Joseph Ruggles Wilson - Inaugural Address at Columbia Theological Seminary (May 23, 1871)

Joseph Ruggles Wilson - Inaugural Address at Columbia Theological Seminary (May 23, 1871) . . .

Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822-1903) was inaugurated as the Professor of Pastoral and Evangelistic Theology and Sacred Rhetoric at Columbia Theological Seminary on May 23, 1871. His inaugural address focuses upon the power of the pulpit, and the necessity of seminaries to train men to wield that power with all possible efficiency.