1835.]

ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS.

quired at the age of thirty or forty | La Place, should live in the grateful recollection of us who are at this day, and of those who must, in all succeeding time, be Finally, may benefited by their labors.

years. Dr. Scott was a sexagenarian when he conquered some of the more difficult of the Oriental tongues.

EDUCATION.

WE take the following paragraph from an address of James M. Garnett, before a literary society in Hampden Sydney College, Va., Sept. 1834.

the approaching scene of grandeur and sublimity, coming as it does, on the anniversary celebration of the first advent of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, remind us of his second advent in glorious majesty, when the sun will not only be shrouded in darkness and the moon cease her shining, but the heavens themselves shall be consumed and pass away, and when the angel standing upon the sea and upon the earth, shall lift up his hand to heaven, and shall swear by Him that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things which are therein, that there shall be time no longer."

Erratum. Page 16, line 38, for Thomas Hooker, read Danie! Hooker Page 23, line 29, for Samuel Whittelsey, read Chauncey Whittelsey.

"Man, in fact, must be considered and treated from infancy to the last moment of his life as a being formed by his Maker for a state of existence far, very far different from the present-a state for which his sole business on earth is-constantly to be preparing, by a diligent culture of all his powers, by the beneficent use of all his means, and by the faithful performance of all his duties to himself, to his fellow creatures, and to his God. This and this only is education. The learning of languages, arts, and sciences, which too often comprise the whole of education, furnishes him only with the stepping-stones, the scaffolding, and the tools to aid him in the erection ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. of the grand edifice, which although based on earth, should rear its dome to the highest heaven, and be built for eternity as well as for time."

REV. PRESIDENT ADAMS' SERMON.

THE following passage is selected from a sermon preached by Mr. Adams, on the day of the total eclipse of the

QUARTERLY LIST

OF

JOHN W. CHICKERING, inst. pastor, Cong. Portland,
Mine, April, 1835.

JASON WHITMAN, inst. pastor, Unit. Portland, Me. July 1.
MOSES G. GROSVENOR, inst. pastor, Cong. Marlboro',
New Hampshire, May 20, 1835.

HENRY EMÁIONS, ord. pastor, Unit. Nashua Village, N.

H. June 10.

DAVID BURROUGHS, ord. pastor, Baptist, Groton, N. H.
June 17.

ALANSON RAWSON, ord. evang. Cong. Roxbury, N. H.

June 24.

SOLON MARTIN, ord, pastor, Cong. Concord, Vermont,

June 19, 1835.

DAVID DAMON, inst. pastor, Unit. West Cambridge, Massichusetts, April 15, 1835.

sun, Charleston, S. C., Nov. 30, 1834, JOHN A. ALERO, inst. pastor, Cong. Cambridge, Mass.

it having been Advent Sunday, as observed by the Episcopal church.

"We may be further grateful to God, that he has endowed us with the facuities of understanding requisite to investigate and understand a system so magnificent and so comprehensive. Nor must we forget to render a suitable acknowledgment to the Giver of those powers and faculties, for the fruits which they have produced, as displayed in those sciences which impart dignity to human nature and have conferred the most enduring benefits on mankind. We may, moreover, suitably cherish a respectful and grateful remembrance of those gifted and disinterested individuals, who withdrawing themselves, in a great measure, from social amusements and the usual enjoyments of life, have expended their choicest years and their best energies, in the service of mankind. The names of Archimedes, of Hipparchus, of Kepler, of Galileo, of Newton, of Euler, Herschel and

April 15.

MICHAEL BURDITT, inst. pastor, Cong. Northbridge, Mass.
April 15.

S. STILLMAN PRATT, ord. pastor, Cong. Orleans, Mass.
April 22.

ton, Mass. April: 9.

WILLIAM H. DALRYMPLE, ord. pastor, Baptist, Abing-
JAMES D. FARNSWORTH, inst. pastor, Cong. Paxton,
Mass. April 30.
REUBEN BATES, inst. pastor, Unit. Ashby, Mass. May 13.
JOSEPH ANGIER, ord. pastor, Unit. New Bedford, Mass.

May 20.

LUKE A. SPOFFORD, inst. pastor, Cong. Scituate, Mass.
May 20.

ALVAH DAY, inst. pastor, Cong. North Adams, Ms. May 27.
WILLIAM P. LUNT, inst. pastor, Unit. Quincy, Mass.
LORENZO O. LOVELL, ord. pastor, Baptist, West Boylston,
Mass, June 3.

June 3.

June 10.

JAMES R. CUSHING, inst. pastor, Cong. East Haverhill, Ms.
CYRUS YALE, inst. pastor, Cong. Ware, Mass. June 11.
EBENEZER POOR, inst. pastor, Cong. Berkley, Mass. June
JAMES H. SAYWARD, ord. pastor, Unit. Mansfield, Mass.

17.

June 17.

WILLIAM BEALE LEWIS, ord. pastor, Cong. Provi-lence,
Rhode Island, April 18, 1835.

RICHARD M. CHIPMAN, ord. pastor, Cong. Harwinton,
Connecticut, March 4, 1835.

ANON GLEASON, ord, pastor, Cong. Mohegan, Ct. April 1.
EZEKIEL MARSH, ord. pastor, Cong. Ellington, Ct. April

29

ALVAN BOND, inst. pastor, Cong. Norwich City, Ct. May 6.

ROBERT MCEWEN, inst. pastor, Cong. Middletown, Ct.
May 7.

JOHN C. EASTMAN, ord. pastor, Pres. Chillicothe, Ohio, Congregational.. May 13, 1835,

JOURNAL

OF

THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

AUGUST, 1835.

NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

Resolved, That the American Education Society, is engaged in a design, which has a most direct and important bearing on the conversion of the world to Christ.

THE Society held its Anniversary in the On motion of Rev. Sylvester Holmes, of Park Street meeting-house in the evening New Bedford, seconded by Rev. Francis A. of May 25, 1835. The Hon. Samuel Hub- Cox, LL. D., of Hackney, England, bard, LL. D. President of the Society, being absent from the city, the Hon. William Reed, a Vice President, took the chair. The services were commenced with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Bates, President of MidOn motion of Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, dlebury college. An abstract of the Annual D. D., Professor in the Theological SemiReport of the Directors, was read by Rev.nary, Andover, seconded by Rev. Warren Dr. Cogswell, Secretary of the Society.

On motion of Rev. John Spaulding, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Secretary of the Western Education Society, seconded by Rev. Theron Baldwin, of Jacksonville, Illinois,

Resolved, That the Report, an abstract of which has now been read, be accepted and adopted, and be printed under the direction of the Executive Committee.

On motion of Rev. James Hoby, of Birmingham, Eng., seconded by Rev. Justin Edwards, D. D., of Andover,

Resolved, That the subject of spiritual education, as it respects the ministry, is, in all its bearings and relations, one of inconceivable importance to the well being of the church and the world.

On motion of Rev. Edward N. Kirk of Albany, New York, seconded by Rev. Elisha Fiske, of Wrentham,

Resolved, That the church of Christ is placed by him under the most solemn responsibility, rightly to perpetuate the gospel ministry; that this is to be affected by the exercise of all that agency which is adapted to the conversion and sanctification of young men, especially by prayer for academies, colleges, and theological seminaries, and by providing the pecuniary means to educate pious indigent young men, until the wants of the world are supplied.

VOL. VIII.

Fay, D. D., of Charlestown,

Resolved, That the spirit of the gospel and the times in which we live, demand, that those who now enter the sacred ministry, be men of unbounded benevolence, and unbounded trust in God; and that it should be the paramount object of their preparatory discipline to furnish them with these high moral qualifications.

Appropriate addresses were delivered by the Rev. Messrs. Spaulding, Hoby, Kirk, Holmes, Cox, and Skinner.

The public services were then closed with the benediction by Rev. John H. Church, D. D., of Pelham, New Hampshire.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENSUING
YEAR.

President.

Hon Samuel Hubbard, LL. D.

Vice President.
William Bartlett, Esq.

Honorary Vice Presidents.
Hon. William Reed, Marblehead, Mass.

Hon. John Cotton Smith, LL. D. haron, Conn.
Robert Ralston, Esq Philadelphia.
Rev. Ashbel Green, D. D. LL. D. Philadelphia.
John Bolton, Esq. New York.
Rev. Jeremiah Day, D. D. LL. D Pres. Yale College.
Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D. LL. D. Pres. Union Col.
Rt. Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, D. D. Boston, Ms.
Rev. Joshua Bates, D. D. Pres. Middlebury College.
Rev. Henry Davis, D. D. Clinton, N. Y.

William Seabrook, Esq. Edisto Island, S. C.
Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D. Newburyport, Mass.
11

Rev. William Allen, D. D. Pres. Bowdoin College.
Rev. Nathanael Emmons, D. D. Franklin, Mass.
Rev. Edward D. Griffin, D. D. Pres. Williams Col.
Rev. James Richards, D. D. Prof. Auburn Theol. Sem.
Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D. Pres. Lane Seminary.
Rev. Heman flumphrey, D. D. Pres. Amherst Col.
Rev. Nathan Lord, D. D. Pres. Dartmouth College.
Rev. Francis Wayland, D. D. Pres. Brown Univ.
Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D. Prof. Andover Th. Sem.
Rev. James M. Matthews, D. D. Chan. N. Y. Univ.
Rev. Sereno E. Dwight, D. D. Pres. Hamilton Col
Rev. John Wheeler, D. D. Pres. Univ. of Vermont.
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL. D. Newark, N. J.
Rev. Robert H. Bishop, D. D. Pres. Miami Univ.
Rev. George E. Pierce, Pres. Western Reserve Col.
Directors.

Rev. Abiel Holmes, D. D. LL. D.
Rev. Brown Emerson.
Rev. Warren Fay, D. D.
John Tappan, Esq.
Arthur Tappan, Esq.

His Honor Samuel T. Armstrong, Esq.
Rev. John Codman, D. D.

Rev. William Cogswell, D. D.
Rev. Samuel Gile.

Rev. Ralph Emerson, D. D.
Rev. William Patton.

Rev. William Cogswell, D. D. Secretary.
Hardy Ropes, Esq. Treasurer.

Hon. Pliny Cutler, Auditor.

Abstract of the Nineteenth Annual
Report.

there is no other Education Society now existing, that requires this.

The Society is strict in its requisitions of piety in those who receive its patronage; in its pastoral supervision; indeed in its whole course of discipline. Thus it not only promotes personal holiness, but also sets forth the vast importance of high attainments in religion, in those who enter the ministry.-It will, too, improve the character of ministers, by increasing their bodily and mental vigor. The temperate, economical and industrious habits, which it enjoins, will promote corporeal health, strength, and activity. And these are intimately connected with intellectual soundness, vivacity, and energy.

Thus by multiplying the number and improving the character of ministers, the Society will be a means of enlarging and sanctifying the Church. The ministry is the standing ordinance of Heaven for the conversion and salvation of this world. By the foolishness of preaching, God is pleased to save them that believe. As ministers are multiplied, so this means of grace is increased, and so, according to the appointment of Heaven, conversions will be multiplied and the Church enlarged. And in proportion to the piety and faithfulness of the ministry, will, ordinarily, be the sanctification and purity of the Church. In these ways the Society is beneficial to the interests of Zion.

This Society operates advantageously on the literary interests of the country. It favorably affects academies, colleges, and theological seminaries. It does this by requiring of its beneficiaries a regular and thorough education, and by continually holding up before the community the importance of education generally; and also by increasing the number of pious students. The beneficiaries, while pursuing their course of studies, will exert a most salutary influence on the Institutions, with which they are connected. They will be a means of promoting the sanctification of Christians and of restraining the immoral and vicious. It may be expected, too, that they will do much towards promoting revivals of religion among their literary associates, as has already in many instances been the fact. When they shall have completed their preparatory studies, and entered upon profes

The American Education Society, is exerting a most happy influence on the religious, literary and civil interests of the country. It is beneficial to the Church by multiplying the number of ministers. It has, since its commencement, assisted in the education of about 700 individuals, who have already entered the ministry, most of whom would not have prepared for this sacred employment without this assistance. Besides, by its Agents and publications, it has probably been the means of inducing 300 more to preach the gospel, who possessed pecuniary ability to educate themselves. And it undoubtedly has excited to the formation of other Societies, whose object is to raise up heralds of salvation. While these are denominational, that is, confined in their operations to the particular communions with which they are severally connected, as Presbyterians, Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists and others, they have together, probably, been instrumental in preparing for the ministry 500 or 600, who are now laboring faithfully for Jesus Christ. -The Society is also beneficial by improv-sional duties, they will become patrons to ing the character of ministers. It does this by elevating the standard of ministerial education, and of ministerial piety. As a condition of receiving assistance, it requires that its beneficiaries pursue a regular course of theological study for three years, as well as obtain a complete collegiate education, or one that is equivalent to it. This, it is believed, is a higher requisition than was previously made by any other Institution whatever in the land, as a prerequisite to a participation in this species of charity. And

common schools, academies, colleges and theological seminaries. Many such Institutions will be established through their influence. There are now 84 colleges and 30 theological seminaries in the United States. Of these colleges, 46 have been erected since the formation of the American Education Society, and most of them with a view to the multiplication of ministers, and to some extent in the way of charitable education. And can it be doubted, that this Society has done much to increase the

1835.]

AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

last year. The most sanguine expectations
of the founders of this Institution, could not
have anticipated, that in twenty years from
would, annually, send forth
its formation
a hundred spiritual reapers into the field
of harvest.

number of colleges and to promote the is probably not far from 700. About 100 of cause of Manual Labor Institutions? All these have entered the field of labor the the theological seminaries in the country, with the exception of two, have come into existence since its establishment. The effect of these Institutions on the Society and of the Society on them, is most happy. And they should ever be accounted as inutual helpers in the great and glorious work of raising up ministers of the gospel for the supply of a world.

The Society also has a favorable effect on the interests of the country in a civil point of view. The political condition of a nation will be very much in accordance with the character of the people as a body. It is self evident, that this will be the case under a republican form of government, where all the rulers from the highest to the lowest are from among the people, amenable to them, and dependent on them. The morals and habits of the community are moulded in a great degree by clerical influence, and bear much resemblance to the existing ministry. The religious, moral and civil condition of a nation then, are closely connected with the number, holiness and efficiency of its ministers. Hence the immense importance of this Society as a means of multiplying those whose salutary influence will be so extensively felt, not only on the religious and literary; but also on the civil interests of this land-the glory of all lands,

and which is to bear so active and efficient a part in achieving the conquest of this world to Jesus Christ.

Number of Young Men assisted.-The American Education Society is truly national, not only in name, but also in its spirit and proceedings. As its appellation is general, so its principles are catholic, and its operations extended. Appropriations have been made to young men of different evangelical denominations from every State in the Union. The whole number aided since the formation of the Society is 2,258. The number assisted in each succeeding year is as follows, 7, 138, 140, 161, 172, 205, 195, 216, 198, 225, 156, 300, 404, 524, 604, 673, 807, 912, 1,040. Of those who have received aid from the funds of the Society, since the last Annual Meeting, which was held in the city of New York, 200 were connected with 17 theological seminaries, 538 with 37 colleges, 302 with 98 academies and public schools-making in all 1,040 young men, connected with 152 Institutions. Of these 478 have been assisted at 84 Institutions within the bounds of the Presbyterian and Western Education Societies. The number of new beneficiaries during the year is 300-a larger number than was admitted in any preceding

Number who have deceased.-Of the beneficiaries of this Society 3 only, a very small proportion in comparison to the number assisted, have, during the year, been cut down by the shafts of death. After much examination and reflection, it is confidently believed, that the community have judged erroneously respecting the mortality of students. It is not a fact, as has been supposed, that a larger proportion of young men die who are in a course of preparation for the ministry, than of young men who are pursuing other employments of life. The same remark will probably apply to other students.

Patronage withheld.-As great precaution should be taken to prevent the unworthy from being admitted to a participation in the sacred charities of this Institution; so constant watchfulness should be exercised, that none of this description be retained under its patronage. qualifications are necessary for the continuance of beneficiaries, that are required for their admission.

The same

With deep regret we are compelled to say that during the year the names of 15 have, for various reasons, been stricken from the list of beneficiaries.

Character of those patronized.-The character of those who are allowed to participate in the sacred charities of this Society, is best known by its Constitution and Roles. Talents, piety, and good scholarship, are indispensable prerequisites to admission as a beneficiary. Persons of such qualifications, and only such, should be patronized by the Society.

Thorough course of education.-He who ministers at the altar, should be taught not only in the school of Christ, but also in the school of human science. He must be not a novice, but a scribe well instructed into the kingdom. The priest's lips should keep knowledge. The prophets were men of learning. Moses was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. Daniel excelled in knowledge. Schools of the prophets were established in various parts of Canaan; as at Dothan, Jericho, Gilgal, and Bethel. Samuel was President of the college which was at Naioth, and Elijah and Elisha succeeded him in the presidency. The state of society and the great Head of the Church Number who have entered the Min-demand a thorough education for the ministry. The number of ministers raised up istry. In accordance with this demand, through the instrumentality of this Society, are the Rules of the Directors.

year.