The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-03
THEOLOGUES EXAMINED.
CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION
 HOLD ANNUAL SESSION.

Seventeen Members of Yale Divinity
 school Licensed to Preach-New and
 Satisfactory Method of Conducting
 the Examinations-List of the Sue
 cessfuI.
 The New Haven Association of Com gregational Ministers held it's annual meeting yesterday from ten till one o'clock and from two until five o'clock for the purpose of examining students of the Yale Divinity school for licen- sure to preach. There were eighteen candidates. one from the senior class, fourteen from the middlers. two from the juniors and one from resident licen- tiates.
 The moderator of the meeting was Rev. Mir. Clark of East Haven and the registrar was the Rev. MT. Countryman of North Branford. The examining committee was comprised of the mod orator and the Rev. Watson L. Phillips and the Rev. Mr. Dewitt of Branford.
 This year new plan of examination was tried and it worked admirably and to the satisfaction of all. present. Each one of the candidates was given a paper on which were questions relating to a personal call to the ministry, the knowl- edge of the Bible, systematic theology and historical Christianity. The stu dents were asked to write papers in answer to the questions propounded, no one to occupy more than ten minutes of time in writing them. These papers were all handed to the examining com mittee and they considered them. Later in the company of all the preachers of the Congregational churches of the dis trict the candidates were asked many questions of importance. and the an swers were so satisfactory that all were ! licensed to preach. Fifteen men were | licensed for four years and two for one year each. The eighteenth man was Everett Whitford of New Bedford, Mass, the resident licentiate. He was too i'll to attend the meeting and was accordingly instructed to meet with the association at their next session in June The members of the junior class are not Iordinarily licensed to preach until af- lter the close of their middle year. but exception was made in the case of the two men examined to-day. This is the reason for their not being licensed for more than one year.
 The candidates were:
 Arnold c. P. Huyzinga of Gronntgen Holland, o. J. Billings, Sharon, Mass. Edward A. Bloomfield. Muskegon, Mich. Albert A. Brown, Oberlin; Geo. H Driver, Wakefield, Mass; Noble s. Fl. lderkin, Chicago; Denster D. Gorton lVermontville. Mich. H. A. Guernsey New Haven; w. R. Hamtin, Easthamp- ton, Mass; Ira T. Hawk, Iowa City, la; Horace T. Holton, Springfield, Mass; F h. H. von Subken, New York; Jason H Pierce, Brockton, Mass; Albert E. Ror- laback, Canaan, Conn; John A. Scheu- IerIe, Ritzville, Wash: middlers, anc from the junior class, Stanley Fisher East Boston, Mass, Oscar E. Maurer Beloit, Wis.
 I The preachers present were Professor Stevens, Professor Sanders, Professor Brastow and Professor Curtis of Yale ithe Reverends Phillips, McLane, Luck ley, Mossman, Muteh, Prentiss, Coin ant Davis of New Haven, Dewitt of Bran Iford Beach of Northford, Newlands o lCheshire, Doane Of North Haven lSquires Of West Haven. Page of Fox on, Snow of Guilford, Buschee of Mad lison, Clarke of Whitneyville, Robinson of Clinton and Dr. Whitney, librarian l of the Blackstone Memorial library O 1 Branford.
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