, 1877-07-04

| Presbyterian Church forre of the En{tcI Stnlrs
! to tc a.nS Ministers. 1t1 congregations, with
butlors IN l,uncs for religious PURPOSES tn thu
sum OF $1A,5l2, f0A ur nnaut II i'm, TX, NEARLY
615s Or EA 70 each commandment In the whole
country.
| THEOLOGICAL ECnooiA.
| Relying upon the sanctIhrl Intelligence Of the
ministry, The Presbyterian Thu rct las made tic
tnstEueiion of tte candidates for t'n pulpit IN
object Of the highest ln,puEtancet pinnting and
| OF tic Wort. Tho f'reahrteraps hare tnvre
than twenty Of these. divinity schools, with
! shout scvents-1yc Professors, antl more than
| thorough college education in the sciences and
| arts, hre nov dcyotlNg their .wholo tine to
preparation for the Gotpel ministry.
In al these institutions for thcoioUfcal IN
gathered with great diligence sni SUCCESS. untler
our lnws, books fur all inatItutions Of learning
mny be imported free Of duty; ami the halls nt
on sseastercd tsnanaricsn male Tug repositories
80 that student In south Carolina or Illinois
luay iay hfs hand upon almost any volume lin
portaut for Theological study ns readily as II
20 wore tn Endjnlnlra pr Dcrltn. SONG Of
exlcns|.c.. Tho Union Seminary III New York
Eity has 30, coo volumes, and many Of thrm OF
great value. Princeton las a 900. New I}runs-
wick has q, 200. The frethyterlan ecminaEiess
IlufE FG1uIQE8 Duk u Atl
thu divinity schools lit lie United States. That
IL 10 say, the PssshTtcrtanA have libraries In.
clidinE 100000 Tolunes, EAAa tho !ibFarics .!
Tue Congregationalsts, BaptIsts, Method!sts,
Episcopa1lans, Roman CathoI!cs, and all others
united, have &5,Uo0 volumes.
Soma idea may bc obtained OF the rA1ue at
fnchc1 10 theological education by American
PreshytcfianA, from tho fact thai the real estate
and candidates for the n,sstrY, Owned By one
Of the ten branches Of tha Presbyterian Church,
tsaoooo, ABOUT eeeaon.
of vur colleges hare had larEc hcnefactions.
Princeton las property amounting to $l,bt8,tk ,tkaa
More thsn 81 900 ,otp llavc been given sincc tho
accession Of Dr. McCosh 10 ita Presidency.
and ueoloetcal schools, tho lay1ncn Of tho Pres
bytcrthu Church have cl,eerfully given millions
Of money, which they reEanl not their own but
the i1osd's, whose stewards they arc. It fs bc.
Christ h The rnj'gous duty and privilege Of con-
seeratlng money TO tfo service Of God mnre in-
tclfigentlJ understood and conscieutfously dis
charged and enjoyed.
The reunion Of The two greatest presbytefian
bodies, !1 the year 1900, was marked bya free
VI x,1' thankosr5og 1 totho Lord of ucarly -
.1his ts i small part Of what tho Presbyterian
Church in the United Statcs Is doing fnr tscxa
and man. In tho natiotat benevolent and rc.g.
ious Institutions which havo no dlsttuctively
dcuominationai charucter, anA IN those private
Or bile ciarttes sustained by tho gifts Of good
people Of oil ChElsttan names, rrcsbytertans 10
nation, but In some Of these union societies they
give more than many other denominations To-
Ecther, md In 4 fow OF them they rive tho
larger part Of all thxt comes into tho trrasury.
THE AMERICAN BtBLE SOCIETY
receives the nearly undivided contributions of
tho American churches. Aa It's supporters asu
associated In o1aiaries, and not ~ eurchs, Il is
Impossible to distinguish the contributions
mnde By Pfcsbytcrlans from thosc OF other de-
nonilnassons. But, taking tho receipts OF all
auxiliary Dlb1o society in the City OF New York
fur an example, VIC get the folloFlE ilgurra: