THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
material in certain directions, and consisting of about 15,000 volumes, has now the possibility of a brilliant future, due to recent bequests.
George T. Lascelle.
6. Pacific: The " Church Divinity School of the Pacific " is located at San Mateo, San Mateo Co., Cal., and was founded in 1893 through the generosity of George W Gibbs of San Francisco and J. Pierpont Morgan of Xew York City. It is under the charge of Rt. Rev. William Ford Nichols (q.v.), bishop of California, who is also its dean and sole trustee. It possesses at present (1910) three buildings, but it is hoped that it will ultimately be possible to remove the whole institution to San Francisco and there make it part of the quadrangle of the cathedral close. The present faculty consists, in addition to Bishop Nichols, of J. O. Lincoln, H. H. Powell, F. C. Murgotten, and two lecturers, E. L. Parsons and A. B. Shields. To the end of 1908 the seminary had had forty-seven students, of whom seventeen were specials. The enrolment for 1908-09 was twelve, the great majority being from the diocese of California, with two from Los Angeles, and one each from Western Colorado and Tonga. The library contains over 6,000 volumes, and the institution is characterized by a strong missionary spirit. James Otis Lincoln.
6. Philadelphia : This school, officially designated " The Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia," is located in Philadelphia, Pa., and was incorporated in 1862 after an informal training-school for candidates for holy orders had already existed for some years previously under the direction of Bishop Alonzo Potter (q.v.). This prelate, who must be regarded as the real founder of the school, set forth its purpose as follows: " The divinity school is founded upon a national and Catholic basis and doctrine. Its object is to raise up largehearted, earnest-minded, well-instructed, and common-sense ministers of the Word and sacraments, and to send them forth, trained practically as well as theoretically, to fill up the ranks of our foreign and domestic missionaries, and to serve as men of power and godliness at home." The present buildings of the seminary were erected in 1882, and to them were added a chapel in 1885 and a library in 1907 The faculty consisted in 1910 of six professors: of systematic divinity; of liturgies, church polity, and canon law; of New-Testament literature and language; of Old-Testament literature and language; of homiletics and pastoral care; and of ecclesiastical history; and there is also an instructor in voice culture and elocution. The faculty is well equipped for its work and offers instruction in Semitic, Greek and Latin, German, French, and Italian. The school has had students from Canada, the West Indies, China, Japan, Haiti, and Liberia, and from all parts of the United States. Out of over 500 students matriculated, its graduate alumni number nearly 400, of whom three are bishops, while two others have declined the episcopate. The number of students living in the building is between thirty and forty, and an average of about fifty additional pursue post-graduate work for degrees. Arrangements have been made whereby students of theology can take courses of special study at the University of Pennsylvania, and a system for exchange of credits
has been adopted, these exchangeable credits falling within the departments of Hebrew, New-Testament Greek, and ecclesiastical history. Students who desire to become acquainted with the missionary and institutional features of the Church's work have an excellent opportunity through their services as lay readers in the institutions, churches, and missions in Philadelphia. The library contains over 20,000 volumes, including valuable theological works that are daily consulted by students from the neighboring seminaries and institutions of learning; and students of the divinity school may also use the extensive library of the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas J. Garland.
7. Seabury: This divinity school, the corporate name of which is "Bishop Seabury Mission," is located in Faribault, Rice Co., Minn., and was founded in 1858 by Rev. James Lloyd Breck. It was and is affiliated with the Episcopal Church, and confines itself to the training of men for that church's ministry. It originated in the desire to found a school which would send forth clergymen equipped to meet the pioneer condition of the new Northwest, which was then just opening to settlement. Among its earliest instructors, in addition to its founder, were Bishop H. B. Whipple (q.v.), Rev. Solon W. Manney, Rev. (later bishop) E. S. Thomas, Rev. Thomas Richey, and Rev. J. S. Kedney (q.v.). In the second year of the school's existence, Bishop Whipple came to Faribault, and made it his residence, this not only bringing the students into personal contact with the great "apostle to the Indians," but also enabling him to keep a close watch over the school and to provide for its needs. Dr. Breck began the school in the most primitive way, by the erection of a frame dormitory for the students who attended recitations in his home. Later on a stone building was built, but this was burned in 1872, and the present main building (named Seabury Hall) was erected in 1873, near the site of Dr. Breck's former residence. Dr. Breck moved to Benicia, Cal., in 1867, and after a brief interval Dr. Richey became head of the school, a position which has since been held by eight other clergymen. In 1886 a second building for the library and recitation-rooms was built and named Johnston Hall, after the father of the donor, Mrs. Shumway.
During the years of the school's existence, more than 300 men have received their theological education, wholly or in part, within its walls. It has contributed largely to the growth of the Episcopal Church in the Northwest, the majority of its alumni giving their best years to missionary work in that part of the country. It stands for conservative churchmanship, sound learning, and practical training. In the year 1910 there were seven instructors in active work; the trustees are twenty in number, and are a self-perpetuating body; and the administrative officer is the warden. There are at present twenty-eight students in attendance (the school's capacity being thirty-one), coming from eleven different dioceses in eight different states. The seminary has an endowment of about §450,000, and a library of about 11,000 volumes.
F. A. McElwain.