The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-02

neeuS or the COlOAy LuI liC pipPNt N4 ucation and training of young men for the sacred ministry. The ministers, Of course, took the lead; it was, in point of fact, their own creation. The people were poor for the most part, and 1t was felt that a residence of Cambridge 'n- volved expenditure of money which they could i'll afford,
 It is needless at present, and would be entirely out of place to recount ful- ly the steps which resulted in the or ganization of the college and its final establishment at New Haven. Suffice it to say that the supreme aim of the founders was to impart theological in- struction, and the subordinate aim was the general secular training such as a college might be expected to give. The ministers, both of Massachusetts and Connecticut, had no taste for humane letters. Their entire interest was in theology, They did not like poetry; they did not like works of fiction; they did not like history; they did not care for scientific pursuit, but they did like theology, and with the earnestnes
 
 ted themselves assiduously to the study of Hebrew and of Greek, and of course Latin. The taste of the ministers was theological, and not literary, as l have just said. The fact should be empha- sized. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, in his recent work on Massachusetts, has pointed out with acrid astuteness that there was no literature and there was no taste for letters in Massachusetts during the whole period of the supre- macy of the ministers, and that no book of any note in the field of letters was written by any Massachusetts man, with the exception of Cotton Ma ther's "Magnalia." In Connecticut no purely literary work was attempted or achieved The people were not taught to love literature, and as long as the influence of the ministers lasted unlm- paired, literature was unknown to the people who had the natural intelli- gence to have enjoyed it. The absence of taste for history was an especlal characteristic of the ministers. Had they known history they might have had different ideas about the constitu- ton of the church, but as it was, they formed their theory of it from the ap- stract study of disjointed texts oi scripture. And yet all honor to the ministers who brought volumes they could i'll afford to give and laid them on A. table as their first offerings foI the establishment of a library in the new college.
 Now it can readily be seen that in asmuch as the founders of the college were congregational ministers of the standing order, and that their opJec' was supremely to prepare students TOT the ministry, the theological spirit ol the new college, and the aims and the policv of the ministers in the conuuc' of it, were likely to be just as rigla as the polity of the churches in the coio, nv. "They were grounded in polerhieaI divinity according to the Assembly Catechism and Dr. Ames' Medulla ana Cases of Conscience" and especlal care was taken in the education of the stu dents. not to suffer them to be in- structed In different principles or doc' trines. and all proper measures were taken to promote the power ana purltS 
 peace of the churches
 The college reflected the ootiillal'' spirit of the religious and theologiea temper of the entire people. It was re earded with great pride. It was the subject of many prayers and Of muct thought, and it's course was tranqu until the year 1722 when, to the con sternation of the whole colony, pr, Cut Ter. of the college, declared for episeo' pacy. He was not alone. He had com panions, friends, fellow students Wh' had read with him, talked with him most conspicuous of whom was MT Johnson of Stratford. They had reac themselves into belief that the true ministry of the church of Christ WAS not such a ministry as the Congrega' tional churches possessed, but that tn5 episcopal type of the ministry was the original type, and was binding upor the practice of the church and the con sciences of Christians for all time. Nc such theological or ecclesiastical con vulsion had ever been experienced 1T the colony MT Cutler was promptly dismissed from his office, and he retireg from New Haven, so that his direc influence upon the fortunes of the Epis copal church in Connecticut were no considerable, but MT Subsequently Dr. Johnson is regarded justly as the fathel of episcopacy in Connecticut.
 pr. Cutler was very much admired for his character and abilities, anc found a warm welcome among some O the churchmen of Boston, whither h went after having left New Haven.
 say by some of the churchmen of Bos ton, but not by all, for Dr. Cutler hay ing read himself' into the Episcopa church, adopted what in his day wer considered high church principles, anC the Hanoverian Whig clergy of Bostoi had but little sympathy with him, anc no sympathy with his principles"
 It can readily be understood that tn conversion of these gentlemen, youn! men as they were to episcopacy, whil it created a panic in the college and il the colony, did but tend to make hos tiIity more bitter and the pollty of tn college in respect of the members 0 the church of England, more rigorous They did not desire the presence 0 students who were members of tn Church of England.