Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-03
THEOLOGICAL WORK.

Tho New Departs ont or Yanksen Col
eye Here Is this Gontor off New and
Growing Field.
Toe following, written by Rev. Dan Il,
Bradley, OF Yaaktcp, Is pabiiahed III the
Boston 0'pErcgasiopsiist Of November
2ath.
Right upon the heels of she conference
of saperiDtendents OF home missions al
Chicago cumss another council OF Dbko-
ia missionaries. at Ysnkton TO consider
the anne burning question, "How shall
we secure ministers for the northwest p
The council unanimously asd enthusiast
ticslly decided that there must be 8
! school in Dakota for training preachers
and that the school should be u depart
ment OF Yankton college. In this our
ell were represented the strongest
churches OF South Dakota, Superinten-
dents Wizard and Gray, aad General
Missionary Tomlin. Wise, careful men
like a.. l. Riggs, 81. w. Montgomery
and the superintendents OF North Dako.
to missions, are heartily in sympathy
with the project. Why should there be
such o scnoo in this northwest?
/. The nearest Congregational semi
nary is too far away from Dakota and
Nebraska to be generally available
Ysnkton is farther from Chicago than
Yale is from Oberlin. Dsadwood ii
farther from Chicago than Chicago II
from Andover. The distance prscti.
oally bars many men from going into
the seminary. And yet Dakota has thit
year, not Notwithstanding the distance, eight
men in Chicago seminary.
2. The tendency OF seminary men is
to settle near the seminary where they
study. OF the fourscore men sent out
by our seminsrles last year, only on,
reached Dakota. Vacant churches i,
the states where there are semlnariel
watch the senior class and easily secure
their men, while churches IN states at q
distance fare badly.
3. The expense OF going to q distant
seminary checks men in these regions
from preparing for the ministry. Like
the "son Of the prophet" who lost hi
axe. most of our theological men are
poor. Self.help in the older seminaries
grows more aud more difficult. Many
worthy man caunet raise this fifty dollar
q distant seminary.
=. Auo ESlAUkl6uUuShb Va q thCOICHA11
school in the center OF this growing
northwest will at once call TO the minis
try q score of earnest men who would
otherwise choose another profession
The Yankton theological department
could at once have as many students a
Pacific, and nearly half az many az Ban
gor and Andover, without drawing from
other seminaries.
5. A student in this new seminar.
could help himself along by doing hom,
missionary work in the surrounding
region. Every worthy man can ge. plent.
OF it to do.
6. II four theological seminaries ar
not too many for New England. if Chi
csRo does not crowd Oberlin, oertalnl
, Yankson theological department will no
iniure Chicago, which is 600 miles east
while Pacific is 1900 miles to the west
Az to the needs Of this new theologics
school, Yankton college faculty can fa'
nish some instruction. But there mus
DO at once q man at the head of the de
partment. full of the Holy Ghost, full &
. missionary zeal, sound in the faith,
scholar. a teacher. Again, there mnf
be en- endowment OF at least $500 900 fo
. this new department.. Yankton collee
= is now too heavily burdened to carry tn
additional task. With the endowment
and the man endowed of God to do tL
work, the missionary forces in the sror
will be REINFORCED as was Wellingto
by the arrival OF Bluoher, OF better still
as was Farrell by the coming of Calvin
a | Geneva,