The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-29
NEW CHURCH SCHOOL ID TRAIN WORKERS. FOR RURAL FIELDS.
w. P. DuBoSe Memorial Lo- cated Near Sewanee Ex- poets to Open This
 Fall

Chattanooga, May Especial IA group of men who know the needs of the country have organized and are planning to open the ". P. DuBose Memorial Church Training school, for the express purpose of providing broad, able and well trained teachers. lay workers and clergy, for the dis tricts most in need of them, as indi- cated by the survey of the nation wide campaign. Men will be prepared for work in religious education, Chris tion missions, and sociai service, and for the localized ministry provided for by canon passed at the last general Convention.
 The site purchased by the trusteca Is the one-time Fairmount School for Girls, long the home of Dr. DuBose, at Fairmount, Tenn. situated within 20 minutes by train or motor car of the University of the South at Sewanee.
 For 25 years the minds of clergy men engaged in work among the mountain people, mill communities, and small town and rural settlements. have been occupied with the problem of providing enough clergymen for this work, which by reason of the par ishioners being scattered in pursuit Iof their natural avocations, makes the work involve an excess of time and physical labor. No matter how devoted the man is to his work, or how great his influence, he cannot do three mems work. and churches and missions are closed and are being closed continually for lack of clergy and lay workers.
 A man may be sent to Fairmount from any diocese or missionary dis trict by his bishop, receive his train ing, which will include a great deal of Dractfcal axperienca iu. thp rnOnn- tain communities surrounding Sewa- nee and be returned to his own diG- cese thoroughly fitted for constructive work. The new institution is in no sense rival of the university or the regular theologica1 semInaries, nor is it short cut to the ministry. The school aims to give picked men in- tensive training in the fundamentals of religion, with special emphasis on the devotional life. The period of study need not be so long as the reg ular minary course, for the seminary at the time it trains men for the min stry also prepares younger men for life Most of the men who enter this school will be settled, well taught and dis ciplined by the world, for whom the seminary course would be unduly tech nical and long drawn out.
 Part of Sewanee Group
 This establishment rounds out the group of educational and philanthropic institutions that has grown up around the University of the South, such as the Sewanee Military academy, the Emerald Hodgson hospital, St. Andrews School for Mountain Boys, and St. Marys School for Girls.
 It would be nara indeed to find 9 more appropriate site for a church training school. The beautiful sur- roundings, the suitable buildings, in- cluding chapel, the opportunities for rural work among the surrounding mountains, as part of the course of study all tend to make this centrally located site the best one possible, The estate lies upon the Dixie highway which runs from Chicago to Miami. There is a station of the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad at the gate of the school.
 The late lsev. ". P DuBose was connected with the University of the South for more than 46 years; for 36 years he was q resident at Sewanea and actively engaged in teaching. He was, first, chaplain and professor of ethics; then he organized the theolog- ical department of the University or the South. and held the chair of Old and New Testament language and in- terpreta ton. Later he was made dean, and he relinquished to his son, the Rev. W. H. DuBose, the chair of the Old Testament, retaining the teaching of the New Testament. Through all these years he remained professor ot ethics at the university. In 1882 he was succeeded as chaplain of the uni versity by Dr. Thomas r. Gailor, now bishop of Tennessee and president of the church's central body, the presid- ing bishop and council.
 Dr. DuBose's Work
 From the foundation of Fairmount college, in 1873, until it's close in 1917. Dr. DuRose was it's chaplain and nov ing spirit; he had, during the whole. period of it's existence, wonderful in- fluence over it's students and asso- ciates. He made the institution a church school, and built the beautiful little chapel. of which the architect was pr. Silas McBee.
 It is doubtful if there has ever been a man in this country who had more vital influence upon young men and
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