The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-05-31
BAPTISTS Plan
new SEMINARY
81 200, 900 To Be Spent On Buildings
On Browsboro Road Contract.
(Courier-Journal.)

in erecting the Baptist Theological
Seminary on forty-four acre tract
Z on Browsboro road, according to the
announcement of DIR. E. Y. Mullins,
president of the seminary. The
buildings proposed will be the larg-
est, most modern in the country, and
will be built within five years, ne
said The seminary may have as
many as ten buildings. Boulevarde
an ddriyeways are to be built thru
the grounds, and gymnasium, ten
mis- courts and a complete athletic
field are planned.
The site fronts 1000 feet on the
north side of Brownsboro road, and
extends east nearly to Pipe Line ave
nue..
The present site Of the seminary
fronts about 400 feet on Broadway
and 600 feet on Fifth Street, and IL
? it estimation to have valuation OF
81 900, 900. This property will be
sold or leased, and possibly part will
be held as an investment.
Fund to Be Set Aside.
The Southern Baptist Convention
at Atlanta last week; in authorizing
a S75,000,000 drive for missionary
and educational objects within the
church, voted to set aside $l,OOO.OOO
for the construction of new theol-
ogical seminary, after the subject
first was brought up at the meeting
of the seminary board of trustees
which meets annually in conjunction
with the church convention.
This campaign for $75,OOO,OOO
will be mapped out at a committee
meeting in Atlanta next Wednesday
and Thursday and it is probable that
the five year drive will be so arrang-
ed as to raise SIS, 100000 each year.
When the seminary will receive its
appropriation is undecided, but it is
probable that the required $1,000
900 will be turned over before the s.
year drive has ended. DR.. Mullins
said that the work of construction
will begin when the funds are in
hand.
Already building and landscape
architects are at work on plans, and
three or four sets of plans and ar
rangement of grounds have been sub
mitted, but none definitely adopted.
History of Seminary.
The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary was moved to Louisville
from Greenville, S. c., in 1877. II
had ben founded in 1859, largely as
the result of an educational conven-
zion held in Louisville in May, 1857
although the matter first was brought
up at the Southern Convention as
1916. if
The Civil War had sadly crippled
4he institution and for the first few
wears after being brought here the
seminary's existence was precarious.
"A large donation in 1880 from Joseph
J E. Brown, of Georgia, however turn
ed'the- tide and since that time it has
vprospered until it has become the
Largest theological seminary in the
world, attracting students from al
over the United States and many for.
eign countries.
William F. and George w. Nortor
gave 100000 to build Norton Hal
and Mrs. ]. Lawrence Smith $4,000
to build the library. NeY York Hal
was erected with funds contributed
= by New York men, when the build
ing derives its name.
The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary has trained 5000 men fol
the ministry. Of this number abou
200 hundred have gone to the for
eign mission field, hundreds have
worked under mission boards in thi
country, thousands have become pas
tors and many are editors, secretar
les and leaders in various branches o
denominations work.
The seminary had the distinction
of being the first to give the Englis
Bible a large place in its curriculum
10 establish chair on the Sunda
school and was among the first t
establish of Biblical Theology an
Comparative Religion and Mission
and to introduce the study of socio
GORY 1ULO LHe IuSOlOSlCdl SullASulNii
DR.. Mullins has been presider
since 1899, succeeding DR.. Willial
H. Whitsitt. Upon the occasion c
the celebration of the seminary
fiftieth anniversary in 1909, DR.. Mu
aims successfully engineered a 5000
400 jubilee endowment.
Just now the seminary's attenC
ance is not up to normal, because {
the large drafts upon students fC
the Y. NJ. C. A. and chaplain wor
in camps in America and with IL
American Expeditionary Forces. E
ZEN the president of the school dome
gray of the "Y" and was active
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The new million dollar seminar
win mean that Louisville will ha'
the two most beautiful seminarit
from an architectural point of vie
in America. The Presbyterian The