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Excerpt from Religious Progress on the Pacific Slope: Addresses and Papers at the Celebration of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California Centennials and even semi-centennials are as yet too few and infrequent in Western America to be commonplace and negligible. Each one, as it occurs, possesses a significance due in part to the youth of the West. The semi-centennial of Pacific Theological Seminary, celebrated October 8 - 13, 1916, will have in history the eminence of being the first of its kind west of the Rocky Mountains, the first jubilee, that is, of a Protestant theological school. It is, in fact, more than the anniversary of a single institution. It gave occasion for looking backward and forward, for tracing the development of this important section of our country, of estimating present values, of forecasting to some extent the greater future and resolving to achieve it. This volume is thus more than the record of an anniversary week. Its contents present past and present conditions on the Pacific Slope and indicate the forward trend. The papers and addresses were prepared with pains and thoroughness, and offer materials of lasting value. Gratitude is here ex pressed to all who co-operated to give permanent worth to the celebration. Several of the addresses cannot be secured for publication; they were of. The same high order and would have enriched this volume. The spirit of the anniversary was filled with gratitude for the past and confident hope for the future. Tokens of divine guidance have been many and signal through the fifty years. Generous testimonies were given of the far-reaching service of the institution, of its high place in public esteem, of its contribution to the rising life and educational forces of Berke ley, and the Pacific Slope. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.