The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . tem of Theology revised;Glossary of Theology and Philosophy; and a ConstitutionalHistory of American Methodism which is, to use the languageof Bishop Keener, lucid, exact, fair, historical, and in ref-erence to which Bishop Ninde said, Our common EpiscopalMethodism is under large obligations to Dr. Tigert for thefruits of exhaustive research in so important and fruitful afield. Rev Dr. H. M. DuBose is the poet of Southern the Dawn is his latest published work. His RupertWise is highly commended. William Malone Baskervill, professo


The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . tem of Theology revised;Glossary of Theology and Philosophy; and a ConstitutionalHistory of American Methodism which is, to use the languageof Bishop Keener, lucid, exact, fair, historical, and in ref-erence to which Bishop Ninde said, Our common EpiscopalMethodism is under large obligations to Dr. Tigert for thefruits of exhaustive research in so important and fruitful afield. Rev Dr. H. M. DuBose is the poet of Southern the Dawn is his latest published work. His RupertWise is highly commended. William Malone Baskervill, professor of English Literaturein Vanderbilt University, has made a thorough study ofSouthern literature, and has recently published SouthernWriters, a series of twelve biographical and critical studies inwhich he has essayed to give a i complete survey of thatliterary movement wdiich, beginning about 1870, has spreadover the entire South. As a book-reviewer and literarycritic, and as a writer for current publications, he has wonconsiderable CHAPTER CXXXVIII Vanderbilt University An Educated Ministry Needed.—Earnest Appeals.—Hindrances.—Concerted Action.—Central University Chartered.—FundsCollected.—Threatened Failure.—Commodore Vanderbiltand Wife to the Rescue.—Bishop McTyeire.—Munificence andGratitude.—Vanderbilt University.—Endowments.—The Uni-versitys Excellent Record. SOMETIME during; the year McTyeire andDr. Thomas O. Summers consulted in reference to theneed in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ofbetter educational facilities for the preparation of young menfor the ministry. Believing that the Church should bearoused they induced Dr. Landon Cabell Garland to write aseries of articles on the subject. Two years thereafter, in the General Conference at Mem-phis, Tenn., when effort was made by the advocates of higherministerial education to commit the Church to the policy ofestablishing a theological school, it was successfully op


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