History and Significance of the Herbert L. Willett Library

Lisa GonzalezElectronic Resources Librarian

The University of Chicago, Herbert Willett and DDH

Photo on upper right: University of Iowa Libraries, Traveling Culture, http://sdrcdata.lib.uiowa.edu/libsdrc/details.jsp?id=/willett/3. Photo on lower right: Archival Photographic Files, apf2-02050, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Herbert Willett, 1864-1944

Photos, left to right: Churches of Christ, John T. Brown ed., p. 425, http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/jtbrown/coc/COC1314.HTM; The Disciples Divinity House of the University of Chicago: A Circle of Friends and Visionaries, by Kristine A. Culp.

Editor of Christian Standard, 1866-1888.

1846-18961820-1888

Errett Gates, 1870-1951

Charles M. Sharpe, 1869–

1953

C.C. Morrison, 1874-1966

Edward Scribner Ames, 1870-1958

Photos left to right: Traveling Culture; Chicago Club 1896, Wikimedia.org

Chase, Bosworth & Hall

Christian Standard, January 2, 1909, p. 11

“The claim of those who are most insistent on the retention of Professor Willett, as a representative teacher, on the Centennial program, is on the ground of what they are pleased to call “liberty”; that is, “liberty” to teach their own conceits, whether in accord with the word of God or not.

That the brethren may keep fresh in mind precisely what they mean by the word “liberty,” we reproduce a few specimens of their teaching, as copied from their own official organ….”

“6. It will be a happy day for the church when her ministers are trained in undenominational schools, where the truth is sought independent of any sectarian bias.”

A New Standard of Christian Liberty

The Scroll, v. 5 no. 7, September 1907, p. 1-17.

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