Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1903, Page 24

Pictures from Photographs New Presbyterian Seminary Building | e vy a nee stare artis CORNER OF THE RECEPTION ROOM L LTS DR. A. G, WILSON IN HIS STUDY. STUDENT'S ROOM IN DORMITORY ONE OF THE CLASS ROOMS HE COMPLETION of the new can be seen what a great territory 18 During the first period the struggling In 189s Dr. A. G. Wilson of the Tekamah the south and ncrth. As Lathrop street building for the Omaha seminary tributary to the Omaha sc hool. In the next geminary had its existence in the study of church joined the staff and the place of was not 1 hr ! } made an undi of the Presbyterian church, which few years, with the natural increase of the pastor of the First Presbyterian church meeting was changed from the First to th « 1 1 ex was the largest undertaking from population in this region, a corresponding At first there was but one class, then a basement of the Second Presbyterian church h ry buildings. Largely a financial point of view in re advance can be looked for on the part of gecond was added and finally the senior where it continued for two years It was r 1 skill Mr. Whar liglous circles during the year 1902 marks the seminary, both in the direction of use- class The first professors were pastors juring this time that the third class was ton this proper vortl ly $ 0. wa a long step In advance for the Presby- fulness and of material improvement. It of churches who taught without compensa added. secured for the i ition at th terians in this vicinity, and, in fa for is asserted that during the twelve years tion in addition to their pastoral duties These quarters being too cramped for of $20,00( Il the members of that denomination through which the seminary has been in existence, This was the only way in wrich the semi- the growing semirary, the use of the build ontributed by O } out the entire transmissouri couniry In it has grown more rapidly than any one npary could have been started. Dr. W. W. ing at Ninth and Farnam streets, now part of ti g given in Kountze fifty years the church has not ed a of the older institutions did during a like Harsba, a pastor of Tecumse h., was th Andrew hotel, was given by President 8. H A new theological seminary, exce the formative period At any rate, starting fir president, and came here weekly to H. Clark of the Union Pac D I need = } Deastacn) Omaba school A circle drawn about Pi under the worst of conditions, it has been teach, returning to his church on Sundays spring of 1895 the old Cozzens hote Ninth Lowrie 3 for endow o We have a burg with a radius of five hundred miles, kept out of debt, has sent out seventy- Dir. Stephen Phelps of the Council Bluff and Harney streets was purcha r ) 1 qualified for their 4 Gt “‘l would cover all the eastern institutions of five graduates and has acquired property church was another professor Dr. M. B. use of the s¢ ary by eastern ¢ with i a 1 . s = I-y» learning conducted by the denomination. to the value of about $100,000. Students Lowrie, now president of the seminary, was Out cost to the school. In 1889 Thomas M i i . _' o I:>|“ ‘I‘-‘”lll Then there is the McCormack seminary in are now in attendapce from South Dakota, one of the first five Instructors, coming Dougal of Cincinnati died apd left tl 1 f 1t L f sy . s Chicago, 500 miles to the east of us, the North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, Iowa, here once a month from the Col¢ rado church seminary his share in the buiidiog, and tt . . tor gt Louisville college and the seminary for (1 Kansas, Missourl and Nebraska between Sundays for over two years. In others interested have since giver h 1 we ca S \ s 1 th Pacific slope, located at San Francisco In 1891 the seminary had its beginning. 1893 he gave up his pastorate and came holdings to the institution pa had s { Fifty years ago these schools were ampl A corference of eighteen ministers and lay- here to glve his entire time to the semi in the fall of 1800, through the good } g » but now, with the development of the great men mel and decided that the time had nary. He has now been serving for ten offices of J. C. Wharton ¥ 1 wa ving exj 1 2 th northwest and of the states which imme- cOme to begin the work of education in this years continuously, Dr. John Gordon, pas secured on a six-acre piece of ground in stitutior 1 \ ) in . diately surround Nebraska, a great need city For fifty years no new seminaries tor of Westminster church, and Charles G. Kountze place, lying between Twentieth future W 1 i o bhas arisen for a school, which the older in- had been founded and during that time Sterling of the Lowe Avenue congregatio and Twent, -first streets or t and stitutions are too distant to supply It the membership of the church doubled were the local men on the original staff. west and Spencer and Emmet streets on ( tinued » Fifth Page.)