Hebrew Scriptures, chiefly during the first | years at first, but they have gradually inyear; Christian Theology, chiefly during creased from about thirty to about 150, the second year; and Sacred Rhetoric, Ec- which has been not far from the number clesiastical History, and Pastoral Theolo- on the list for many years. Any farther gy during the third year. The instruction increase has been prevented by the mulis given partly by written lectures and tiplication of kindred seminaries since its partly by the use of text-books, which are reaching that number. The whole that recited in substance by the students, and have been admitted from the first amount accompanied with remarks by the profes-to about 1500, though, partly from deaths,

sors.

The students are not allowed to preach, nor are they required to write sermons till their senior or last year. Each may then be called on to preach in the chapel, and is also allowed to preach abroad for six Sab-mestic missions. The American Board of baths in his last term, within certain limits as to distance, so as to avoid being absent from any of the lectures. The remainder of the preaching in the chapel is chiefly performed by the professors in rotation.

Most of the students are graduates of colleges, and all are admitted on examination in regard to their attainments, evidence of piety, &c. During the first year they attend two lectures a day; afterward, usually but one.

partly from many having failed to complete their course, or gone to other institutions, not more than 950 of these have graduated. Nearly 100 have devoted themselves to foreign, and many more to doCommissioners for Foreign Missions were indebted to this seminary for all their missionaries but one for the first ten years; and many of its students have lived to become presidents and professors of colleges and theological schools, and secretaries and agents of benevolent societies.

It possesses peculiar advantages for the training of missionaries. The " Society of Inquiry on Missions," of which almost all the students are members, is nearly coeval with it. It has a valuable library and museum, and exerts a very salutary influence on the spirit and piety of the institution. The doctrine is taught at this, as at most of the other theological seminaries in the United States, that every pastor should be a missionary at heart, and that every student should be willing to go

Great attention is required of the professors in the cultivation of piety among the students, which has ever been regarded by them, as well as by the founders and guardians, as a grand object of the institution. For this purpose, they meet the students for a devotional exercise every Wednesday evening. The students also hold many conferences and prayer-meet-whithersoever God may call him. There ings by themselves.

Indigent students, of whom there are many, receive half the price of their board in commons gratuitously. No charge is in any case made for tuition, and but a small one for the use of the library, and for rooms and furniture.

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are great facilities at Andover for having early intelligence from the American missionaries, by constant correspondence, by visits of returned members, and by intercourse with the secretaries and other officers of the American Board.

The "Porter Rhetorical Society," so named from its founder, the late Rev. Dr. Porter, the first president of the seminary, has an excellent library, and exercises much influence.

As the design of the seminary is to furnish an able as well as a pious clergy, and as its privileges are, to a great extent, gratuitous, each student is required, at his matriculation, to promise to complete a The library of the seminary itself is regular three years' course of study, un-thought to be one of the best in the counless prevented by some unforeseen and try.. It was selected for the purpose, unavoidable necessity," which is to be contains 14,000 volumes, and has a fund judged of by the faculty. This is a much to provide for its constant augmentation. longer course than had commonly been Some of the large number of German pursued under the guidance of private pas- books contained in it being of a neological tors, and it has been found very difficult thus character, it was at one time feared by far to elevate the views of the community, many that these might do mischief; but and fully to reconcile the feelings of the such apprehensions have now yielded, in students to this requisition. Indeed, the the minds of those who felt them, to the rule itself was not made for a considerable consideration of the importance of having number of the first years. such books in an institution where men are to be trained to face an enemy, not to flee from him.

As this is the oldest theological seminary in the country, it has had to make its own way, unaided by previous experience; and very many are the changes, mostly for the better, it is believed, which have been made from time to time in its arrangements.

There were not many students for some

The institution is under strict discipline. Monitors' bills are kept; all are required to attend to their studies, and to be present at the lectures of the professors, at the morning and evening chapel prayers, and at Divine service on the Sabbath.

There are instances of students being dis-tained a great and well-merited celebrity missed for irregularity of conduct.

The total sums that have been given for the erection of the seminary buildings, the endowing of professorships, the support of indigent students, the library, &c., cannot be precisely ascertained, but they probably exceed 400,000 dollars. Mr. Bartlett, the most munificent of the donors, is supposed to have given 100,000 dollars, besides a legacy of 50,000 dollars. He is said never to have told any one how much some of the buildings that were erected at his instance cost him. Mr. Abbot gave about 120,000 dollars, Mr. Brown and Mr. Norris also gave large sums. No general solicitation has ever been made in behalf of the institution, though it has received from individuals many benefactions of from 500 to 5000 dollars.

Connected with the seminary is a printing establishment, known as the Codman press, from its having a fount of Oriental types presented to it by the Rev. Dr. Codman, of Dorchester.

Few institutions have ever been more blessed than the Andover Theological Seminary. It has been intimately associated with the origin and progress of foreign missions, and had much influence in originating the Bible, Colonization, Tract, and Temperance Societies, through the exertions of the lamented Mills* and his coadjutors, who were students at it. I have spoken of it more in detail, not only because of its being the oldest, the most richly endowed, and the most frequented of our theological schools, but also because it has been, in some sense, a model for the rest.t

by the distinguished talents of its professors, as well as the excellent course of its studies. It has for several years had an annual attendance of from 125 to 140 students, and has educated, in all, above 1200. The missionary spirit has prevailed in it to a gratifying degree, almost from its first establishment, and a large number of its alumni have gone to carry the Gospel to heathen lands. There is a flourishing" Society of Inquiry on Missions," with a valuable collection of books relating to that subject.

The Princeton course comprises for the first year, Hebrew, the Exegesis of the Original Language of the New Testament, Sacred Geography, Sacred Chronology, Jewish Antiquities, and the Connexion of Sacred and Profane History; for the second year, Biblical Criticism, Church History, and Didactic Theology; for the third year, Polemic Theology, Church History, Church Government, Pastoral Theology, the Composition and Delivery of Sermons.

One

Instruction is given both by lectures and text-books, and the entire course requires the study of many authors. The students must read essays of their own composition at least once every four weeks, and are expected, also, to deliver short addresses before the professors and their fellow-stu-. dents at least once in the. month. evening in the week is devoted to the discussion of important theological questions. Every Sabbath forenoon a sermon is delivered in the chapel by one of the professors. In the afternoon, the students assemble for a "conference" on some subject in casuistical divinity, their professors presiding and closing the discussion with The General Assembly of the Presbyte- their remarks, and the services commenrian Church established a theological sem-cing and concluding with singing and prayinary at Princeton, in New-Jersey, in 1812, er. Questions such as the following are being the second of the kind in the United discussed: What constitutes a call to the States. Although far from being richly ministry and the evidences of it? What endowed like that of Andover, and has is proper preparation for the Lord's Supoften been greatly embarrassed for want per? What is repentance? What is faith? of adequate pecuniary support, it has at- What is true preparation for death?

These, and a hundred such subjects, are seriously and faithfully discussed, and none of the other exercises, probably, is so in

*The Rev. Samuel J. Mills, a very zealous and able young man, who took a leading part in the form ation of several of the great benevolent societies of America, and died on the coast of Africa when look-structive or so important to the students. ing for a place where a colony of negroes might be

founded.

The Andover Faculty consists of the Rev. Drs. Woods and Emerson, and the Rev. Messrs. Stuart, B. B. Edwards, and Park, professors.. Professor Stuart is well known for his Commentaries on the Epistles to the Romans and Hebrews, as well as for his Hebrew grammar and other writings. Dr. Woods has published some valuable small works on baptism, inspiration of the Scriptures, &c. Dr. Emerson has not yet published much. Mr. B. B. Edwards has written much and ably for periodical publications, and is the author, besides, of several valuable works relating to missions; among these is a missionary gazetteer. He published the life of Dr. Cornelius; and in 1839 took a joint part with Professor Park in giving to the world an interesting volume of translated selections from German authors.

It is there that the deep knowledge in spiritual things of their venerated and excellent professors most fully manifests itself. God has greatly blessed these heart-searching services to the students, and much is it to be wished that such exercises, and such fidelity on the part of the professors who conduct them, were to be found in every theological seminary and theological department of a university in the world.

It is matter for devout thanksgiving that the venerable professors* appointed to the Princeton Seminary in its earliest years,

The Rev. Drs. Alexander and Miller, both of whom have earned an extensive reputation by their

Hebrew Scriptures, chiefly during the first | years at first, but they have gradually inyear; Christian Theology, chiefly during creased from about thirty to about 150, the second year; and Sacred Rhetoric, Ec- which has been not far from the number clesiastical History, and Pastoral Theolo- on the list for many years. Any farther gy during the third year. The instruction increase has been prevented by the mulis given partly by written lectures and tiplication of kindred seminaries since its partly by the use of text-books, which are reaching that number. The whole that recited in substance by the students, and have been admitted from the first amount accompanied with remarks by the profes-to about 1500, though, partly from deaths,

sors.

partly from many having failed to complete their course, or gone to other institutions, not more than 950 of these have graduated. Nearly 100 have devoted themselves to foreign, and many more to do

The students are not allowed to preach, nor are they required to write sermons till their senior or last year. Each may then be called on to preach in the chapel, and is also allowed to preach abroad for six Sab-.mestic missions. The American Board of baths in his last term, within certain limits as to distance, so as to avoid being absent from any of the lectures. The remainder of the preaching in the chapel is chiefly performed by the professors in rotation.

Most of the students are graduates of colleges, and all are admitted on examination in regard to their attainments, evidence of piety, &c. During the first year they attend two lectures a day; afterward, usually but one.

Great attention is required of the professors in the cultivation of piety among the students, which has ever been regarded by them, as well as by the founders and guardians, as a grand object of the institution. For this purpose, they meet the students for a devotional exercise every Wednesday evening. The students also hold many conferences and prayer-meetings by themselves.

Indigent students, of whom there are many, receive half the price of their board in commons gratuitously. No charge is in any case made for tuition, and but a small one for the use of the library, and for rooms and furniture.

Commissioners for Foreign Missions were indebted to this seminary for all their missionaries but one for the first ten years; and many of its students have lived to become presidents and professors of colleges and theological schools, and secretaries and agents of benevolent societies.

It possesses peculiar advantages for the training of missionaries. The "Society of Inquiry on Missions," of which almost all the students are members, is nearly coeval with it. It has a valuable library and museum, and exerts a very salutary influence on the spirit and piety of the institution. The doctrine is taught at this, as at most of the other theological seminaries in the United States, that every pastor should be a missionary at heart, and that every student should be willing to go whithersoever God may call him. There are great facilities at Andover for having early intelligence from the American missionaries, by constant correspondence, by visits of returned members, and by intercourse with the secretaries and other officers of the American Board.

The "Porter Rhetorical Society," so named from its founder, the late Rev. Dr. Porter, the first president of the seminary, has an excellent library, and exercises much influence.

As the design of the seminary is to furnish an able as well as a pious clergy, and as its privileges are, to a great extent, gratuitous, each student is required, at his matriculation, to promise to complete a The library of the seminary itself is regular three years' course of study, "un-thought to be one of the best in the counless prevented by some unforeseen and try.. It was selected for the purpose, unavoidable necessity," which is to be contains 14,000 volumes, and has a fund judged of by the faculty. This is a much to provide for its constant augmentation. longer course than had commonly been Some of the large number of German pursued under the guidance of private pas- books contained in it being of a neological tors, and it has been found very difficult thus character, it was at one time feared by far to elevate the views of the community, many that these might do mischief; but and fully to reconcile the feelings of the such apprehensions have now yielded, in students to this requisition. Indeed, the the minds of those who felt them, to the rule itself was not made for a considerable consideration of the importance of having number of the first years. I such books in an institution where men are to be trained to face an enemy, not to flee from him.

As this is the oldest theological seminary in the country, it has had to make its own way, unaided by previous experience; and very many are the changes, mostly for the better, it is believed, which have been made from time to time in its arrangements.

There were not many students for some

The institution is under strict discipline. Monitors' bills are kept; all are required to attend to their studies, and to be present at the lectures of the professors, at the morning and evening chapel prayers, and at Divine service on the Sabbath.

There are instances of students being dismissed for irregularity of conduct.

The total sums that have been given for the erection of the seminary buildings, the endowing of professorships, the support of indigent students, the library, &c., cannot be precisely ascertained, but they probably exceed 400,000 dollars. Mr. Bartlett, the most munificent of the donors, is supposed to have given 100,000 dollars, besides a legacy of 50,000 dollars. He is said never to have told any one how much some of the buildings that were erected at his instance cost him. Mr. Abbot gave about 120,000 dollars, Mr. Brown and Mr. Norris also gave large sums. No general solicitation has ever been made in behalf of the institution, though it has received from individuals many benefactions of from 500 to 5000 dollars.

Connected with the seminary is a printing establishment, known as the Codman press, from its having a fount of Oriental types presented to it by the Rev. Dr. Codman, of Dorchester.

Few institutions have ever been more blessed than the Andover Theological Seminary. It has been intimately associated with the origin and progress of foreign missions, and had much influence in originating the Bible, Colonization, Tract, and Temperance Societies, through the exertions of the lamented Mills* and his coadjutors, who were students at it. I have spoken of it more in detail, not only because of its being the oldest, the most richly endowed, and the most frequented of our theological schools, but also because it has been, in some sense, a model for the rest.†

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church established a theological seminary at Princeton, in New-Jersey, in 1812, being the second of the kind in the United States. Although far from being richly endowed like that of Andover, and has often been greatly embarrassed for want of adequate pecuniary support, it has at

founded.

tained a great and well-merited celebrity by the distinguished talents of its professors, as well as the excellent course of its studies. It has for several years had an annual attendance of from 125 to 140 students, and has educated, in all, above 1200. The missionary spirit has prevailed in it to a gratifying degree, almost from its first establishment, and a large number of its alumni have gone to carry the Gospel to heathen lands. There is a flourishing "Society of Inquiry on Missions," with a valuable collection of books relating to that subject.

The Princeton course comprises for the first year, Hebrew, the Exegesis of the Original Language of the New Testament, Sacred Geography, Sacred Chronology, Jewish Antiquities, and the Connexion of Sacred and Profane History; for the second year, Biblical Criticism, Church History, and Didactic Theology; for the third year, Polemic Theology, Church History, Church Government, Pastoral Theology, the Composition and Delivery of Sermons.

One

Instruction is given both by lectures and text-books, and the entire course requires the study of many authors. The students must read essays of their own composition at least once every four weeks, and are expected, also, to deliver short addresses before the professors and their fellow-stu-. dents at least once in the month. evening in the week is devoted to the discussion of important theological questions. Every Sabbath forenoon a sermon is delivered in the chapel by one of the professors. In the afternoon, the students assemble for a "conference" on some subject in casuistical divinity, their professors presiding and closing the discussion with their remarks, and the services commencing and concluding with singing and prayer. Questions such as the following are discussed: What constitutes a call to the ministry and the evidences of it? What is proper preparation for the Lord's Supper? What is repentance? What is faith? What is true preparation for death?

These, and a hundred such subjects, are *The Rev. Samuel J. Mills, a very zealous and seriously and faithfully discussed, and none able young man, who took a leading part in the form of the other exercises, probably, is so ination of several of the great benevolent societies of America, and died on the coast of Africa when look-structive or so important to the students. ing for a place where a colony of negroes might be It is there that the deep knowledge in spiritual things of their venerated and excellent professors most fully manifests itself. God has greatly blessed these heart-searching services to the students, and much is it to be wished that such exercises, and such fidelity on the part of the professors who conduct them, were to be found in every theological seminary and theological department of a university in the world.

The Andover Faculty consists of the Rev. Drs. Woods and Emerson, and the Rev. Messrs. Stuart, B. B. Edwards, and Park, professors. Professor Stuart is well known for his Commentaries on the Epistles to the Romans and Hebrews, as well as for his Hebrew grammar and other writings. Dr. Woods has published some valuable small works on baptism, inspiration of the Scriptures, &c. Dr. Emerson has not yet published much. Mr. B. B. Edwards has written much and ably for periodical publications, and is the author, besides, of several valuable works relating to missions; among these is a missionary gazetteer. He published the life of Dr. Cornelius; and in 1839 took a joint part with Professor Park in giving to the world an interesting volume of translated selections from German authors.

It is matter for devout thanksgiving that the venerable professors* appointed to the Princeton Seminary in its earliest years,

The Rev. Drs. Alexander and Miller, both of whom have earned an extensive reputation by their

are still spared to labour for its good. | ment upward of thirty, under four profesBoth they and their younger colleagues sors, who give instructions in the other derank high among the American divines, partment also. and have great weight in the Church to which they belong.

4. Theological Department of Yale College

5. Theological Institute of Connecticut, at East Windsor

6. Theological Department of the Oberlin Institute

1. Theological Seminary at Princeton

2. Western Theological Seminary at Alleghany town, Pennsylvania.

3. Union Theological Seminary.

4. Southern Theological Seminary at Columbia
5. Indiana Theological Seminary at New-Albany

1. New-York Theological Seminary, in New-York city

New School 2. Theological Seminary at Auburn.
Presbyteri-

3. Theological Department of Western Reserve College
4. Lane Seminary at Cincinnati

5. Southwestern Theological Seminary at Maryville.

Episcopali-1. General Theological Seminary of the Protestant New-York.