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 of Connecticut. His plan at the outset
 was to educate missionaries, both
 Whites and Indians. At Lebanon, he
 had educated for the ministry the most
 noted of the Indian preachers, Samson
 Occum.
 In later times, in the work of Home
 Missions in this country, Yale has been
 an effective auxiliary In the early
 days when the current of emigration
 passed the limit of the Hudson, the
 ministers who had share in this mi
 grafton were often educated here. When
 the time came for the region between
 the Alleghenies and the Rocky Noun
 tains to receive. emigrants a powerful
 influence went forth from Yale to de-
 termlne the character of the institu-
 tions that were to spring up in that ex-
 tensive region. One event of signal
 interest deserves special mention. In
 1929 there went forth from the Yale
 Theological Seminary a choice company
 of young men who have borne the
 name of the Illinois Band. There were
 seven signers to the agreement under
 which they were organized. Prominent
 among them were Theron Baldwin and
 Julian M. Sturtevant They bound
 themselves to establish a literary in-
 stitution, to teach in it, and to teach
 and preach in important stations in
 the surrounding country. They found-
 ed Illinois College. There pr. Sturte
 want was an instructor for ffty-six
 years. Jacksonville, the seat of the Col lege, was village which had been set
 tied only two years before the arrival
 mi State there were less than 150 900 people,
 who were mostly ernigrants from the
 Southern States, In Chicago there
 were not more than five or six families.
 The Illinois Band was reinforced by col lege friends. The service rendered by 1t to the cause of humanity and civili- zation, to say nothing of it's distinctive work in preaching the Gospel. was in calculable. Members of the Band be- came friends and counsellors of Abra- ham Lincoln. At the time when the question was whether the State should ally itself with the policy of freedom or with the other side, it was the work which had been wrought by the Illinois Band, as MT. Lincoln declared, which determined what the issue of the strug- gle should be. The example which had
  linois Band was followed afterwards by the Iowa Band, formed at Andover in 1842-3. Nor was this movement at Yale the sole event of the same kind here. In 1881, the Dakota Band, composed of nine members, went out from the Di- vinity School To the exertions of this Company is largely due the fact that fifteen years after, two hundred and l,oJ ed in that territory, In 1890, the Wash 1ngton Band, comprising six students then graduating from the Divinity School, began their labors in the terri tory so named with gratifying results. One of them, MT. Penrose, is now the President of Walla College,
 Yale graduates have exerted wide influence in offices of administration in the societies for the promotion of Home Missions. Such officers in the American Home Missionary Society were Rev. Milton Badger D. D., of the class of 1923. | and Alexander H. Clapp D. D., of the | class of 1S42. Such officers now are Rev D. Stuart Dodge, D. D., of the class of 1857, President of the Presby [ terian Home Missionary Society, who has generously devoted his time and means to both Foreign and Domestic Missions, and Rev. A. F. Beard, D. D.. of the class of 1857, secretary of the American Missionary Association.
 The first missionaries to foreign coun- tries who were educated at Yale, went out under the auspices of the Ameri- can Board of Commissioners for For eign Missions Owing to the long con nections of the College and University with this organization, to Yale belongs no small share of the credit which the American Board has earned for itself wherever interest is felt In Christian missions. This honored Society had it's rise in the combined action of Massa- chusetts and Connecticut. President Dwight and other prominent ministers, together with distinguished laymen in this State, were concerned in its for mation. The first annual meeting of the Board as an incorporated Society was held in 1S1O. in the parsonage of Rev. Noah Porter, father of the late President Porter. There the constitution of the Society was framed At it's third annual meeting, which was held at Hartford, Governor John Treadwell, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1767, l was made its President. One of the officers to whose sagacity and devotion the upbuilding of the American Board ! was very much due, was the father of Hon. William M. Evarts, Hon. Jeremiah ! Evarts, of the Yale class of 1902. He | served 1t in the responsible station of V Treasurer, from 1912 to his death in ! LS31 Other foreign missionary boards ' in this country, the organs of the most | important religious bodies, owe their origin, and their direction at present, I n no small degree, to Yale graduates. The same is true of the Student Volun- O ger Movement for foreign missions, E organized in 1886. Five of it's most ef- c 'ective secretaries have been chosen Il rom our recent Alumni. The incorpor- $ ting of missionary education in the lay he was seen on the threshold of one U American colleges and universities has ,een for six years the occupation of II Rev. Harlan P. Beach of the Yale class U if 1878 Other graduates have founded , young Mems Christian Associations in $ European countries and in various ands in Eatsern Asia, including Cey- Il on, Japan and China. The number of d missionaries who have gone forth from yo To I,nder the auspices Of inc A mari. n