The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-21
THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Annual meeting of the Board of Director

The. Board met at the Seminary on
Tuesday night, eleven ofthe thirteen men,
bers being present.
The annual election for officers took
place, with the following result: Presi-
dent, Hon. James Hemphill Secretary,
Rev. J. B. Mack, d. D.; Treasurer, I.
A. McCreery, Esq; Librarian, Rev. j.
J.. Girardeau, D. D..
Rev. G. G. Hersman, D. D., President
of Westminster College, Missouri, was
elected as Perkins Professor. He is a
comparatively young man, but one Of the
most accomplished scholars and finest
teachers in the Southern church. His
election will no doubt be hailed with
delight by the friends of the Seminary,
as bis fitness for the duties of the Pro.
fessorship is so generally recognized.
The duties of this chair have been en-.
larged. Formerly it included only science
in connection with Revelation, but as Tor
the past three years the chair had only
two recitations week, while the other
chairs had about ten week, the Board
recommended to the Synod that this
chair include also the whole field OF
Christian Apologetics, and hence, in
accordance with the expressed wish of
the generous donor, it will hereafter be
called the Perkins Professorship. of
Science in connection with Revelations
and Christian Apologetics.
For the Professorship of Biblical Lite.
rature the Board elected as Provisional
Tnstructor Mr. Geerhardus Vos. This
gentleman is about tHenty.four years OF
age, and is connected with the Free
Church of Holland, of which his father
is minister. This church was founded
in opposition to the rationalism and
spiritual deadness which infected the
established church in that country. Mr:
Vos has just completed his classical and
literary education in one of the gymnasia
of Amsterdam, when his father removed
to this country. He pursued his theolog-
ical education in the institution in the
Northwest of which his father is pro.
fessor. After graduating there. ne spent
a year as teacher of Hebrew, Greek and
Latin. He then went to Princeton Sem
mary, where he has just graduated, being
recognized by all his professors and class.
mates as tacile princsps in a class OF
thirty eight. To him has just been
awarded the Hebrew Fellowship in that
Seminary.
Professor w. Henry Green states that
Mr.. Vos is "most extraordinary in his
power of acquisition and in the ripeness
and balance of his judgment. The
theme assigned for the fellowship exami-
nation was THE Mosaic Origin of the
PentaLeuchal Code He produced a
dissertation of $50 carefully written
pages on the subject, which l do not hes.
itate to pronounce mastery. l really
have not seen more complete and
thorough defense of the Pentateuch
against the modern criticism anywhere.
| It would have done credit to professor
of long standing. He had read and
digested everything of consequence that
had been written on both sides, and his
treatment Was Independent, candid,
scholarly and decidedly evangelical"
Mr.. Vos is at present employed in re-.
vising this paper for the press. It has
been accepted by New York publisher,
and will be published in volume in the
fall.
The friends Of the Seminary feel that
the institution is nov in a condition to
fulfill it. great mission, and that it will
20 forward in the career Of distinguished
usefulness to the church which has hith-
erto marked its history.
The annual address before the Alumni
of the Theological Seminary was deliv-
| cred by Rev. J. F. Latimer, ID, of the
Union Theological Seminary Of Virginia,
at the First Presbyterian Church last
evening to an appreciatiye audience.
The subject was 1.-THE Influence of the
Invisible Church upon the Visible in
the Formation of her Dogmatic Creed"
The following officers we're elected for
the ensuing year: Rev. J. L: Girardeau,
i'd, President; Rev. Jas. Stacy, D.D,
Vice President; Rev. T. B. Law, Secre-
tary, and Rev. Edward Muller, Treasurer.
Executive Committee-Reys W. J. Nc
Kay, L. M. McKinnon and S. l.. Morris.
Rev. G. R. Hemphill, DID,, was elected
to deliver the next annual address, with
Rev. Jas. L. Martin, DID,, as alternate.
i-Columbia Register.