Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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W. p. Bone, D. D. R. V. Foster, D. D. R. G. Pearson, D. D.

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Law Faculty Nathan Green, LL. D. A. B. Martin, LL. D.

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W. p. Bone, D. D. New Testament, Greek and Interpretation Winstead Paine Bone is a native of Texas, born at Douglas, No- vember 23, 1861. At Trinity University, in 1883, he took his A. B. de- gree. Three years later from Cumberland Univei-sity he received the B. D. degree. He attended Union Teeological Shminary, in New York, in 1887-88 ; University of Berlin in 1889-90 ; and University of Chicago in 1894, in which year he received from Trinity University the A. M. degree. In 1904 Cumberland University called him to the Chair of New Testament Greek and Interpretation. He has been pastor at the following places : Henderson, Texas, 1883-4 ; Green- ville, Texas, 1886-7 ; Nashville, Tenn., 1888-9 ; Athens, Ala., 1890-91; Dallas. Texas, 1891-94. For twelve years he was an able writer for Sunday School periodicals and L esson Helps. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian committee on Fraternity and Union. He is Dean of the Theological Faculty of Cumberland University. He was honored by Trinity University in 1907 with the degree of Doc- tor of Divinity. R. V. Foster, D. D. Systematic Theology Robert Verrell Foster was born near Lebanon, Tenn., Aug. 12, 1845. He received the greater part of his scholastic training in Cumberland, from which institution, at various times, he received the following degrees : A. B., B. D., A. M. and D. D. He attended Union Theo- logical Seminary 1876-77. He has taught in the following institu- tions: Cooper Institute, Waynesburg College, and Cumberland, both in the Literary and in the Theological Departments. He is a prolific writer and the author of many books, among which are the following works : ' Systematic Theology, his chief work ; ' Commentary on Romans ; Old Testament Theology, and Our Doctrines. He has written many miscellaneous articles and was editor of the Theo- logical Quarterly. F or twenty years he was editor of the Sunday School literature of the C. P. Church. In 1906 he received from Washington and Jefferson College the LL. D. degree. For the last twenty-six years he has been a teacher in the Theological Depart- ment of Cumberland University. R. G. Pearson, D. D. English Bible and Evangelistic Methods Robert Gamaliel Pearson was born at Starkville, Miss., June 9, 1847. He graduated from Cooper Institute in 1875; received his B. D. degree from Cumberland in 1878 and his D. D. from the same in 18S5. He was pastor at Tupelo, Miss., in 1879 ; at Columbia, Tenn., in 1880. and at Nashville, Tenn., in 1881. For twenty years he was an able and successful evangelist, traveling twenty thousand miles in forty states. He v ' itnessed twenty thousand conversions. Moody said of him that he was the greatest living Bible preacher. He is the author of Truth Applied. In 1891 he traveled in Europe, Asia and Africa, expecting to visit the Holy Land, but was prevented by an outbreak of Asiatic cUolera. During the World ' s Fair at Chicago he worked for six months with Moody in an evangelistic campaign. Rev A. C. Dixon said that one hundred infidels were converted in Brooklyn by one of his sermons. He began teaching in Cumberland in 1903. IS