Annual Catalogue

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1890
 

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Page 23 - To provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.
Page 7 - Nebr., and has already received students from it. The Swedish department has the approval of many of the Swedish churches in this country, both among those which are independent and those which belong to the ' forbunclet.' The Dano-Norwegian department has no ecclesiastical connections. It originated in the suggestion of a banker in Chicago, a Norwegian by birth, who has rendered it pecuniary aid.
Page 5 - Seminary was organized on the 27th of September, 1854, by delegates from Congregational churches in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri; was incorporated by the State of Illinois on the i5th of February, 1855; and began its work on the 6th of October, 1858.
Page 71 - ... salaries, books and more room. Though primarily a reference library books may circulate subject to recall, and outside readers are welcome. The reading-room is furnished by the students YMCA There is a museum of Christian antiquity illustrating the history of the church, in a room in the Hammond library. The Congregational exhibit, which secured the highest medal at the World's Columbian exposition was presented to the seminary. This contains portraits of eminent Congregationalists, charts showing...
Page 39 - It seeks to unify and help all other organizations and people in the neighborhood that will make for righteousness and brotherhood. It is not a church, but hopes to be a helper of all the churches. It is not a charity, but expects to aid in the organization and cooperation of all existing charities. It is not an exclusive social circle, but aspires to be a center of the best social life and interests of the people.
Page 15 - Rhetoric of vocal expression; a study of the properties of thought as related to utterance, and of the relations of mind, body and voice in expression.
Page 65 - I5th of February, 1855; and began its work on the 6th of October, 1858. The founders of the institution gave to it certain characteristic features which were thought necessary to fit it to train men for the needs of the Congregational churches of the Interior.
Page 70 - ... value of this exhibit however is the intimate connection shown in its annals between Congregationalism and the development of the Republic. It is hoped to continue this collection to cover the Held of the church universal. The interior of the building was altered in 1896 and divided into rooms for various departments of theological study, exegetical, historical, systematic and practical theology and sociology, the alcove of missionary intelligence, and the library for the foreign departments,...
Page 6 - Here, too, young men of different nationalities may engage in missionary work among their own people, thus combining practical with theoretical training. It is thought that the value of a theological education is greatly enhanced by the improvement of such privileges as arc furnished in an eminent degree by our location in this metropolis.
Page 39 - It is as little of an organization and as much of a personal relationship as it can be made. It seeks to unify and help all other organizations and people in the neighborhood that make for righteousness and brotherhood. It is not a church, but hopes to be a helper of all the churches. It is not a charity, but expects to aid in the organization and co-operation of all existing charities. It is not an exclusive social circle, but aspires to be a center of the best social life and interests of the people.

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