The San Francisco call., 1896-07-20
DR. JEFFERSON ARRIVES.
He Will Be President of the
New Berkeley Bible
Seminary.
He Is Much Pleased With the Outlook
for a Successful Opening of
the Term.

BERKELEY, CAL, July 19.-Dr. s. NJ.
Jefferson. who is to take charge of the
Berkeley Bible Seminary to be established
by the Disciples or Christians of Cali
fornia in affiliated relation with the State
University, has arrived in Berkeley, and is
preparing to complete the preparations
necessary for the beginning of the work.
He is stopping for the present with his
MrE P4rkhurst on the corner of Charming
way and Dana street.
The seminary will open in August
simultaneously with the opening OF the
State University. 1t will be in every sense
a strictly theological school when per.
feeted. and will be patterned largely after
the seminary at Bethany College from
which DR.. Jefferson comes.
"The details respecting the courses of
study 10 be offered" said DR.. Jefferson to-
day, will be made public within short
time. In the meanwhile II might be said
in general that critical and complete
theological course, such as is usually Of
fered in theological seminaries. A more
popular course will also be offered.
"For the present only temporary quarters
for the convenience of students will be Sc
cured, awaiting more complete develop
ment of our plans.
''The prospect of the work here is most
fiatterlng. About 800 900 endowment has
already been secured and it is hoped that
at no distant day we will be able to erect
a theological hall near the university
grounds and in the style OF architecture in
harmony with the university buildings.
"Our denomination is steadily growing in
California, and in accordance with the ra-
pidity of growth here we will be able to
progress with our work.
a ralipi0us hOdU the niapiDlas ps1ra.
Der nearly million in the United States.
According to the last census we are cred
tied with having over 100000. Their rate
of increase during the last ten years has
been 80 per cent, or larger than any other
religious body in the United States. In
California, however, we have not more
than 10000 adherents.
Berkeley is an ideal site for such an in
stitution as ours is TO be, because of its be-
ing the site of the State University and
because of its proximity to the large
churches and Libraries and lecture halls of
San Francisco. We have come to stay
and to me the prospects of success are
hattering IN the extreme"
DR.. Jefferson is graduate of the Indi-
ana State University, having taken the
highest honors OF his class. He finished
his course III 1874 with the degree A. B.
and subsequently received the degrees A.
M. and Ii. ID. from Bethany College, West
Virginia. He spent nearly twenty years
in the pastorate of the Christian Church.
During the last three years he has been
Professor of Biblical Literature and Doc
trine in Bethany College, the oldest school
of the Disciples, which was founded by
Alexander Campbell. He gave up his
position in Bethany College to assume the
presidency of the Pacific Coast institution.
May Not Go East.
BERKELEY, CAL. July 19.-Reports
have been current for the past three or
four days that Professor Bernard Moses,
head of the department of history at the
State University, would probably soon
give up his position at Berkeley to accept
q similar one at the University of Chicago.
Interviews with several of his most inti-
mate friends at the University to-day
failed to esta blish any foundation for the
rumor, further than that he had been
asked to accept position at Chicago. He
is now giving course OF lectures in his
speciality there, together with twenty or
thirty other professors from yanous uni
verslties, in America and Europe. He
will return to Berkeley in time to take
up his regular work in Aug ust, from all