Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-21
READY TO PREACH.
WEARS OF STUDYING COVERED BY A
THEOLOGICAL STUDENT.

inent clergyman, ''of the commencement
exercises of Princeton theological semi
nary and of the graduation of 81 stu
dents. There was nothing about that to
attract public attention, and very likely
YOU did not get further into the article
than the headlines. It meant 81 more
Young clergymen in the world, that was
all. to most people. But to manwho
has been through the training that has
Just ended for those boys 1t means
/ great deal more. | never read Of a sem
mary commencement without feeling
thankful that so many more students
have pulled through safely.
There is otmuch general knowledge
of the labor required in the making Of
clergyman. People could easily find out
if they chose to inquire, but it is some
thing they do not stop to think Of. y
clergyman is supposed to be able to an
swer any Biblical question that may be
asked him, but where he gets all his
technical knowledge nobody thinks Of
asking. He does not get it from reading
the Scriptures, certainly. If you were
TO keep on reading Revelation till you
understood it thoroughly, how old would
you be when you finished?
! NO. don't ask me whether | think !
understand it now or we may DRIFT
away into theological discussion which
will be very Improbable. What l start
ed to say is something about the severe
training that man must go through be-
fore he can begraduated from theoloS-
ical seminary and 50 bocomea clergy
man. Severe? 1t Is more than severe,
and YOU see it results in thousands Of
physically weak preachers all over the
world.
The training Of q clergyman really
begins when he IS n 6-year-old child at
his mothers knee, for IN nine cases out
of ten tho parents decide for him and
decide early. But start with the boy
when he has been graduated from
grammar school, because he will prob
ably receive that much education IN any
case, whatever his business or profess
sion is to be. He should then be IN the
,,,;l,l,1,o,.bood of 10 vaors old He must
now begin a special preparation for col
lege, n preparation that differs from the
ordinary preparatory course Of students
,,ot st,,iring for tine ministry. He must
o~;yo ot Icasf fourycar TO q spccial study
&c Col, and Latin and nj the same
+i,,o Low . Good foundation in ancient
-; 80 TrSs1isb connosi4ion and 1itera-
t $500 oyd Li9har arithmetic and ALGEBRA.
"TLo how then. Mt IS. is ready to enter
o,114,., a,,1 +oI,a fine rsraI four wears
oI.e-icoI co,7r.n In tbe first wear he
st,,,roIos With ALGEBRA. geometry. Latin.
CroSl, TnoI;sb history and English lit
erature. in the second year the same,
win tho addition Of comparative physi-
olorv. mechanics. analytical geometry,
nhvslcs and rhetoric. In the third year
he adds also chemistry, logic. German,
poIitical science and philosophy. The
fourth COLLEGIATE wear includes all Of
fbose sfudies and geology, consular and
International law. French, ethics, astron-
or,v and botany besides.
"TTo i now. on leaving college, ready
- enter . theological seminary. unless
indeed he proposes to 90 into the gen.
eral theological seminary Of the I'rotes-
taut Episcopal church, in which case he
is required to be able to read the Old
Testament in Hebrew and the New Tcs-
lament in Greek before he can enter.
After his eight years of Greek he should
he able to read the New Testament in
tbe original. but this does not always
follow. II often happens that student
who goes through his Greek lessons well
enough in college finds on going into the
seminary. where he must actually use
tbe language. that he knows very little
about if,
THE course in the theological semi
nary occunies three vears-malling II
,,oars, study in all after leaving the
1.ro,o,,,or school tn s+udies in the
ssY,a.1oa;oo1 so,,i,,o,.,, oro tbooIorv
chrrc6 history OId and New Testament
Iangnagas. ce0rraphv of Palestine. moral
,biIosonhv and sociology. with lectures
ON ear.,1o,,izino and the duties Of u min
;st..,. and nractical EXAMPLES in preach.
inc, Hebrew il ono Of the sticking
,,ni,+s Cor i+is nositivaIv necessary for
4 tIooIooical student TO read Hebrew al
most rs readily rs he can English. It's
- ,,,.i,,J = terribIe orind. this LONG s,rug-
',,o With Grqa,, and Hebrew
l.T 49, siH tho sa,nira,.v Of course that
t,o s+rIa,,+ cots his tbaoIooicaI tr,irin,,
STlI each denomination has its fayorife
.oI1ora TbeoIoricaI students frequently
occrT,, IN rnnle9sant nosition tbrourI-
orttLcir CELEBRATE and sominary courses
,rho lunches beI~ t5a,,, v.hcn tra, ara
10y ~ MA 80 baIn tEa,rsol,a. and trrv
+no Otto, have the frr1ing Of helm in
,,or+ cba-ity students All Of the col
candidates for the ministry.
After graduation from the theological
seminary the student receives PROBES