The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-06-17
CoRREsPoNDEN
DIR. Boggs' Salary Again.

Me88rS. EditorS,-Concerning the con.
troversy between DR.. Mack and the
Southern Presbyterian anent the matter
of DIR. Boggs salary as Professor in the
Columbia Theological Seminary l have
nothing whatever to do or to say. But
while greatly dislike to participate in
any manner in the discussion, the article
of Dr. Mack upon this subject in your is
sue of the 10th inst. is 80 misleading upon
several points that, having full knowl-
edge of the facts of the case, am con-
strained to make some reply.
l. The resolution introduced by DR..
Boggs, then Director, in January, 1882,
that the salaries of the Professors Except
DIR. Hemphill) should begin in Septem-
Der instead of July, certainly did not
have as its "avowed object to save two
months salary" off the Professors, who
were expected to render full sessions
work. No; am sure that no such
purpose was then in the mind of the
Directors. Being in the Board at that
time, | know whereof l speak. The
oUoaOed object was to postpone the begin
ming of the payment of the years salary
till September, when the session actually
began, so as to allow the insufficient in
come of the seminary to accumulate as
much as possible before the treasurer
commenced to pay out the Professors
salaries. But no one thought of any
thing else than that each Professor should
receive his full years salary for the SER
vices rendered, whether the payment
began in July or in September. And as
evidence of this, when DIR. Howe died on
the 18th of April, 1888, the treasurer
was directed, as DR.. Mack admits, to pay
his salary, not to July, but to September,
for the full year. And such special in
struction to the treasurer was needful,
not because DR.. Howes salary up to Sep
tember would not have been due at the
end of the Seminary session, but because
he received his fatal injury and died
from it in the midst of the session, before
TIE years work was done. And DR.. Cir
ardeau, no doubt, will draw, and that
rightly, his full salary up to next Sep
tember, without another hours work in
the Seminary.
9. DIR. Mack's statement that DR..
Boggs has received $3.50 more than the
salary OF $4,000 promised him at his elec-
ton, in the shape Of loan without in.
terest upon his residence, might have
some force, were it not for the fact that
this was upon plan of general increase
In the Professors salaries. In 1883 an
arrangement was made by the Board to
furnish each of the Professors Excepting
DR.. Woodrow, who, as special Professor
of Natural Science in Connection with
Revelation" received all the income
which was derived from that special en-
dowmenD with residence in addition
to bis 81 600 salary. A residence, val
ued at SO 800, had been purchased for
DR.. Girardeau, and another for DR..
Hemphill. But DR.. Boggs desiring to
purchase a more expensive residence,
situated near relatives, and then in the
market, preferred to make the purchase
In his own name and receive as a loan
without interest the same amount allow
ed for residences to the other two Pro-
fessors, thus putting them all on pre-.
clsely equal footing. And the insurance
paid by the seminary upon his residence
Is to secure its mortgage upon the same,
and at the same time to maintain the
perfect equality between the Professors
as to salary, the Board also paying in
surance on the other Professors houses.
g. In regard to DR.. Boggs receiving
salary from his late pastoral charge in
Atlanta up to November 1st, 1882, the
Board has never in its payment Of the
Professors taken any account of pay
which they have received for preaching