edward \'adous shades of thought throughout Moseley, president, W. H. Hanna, vice- the brotherhood. The Society is the com- president, A. T. DeGroot, secretary- mon meeting ground for all persons in- treasurer, and Claude E. Spencer, cu- terested in the collection, preservation, rator, through individual conferences and and use of the manuscript and printed letters this summer formulated some ma terials of our movement. plans for the Society. We shall outline Indiana leads all states in membership, briefly some of the projects in mind for having 47 members, but Missouri is a the future. dm;e second with 45, and Ohio crowds near with 42. The membership of the Historic Sites other 29 states follows: Texas 23, Cali- fornia 22, Illinois 21, Oklahoma 18, Ten- It seems desirable that historic places nessee 16, Virginia 13, Kansas and Ne- of the brotherhood be marked. The So- braska 12, Michigan 10, Iowa and Ken- ciety can take the lead in giving pub- tucky 9, Georgia 8, Arkansas 7, Alabama licity to such a program and in arrang- and Washington 5, North 'Carolina and ing for markers to be erected by local West Virginia 4, District of Columbia, religious or civic groups. The curator Maryland and Mississippi 3, Florida, was instructed to prepare a list of places Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania for possible marking. 2, Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Massa- Endowment chusetts, Nevada and Oregon 1. Three members live in Canada and one in Eng- The president, in conference with the land. There are six in the chaplaincy. curator, will appoint a new committee to make a preliminary survey of the Since the organization of the Society situation in regard to raising endowment in 1941, four members have died: Ken- and funds for a headquarters for the neth E. Burke, Edgar C. Riley, J. T. Society. The late Edgar 'C. Riley pro- Boone, and C. C. Taylor. posed this committee at Columbus last In addition to individual members the year and had been instructed to act as constitution provides for institutional chairman of such a committee. members. The first report of the Society, News to Members 1941-42, listed only six institutional members; now there are twelve: It was agreed that the membership of the Society should receive news concern- Bethany College ing the Society's work at least twice a Brite Bible College year, through a mimeographed letter Christian Board of Publication from the president, or other officer. This College of the Bible is yet to be worked out. Culver-Stockton College Disciples Divinity House Convention Program Drake Bible College Kentucky Female Orphan School In accord with the action of the So- North West Christian College ciety at its meeting in Columbus, the Phillips University curator in the name of the officers of Standard Publishing Company the Society, sent the following message Tennessee Christian Missionary So- to the president of the International Con- ciety vention: That first report gave names and ad- "We urge the program committee 32 DISCIPLIANA, OCTOBER 1945

of the next International Conven- culture. Such booklets would be based on tion to provide a ,time for an his- scholarly research, well documented, but torical observance (in the form of popularly written, and printed in a dig- an address) of our heritage as a religious movement. We want re- nified format to be widely distributed in spectfully to call attention to the and beyond the brotherhood. fact that the sesqui-centennial an- niversarjO of the birth of Walter Author Catalog Scott occurs on October 31, 1946. This provides an excellent opport- As yet a definite date can not be set tunity for the re-interpretation of for the publication of the curator's An Scott's message." Author Catalog of the Disciples of Christ and Related Religious Groups. We do A reply has been received that the promise it during the winter unless recommendation would be forwarded to something unforeseen occurs. the program committee. The pre-publication price of the book North American Convention will be $5.00 to members of the Society. Upon publication the price will be $7.50. Since the Society represents the total Order now and save money. interests of the brotherhood, it seems desirable that the Society have repre- sentatives at the next North American Convention and that arrangements be A STRANGE GOSPEL made for the preservation of North American Convention materials. Under the tile "A Pious Fraud" Re- printed, the Gospel Advocate for August Historical Observances 2, 1945, gives the history of the publica- tion of a queer book printed and re- A committee consisting of W. P. Har- printed many times since its first was man, Chairman, Eva Jeaan Wrather, assued in 1879, under the title A Cor- Mer! R. Eppse and Henry K. Shaw, was rect Transcript of Pilate's Court, etc., instructed to prepare material suggest- etc. At least twelve separate printings ing ways and means of obtaining the with various titles have been made, the observance of events of historical im- most recent being The Arcko Volume. portance to Disciples in 1946. This ma- terial will be sent to members of the The author of the book, William D. Society, the state and national papers, Mahan, a Cumberland Presbyterian and will be given publicity in DIS- minister from Boonville, Missouri, CIPLIANA. claimed to have had access to manu- scripts in the Vatican library, but at Motion Pictures the time he was supposed to be in Rome, The Society hopes to develop adequate Italy, he probably was in Rome, Illinois. plans for locating and preserving mo- Mahan was tried before the Lebanon tion picture films produced by the broth- presbytery and judged guilty of false- erhood. We also hope to stimulate the hood and plagiarism (he had lifted whole production and distribution of sound pages of Ben-Hur and used them in one films showing the history and activities edition of the work). Although he had of the Disciples. promised the presbytery to withdraw the publication from sale, we find that a Phonograph year later a new printing, entitled Archaeological Writings of the Sanhe- It is also desirable to collect records drin and Talmuds of the Jews, came and transcriptions made by Disciples. from the press of The Christian Pub- Not only should we collect those already lishing Company, St. Louis! This was made, but we should seek to have made a book of 569 pages. The co-compiler new recordings of the leaders of the with Manhan was elder J. W. Damon. brotherhood. about whom we have been unable to Americana Series learn any facts. Another Disciple contad with the book The Society wishes eventually to in- was publication of parts of the volume with augurate the publishing of a series of the title Caesar's Court (A Wonderful pamphlets dealing with the relationship of the Disciples to American life and see page 34 DISCIPLIANA, OCTOBER 1945 33 New Books Received Holt, Basil Fenelon. An Hour with General Dobbie. Grand Baldwin, Willis Anson. Rapids, Michigan, Zondervan Publishing House, 1945. 30 pages. Paper covers. History. Churches of Christ in Ne- hl'aska. Lincoln, Nebraska, Nebraska A very readable account of an inter- view with Sir William Dobbie, defender Missionary Society, n.d. 66 pages. Pa- of Malta, together with the story of the per covers. miraculous deliverance of "the most hombed spot on earth." This is the unifinished work of a for- mer state secretary of the Disciples in Nebraska who died before his task was completed. An introductory statement Nicholson, Helen M. says that the type had been set for sev- eral years waiting for s,omeone to carry A Biography of Flora Abbot Herring. on the history from where Mr. Baldwin Pasadena, California, Central Christian left off, and it appears in print in this Church, 1945. 23 pages. Paper covers. form, without change or correction of typographical errors, due to the fact A biographical appreciation of the that government regulations relative to life of a woman who so whole heartedly the salvaging of linotype material made g'ave her best in her work for her church. necessary the disposal of the type. It is Churches increasin2'ly should publish valuable source material for the future this type of booklet as a mark of respect historian of our Nebraska churches. for the individuals who contribute so much to the life of the church.

Garrison, Winfred Ernest. Peterson, Orval Douglas.

An American Religious Movement; a Washington-Northern Idaho Disciples. Brief History of the Disciples of Christ. St. Louis, Christian Board of Publication, St. Louis, Christian Board of Publica- 1945. 223 pages. tion, 1945. 167 pages. Much hard work went into the making This not a condensation or abridge- of this book, the writing' of which was ment of Dr. Garrison's Religion Follows authorized by the Washington-North the Frontier, 1931, which is now out ot Idaho convention through its Historical print, but a new interpretation of broth- Commission. Historical writers are erhood history. In connection with a handicapped by the absence of historical syllabus containing bibliography and mindedness on the part of the past lead- suggestions for study, the book might be ers in our churches and organizations, used as a text for college courses in Dis- and by the lack of any organized attempt ciple history even though the author did to preserve such records as were made. not intend it for such use. It should be Only by persistence of effort and much on your winter reading list. movin~ about can good histories be writ- ten. The book would he more usable with references to source material and with an index. Holcomb, Carlysle Henry.

By This I Conquer. Cynthiana, Ken- Stevenson, Dwight Eshelman. tucky, Hobson Book Press 1945. 153 pages. Faiths That Compete For My Loyalty. St. Louis, Christian Board of Publication, The pastor of the Budd Park Chris- 1945. 96 pages. Paper covers. tian Church of Kansas City, Missouri, suggests ways and means of putting the The fifth booklet in A Bethany Course teachings of the -Christian religion into in Christian Living compares Christian- the lives of individuals. A book for the ity with its rival religions, with the renewal of faith for unsettled and dis- substitutes for religion, and with the couraged people. distortions of Christianity. 34 DISCIPLIANA, OCTOBER 1945

Wells, Golda Ruth. Our Church, Union Avenue Christian Church, St. Louis. Sila, Son of Congo. St. Louis, The Bethany Press, 1945. 192 pages. Peach Tree Christian Church. Peach Tree Christian Church, Atlanta, The story of the growth of Disciple Georgia. missions in the Congo told by one who has been on the field since 1919. Not The Peoria Christian, Central Chris- a conventional mission book crowded tian Church, Peoria, l1linois. with statistics, but a book which tel1s Although we are getting only eleven of the changes in the lives of the people such papers regularly, we do have hun- due to the coming of Christianity. Wel1 dreds of others in our files. In some illustrated with interesting phto- cases we have a year or two, in others, graphs. just a single copy. We should receive every local church Whitehouse, Elizabeth S. newspaper. As we have not the time to write a personal request, we are using Opening the Bible to Children. St. this method of asking ministers to have Louis, The Bethany Press, 1945. 8Q uur names placed on their mailing list. pages. Paper covers. A book for parents and teachers who want to know how to present the Bible A STRANGE GOSPEL to children of various age levels. Continued from page 32

Book) by A. J. Showalter, Dalton, Geor- LOCAL PAPERS gia, in 1895. The editor was G. A. Rey- nolds. In the July DISCIPLIANA we ac- knowledge receipt of and thanks for one Our library has a copy of the edition hundred thirteen periodicals of more printed by the Christian Publishing Com- than local church interest. Now we are pany, but no others. We welcome gifts of iisting those published in the interests other editions and printings. of single churches which we are cur- rently receiving. The Canton Christian, First Chris- tian Church, Canton, Ohio. Post Cards Church Pointers, Union Avenue Our post cardcol1ection grows slowly, Christian Church, Litchfiled, Il- but it does grow. We have made a tray linois. ill which to file the cards and have the cards divided into the fol1owing subject First Christian Builder, First Chris- groups: Local churches, col1eges, benevo- tian Church, Quincy, Illinois. lent institutions, historic markers, monu- Kenosha, Christian News, First ments, etc., and public buildings. Christian Church, Kenosha, The fol1owing people have contributed Wisconsin. to the collection during the quarter: Latonia Christian, Christian Church, Miss Alberta Callison, Kahoka, Mis- Latonia, Kentucky. souri; Brook L. Haines, Washington, D. C.; J. Edward Moseley, Indianapolis, The Messenger, University Place Indiana; and Claude E. Spencer. Views Christian Church, Champaign, were added of the Christian churches of Illinois. Garden City, Kansas; Mem.phis, Kahoka, Canton; Polson, Montana; three views Monroe Doctrine, Monroe Street of Butler University; two views of the Christian Church, Los Angeles. National City Christian Church, Wash- California. ington, D. C.; a view of the Christian National City Christian, National Hospital, St. Louis; and a view of the City Christian Church, Wash- Kansas City Museum (former home of ington, D. C. R. A. Long). DISCIPLIANA, OCTOBER 1945 35

further purchases, to the profit of both DISCIPLIANA. published Janu- ourselves and the bookseller. On one ary, April, July, and October by such occasion, we found a basement Culver-Stockton College in the in- which the proprietor thought too dirty terest of The Henry Barton Robi- for his ~ustomers (his upstairs room son Collection of Literature Re- was the cleanest one we have ever seen). biting to the Disciples of Christ. After some persuasion he allowed us to go down. With only a short time to Founded by the Ministerial As- look we found a copy of Park's English sociation of the College, volume Grammar for which he charged us twen- 1, number 1, was issued March, ty cents. This was a find .as the book, 1941, volumes 1-3 were mimeo- written by an Ohio teacher-preacher, was used as a text, and if you think graphed. text-books are easy to locate, just try Claude E. Spencer, Editor. to complete a set of Joseph BaldWin, whose oooks were published by D. Ap- pleton and Company by the thousands for use in normal schools and teachers Vol. 5 OCTOBER, 1945 No.3 colleges during the 1890's. In securing this book, there was an extra special exhaltation for someone with us had THIS BOOK COLLECTING GAME been wanting a copy for years, but we Rarely does the editor go any place saw it first! where there is a used book store that One likes to go hunting .by one's self he doesn't buy one or more books for most times. But there are other times the collection. Generally at bargain when the right friends make the hunt more interesting and stimulating. We prices. A trip to St. Louis in early Sep- recall several pleasant hours spent in tember was no exception to this practice. Long's College Book Store in Columbus, With only a few minutes to spare, a copy Ohio, with Henry Shaw and the late of Munro's The Director of Religious Edgar Riley. We all purchased books, Education, 1930, was purchased for a but the things that will be long re- membered are the conversation, the com- dime; not a rarity, but a wanted book to ments, and the stories brought to mind fill a gap. by the books before us. There is a special thrill that comes Then there was the junk dealer who when a long sought for book is discov- bought a big box of books for a quarter el'ed and there's the pleasure that one and expected to sell the lot to a paper gets in hunting through the second-hand mill as salvage. By charging us $2.50 shops. Time can pass quickly as one for just one of the books, he made a checks rows of shelves. The editor well tremendous profit on the deal and per- remembers when he went into the Kan- haps secretly thought that he had "held sas City Book Exchange several years us up" by his "high" price. The book was ago at eight o'clock in the morning and M. C. Tiers' The Christian Portrait Gal- came out at one in the afternoon (five lery, 1864, with almost all the original hours that seemed as one) with an arm- photographs intact. We have seen the ful of books,perhaps fifteen or twenty; book listed in the catalogs twice, both all purchased for $4.50. The discovery copies with fewer pictures than our copy. of everyone brought a separate satis- Price $25.00. This transaction almost faction, especially those found in toe gave us a super thrill. basement at ten cents each. However, we are expecting the super Noone expects to browse through a thrill when and if we ever get to New store looking for old books without get- York City. Since reading Book Row; ting his hands, face and clothes dirty. Secondhand Book Shops of Manhattan's At Nedwick's in Chicago we were asked, Fourth Avenue in the December 30th, for' the first time, into the back room 1944, Saturday Evening Post, we shall to wash up. Since then we have been in even forget the difficulties of bi-focals the back rooms of a dozen :stores to in looking at the back strips of the wash. Many times this extra contact millions of books there. It will take us with the book seller has resulted in a few days to do the job right. POSTMASTER-If undeliverable, notify us on Form 3578

A CATALOGER'S PERPLEXITIES Organiza tions We haven't done much in our library in cataloging reports and other materials issued by organizations. We do have a mass of material tied in bundles awaiting the cataloger. But the cataloging of these books, pamphlets, and papers will have to be done the hard way and will be a long task. Individually the Disciples have not been a conventional people; we have gone our own separate ways. This is true also of our organizations. Continuity of names meant little; as organizations grew and conditions changed, names were also changed, sometimes without notice. For example, the present Board of Higher Edu- cation has been a part of a larger society, and it has hall a separate existence. It has been known as the Educational .Board of the American Christian Missionary Society, The Educational Board, The Board of Education, and The Educational As- sociation. Perhaps there were other names about which we do not know. Sometimes on printed material a popular name for the organization is used instead of the corporate name, which adds to the confusion of the cataloger. Even the corporate name of the religious group itself has been indefinite in the popular mind: Disciples of Christ, Christian Church, or Churches of Christ? All this adds up to the need for a handbook giving the informati,on concerning our scores of societies, institutions and organizations, with plenty of cross references to a standard entry to be used in cataloging.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Henry Barton Robison Collection of Literature Relating to the Disciples of Christ located at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, is one of the largest of several libraries which are actively engaged in collecting, preserving, and makmg available for use the books, periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts, and illustrative materials dealing with the religious groups which grew out of the Restoration move- ments fostered by Abner Jones, James O'Kelly, Barton W. Stone, Thomas and Alex- ander Campbell, and other reformers of the early 19th century in America. The Collection begun in 1924 and named by the Ministerial Association in honor of Dr. H. B. Robison, Head of the Department of Religion from 1910 to 1944, contains not only religious material but the secular writings of the members of the church. Gifts are depended upon entirely for its acquisitions. Publishers and authors are requested . to send copies of all printed materials to the Collection. Money is needed for the purchase of rare items not to be had by gift, the purcha;:;e of equipment and supplies, and the securing of adequate secretarial service. A safe place is offered to churches for the storage of their records. All correspondence concerning the Collection should be sent to Claude E. Spencer, Librarian Culver-Stockton College P. O. Box 226 Canton, Missouri DISCIPLIANA Publi»hed quarterly by Culver-Stockton College, Callton, Miuouri Entered as Second Class Matter April 26, 1944, at the Postoffiee at Canton, Mo., under Act of August 24, 1912.

VOL. 5 JANUARY 1946 NO.4 Robison Collection Given to Disciples of Christ Historical Society

To Remain at Culver-Stockton

At a meeting of the Executive Com- Society is ready to construct its own mittee of the Disciples of Christ His- quarters. torical Society in Indianapolis, Indiana, The Society is not obligated to remain January 4, 1946, action was taken to in Canton, but if it ever finds it expe- accept the Henry Barton Robison Collec- dient to move to some other place, it may tion as offered to the Society by Culver- do so. The only necessity will be to re- Stockton College. The Board of Trustees turn the Robison Collection to the Col- of the College at its December meeting lege. authorized its executive committee, through President W. H. McDonald, to The Collection will not lose its identity offer the Robison Collection to the So- by being given to the Society. Although ciety, with the understanding that the it will be.placed with the Society's othe~ Collection remain in Canton. materials, its books will have the Robison book plate as a distinguishing feature, Under this arrangement the Society and the pamphlets, pictures, etc., will will recetive a total of more than 15,000 bear the collection stamp. College of- items; books, periodicals, pamphlets, ficials hope that alumni and friellds of museum pieces, and pictures, as a nu- Dr. Robison will continue to contribute cleus for the building of a most adequate money and Dooks as an honor to him. research library for the use of the whole Such contributions will become a part brotherhood. of the Robinson Collection within the Society's library. Until the Society is able to provide a building for its use, the college will By accepting the collection, the So- house the Robison Collection and the ciety will asuume management and con- Society's materials, will continue to trol of DISCIPLIANA, which will now make possible Mr. S,pencer's part time feature the work of the Society. services to the Society as curator, and President McDonald, for the college, will furnish necessary student secre- and President Mosely and Curator Spen- tarial help, all without cost to the Socie- cer, for. the Society, will work out the details '.of the transfer which will be ty. Culver-Stockton also will give the accomplished legally this late winter or Society ground for a building when the early s'prin~. 38 DISCIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL CIGARS THE MISSIONArRY JOURNAL We have received for the museum sec- Many books and periodicals have been tion of the historical society an Alexan- projected for publication by the Dis- der Campbell cigar box from Henry K. ciples, and a listing of all these proposed Shaw of Elyria, Ohio. The cigars were titles would require several pages. A evidently made in Pennsylvania as the study of such books was made in the tax was paid in that state. Since the January 1944 number of DLSCIPLIANA, highly colored portrait of Campbell was and a number of periodicals were in- copyrighted in 1934 by the Halper com- cluded in Periodicals of the Disciples of pany, we judge that it was this company Christ and Related Religious Groups. which manufactured the cigars. It is our The Missionary Journal evidently be- intention to investigate the factors in- longs with the group of proposed maga- volved in naming the cigar Alexander zines. In several numbers of the Chris- Campbell. If anyone has information, tian Standard through the summer and let him share it with us and our readers. autumn of 1889 there appeared news For the story of Mr. Shaw's finding notes and letters concerning the expected this box, read The Christian-Evangelist publication of this new missionary peri- for March 4, 1937. The same article was odical to be issue once a month by W. K. reprinted in Mr. Shaw's The Amateur Azbill. Philosopher, 1940. B. B. Tyler in his New York Letter in the issue of August 31, wrote: EDWIN MARKHAM, A DISCIPLE "Each number contains sixty pages of reading matter ... The price has According to Edwin 'Markham's bi- been placed at only $1.75 a year ... ographer, William L. Stidger, in his To pay the expense of publication Edwin Markham, the author of the Man 2500 paying subscribers are needed. With the Hoe was once a Disciple. In The editor proposes to publish, at fact his early religious life was all Dis- his own expense, 5000 copies as a ciple, for his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth sample of what the magazine will Winchell Markham, was an earnest mem- be. This will a,ppear the later part ber of the church. of September or the first of Oc- Markham joined the church in San tober." Jose, California, and was baptised in a It is doubtful whether or not either pool outside of town. Later, while teach- the magazine or prospectus was issued. ing at Colma, California, he united with Even if the prospectus was issued, 2500 the Methodist church, where everyone subscribers would be hard to get and the attended as it was the only church in the project naturally was cancelled. community. He was much attracted to Swedenborgianism after middle life. Should someone have further informa- tion about The Missionary Journal, Stidger's book,published by the Abing- please write us at once. ton Press in 193.3, is now out of print. As there are many quotations from Markham concerning his religious ex- perience, the book is really a piece of THANKS discipliana. We need a copy of this book Charles Jacobs, Waterloo, Iowa; Miss as well as most of the volumes of Mark- Grace M. Ledyard, Owen Sound, Ontario; ham's poems. Lewis H. McAdow, Mexico, Missouri; and Markham's mother was a poet too. Orval D. Peterson, Yakima, Washing- Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Markham, an ton, have earned our gratitude for 'send- Oregon Pioneer of 1847-1857, was pub- ing back numbers of DrSCIPLIANA to Hshed by J. K. Gill Co., of Portland, Ore- us in response to our plea in the last gon, in .1921, twenty-six years after her issue. The copies listed in the October death. We also want this thirty-one page number are still needed. If you don't want your copies, please send them to us. book. DISCIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946 39 G VEST COL VMN

The Preacher in the Painting "Spirit of '76." by Henry K. Shaw Editorial Note: The author of our guest column this issue hardly needs introduction as this is his third a?pearance here. Henry K. Shaw, pastor of the First Christian Church of Elyria, Ohio, has completed two hundred fifty pages of his history of Ohio Disciples and is in the midst of a new building program for his church. This article is re.printed from his First Christian Church Bulletin, December 3, 1944. How many people know the central The original canvas was finally pur- figure in Archibald M. Willard's famous chased by General Devereaux for $10,000. painting Spirit of '76, is that of a min- Devereaux ·presented it to the citizens ister of the Disciples of Christ? It's the of Marblehead, Mass., where it is now on figure of his own father, S. R. Willard, display. The Spirt of '76 is said to be the who served our churches at Bedford, most copied of all American .paintings. Aurora, Mantua, La Grange, and Wel- In dictionaries of American biography lington. In the last named place he fol- and other historical .publications, Wit- lo~ed J. M. A:water. ?ne of the. large lard's father is usually named as a Bap- stamed-glass w~ndows m the Well~ngton tist minister. Evidently some writer church bears hIS name. In fact, It was made this serious error a long time ago the death of his father during the paint- and others copied from him without ing of the picture that impelled the ar- checking all the facts. In comparing the tist to change its nature from a comic photograph of S. R. Lillard, the former pastor of the Wellington Church of por.trayal .ca~led Ya~ee Doodle to the Christ, with the figure in the .painting, senous pamtmg he fmally produced. it is evident he is the same man. He was a person of striking appearance, over six Archibald M. Willard had an interest- feet in height. ing history. As a young man he was a skilled carriage painter in E. S. Tripp's Willard came into our fellowship from the Baptists when he was a young man. wagon shop at Wellington. He did the A. S. Hayden's History of the Disciples decorating and floral designs on the de in the Western Reserve clears up this luxe models. James F. Ryder, a Cleveland mystery. He writes of the Russell church art connoisseur, recognized Willard's in Geauga county, "Elder S. R. Will"rd united here from the Baptists." This ability and made it possible for him to must have been back in the forties. Mem- go to New York in 1873 for an art bers of the Elyria church remember the course. The orginal Spirit of '76 was sainted Mrs. M. A. Willard, one of our painted on an 8 by 10-foot canvas. When members who passed away about a year ago. She was the artist's niece. first shown in Ryder's store window in Cleveland, it stopped pedestrian traffic. This story is presented so that a mis- It became the great picture of the Phila- take of many years standing may be delphia Exposition of 1876. corrected and that local Disciples may have a better appreciation of their The boy in the painting is Henry "American" tradition. Kelsey Devereaux, son of General De- vereaux, a wealthy Cleveland citizen of Henry Kelsey Devereaux published the old days. The fifer is Hugh Mosher, priv·ately in 1926 a 79 page book "The Willard's comrade in the 86th Ohio Regi- Spirit of '76"; Some Recollections of the ment. As leader of Mosher's Martial Artist and the Painting, which was Band, he was a familiar figure in Elyria printed in an edition of 500 copies by The Arthur H. Clark Company. A copy is for many years. wanted in the Collection. 40 ms.CIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946

ALL TIME BEST SELLER ACCESSIONS The Christian-Evangelist, August 1, (Items received by purchase or ex- 1945, had in its Inter-Church Notes a change, October 5, 1945, to January 6, story about William Allen Knight's The 1946, and not mentioned elsewhere in Song of Our Syrian Guest, which ranks this issue.) as one of -the ten best sellers of the pasi fifty years. It was published in 1904 Blaine--Memorial Address, Life and and has been reprinted a half a dozen Character of Garfield; Brown-Letters times with a sale of several million and Ver8es; Burns-Educational History copies. of Ohio, (contains much Disciple ma- terial); Davis-Business and the Church, In the September 5 issue of the Evangelist, Perry J. Rice called atten- (contains a chapter by Arthur Nash); tion to the fact that William Allen Dowling-The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Knight began his ministry with the the Christ; Lockley-A Talk with Edwin Disciples. Who's Who in America Markham: Lorenz-Tom L. Johnson; gives the date of his ordination as a Markham-New Poems, Eighty Songs at Disciple minister as 1886. In 1890 he Eighty; Markham, ed.-Book of Poetry, became a Congregationalist and has so vol. ix; Monroe-Poets and Their Art remained. He is the author of at least (includes a chapter about Vachel Lind- fifteen other books. say) Morris-Prophecies of Joseph Smith and Their Fulfillment (background ma- It is interesting to know that he is a terial); Nations-Roman Catholic War brother-in-law of Thomas Chalmers, on Public Schools; Webber-Life of John author of Alexander Campbell's Tour in Baldwin; and Wright-The Federated Scotland, published in 1892 by the Guide Churches of Cleveland. Printing and Publishing Co. of Louis- ville, Kentucky. Chalmers, too, became a Congregationalist later. AN EARLY BROADCASTER The Disciples have lost and still are W. F. Hamann, '90, Canton, used in- losing men to the denominations and to novations in his ministry, according to the Congregationalists, in particular. II clipping from a recent issue of the Jacob Randolph Perkins, author of the Canton Press-News: "Rev. W. F. Ha- current best-selling The Emperor's mann, Canton, may not be the inventor of Physician, was for many years in the radio, but he was broadcasting sermons Disciple ministry, part of the time in back as long ago as 44 years; Missouri; now he is a Congregation- alst. "When he was preaching in Windsor, One of these days we shall print a Missouri, back in 1901, he was holding brief study of authors who were Dis- a revival meeting and the manager of ciples formerly, and we shall give chap- the local telephone exchange suggestEd ter and verse concerning Joseph Fort that a speaker be placed in the pulpit Newton's connection with the brother- which would carry the sermon to people on rural lines. According to the Windsor hood. newspaper, this was done and people on a different rural line each night, were WANTED given the opportunity of hearing the sermons over their own telephone." - Lucas, D. R.:""-Apostolic Hymns and Songs. Lusby, J. W.-The County Examiner. CONVENTIONS Lusby, J. W.-Stocks and Bonds Made The International Convention will meet Easy. at Oakland, California, August 5-11, Luttenberger, J. G. M.-eameos From 1946. a -Preacher's Study The North American Convention will Lyon, O. L.-":Bible Ideals. meet in Indianapolis, Indiana, May 8-11, 1946. - -Lyon, O. L.-Constructive Principles of Literature. The Disciples of Christ Historical So- Lyon, O. L.-Practical Work on Elo- ciety expects to have representatives at cution. both conventions. DISCIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946 41

GIFTS Kentucky, came a copy of his wrl.tten debate on the music question with Roger (Material added to the collection by C. Inman. gift, October 5, 1945, to January 7, 1946.) Frank C. Huston of Jacksonville, . ·Arnie C;· Abrams, St. Louis, sent the Florida, sent a CO.pyof his Selected Sa- following pamphlet sermQns by Hampton cred Songs. Adams of the Union Avenue Church: The Patience of Unanswered Prayer; Joe W. Kraus of Dayton, Ohio, sent a Greater Devils; and Are. Our Homea copy' QfJ.iberty Magazine for October 20, Ready .for Returning Service Men't 1945, .~hich has a: condensed' version. of Walkin' Preacher of the OzarkB by Guy J. ii Bales, Searcy, Arkansas, sept Howard; two new pamphlets written and pub- lished by him: Is the Church a Denomi- John M. Lindsey, L~xington, Misso~ri, nation? and Catholicism. and Coe.rcism, sent a copy of Seventy-fifth Aniliver- .Harold R. Browne;·minister of the First s.aryofChllrch Building, wl!ich c!>ntains a ..Page of history of. the Lexington Christian' Church of Philade.phia,sent a Church. . . . copy of the 1945 Catalog and DireCtory of his church. Mrs. Hattle. Menzies, former mission- Cecil C. Carpenter, .Peoria, Illinois; ary to Xndia,':gave a copy of a ,book.of sent a copy of. his Place. of State· Mis- her poems, Leaves from Life's Sketch- sions in the Program of, the Church, book. an 8 page folder; History in Story and Picture, an 11 page account of the Cen- J. Edward Moseley of Indianapolis, tral Christian "Church of Peoria; and Indiana, sent a great lot of books, pam- Historical Records Concerning Jesus· the phlets, proirra:ms, .and Pl'!>mot;ional.ma- "Christ" Messiah byW. D. Mahan, 1942. terial. Included. are the follOWIng titles: The last item belongs with the books Blain~EuloiY Of .Janu;i' Abram Gar- mentioned hi A Strange GOspel in the field; Converse--Garfield, the Ideal Man; October DISCIPLIANA: .. Nationaf'. Republican Committee--Gen- eral Garfield as Statesman and Orator; From Waco, Texas~ came the History Republican Congressional COmmittee-- of the Central Christian ChurcJt bY. Ida Garfield and Arthur Campaign Song Moore Hays, 11 pamphlet puWshed.in Book; . Garfield~Maxims.· of James 1945. Ahram' Garfield (Garfield-Discovery and Ownership of the Northwest Territory, A. T. DeGroot, Dean of Chapman COl. and Settlement of the Western Reserve, lege sent some clippings from' the Los two different .printings; Hoar-Eulogy Ang'eles papers concerning Gerald L. K. upon the Life, Character, and Public Smith, a fo~er Disciple minister., Service of James Abram Garfi~ld; W. H. E;skine, Washington, D. C., Bradlee-,.A Sermon·... After the sent a box of books to the collection. In- Death of James A. Garfield; Nason-A cluded were Moore--Helpful Bible Read- Discourse on the Death of James Abram ings; Wood:-The Present in the Light of Garfield; Garfield Memorial COmmittee Prophecy; Knight-Christian Unity; -The Man and the Mausoleum, reprint edition of 1924; Church.:...... AShort'HIs~ Richardson~Communings in the Sanc- tuary; .Combs-Christian Evangelism; tory' ofPiffsburgh; Black..-8Peech . Itt, and Hymnal no. 1, prepared by a union the Democratic Mass Convention, Lan- committee, Tokyo, 1924, 8th ed. P.A. caster City, 1863; Young-Biography of Davey, M. B. Madden, Mrs. F. E .. H~gin, a Pioneer, includes comments on Alex- and Miss W. Brown were the DISCiples ander Campbell; Newton-Where Are who helped prepare the book The Coombs We In Religion't; Allen~Emblems of arid Richardson items were editions new Fidelity; Ligon-Your Future is Now; to the. Collection. Knight-On the Way to BethanY; New- ton-An~el in the Soul; Bates-Missions . JohnR. Golden of Newton, Kansas, in War; Ogden....,.The Dies Committee; sent a copy of his pamphlet, My ChUrch Barclay-:-The Messiah Speaks on Peace; and the Brotherhood.' Weimel'--'-Nature Smiles in Verse; B~wer Christ and Christian Education; Bates"':'" From Julian 6. Hunt of .Jamestown, Religious' Liberty. 42 DlSCIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946

Perry J. Rice, South Gate, California, PERIODICALS sent copies of The Things That Abide; The Progress and Achievements of A In response to our request for local Hundred Years; and History of the First church papers, we are now receiving the Christian Church of Whittier, California; following ones in addition to those listed all pamphlets. in the October DISCIPLIANA: O. D. Richardson, Rockingham, North Christian Visitor, Central Christian Carolina, sent the following: Otey-The Church, Spokane, Washington, Right Way; Bell-The Human Trinity; Christian Visitor, Christian Church, Southern-The Triumph of the King; Hsrvey, Illinois. Southern-The Person and Work of the Church Visitor, First Christian Church, Holy Spirit. Corpus Christi, Texas. H. K. Shaw of Elyria, Ohio, gave Evanston Christian, Evanston Chris- copies of Cooley-Jerusalem and Pente- tian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. cost; Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures, 1922-1923; Spinka-A History Our Church Life, Central Christian of Illinois Congregational and Christian Church, Glendale, California. Churches; One Hundred and Tenth An- niversary, Church of Christ, Wooster, What's Doing (letter to service men), Ohio, (includes three pages of history); First Christian Church, Turlock, Cali- and a much appreciated copy of Moore-- fornia, Comprehensive History of the Disciples of Christ. Mr. Shaw also sent a copy of Facts about the Washington Avenue W. L. Blesing, Denver, Colorado, has Building Project of the First Christian issued in memeograph form Drift of the Church of Elyria, Ohio, which was is- Times, no. 1, " a supplement on impor- sued in November in preparation for the tailt news of the hour." raising of money for a new church in Elyria. W. E. Shultz, Bloomington', Illinois, South African Sentinel, vol. I, no. 1, sent two newspaper clippings for our dated January 1, 1946, has just been clipping file. issued by Basil Holt, who has an ap- pointment to South Africa from the Mrs. C. C. Tedford of Moberly, Mis- United Christian Misionary Society. souri, gave a framed sketch

DCHS NOTES the work of the Society and make rec- ommendations for the progress and by the Curator Claude E. Spencer. growth of the Society in the years ahead. An early duty of the committee will be Executive Committee Meeting a revision of our constitution. The com- mittee will be composed of five mem- At a call meeting of the Executive bers of the Society with the president Committee, Severin Hotel, Indianapolis, and curator ex-officio members. Louis Indiana, January 4, most forward-looking A. Warren will head the committee and the other members will be announced plans were approved. Those attending later. the meeting were J. Edward Moseley and Enos Dowling, Indianapolis, W. P. Har- The World Christian Movement was endorsed enthusiastically and the whole- man and Eva Jean Wrather, Nashville, hearted cooperation of the Society was Tennessee, Henry K. Shaw, Elyria, Ohio, pledged. Dwight E. Stephenson, Bethany, West Another action taken was to instruct Virginia, Richard James, Richmond, Vir- the president and curator to make ar- ginia, C. L. Pyatt, Lexington, Kentucky, rangements to incorporate the Society. and Claude E. Spencer, Canton, Missouri. Tentative plans were made for the Louis A. Warren, Fort Wayne, Indiana, annual meeting of the Society at the elected to fill the unexpired term of the Oakland convention in August. Atpres- late Edgar C. Riley, was also present. ent it is sufficient to say that the meet- ing will be of interest to every member. During the meeting President Moseley used a gavel made of wood from the Curator's Trip James A. Garfield home and first used by A. W. Fortune at the International Your curator made a ten-day trip early Convention in .1937. The gavel was in November, visiting places in Illinois, presented to the Society by Dr. Fortune Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia. Some in 1942. profitable hours were spent in the libra- ries of the Disciples Divinity House and .In the absence of the secretary, A. T. the School of Religion, Butler Univer- DeGroot, the president, appointed Eva sity. Jean Wrather, secretary pro tem. The minutes .of the meeting, together with Through the kindness of Henry K. the curator's report and other miscella- Shaw of Elyria, Ohio, a trip was made neous papers have been mimeographed which included· the Garfield Home at and 'sent to all members of the Executive Mentor, the MormonTemple at Kirkland, Committee. Hiram College, and the many historic ,places around Bethany, West Virginia. Several matters of importance were dis'cussed and significant decisions were Gifts reached in every case. Some of the items A number of items for the Society cannot yet be made public, but it can have been received from C. C. Ware, be said that the meeting was the most Orval Peterson, The Christian-Evange- constructive held since the organization list office, Louis R. Warren, Raymond of the Society in 1941. McCallister, C. O. Hawley, Russellllythe- The committee voted to accept the wood and J. Edward Moseley. An item- offer of Culver-Stockton College to give ized list will be made in our next issue. the Henry Barton Robison Collection to the Society. As details of this gift are to be found on the front page of this AUTHOR CATALOG issue of DISCIPLIANA, further men- tion here is not necessary. The curator's Author Catalog of the Disciples of Christ and Related Religious A long range planning committee was Groups will be ready for distribution in authorized to make a study of the ob- the Spring. Its belated appearance is due jectives of the Society and methods for to the fact"that the curator has not had raising funds: This will be a standing time to direct the final typing of the committee which will continue to study manuscript for the lithoprinter. 44 DISCIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946

In a new American history textbook HERE AND THERE for colleges, A Short History of the American People, vol. 1, by Chitwood and Owsley, there is a chapter, The Decline There is a brief history of the organ- and Revival of Religion, 1783-1860, ized work of the Christian churches in Pennsylvania in the November Keystone which has several paragraphs about Bulletin. Barton W. Stone, Alexander ,Campbell, and the Christians and Disciples. Is According to The Christian Founda- tion, November 1945, "An Historical this the first, text to so mention our Commission was continued by the state people? convention (Washington) to correct any errors in the new state history: to se- cure data from churches omitted from W. P. Harman, new minister. of the the new history and accumulate current First Christian Church, Jefferson City, annual historieal material for future editions." 'Roy C. Jacobs is chairman. Missouri, is a necktie .collector. Accord- ing to The Nashville Tennessean for De- c~mb~r 30, 1945, in a two-page article illustrated in colpr, Mr. Harman has Dl'. James A. Dungan of Greeley, Colo-. rado, is writing the bio'graphy .of ,his many famous Disciples represented in father, D. R. Dungan, who was ,president his collection. of Culver-Stockton, 19QO-1902,and DeliO; of the Bible School, 1902-1905. Dr. Duo- gan was the author' Of "many books, in- P1;linville, U. S: A. iby James West is cluding the popular On the Rock, which a recent book of interest to collectors of ",ent thtoug~ at Jeast 38 editions. discipliana. In the chapter dealing with religion, there is a· comparison of the Christian church with the denomina- Eugene Smith, Church of Christ pub- tional churches in the town. From a study lisher of Des' Moines, Iowa, has an- of the book,aDd a study of the Wheat- nounced the intended republication of land,Missouri,Christian church, one M~Garvey - Co~mentary, on ,Matthew concludes that P1l1inville is' Wheatland. and Mark; Lamar-Commentary on the Further confirmation can be found in Gospel 'of Luke; Johnson-Commentary The Ihdex, Hermitage, Hickory county, on the Gospel of John; McGarvey-Com- MiSSOUri, September 14, 1939, page 1. mentary on Acts of Apostles; Lard- Theauthorevidehtly is Carl Withers. Commentary. on Epistles to Romans; and MHligan-Commentary on Epistles' to Hebrews. The Campbell Institute is under at- tack again by The Christian Standard, this time with a series dealing with the A Prose Poem by Vachel Lindsay appears history of the Institute and an inter- on the page customarily given to dedica- pretation of the thinking of its mem- tions in Music Education for High bership as expressed in the publications Schools by Arthur E. Ward. of the organization. Ralph M. Clark is the author. The first article was in the September 1, 1945, number. In the Annual Report of the American and Foreign Anti·Slaver.y SocietY,.1851, statistics are given which show that Two publications recently received ",Campbellites" owned 101,000 slaves. from Chapman College, Los Angeles are The .Methodists held more than twice What is a Christian College by Floyd that many while the Ba,ptists had a few V. ,Filson, and "Alma Mater Hear thousands more. When the number of Us .. ;" a .51 page song and cheer book, members are considered, one wonders if edited by Paula Allison and pUblished perhaps the Disciples were not the lead- by Associated Students of Chapman, ing slave-holding church. 1943.. DISCIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946 45

New Books Received teachings that have bearing upon our lives today. Adams, Hampton.

Calling Men for the Ministry. St. WALTER SCOTT Louis, Bethany Press, 1945. 157 pages. ANNIVERSARY NOTES Dealing with the ministry as a voca- tion this book discusses the qualifica- Walter Scott was born October 81, tion~, training, and work of the minister. 1796, and died April 28, 1861. A pro- It is directed to the young men who may posal was made in the July DISGIP- be considering entering that field. LIANA that Disciples observe 1946 as the Sesqui-centennial year of Scott's birth. Editorially we urged a compre- hensive Scott bibliography be compiled Campbell, Horace W. and published. Can You Help Me? Philadelphia, Dor- To date we have received the .promise rance & Co., 1945. 114 ·pages. of the cooperation of just one of our in- Sermons addressed to individuals and stituti·onal collections (Kentucky Fe- dedicated to members of the Christian male Orphan School) in the compiling of church at Santa Maria, California, where the bibliography. It is not too late to the author was minister for several start. work on such a bibliography which years. The last sermon in the book is could be ready in mimeograph form by titled: Why I am a Member of the Chris- October 81 if all of our institutions work together. tian Church. Since a general editor will be neces- sary for the project, we shall welcome Christmas in the Home. St. Louis, suggestions from our readers as to the Bethany Pres, 1945. 64 pages. person who should be drafted for the This little booklet was received too job. late to be noted in our October issue in time for 1945 use, but keep it in mind Rumors are that the Christian-Evange- for next year as it is a book of sugges- list will issue a special Walter Scott tions and res·ources to help the family number in October comparable with the make the observance of Christmas Alexander Campbell one issued Septem- genuinely Christian any year. Although ber 8, 1938. there is no editor given on the title page, we have seen advertising to the effect that Glenn McRae is the one responsible A number of organizations have writ- for the compilation. ten to the program committee of the In- ternational Convention recommending special emphasis be placed ,on Scott and his work at the Oakland Convention in Elliott, Luke D. and Elliott, Ruby. August. History of the Work of the Churches of Christ in Jamaica, B. W. I. San Jose, Calif., P. O. Box 1090, 1945. 19 pages. BOOKS TO COME A brief description of the islarid and W. Barnett Blakemore, acting dean of a history of the work of independ~nt the Disciples Divinity House of the Disciple missionaries together WIth University of Chicago has announced sketches of the various workers. the establishment of a $50,000 trust fund for a lectureship on Christian unity. The fund, originally given by W. McRae, Glenn. H. Hoover, vacuum cleaner manufac- turer, has been in existence for some Makers of a Nation. St. Louis, Chris- time under the control of a group of tian Board of Publication, 1945. 94 pages. ministers who decided that the best way to fulfill the original purpose was to The sixth booklet in A Bethany Course give the money to an institution. The in Christian Living suggests how to annual lectures will be published in book study the Old Testament to discover the form. 46 DISCIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946

actions of Illinois State Historical So- POSTCARDS ciety, 1907). The following post cards have been Keller, E. H.-Six Months Abroad on received from J. Edward 'Moseley, W. W. $300.00. Wharton, and an anonymous source. Kendrick, C.-Handbook on Baptism. The Cleveland Public Auditorium (2 views) (scene of the International Con- Kendrick, C.-Manual of Prayer. vention of 1924); The Garfield Memorial; Kernodle, P. J.-Lives of Christian The First Christian Church of Topeka, Florida; The Christian -Church of Salina, Ministers. Kansas; The Christian Temple, Brady, Kerr, W. H.-The King's Keys to His Texas; Bethany College (7 views); Por- Kingdom. trait of Alexander Campbell in mansion living room; Wallpaper in Campbell Kershner, B. L.-Head Hunter. mansion; and a view of the University Kidder, D. P.-Mormonism and the of Chicago, showing the space where the present University Church of the Dis- Mormons. ciples is now located. King, David.-Baptism. King, L. S.-Memoir of David King. WANTED: Kinkade, William-Bible Doctrine. Irish, F. V.-Treasured Thou~hts. Kramer, G. W.-Common Sense in Jackson, Cortes-Concordance of Bible Church Building. 'fopics. Kramer, G. W.-The What, How and Jackson, Cortes-Life of David. Why of Church Building. Jameson, H. L.-Memorial Address Kurfees, M. C.-Instrumental Music in on ••• Elder David Roberts. Worship. Jamieson, Milton-Treatise on the Sub. Lancaster, J. P. and Johnson, B. R.- ject of Baptism, Principally Designed as Debate. (at Fayette, Mo., 1841). an Exposure of Campbellism. Lane, V. G.-Poems. Jarrel, W. A.-Gospel in Water, or Larimore, E. P.-Our Corner BOok. Campbellism. Lawson, P. B.-Life and Character Jarvis, Ida.-Texas poems. . .. of Alexander Graham. Jenkins, B. A.-Heroes of the Faith. Lee, G~W.-Life and Travels of Elder Johnson, A.. S.-Evangelistic and Ex· George W. Lee. pository Sermons. Lewis, H. P.-Hermit of Treasure Johnson, A. S.-Johnson's Speeches; Cove. Hemp~tead-Johnson Debate. Limerick, J. J.-Gospel in Chart and Johnson, A. S.-our Plea, Is It Scrip· Sermon. tural? Lindsay, Eudora-Wayside Notes and Johnson, A. S.-Ten Lessons in How Firesidf' Chats. to Read, Understand, and Remember the Lindsay, Vachel-The Daniel Jazz. Bible. Lindsay, Vachel-The Village Maga- Johnson, B. W.-A Vision of the Ages, zine, any numbers of. with a supplement The World's Tomor- row by A. M. Haggard, 1914. Longan, G. B.-A Method in Primary Arithmetic. Jones, Abner-Memoirs. Longan, G. W.-The Grounds of Our Jones, William-Autobiography. Hope. Kane, C. p.-Christian Church of Lossing, B. J.-A Biography of James Springfield, Ill. (Reprinted from Trans· A. Garfield. DISCIPLIANA, JANUARY 1946 47

The transfer of the Collection to the DISCIPLIANA, published Janu- Society will not stop the growth of the ary, April, July, and October by Collection unless you stop that growth. Culver-Stockton College in the ih- In the past few years money has ,been given annually to the college by Dr. terest of The Henry Barton Robi- Robison's students for the 'purchase of son Collection of Literature Re- books and supplies for the Collection. lating to the Disciples of Christ. This money generally has been raised Founded by the Ministerial As- by students in college through solicita- sociation of the College, volume tion of alumni, faculty, and students. You have contributed to these calls, but 1, number I, was issued March, these will cease as new college genera- 1941, volumes 1-3 were mimeo- tions come along, generations who do graphe.d. not know your beloved Doc Rob. Claude E. Spencer, Editor. By your acceptance of the challenge which the college has given, you can keep a continuous ,growing project by Vol. 5 JANUARY, 1946 No.4 contributing to the Society money, books, pictures, etc., designated for the Robison Collection. This cannot be done by hap- TO DR. ROB'S STUDENTS: hazard means. An organization of all the former students of Dr. Robison The announcement that the Ro·bison should be formed for the express pur- Collection has been given to the Dis- pose of insuring the steady growth of the Collection. ciples of Christ Histo~ical Society offers a challenge to you, the students of Dr. Robison from 1910 to 1943. As a stu- WRATHER'S CAMPBELL dent of Dr. Robiscn you have helped COMPLETED in the building of this collection of literature relating to the Disciples Eva Jean Wrather of Nashville, Ten- of Christ, which as an honor to nessee, on last Thanksgiving day, com- pleted the first draft of her manuscript, Dr. Robison bears his name. Now you Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in are given the opportunity to fit the Col- Freedom. Miss Wrather is engaged in lection into a ~uch larger brotherhood cutting ,and revising the work, which wide program. now has more than 2700 pages, into the final form for a two volume set which By giving the Collection to the His- will undoubtedly be the definitive life of torical Society, which will use it as the the man who was theologian, philosopher, editor, publisher, social and religious basis for a research library, the college satirist, educator, farmer, politician, and has expanded the usefulness of the Col- country gentleman. lection. Valuable alike to all institu- Although of primary interest to Dis- tions, agencies and individuals of the ciples, the book should be widely read by brotherhood, regardless of race or theo- all Americans who need to know more logical differences, and to other religious about the political, religious and social groups, the Collection will achieve a far life of the first half of nineteenth cen- greater importance than was possible in tury America. the past. The Executive Committee of the Dis- For thirty-four years Dr. Robison was ciples of ,Christ Historical Society at its a good citizen of Canton, taught in Cul- Indianapolis meeting authorized the ad- ver~Stockton, and served churches in ministrative officers of the Society to country towns in the surrounding area. give all possible aid in the publication Since the President and Board of Trus- and distribution of the book. tees of Culver-Stockton believed that as a permanent memorial to Dr. Robison Announcement will be made later con· the Collection should remain in Canton cerning the publisher, date of ,publication, they made that a condition of their gift. and price. POSTMASTER-If undeliverable, notify us on Form 8678

FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Henry Barton Robison Collection of Literature Relating to the Disciples of Christ located at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, is one of the largest of several libraries which are actively engaged in collecting, preserving, and makinit available for use the books, periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts, and illustrative materials dealing with the religious groups which grew out of the Restoration move- ments fostered by Abner Jones, James O'Kelly, Barton W. Stone, Thomas and Alex- ander Campbell, and other reformers of the early 19th century in America. The Collectionbegun in 1924and named bythe MinisterialAssociation in honor of Dr. H. B. Robison,Head of the Department of Religion from 1910to 1944,contains not only religious material but the secular writings of the members of the church. Gifts are depended upon entirely for its acquisitions. Publishers and authors are requested to send co.piesof all printed materials to the Collection. Money is needed for the purchase of rare items not to be had by gift, the purchaJleof equipment and supplies, and the securing of adequate secretarial service. A safe place ii offered to churches for the storage of their records. All correspondence concerning the Collection should be sent to Claude E. Spencer, Librarian Culver-Stockton College P. O. Box 226 Canton, Missouri