The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-10
Bje DONATION To UNION :
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
~ Lady Of Means" Gives Institution
100000, Provided like Amount
Will Be Raised Within Year.
$4,000 ALREADY SUBSCRIBED
New Department Will Be Instituted
and Endowed F1pr Purpose OF In
structing Ministers in Best Meth
ot.s OF Modern Sunday School.

announcement of a 100000 gift
was made yesterday by the board of
trustees of that institution. the gift
belng made on condition that the
seminary raise q like amount by the
end of ills year. 1t was further an
nounced that $4,000 of the needed
amount has already been subscribed
by friends of the school. and that the
remainder will be solicited within IL
short time
Or. w W. Moore, president of the
seminary, yesterday explained the de-
'aiis and conditions of the gift. He
stated that the name of the person
who made the donation could not be
made public further than the money
mad been offered by "a lady of
means The money is to be used.
with the amounts to be secured by
subscription. to carry out a plan that
me seminary authorities have had in
mind for several years of erecting and
equipping an expert Sunday school
training department on the seminary
campus
When the balance Of the needed
100000 has been raised. model
sunday school building witt DC erect
ed, which will be the last word" in
structures of its kind Its organiza-
non will consist of standard depart
ments, and it will be endowed with a
Snare, of-the-- funds Sixty
thousand dollars OF the second $500
hpe will he used TO endow a profess
sorshlp of pedagogy and Sunday
work here. and The remain
ing $4,000 will be used for the gem
fFlt Moods ~ no
Building TO Cost $685.
The building wall cost $4,000 FOR
construction and $4,000 will lie
spent on equipment. II viii be ad-
)usted 10 meet the most modern con-
nluons in the ever growing field of
SUNDAY Eehaei work and will be in
tended to stand as the model institu-
f4on OF is kind In the South Many
friends OF the seminary are being APP
peHte1 20 IN contributes towards com
plotting the last sio0. GOO. and during
ms year, Il ~ thought work on the
new Sunday school building viii be-
GIN.
DIR. Moore discussing the subject
before ~ audience al the seminary
yesterday. pointed ONT the fact that
Richmond IL obviously the proper
place 20 establish a great laboratory
n sunday school work, being now the
seat Of the general sunday school
supervision az the Presbyterian church
and the home of The institution which
publishes an Sunday school matter
for the southern Presbyterian denomi-
patton. In addition there now exists
rs connection with the seminary AZ
Gin ar Park training school for lay
workers where young women pre-
pare themselves fer the foreign mis-
son service and FOR teaching. and
other WORK, u the mountain districts
u this country.
The Union Theological seminary Is
lac largest of It's kind Of the Pres
bH.era9 church W. ihe South and
with fhAs additional fund for the
prose itian Of Development Il VIII he
'aore prominent. II is the policy OF
Ehe institution TO keep its curriculum
az an times "a: the standard Level
81 kecn courses modernized and par
'iculariy to prepare for meeting the
needs of the time The addition OF
.his rather novel Sunday school train
sng department. VIII he a great factor
IN developing and broadening the
'wsftR or the institution II ~ assured