The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-10-11
A GREAT COLLEGE.
Gammonl Theological Seminary at
Atlanta, Georgia.
History and Description of the Institution
BY Rev. E. L, Parks, D. D.,-Under
the Control of the Methodist gEs.r
@... Episcopal Church s.-.

BY Rev. E. L, Parks, ID. D.,-Under
the Control of the Methodist ,g.s
4 Episcopal Church.q
FACULTY. .-.-~~s-,-.
REV. WILBUR P. THIRKIELD, D. D.
PRESIDENT, -. arg a,a
And Professor of Practical Theology 70
REV. JAMES G. MURRAY, B. d.,
Professor of Exegetical Theology.
REV. EDWARD L. PARKS, D. D.,
Professor of Systematic TAeozogy andjiln-
structor..n. Elocution. rs IT
REV. VIM. H. CRAWFORD, B. D., s.l
Professor of Historical Theology.
PROFESSOR VIM. H. CRAWFORD,
..... Librarian, ~ .,. e..
No one has better right to speak for
the advanced public sentiment of the
South than the Rev. Bishop .Atticus G..
Haywood. D. D., IL. D., of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South. At it's
opening for the year, he said of the
Cannon Theological Seminary, in no
spirit of local fiattery, but in words of
sober earnestness ut may be questioned
whether any single institution, under
the care of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, holds place of responsibility
equal to that which is possible to the
Cannon Theological Seminary It
may we'll be questioned whether any
single institution in the Southern States
could not be better spared. Consider
ing the exceptionally strong financial
foundation upon which this school will
rest, and upon which it will by the favor
of God, be built from year to year, and
generation to generation, I think may
say without exaggeration, that the Gam
mon Theological Seminary is in many
respects the most important single ex-
pertinent made by Protistantism in this
country-so far as know, in any coun-
try-in the momentous matter Of teach
ing and training Colored preachers.
Perhaps it would be safe to say that no
other institution in these States has at
this time such an opportunity to help
or harm the cause for which il exists.
do not mean to be impolite, but I
doubt if the great Church which stands
closest to it hos any just comprehension
of the importance of this we'll begun
work. I am sure it has not yet gagged
its magnitude"
By the generous gift of it's patron,
the Rev. +. H. Cannon, of the Rock
River Conference, the school has been
placed upon permanent financial basis
which provides literally for it's. future
usefulness. Through the Freedmen's
Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, he bequeaths 100000 for the
endowment of the school, to become
available at his death. Mr.. Cannon
has already given largely for the build
ings etc. He is rare type of the man
of practical business benevelence whom
this age of Christian civilization may be
SAID to have originated, the Christian
business man who personally bestows
and directs his consecrated wealth, max
ing it productive for the church during
his Lifetime, with promises of increas-
ing and perpetual& usefulness; and all
on strictly business principals, that is,
upon those enterprises for the evangeIi-
cation and elevation of the race, which,
in his enlightened Judgement, have
been proved by experience to promise
the largest return for the Church. After
mature deliberation, which included a
careful survey Of the whole field of the
Church, Mr.. Cannon made known to
the authorities of the Freedmen's Aid
Society his desire to invest in a moder-
ate way in this work. For two years he
took no further step except to watch its
development. When DR.. Rust had been
led by Providence to select as the head
of the school the Rev. w. P. Thrilled,
NJ. A., B. D., a man of the consecrated
rpirit, educational culture, breadth and
executive ability to pp1eciate the need
of the work, and when he had demon
strated it by laying we'll ,even in the face
ofevery conceivable form of difficulty and
opposition, the foundations of its sue
cess, Mr.. Cannon intimated something
of tho liberal and large plans which
were in his mind. In other words he
tested this specific work as thoroughly
and as practically by experience IS he
would have tested new business enter
prise. The muni6cence recently an
nounced is the outgrowth ofthis history.
Again, the authorities of the Freed
mans Aid Society have finally adopted
the proposition of Of Mr.. Cannon
which accompanied his gift as condi-
ton, and have entirely separated the
Cannon School of Theology from Clark
University, with which, until recently
it has been connected. The importance
of this action is very great. Clark Uni
versity has natural field of one, or, at
the most, three States. The separation
gives the Cannon school natural field
of least, thirteen States, in which, are
twenty Conferences of our Church, to
which it is the nearest theological school
for the Methodist Episcopal Church fol
the whole South. as Boston School Of
Theology is for New England, Drew fol
the Middle States and Garrett for the
Northwest. III. @sf
The Seminary is under the general
control of the Frdedmen's Aid and
Southern Education Society of the