, 1872-12-15

10 the 1ast reports, emDtaceu the lu1uWlnt
churches and membership.
E1rEt Church ...-.....--....- .-..-..-...-'.- ~
Michigan Avenue Church. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2s
Indiana Avenue Church. a
FIth Chufch -.--...-...-.....--.... - -
North Church ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ID
North Star Church ........................-.. lSt
Union Park Church 46:
University Place Church. rch..........-.....-.-... 21t
Mester1 % @ AEepue Church ch....---..:-...-.-.... =!
Providence Church .......................... It
Coventry Street Church ch"..................... S
Twgnty-dfth Street Church 81
-Four foreign churches. hes....................... 55t
Total churches, 19; membership. ,4ot
In the Baptist home and mission schools there
are about 10000 scholars, with corresponding
number Of teachers and officers. In the suburba
land Park, Norwood Park, Austin. Hinsdale, and
Englewood, with one in formative state st
LaWndale, and another at the Rock Island car
works. The North Church, the North Star, two
houses Of worship and nearly all tho
houses OF the membership by the great
fire, and are but partially reconstructed.
In addition, the Baptists have Theological
students, four OF Ave Societies for different
departments Of religious and benevolent work :;
and the Headquarters OF the District Secretaries
Of their National Societies-the Foreign Mis-
E10nafy u0lQ0, L0e dQL16 4l1s6l00, lQ8 BLDG anu
Publication societies-are located here. The
Chicago University is under Baptist control,
although it is E general and unaectarian inBtitu-
tion, NTH about three hundred students, The
Standard is the Baptist organ for the North
1rest, With circulation Of about 20,0 600.
BAPTIST UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
After many conventions, very many speeches,
g thorough canvass Of the Northwest, respecting
the wants of the Baptist denomination, and
much encouragement IN financial way from
Tv1ar n Goo1vaor n N
Holden, J. III. Van Osdell, c. H. Reed, D. Henry
6helden OF this city, and from others elsewhere,
it VAS resolved there should be Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary located in Chicago: Accor-
pnce, On the part Of the twenty churches Of the
:itv and the constituency Of 3 haH-milion peo-
pie in the field. sDd i" the resolution" which
passed in May, 1867, verified to the letter on
e q dy o ths rea % and Tee
menced its work with three Professors and
twenty students, in rooms connected
Nth the a ua9ifaty 9f 3h Of ia oheago n se
ent about eighty thousand dollars, to which it
is proposed to add one hundred and thirty
thousand more, which is now being secured
in notes payable in five years. The total assets
sre put down at $4,000 ss5,ooo Of which are
in grounds, bedding, and furniture and the re-
mslnder in notes, pledges, and lands.
THE BUILDING
s7as completed in 1863 It is Oh feet by 48 feet,
four stories high, and contains four spacious
residences for the Professors and their
families, and thirty-four euites Of rooms
for students. The entire cost was e60,0oot
The rooms occupied by students hare been
bountiful]y furnished, generally BY, individuals
or by churches, the names Of the donors being
placed on the doors. These occupied BY the
Professors are eloquently furnished and rank as
frst-class residences. Aside from these there
are recitation rooms, fitted up much Like
Senate chamber. where each student has bis
80 L.. nd
with books and periodicals; reception rooms
adorned with pictures; dining room, kitchen,
both rooms chapel, etc. Tho floors arc every
where nicely carpeted and the windows cur
tanned, which throws around the inside OF this
vast structure . home-like coloring that is
decidedly pleasing-a characteristic rather unq-
euRl in such seats of learning.
WHERE TIE STUDENTS CONE FROM.
There are fory-two students in attendance at
present four less than last year, representing
fifteen States and two foreign countries, fifteen
of whom are from Illinois, four from Wisconsin,
three each, from Ohio, Iowa, and Michigan, two
each. from Indiana and New York, and one re-
MassachHsetts, Rashy % Connecticut, Maine Ae6rasEs
Minnesota. South Wales, and Ontario The
whole number attending since the organization
of the Seminary is about one hundred, about
third Of whom may be set down as graduates;
are nov in the field preaching the Gospel. OF
these, twelve are in Illinois (four in Chicago,
five in Iowa, TWO each IN Nebraska and
Kansas, and one each in Masaachusetts,
this tabulated statement it would appear
respecting Baptist theology, that its current is
elightly Westward. though, as rule each State
gets back about what it gives.
HOW PREACHERS ARE MADE,
Once fairly ensconced in his parlor studio. and
supplied with the midnight lamp, le1ioons, pen
cil-paper, aud q dozen OF Faber No. 2's, the
preacher student finds three years Of solid
years arc called tho Junior, Middle, and Senior.
A Junior will handle principally the Hebrew
grammar Robinson's Harmony Of the Gospels,
the Evidences Of Christianity, besides making
Of the Church, it's relations to the civil power,
literary conflicts, the rise md the development
of the Hierarchy, Asceticism, Monasticism, In
FAINT Baptism, etc. He will also take lessons in
composition, and preach his first sermon in the
presence of . small audience Of critics.
The AliddIer will preach more and better SER
MONS occasionally to churches, and enlarge tile
boundary Of his vision BY looking into tha philo-
eophy Of the Crueades, the development Of the
Papacy, scholastic theology, the Divine attri-
butes, the Trinity, creation, preservation, and
providen..ial government Of the world: of man,
bis moral condition, lis fall and its terrible con-
sequences: He will also examine the discourses
quite duentfy the Cd Testament in Hebrew, @ and and
the New in Greek. II he is quite apt, and should
get call to good church, this may be his last
year in the seminary. The Senior will be called
upon to state what he knows about the Re-
this great movement, tho Council o}
Trent, modern inidelity, English deism, |
french atheism, German rationalism, !
reviVals, the person Of Christ, union Of the |
divine and human in Christ the atonement.
regeneration, repentance, faith, death, the judg,
ment, coming worlds for the righteous and |
wicked, and more Of the mode and design Of |
baptism, etc. In fact, he will have completed |
Ehe study of Didactic and Polemic, Pastoral, |
Historical, and E1egetical Theology, and is now
ready for the field, which, in many inatances. |
bus s11eady been chosen, to where he Mt once
goes, presumably thoroughly qualified for the
great work
During these three years of study the student
has access to tho great Hencstenbere Library.