Quarterly Bulletin Catalogue Edition Hpril, 1904 gammon * ?§>ljpotogiral * SOUTH ATLANTA, GEORGIA Quarterly Bulletin Catalogue Edition Hpril, 1904 ammon * SOUTH ATLANTA, GEORGIA QUARTERLY BULLETIN APRIL, 1904. PUBLISHED BY THE FACULTY or GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. SOUTH ATLANTA, GA., IN APRIL, JUNE, NOVEMBER AND FEBRUARY. VOLUME 14, NUMBER 4. Entered at the Post-Office, South Atlanta, Georgia, as Second-class Mail Matter. BOAED OF TRUSTEES. BISHOP J. M. WALDEN, D. D., LL. D. REV. M. C. B. MASON, D.D. Ex-Officio PRESIDENT L. G. ADKINSON, D. D. Term expires 1904 BISHOP D. A. GOODSBLL, D.D., LL. D., CHATTANOOGA, TENN. REV. G. W. ARNOLD, D. D., SOUTH ATLANTA, GA. Term expires 1905. J. W. ADAMS, ESQ. CHATTANOOGA, TEIW. PBOF. W. H. CROGMAN, D. Litt. SOUTH ATLANTA, GA. Term expires 1906 REV. R. S. RUST, D. D., LL. D. CINCINNATI, O. BISHOP C. B. GALLOWAY, D. D., LL. D. JACKSON, Miss. OFFICERS BOARD OF TRUSTEES J. M. WALDEN PEESIDENT D. A. GOODSELL VICE-PRESIDENT W. H. CROGMAN SECRETAEY L. G. ADKINSON TBEASURER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE L. G. ADKINSON W. H. CROGMAN J. W. ADAMS D. A. GOODSELL G. W. ARNOLD FACULTY REV. L. G. ADKINSON, D. D., PRESIDENT And, Professor of Practical Theology REV. JAMES C. MURRAY, D. D. Professor of Exegetical Theology REV. EDWARD L. PARKS, D.D. Professor of Systematic Theology and Instructor in Elocution. REV. JOHN W. E. BOWEN, PH.D. D.D. Professor of Historical Theology and Librarian ' ,' REV. JOSEPH C. SHERRILL, D.D. Secretary of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa, ADDRESSES OPENING DAY ADDRESS PROF. E. L. PARKS, D.D. The Laws of the Christian Life FORMAL OPENING DAY ADDRESS REV. H. S. BRADLEY, D. D. Altruism, or the Man who Gave Himself Away FOUNDERS DAY ADDRESS REV. C. C. JACOBS, D. D. The Genius for Service SPECIAL LECTURES REV. J. C. SHERRILL, D. D. Africa REV. M. C. B. MASON, D. D. The Good Results of Right Living REV. W. P. THIRKIELD, D. D. The Needs of the Negro Ministry of Today REV. I. B. SCOTT, D. D. Some Characteristics that Lead to Success PROF. H. T. KEALING, PH. D. Man and His Environment REV. C. C. JACOBS, D. D. The Work of the Sunday-school Union REV. T. C. ILIFF, D. D. The Boys of '61 and '65, By One of Them BISHOP EARL CRANSTON, D.D., L.L.D. Thorough Preparation the Need of the Ministry BISHOP D. A. GOODSELL, D. D., LL. D. The Work of the Hymnal Revision Commission BISHOP LEVI H. COPPIN, D.D., A. M. E. CHURCH Problems and Outcome of Mission Work in South Africa BISHOP G. W. CLINTON, D.D., A. M. E. ZION CHURCH The Minister the Church Needs REV S. N. VASS, D. D. Adaptability in the Ministry HON. J. C. DANCY A Layman's View of the Ministry PROF. H. E. KRATZ, PH. D. Moral Phases of Educational Work REV. L. D. MOORE, A. M. The Minister's High Calling CALENDAR 1904 April 22-26 COMMENCEMENT ANNIVERSARIES April 22, Friday 8 p. m., Annual Exercises of Gammon Lyceum April 24, Sunday, 11 a. m., Baccalaureate Sermon by Presi­ dent Adkinson April 24, Sunday, 7:45 p. m., Anniversary of the Stewart Mis­ sionary Foundation for Africa April 25, Monday, 7:45 p. m., Alumni Anniversary April 2G, Tuesday, 2 p. m., Commencement September 28, Wednesday, Reception of Candidates for Admis­ sion September 29, Thursday 2 p. m.. Opening Day Address and Begin­ ning of the Scholastic Year November 10, Thursday, Formal Opening Address December 23, Friday, Founder's Day 1905 January 2G, Thursday, Day of Prayer for Colleges February 12, Sunday, Lincoln's Birthday April 23-27. Commencement Anniversaries CHARTER. APPLICATION. STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF FULTON. To the Superior Court of said County: The petition of J. M. Walden, R. S. Rust, W. P. Thirkield, B. H. Gammon, A. G. Haygood, J. W. Adams, W. H. Crogman, C. O. Fisher and J. C. Kimball, respectfully shows that they desire for themselves and their successors in office to be con­ stituted a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the "Gammon School of Theology." Said petitioners desire to establish and maintain in the property owned and held by the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, situated within the bounds of Fulton county, in said state, a school of theology under the patronage a.nd control of the Methodist Episcopal Church in a manner hereinafter provided; that is to say, and until other­ wise directed by the General Conference of the said Methodist Episcopal Church, the school shall be under the general control and' direction of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The direct management of said school shall be vested in a board of nine trustees, of which board the President and a Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society, and the President of the said school shall be members ex-officio, and the remaining six members shall be appointed by the Board of Managers of the said Freedmen's Aid Society or its Execu­ tive Committee as hereinafter provided. Your nine petitioners shall constitute the first board of trustees, and of the last six petitioners the term of office of the first two shall be three years; the term of office of the second two shall be two years, and the term of office of the last two shall be one year. At the expiration of any of these terms, respectively, and annually thereafter, the election of persons to fill any or all vacancies from expiration of term, resigna- 8 tion or death, shall be by the board of managers of the Freed- men's Aid Society or its executive committee, and from nomina­ tions made by the remaining members of the said board ot trustees. Five members of said board of trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; but the said board may vest its powers in the interim of its annual meetings in an executive committee of five of its own members. Neither the said board of trustees nor its executive com­ mittee shall have power to contract any indebtedness, nor to fix the salary cf any teacher, professor or officer, without the sanction of the Freedmen's Aid Society, expressed through its board of managers or the executive committee of said board of managers. The said board of trustees shall have power to appoint, and for cause remove any officer, professor or teacher in sn> School of Theology, and to choose the President and other officers of the faculty, subject to the concurrence of the board of Managers of the Freedmen's Aid Society or its executive committee, provided, however, that the Board of Managers of the Freedmen's Aid Society, or its executive committee, shall have power also to make any change or changes in the officers, professors or teachers, subject to the concurrence of the board of trustees. The said board of trustees shall have power to confer the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity and such other degrees as are now, and may be hereafter conferred by institutions of like character, upon the recommendation of the faculty of said in­ stitution. The doctrines taught in said school of theology shall be in harmony with the articles of religion and the doctrinal stand­ ards of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The petitioners desire for themselves and their successors, power to sue and be sued, and to have and to use a common seal, and change the same at pleasure, and to take and hold by gift, grant, devise or otherwise and to purchase, hold and conTey, both in law and equity, any estate or interest therein 9 in any kind o£ property, real, personal, or mixed; not for pur­ poses of trade or profit, but for promoting the general interest of said school of theology; to make and alter, from time to time consistently with the laws of the state of Georgia and the United States, such by-laws as may b'e deemed necessary for the regulation of the proceedings of the trustees, and the government of the said school of theology, >ts affairs, servants and students. Wherefore your petitioners having complied with the law governing the application of charters, respectfully ask that your honorable court will grant the prayer of petitioners, incorpo­ rating as prayed for, and all the powers incident to such cor­ poration under the laws of the said state for the full term of twenty years, with the privilege of renewal, as provided by law. The petitioners will ever pray, etc., etc. Piled in office February 23rd, 1888. C. H. STRONG, C. S. C. GRANT Upon hearing and considering the foregoing petition of J. M. Walden, R. S. Rust, W. P. Thirkield, E. H. Gammon, A. G. Haygood, J. W. Adams. W. H. Crogman, C. 0. Fisher and J. C. Kimball for charter for the "Gammon School of Theology," it appearing that the objects set out in said peti­ tion are within the purview of the law regulating the granting of charters, and that said petition has been published in The Atlanta Constitution, a gazette published in the city of At­ lanta, said county, as required by law, and that petitioners have in all respects complied with the law governing the appli­ cation for such charter, it is ordered and adjudged by the Court that the foregoing petition be granted and that said pe­ titioners, their associates and successors be, and they are here­ by, constituted a body politic and corporate under the name an<J style of the "Gammon School of Theology," with all the 10 powers prayed for in said foregoing petition, and with all other privileges and powers incident to such corporations, for the full term of twenty years, with the privilege of renewal as provided by law.