Cumberland University - Phoenix Yearbook (Lebanon, TN)

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J. V, Stephens, D. D. EcclesiasticsJ History and Church Polity John Vant Stephens was born in Missouri, near St. Ivouis, Sept. 16, 1857. He received his A. B. degree from L,incoln University, and his B. D. a few years later from Cumberland. He also studied in Union Thelogical Seminary, New York. For many years he was prominent as a pastor in Knoxville and Chattanooga. He was for several years secretary of the C. P. Board of Missions, which position he resigned to accept the pastorate at Bowling Green, Ky. He is the author of • ' The C. P. Digest, History of Presbyterianism and Presbyteri- an Government. For twelve years he has been a member of the Alliance of Reformed Churches throughout the world holding the Presbyterian System. He was a member of the World ' s Parlia- ment of Religions held in Chicago during the World ' s Fair. He is stated Clerk of the Synod of Tennessee. He was called to the Chair of Church History and Church Polity in Cumberland in 1893, C. H. Bell, D. D. Missions and Apologetics Claiborne Handly Bell was born in Mississippi, near Aberdeen. He took his A. B. degree in Cumberland University in 1863, and from the same institution, a few years later, received the degrees of A. M. and D. D. His Presbytery supported him as a missionary among the soldiers in the Civil War. On leaving Cumberland University he went to the Gulf coast of Mississippi where he was pastor for eight years. For twelve years he was pastor at Oxford, Mississippi, eight years of which time he was president of Oxford Union Female Seminary. In 1874 he went to St. Louis and organized Lucas Avenue C. P. Chuixh which became a leading church in the denomination. Following this he was for fifteen years president of the Board of Missions of the C. P. Church. In 1884 he began teaching in Cumberland University. Dr. and Mrs. Bell have fitted up, and keep at their own expense a Mission room in the Theological Seminary. This book is dedicated to them. F. K. Farr, D. D. Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretation Finis King Farr is a native of Missouri, born at College Mound, November 11, 1870. He took his college work in Cumberland Univer- sity receiving the C. E. degree in 1889, and graduated from the Theological Department in 1894. From 1894 to 1897 he attended Chi- cago University, taking special work in Hebrew under Dr. William R. Harper. In 1895 he was called to the Chair of Hebrew and Old Testa- ment Interpretation in Cumberland University, which position he now holds. Dr. Farr has written extensively for Sunday School periodic- als and Church papers, on Old Testament Subjects. He writes Book Reviews for The Cumberland Presbyterian. He has given much stimulus to music in Cumberland University and in Lebanon. Since 1906 he has been Worthy Grand Master of the Kappa Sigma Frater- nity. In 1906 Missouri Valley College honored him with the degree of Doctor pf Divinity. 29

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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

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J. V. Stephens, D. D. C. H. Bell, D. D. F. K. Farr, D. D.