Louisville, Ky., Feb. 18—The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, with the hearty endorsement of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the warm support of the North Carolina Baptists, is now conducting a quiet campaign in the old north state for North Carolinians in the 1925 effort to raise $2 million for immediate building needs. While field agents have been in the state for a fortnight, a series of three meetings in the near future will give the drive its official impetus.
The first conference will be at Raleigh at 8 o’clock Friday, Feb. 20th, when a mass meeting will be held in the First Baptist Church. This will be preceded by brotherhood banquets in all the churches Saturday, February 21st. The entire field staff will confer in Raleigh Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Another mass meeting will be held in Durham, and Baptist pulpits will be filled by Seminary representatives at night. Representatives will also speak at Clayton, Apex and Cary Sunday afternoon.
Dr. R.J. Pirkey, president of the seminary alumni, and Allan H. Bissel, associated director of the campaign, will be speakers at these rallies.
This is the first building campaign the famous school has engaged in. Since 1888 it has almost trebled its student body, until now with over 400 licenses and ordained ministers, it has the largest theological seminary in the world exclusively for ministers, while at the same time its equipment has but doubled. No buildings have been erected for 33 years, while in that time the enrollment has doubled.
North Carolina, for a number of years, has led all states, except Kentucky, in sending preacher students.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Feb. 18, 1925. Saturday can't preceed Friday, but that's what was in the newpaper and I don't know what it was supposed to be.
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