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CINCINNATI LANE SEMINARY.
J A N U A R Y, 1833.
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PR IN TED BY A. F. R O BIN SO N.
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FA C U L T Y AND IN S T R U C T OR S.
REV. LYMAN BEECHER, D. D.
PRESIDENT, AND PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY.
REV. THOMAS J. BIGGS,
PROFESSOR of cIIURCH IIISTORY AND CHURCII Polity, AND
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REV. CALVIN E. STOWE,
professor: OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
REV. N. H. FULSOM,
PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGES.
THOMAS D. MITCHELL, M. D.
PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY.
E. WHITNEY, A. M.
TEACHER IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,
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B O A R D OF T R U S T E E S.
Erecutive Committee.
N. WRIGHT, ESQ. President.
REV. JAMES GALLAHER, First Vice President.
REV. ASA MAHAN, Second do.
A. MOORE, ESQ. Third do.
REV. F. Y. VAIL, Corresponding Secretary.
ROBERT BOAL, Recording Secretary.
JOHN H. GROESBECK, Treasurer.
J. G. TUNIs,
JoHN BAKER,
WM. W. GREEN,
GEORGE W. NEFF,
WM. HolyoRE,
STEPHEN BURRows.
Other JMembers of the Board.
JAMES WARREN, M. D.
RoHERT WALLACE,
WM. SCHILLINGER,
REv. John THoMPson,
.** • Rev. Ludwell. G. GAINEs,
REv. BłNJAMIN GRAvis, V.
REv. R. H. Bishop,
REv. SAMUEL CRoTHERs, *
* REW DANIEL HAYDEN, * .
I. G. BURNET, Esq. *
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R EP OR T.
In presenting their annual report to the Board, the execu-
tive committee feel specially called upon, first of all, to make a
distinct recognition of the visible hand of God, in the varied
scenes of mercy and judgment, through which they have been
called to pass during the last year. While it has been their
painful duty to record the death of Mr. Caleb Kemper, a valu-
able member of this Board, and one of the most interested
members of the executive committee, and to mingle their chris-
tian sympathy with those of a bereaved family; yet in the
midst of affliction and bereavement, they cannot but make a
grateful mention of the fact, that their last year's efforts have
been marked with many peculiar tokens of Divine favor, which
have placed this institution, as they trust, upon a permanent ba-
sis, and greatly increased the faith and courage of its numerous
friends.
- FUNDS OF THE INSTITUTION.
During the past year, the committee have enjoyed the most
pleasing and substantial evidence of the deep and growing inte-
rest of the christian community in the Seminary, in the bene-
factions which have been secured in its behalf. 3.
With a view to secure the funds conditionally pledged at the
east, the Secretary and Agent of the Seminary, Rev. Mr. Vail,
during the last winter, spent a few weeks in the city of Cincin-
nati, in an attempt to raise the amount required to be raised at
the west, and by the special blessing of God, and the prompt
hiberality of the friends of the institution, obtained a subscription
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of upwards of $15,000, to be appropriated in five annual instal-
ments, for the erection of buildings. This liberal subscription
was subsequently increased in the city and vicinity, to near
$20,000.
The committee cannot pass over without grateful acknowl-
edgments to the generous donor, a benefaction from Mr. John
Salmon, of $2,000, included in the above, which was given to
the Board, on condition that they pay him the interest on the
same, for the term of ten years, or merely during his lifetime,
if he should not live so long.
Early the last spring, $9,000 of the Philadelphia professorship
was received by the committee and advantageously invested in
safe real property, for the support of the Professor of Church
History and Church Polity.
During the past summer, Arthur Tappan, Esq. the generous do-
nor of $20,000, secured to the Seminary the payment of his pro-
fessorship; and will, for the present, pay the interest only of the
amount given for the support of the Professor of Theology. By
the efficient agency of Dr. Beecher in New York city, while
on his way to the west, assisted by the Rev. O. Eastman, the
New York professorship has been entirely completed, and near-
ly $1,000 also raised in Philadelphia, towards the completion of
that professorship, which the committee hope to have entirely
completed during the next season.
On the New York professorship $2,112,05 have been receiv-
ed, and invested with good security. By the aid of the profes-
sorships above-mentioned, three professors in the theologi-
cal department of the institution are furnished with permanent
foundations for their support; and by the subscriptions secured
in this city and vicinity, and the continued aid of the Messrs.
Lanes, the founders of the institution, the committee are now
erecting a seminary edifice, and two professors’ houses.
The committee deem it their duty and their privilege to ex-
press their public thanks to the numerous patrons of this institu-
tion, both at the east and west, for their liberality in laying the
foundation of an institution which promises to be a rich blessing
to our beloved country and the world.
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PROFESSORS OF THE THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
The acquisition of three theological professors to this in-
stitution during the past year, the committee regard as one of
the most significant tokens of the Divine favor with which their
efforts have ever been crowned.
The acceptance of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D. as Pres-
ident, and Professor of Theology; of the Rev. Thomas J. Biggs,
Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity; and of
the Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, as Professor of Biblical Literature,
constitute a new era in the history of our institution; and will,
we doubt not, contribute greatly to secure in its behalf, the confi-
dence and patronage of the christian community, and lay a foun-
dation for its increasing prosperity for future generations.
The Rev. Calvin E. Stowe was during the last summer elec-
ted Professor of Biblical Literature, and has recently accepted
his appointment, and will join the Seminary early in the spring.
From his extensive and well known acquisitions as a biblical
scholar, and the approved character of his publications, con-
nected with his department, it is confidently believed that he
will do much to raise the standard of biblical learning in this
country.
Thus having succeeded, in the providence of God, in our reg-
ular organization, under the auspices of men of known and ap-
proved capacity, we anticipate those favorable results for which
we have prayed and labored.
Dr. Beecher delivered his introductory lecture in the early
part of November, and an organized class of theological stu-
dents have since that time been pursuing their regular course
under the instruction of Dr. Beecher and Professor Biggs; and
it is matter of no small gratification and encouragement to the
directors of this infant Seminary, to learn from particular infor-
mation, that the prospect for a large class of theological students
for the next year, is highly satisfactory.
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
This branch of the Institution, though not intended to be a
college, or to be authorized to confer degrees, is intended to fit
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those young men who may wish to graduate, to take such ad-
vanced standing as they may choose in any of our regular colle-
ges; while those who, on account of age or other circumstances,
may not be able to pursue the formal routine of college studies,
will in this institution be furnished with a more extended course
of literature, under the instruction of a Professor of Languages,
a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, a Profes-
sor of Chemistry, and a Professor of Moral Science and Belles
Lettres, with such other teachers as shall be necessary. #
The committee are happy to inform the friends of the insti-
tution that Thomas D. Mitchell, M. D. has recently accepted
the Professorship of Chemistry; and the Rev. N. L. Fulsom,
A. M. of the Professorship of Languages, in the literary de-
partment of this institution. Professor Mitchell is already too
well known to the eastern and western community, as the
author of an able work on chemistry, and as a popu-
lar lecturer on this science, to need any expression of ap-
probation from the Board in his behalf. The Rev. Professor
Fulsom, though a young man, comes to us with such unquestion-
able testimonials as to his talents, his extensive literary acquisi-
tions, his thorough and critical linguistic attainments, his devoted
piety and christian enterprise, as fully to satisfy the committee
that his department will be ably and satisfactorily sustained.
It is hoped that the funds of the institution will soon permit
the Board to fill up all the professorships in this department.
Until this can be done, the students will continue to receive in-
struction in mathematics from the Rev. Professor Biggs, and
occasional lectures on moral science and philosophy from the
Rev. Dr. Beecher.
BUILDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION.
In the early part of last spring the committee commenced the
erection of a seminary edifice, 100 feet long and 40 feet deep,
and four stories high, with a basement, which will contain more
than 100 single rooms.
The plan of single rooms is regarded as a matter of no small
importance as a means of facilitating the intellectual progress of
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the students who wish to study, and to make the most of their
time. But the plan of furnishing each student with a private
room, especially every theological student—so that every pi-
ous youth can live (as every christian ought to live) in his closet,
is believed to possess a peculiar importance in its bearings upon
that eminent holiness of our prospective ministers, which should
be the leading object of a theological education. As literary
progress and the cultivation of a deep-toned spirit of piety, are
both so greatly promoted by circumstances of retirement, ought
not those who are rearing our literary and theological institu-
tions, to give their special attention to this subject?
The estimated cost of this building is $8,000. Near 40 of
the rooms are now occupied, and the remainder will be finished
by the close of the spring vacation.
Deeply impressed with the importance of having the profes-
sors reside at the institution, where the students can enjoy the
perpetual influence of their presence and example, the commit-
tee have undertaken during the past season the erection of two
professors’ houses, both of which being now enclosed, will furnish
work for many of our students the ensuing winter, and will be
ready for occupancy next spring.
MORE LAND SECURED,
It will be remembered that the committee at the commence-
ment of the institution, were deeply impressed with the impor-
tance of having more land than the 60 acres given by the lib-
erality of the Kempers, and accordingly purchased of Mr. El-
nathan Kemper, 40 acres adjoining the Seminary farm; but as
the institution was then without funds, professorships, professors,
or even students, and had little prospect of being able to pay
for the land, it was after some time judged expedient by consent
of Mr. Kemper, to relinquish to him the property. As the in-
stitution has been fast rising for the last two years, and has been
most signally blessed of God, in the increase of its funds and
students, and in securing the requisite instructors, and as more
land now seemedindispensable to the full success of the manual
labor department, the committee have recently purchased from
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Mr. Elnathan Kemper all his farm adjoining that of the Semi-
nary, containing about fifty-one acres of his most valuable land.
BOARD IN COMMONS.
The table has been to a great extent, furnished from the farm
with milk and butter, and with all the vegetables necessary; and
as it has been the wish of the students, to dispense with tea and
coffee, and all articles of luxury, and to live on principles of
christian simplicity and economy, the committee have been able
to furnish board at $1,00 per week, without loss to the institu-
tion; while the students themselves, it is believed, have been
greatly benefited in their health; and their intellectual pro-
gress been greatly facilitated by their simple habits of living.
LIBRARY.
The Rev. Mr. Colton was commissioned some months since, to
perform an agency in Europe, in behalf of this institution, with
the special object of obtaining a library and philosophical ap-
paratus, by presenting a printed appeal to our transatlantic
brethren, in behalf of the west, on the ground that this great
valley, being the receptacle of multitudes of European emi-
grants, it became the duty and the privilege of European chris-
tians to aid us in rearing institutions for their intellectual and
moral improvement. This appeal has awakened much interest
amongst our foreign friends, and by the efforts of Mr. Colton,
generously rendered without expense to the Board, several
hundred volumes of valuable works have already been secured,
and received without duties, by the Seminary; and it is hoped
that other important donations will be secured by this agency.
Dr. Beecher, also, has rendered an important service to the
board, by adding to the library, from New Haven, Boston, New
York, and Philadelphia, a thousand dollars worth of valuable
books. The former library of the institution has also been
somewhat increased during the past year from other sources.
Special efforts are now in progress to obtain one of the most
extensive and select private libraries in our land.

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STUDENTS FROM THE OLD STATES.
While the committee expect a large proportion of the stu-
dents will be natives of the west, and for whose education
this institution has been especially raised up, yet they have
been highly gratified to find that a considerable number of
young men have come from the old states, and are consequent-
ly receiving and imparting many important advantages.
In obtaining or even in completing their education in this
western seminary, our students from the Atlantic states, who in-
tend to locate in the valley, will find their facilities for influence
and usefulness, greatly increased by the simple fact of becom-
ing western men; studying on the ground, the manners and
customs and habits of the western people; becoming assimilated
to a western community; and by going forth from a western
institution to avoid those prejudices which are to be encountered
by those who come over the mountains, and which in some de-
gree injure, at least for a time, the influence and usefulness of
many of our best men.
Should any loss be anticipated in coming to the west on the
score of libraries, and a thorough and critical education, it is our
determined purpose that such apprehensions shall not be real-
ized, and certainly not in any such degree as shall not be more
than compensated by the preceding advantages, and by the
constant contact with western minds, and a sympathetic par-
ticipation in the bursting out of western feeling.
Nor will these welcome visitants from abroad, impart less im-
portant benefits than they will receive.
They will bring with them, and impart to our western young
men, a deep conviction of the importance of a regular, extend-
ed, and thorough course of education; will breathe into our pi-
ous sons of the west, the spirit of christian enterprize, which is
beginning to burn in the older churches; and will wake up
in the bosoms of not a few western students, a spirit of foreign
missions, which already has begun to burn in the hearts of num-
bers of our most promising students, and has determined prob-
ably not less than half a dozen of them, to consecrate themselves
to this blessed service.
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INFLUENCE OF MANUAL LABOR
ON THE HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS OF THE STUDENTs,
THEIR PIETY, AND FUTURE USEFULNESs.
The committee have great satisfaction in being able to state
that a strong conviction pervades the minds of our young men
generally, as well as their own, that laborious exercise for three
hours per day, does not occupy more time than is necessary to
the highest corporeal and mental energy; that so far from retard-
ing literary progress, it greatly promotes it; that instead of
finding labor to encroach upon their regular hours of study,
they find themselves able with a vigorous mind to devote from
eight to ten hours per day to intellectual pursuits; that under
the influence of this system, mental lassitude is seldom if ever
known; that good health and a good constitution, are rarely if
ever injured; that constitutions rendered delicate and prostra-
ted by hard study without exercise, have been built up and
established; that this system, with temperance,is a sovereign anti-
dote against dispepsia and hypochondria, with all their innume-
rable and indescribable woes; that it annihilates the fear of fu-
ture toil, self-denial, and dependence; secures to them the prac-
tical knowledge and benefits of agricultural and mechanical
employments; gives them familiar access to, and important
influence over, that great class of business men, of which the
world is principally composed; equalizes and extends the ad-
vantages of education, and lays deep and broad the founda-
tions of republicanism; promotes the advancement of consis-
tent piety, by connecting diligence in business with fervency of
spirit, and by giving countenance to the exploded maxim, ‘that
if any man will not work, neither shall he eat;’ and will bless
the church with such increasing numbers of ministers of such
spirit and physical energy, as will fit them to endure hardness
as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, and carry the gospel to all
who dwell on the earth. :
The committee are every day more and more impressed
with the importance and practicability of the manual labor sys-
tem, as the only one, by which the increasing hundreds and thou-
sands of the pious and talented sons of the church, can be raised
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up with the enterprise, and activity, and power of endurance,
which are indispensable for the conversion of the world to God.
The managers of the institution feel deeply sensible that
one of the most important enterprises of the age, is committed
to their hands; that a vast, and almost overwhelming responsi-
bility presses npon them; that being placed at this conspicuous
point in the great valley, and under the most favorable circum-
stances, to make a full and fair experiment of what can be
done by the manual labor system, the success of this Seminary
will do much to increase the number and prosperity of similar
institutions, for years to come, throughout our country.
ANNUAL EXPENSE AND PECUNIARY ADVANTAGES OF THE
INSTITUTION.
Theological Department.
Board, including the two sessions of 40 weeks, at $1,00
per week, $40,00 -
For rent of room, from $3 to $5, average $4, those hav-
ing double rooms, 2,00
Washing, 40 weeks, 7,00
Fuel $5, light $3, 8,00
Contingent expenses—use of library, wood for recitation
rooms, sweeping, &c. 3,00
Tuition, ...” gratis
Total, $60,00
Literary Department.
Expenses the same as in the theological department, $60,00
An addition for tuition of 20,00
$80,00
The above scale of expenses begins with the spring term.
As the theological professorships are endowed, it will be
seen that no tuition is charged to theological students. No
literary professorships being yet endowed, the institution has no
means of defraying the expense of literary instructors, except
from the tuition of the students in the literary department.
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DIRECT AND INDIRECT PECUNIARY RESULTS OF MANUAL
LABOR.
Fifty of the best farmers earned 5 cents per hour each,
and worked upon an average 16 hours per week; aver-
age amount earned, allowing each to have worked
during the whole 40 weeks’ sessions, $35,20
Those who worked the regular 18 hours per week,
earned 40,00
Several of the above have earned during the vacation by
farming, teaching, agencies, or otherwise, 40,00
Twenty-eight of the best mechanics earned upon an ave-
rage 83 cents per hour, and worked 16 hours per week;
average amount earned, allowing each to have worked
during the whole 40 weeks’ sessions, 54,80
Those who worked the regular 18 hours per week,
earned - 61,2I
Some of the above earned during the vacations, 40,00
Seven regularly trained mechanics earned 123 cents per
hour; average time of labor per week, 16 hours;
amount earned, allowing each to have worked the
whole 40 weeks, 80,00
Those who worked the regular 18 hours per week, earned
during the 40 weeks, 90,00
Such of the above as worked during vacation, earned 60,00
Though numbers of the lads of the institution, and others not
accustomed or disposed to habits of activity, have earned not
more than from one to four cents per hour, and of course will
not expect the important pecuniary results before us; yet the
above statement gives cheering evidence of what may be done
by young men of active, energetic, and laborious habits; and
inspires the hope that the day may not be far distant when by
the increasingimprovements and success of manual labor institu-
tions, the means of self-education shall be placed in the hands
of all young men who have sufficient force of character to ob-
tain, or be benefited by a thorough education. That none
who are unwilling to eat their bread by the sweat of their brow
and to encounter toils and self-denials in obtaining the means
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of an education, may think it an easy matter to secure in this
institution the pecuniary results above-mentioned, the commit-
tee will advert to one fact, among many others, illustrative of
the enterprise, the self-denial, and the spirit of these young men.
Two of the first men of the Oneida Manual Labor Institution,
in New York, wishing to enter this theological school and pre-
serve their invaluable manual labor habits, instead of taking the
stage to Cincinnati, as most young men would have done, at an
expense of $20, travelled to the head of the Alleghany river,
about 800 miles above our city, hired themselves out on a raft,
and besides performing an important missionary service amongst
their new associates, earned $20 each to aid them in their fu-
ture efforts for self-support.
SCHOOL-TEACHERS’ DEPARTMENT.
A course of study will be seen in the appendix, marked out
with special reference to the education of common school in-
structors. It is well known that no class of men is more need-
ed, ministers not excepted, in the western country, than well
educated teachers, of religious or at least good moral character,
to extend the influence and elevate the standard of common
school education. For the want of such instructors in the great
valley, multitudes of children are found, amongst whom not
more than one in eighteen or twenty, are taught even to
read or write. In many other large portions of the west,
where many instructors are employed, and much money is paid
for their support, nearly all the moral and literary benefit which
ought to result from the influence of common schools, is lost
for the want of well instructed teachers of good character and
habits. All who are acquainted with the subject, see the in-
dispensable necessity of having hundreds and even thousands
of the young men of our country trained up under the best mor-
al influences, and with special reference to the important and
responsible work in which they should be engaged.
Believing that the great interests of general education at the
west, imperiously demand a large class of such men; that public
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opinion is now calling for their labors; that they would do much
to prepare the way for an able and faithful ministry; that many
of our western young men of good character would find this a
highly useful employment, if they could obtain the means to a
considerable extent, of self-support during their education; the
committee deem it important to furnish a distinct department
for the education of such instructors, with the confident hope
that some friend or friends of education and religion will esteem
it a privilege soon to endow a professorship for the special ob-
ject of educating school-teachers for the west.
MOTIVES AND ENCOURAGEMENTS TO PERSEVERING EFFORTS.
All the reasons which operated to originate this institution
still press with increasing urgency upon its friends to go for-
ward in their important undertaking. The same great field,
white for the harvest, is still spread out before them; and the
same urgent call is heard from every quarter, for a great in-
crease of able and faithful ministers. The rapid tide of infidel-
ity and crime continues to roll over this fair portion of our heri-
tage, threatening, unless speedily arrested, the destruction of all
that is lovely and of good report.
Our hopes still rest upon our institutions of learning and re-
ligion, rendered efficacious by the influence of the Holy Spirit.
The Cincinnati Lane Seminary, as a school of the prophets and
a literary institution, located at the heart of this great valley,
and enjoying the confidence and sympathy, and receiving the
patronage and prayers of many christians in the old and new
states; raising a high standard of literary and theological educa-
tion; favored with some of the best talent in our country; and
encouraged by the special leadings of Providence, and the in-
dications of Divine favor, cannot fail to take a conspicuous place
among the institutions of the west, in diffusing intelligence and
religious light over the great valley, and sending back to the old
states a healthful moral influence in return for their christian
benevolence, which gave to this Seminary its present character
and increasing prosperity.


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MUCH REMAINS TO BE DONE.
While the committee rejoice and take courage, in view of
the peculiar encouragement which has attended their efforts
thus far, they are deeply sensible that the great work commit-
ted to their hands, instead of being nearly accomplished, is but
just commenced. A deep and broad foundation has indeed
been laid open for an institution, which, it is hoped, will be a
blessing to future generations; but the superstructure is yet to
be reared with much toil and wisdom, self-denial and benevo-
lent effort, and with much dependence on God, and prayer for
his blessing, if the animating expectations now cherished, are
ever to be realized. Another seminary edifice, a chapel, a
larger steward's house, several mechanic shops, and other out-
buildings are to be erected—the farm to be placed under the
highest state of cultivation for horticultural and agricultural
purposes—the manual labor department, with all its difficulties
and inexperience, is to be systematized and perfected—different
branches of mechanical business to be investigated, and the
kinds most conducive to health and pecuniary advantage, and
best adapted to the capacities of students, to be introduced—
funds already subscribed to be collected and invested, and other
funds obtained for other buildings and, professorships in the
literary department—an additional library to be collected—
philosophical and chemical apparatus to be purchased—and
additional professors and teachers to be selected. All this
varied machinery is to be put into operation, judiciously bal-
anced, and impelled forward with a persevering activity; and’
then, by God's blessing, we may hope to see this institution rise"
up as a pillar of light in this great valley, and diffuse the light of
science and religion over our whole land. .
In behalf of the executive committee. *
F. Y. VAIL, Corresponding Secretary. ;
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A P P E N DIX .
TERMS OF ADMISSION.
No stupenT ADMITTED FOR LEss THAN A TERM.
As there is an English, connected with the literary depart-
ment, no conditions of entrance will be required, but testimoni-
als of good moral character. Each student is required to pay
$20 advance, at the time of entering, to board in commons, and
to provide beds, bedding, and furniture for his own room. As
the different branches of mechanical employments are to be in-
troduced, all who have tools are expected to furnish them.
WACATIONS.
Their will be two sessions in a year, each of twenty weeks;
and two vacations, each of six weeks.
The spring vacation will commence the first Wednesday in
May, and the fall vacation the last Monday in October.
COURSE OF STUDY.
PREPARATORY OR ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT.
English and Latin Grammar,
Penmanship,
Arithmetic,
Vocal Music,
Geography,
Mair's Introduction, or Jacob's Latin Reader,
Greek Grammar,
Jacob's Greek Reader,
Greek Testament,
Day's Algebra, commenced,
Cicero's Select Orations,
Virgil.
SCHOOL-TEACHERS2 COURSE.
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar,
Algebra, Plane Trigonometry, Surveying,
Mensuration, Navigation,
Dr. Bishop's Logic, Rhetoric,
Evidences of Christianity,
Lectures on Natural Theology, Evidences of Revelation,
and Moral Philosophy, by the President,
Ancient and Modern History,
Chemistry,
Political Economy,
Composition and Elocution.
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LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
In this department, it is intended to fit young men, who in-
tend to graduate, for any standing they may wish to take in our
regular colleges; while those who on account of age, or other cir-
cumstances, may not be able to pursue a formal college course,
will be furnished in this institution, with the following more ex-
tended course of literary instruction. .
FIRST YEAR.
Euclid,
Latin and Greek Antiquities,
Caesar,
Livy,
Graeca Minora,
Dugdale's Selections of Horace,
Day's Algebra,
Study of the Bible, including biblical and Jewish antiquities,
Graeca Majora, begun, -
Composition and Elocution, through the year.
SECOND YEAR.
Dugdale's Horace, satires and epistles,
Graeca Majora, continued,
Day's Mathematics,
Olmstead's Natural Philosophy,
History, Ancient and Modern.
THIRD YEAR.
Graeca Majora, continued,
Cicero de Officiis, Tacitus, Horace's Art of Poetry,
Blair's Rhetoric,
Natural Philosophy, finished,
Chemistry, Shepherd's Mineralogy and Geology,
Paley's Natural Theology,
Lectures on Natural Theology, Evidences of Revelation,
and Moral Philosophy, by the President.
During the fourth year of the literary course, the students will
pursue their studies under the particular inspection and instruc-
tion of the President, and the other professors of the theological
seminary. ... &
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OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE
LANE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
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CATALOG UE
OFFICERS AND STUDENTS.
DECEMBER, 1835.
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PU B L IS HED BY CORE Y AND W E B STER,
1835.

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RE POR. T.
IN presenting to the trustees their annual report, the execu-
tive committee have the painful duty to record the recent
death of two of the members of this board. The Rev. Daniel
Hayden and Daniel W. Fairbank, since our last anniversary
occasion, have been called from their earthly labors to their
final account, and have, we doubt not, entered upon the rest
which remains for the people of God. While we are admon-
ished of our own mortality, by the unexpected removal of
these beloved brethren and associates, let us be excited by
their diligence and zeal in the service of their Master, to do
with our might whatsoever our hands find to do. *
COLLECTION AN ID IN V E S T MENT OF F UN DS,
The present prosperous condition of our country has been
improved by the committee during the last year, in making
collections for the different objects for which subscriptions
had been formerly secured. By the agency of Rev. Mr. Vail,
our secretary, besides new subscriptions now secured, about
$14,000 have been collected on the professorships, the library
fund, and the subscription for the chapel. The cheerful
promptness with which these subscriptions were paid by hun-
dreds of good men, in various parts of the country, furnishes
the most substantial evidence of the high estimation in which
this institution is held; while it gives a delightful practical
comment on their views of the sacred nature of obligations
entered into for the cause of public benevolence. Such uni-
form integrity of moral principle amongst our numerous
benefactors in the old states, in reference to a kind of obliga-
tion not always deeply felt and promptly met, even by good
men, inspires the committee with great confidence that all the
large promises of eastern liberality in behalf of our institution,
will be fully realized. The funds now to be invested for
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professorships, the committee propose, as in former cases, to
investin real property in the city, with perpetual ground rents,
or in such bank stock or mortgages as shall be most safe and
productive.
I, I B R A R Y e
As it is a special object of this institution to raise high the
standard of theological education; and as many of our students
are not furnished with the means of procuring the requisite
books; the furnishing of a well-selected library has been con-
sidered as fundamental to the best interests of the seminary.
In addition to a library of near 4000 volumes, mostly pre-
sented to the institution, the committee will be enabled during
the ensuing year, by the liberality of friends in New-York, to
procure from Europe several thousand volumes of the most
valuable standard works. After considerable examination
among the book establishments of this country, and in view
of the heavy duties of importing books, and the difficulty of
obtaining the important works which are needed, the com-
mittee now propose to send Professor Stowe to Europe, during
the ensuing year, to select a library; and believe, with his
knowledge of books, and our facilities for obtaining them free
from duties, we can expend $10,000 for our library, in no
other way so advantageously.
IBU II, DIN G, S e
The buildings of the seminary, which have been erected thus
far principally by western munificence, are, a large boarding-
hall for commons; a seminary edifice, 100 feet long, four stories
high, with single rooms; a steward's house, and two profes-
sors’ houses, all of brick. The plan of the institution embraces
two additional professors’ houses, a seminary edifice to corres-
pond with the one already completed, and a chapel, which is
to be finished the ensuing summer. The chapel, for which
we are indebted to the liberality of our friends in Boston and
the vicinity, is in the style of a Grecian temple, 75 feet by 55,
to be finished in the plainest manner, with a chapel room 50
by 55 feet; a library room of the same size; besides three com-
modious lecture rooms, and a room for the Society of Inquiry
on Missions. Those benevolent individuals who have contri-
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buted for the erection of this important edifice, will enjoy the
satisfaction of furnishing not only indispensable accommoda-
tions for the institution, but also a temple for the worship of
God, by which, as we trust, a large and growing community,
will be accommodated, and trained up for future blessedness.
M A N U A L L A B O R •
It is a fundamental principle of this institution that every
student shall devote three hours a day to some useful and profit-
able employment. A successful experiment of four years
has served to deepen the conviction of the trustees, the faculty,
and the students, of the great practical importance of this
principle. The committee, therefore, do not regard them-
selves as theorizing on this subject, while they briefly advert
to a view of the leading advantages of this system.
1. It preserves the life and health of our young men.
It is a notorious fact, that not a few of the most promising
young men in our institutions of learning, are now, from year
to year, self-destroyed by hardstudy without requisite exercise;
while a still larger number, from the same cause, have their
constitutions broken down, and drag out a suffering existence,
without comfort to themselves or benefit to the world. Such
is the natural inertia of the human character, that notwith-
standing all the efforts which can be made by instructors to
the contrary, this work of self-immolation, it is to be feared,
will continue to go forward, unless systematic exercise shall
be incorporated with all our institutions of learning. Under
the influence of this benign system, we are permitted to see
our young men, instead of leaving our institution with emaci-
ated countenances and bleeding lungs, go out at the close of a
forty weeks' term with as vigorous health as they entered, and
with a firmness of constitution peculiarly fitting them for the
toils and responsibilities of a new settled country.
2. Actual experiment in manual labor has established the
fact in the minds of the officers and students of the institution,
that three hours’ labor a day, so far from interfering with
study, greatly strengthens the mind, increases the power of
acquisition, and facilitates intellectual progress. No one, it is
believed, who has made the experiment, can doubt that greater
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actual progress can be made through a course of years, by six
or eight hours' study per day, with appropriate exercise, than
could be secured by ten or twelve hours' study, unattended by
the mental vigor which results from such exercise; and it is
earnestly hoped that the time is not far distant when our
young men generally will enjoy the necessary facilities, in all
our institutions, to make the experiment for themselves, and
participate in its rich rewards.
3. The manual-labor system lays deep and broad the
foundations of republican institutions, and saves much of the
best talent of the church by diminishing the price of education,
and equalizing its advantages among all classes of the commu-
nity; and by bringing the means of high intellectual culture,
within the reach of many who could not otherwise aspire to
the influence and usefulness of professional life.
4. While the grand object of manual labor is accom-
plished in the influence which it exerts on health and intellec-
tual improvement, yet it is a fact of no small importance to
young men without means, that much may be done in this
way by men of enterprize and active business habits for their
own support. Students of such character and habits, having
but small resources, will be encouraged and gratified to learn
that our young men, during the last year, who are acquainted
with mechanical employments, have been able to earn from
$50 to $100 each; while those who have labored on the farm
three hours per day, have received for their services from $30
to $40 per annum. Ten students in the printing department
have earned, upon an average, from $90 to $100 each, dur-
ing the same period.
While the committee wish to furnish to efficient and ener-
getic young men of industrious character the encouragement of
these facts, they would have it distinctly understood that stu-
dents of an opposite character cannot, with safety, rely to any
considerable degree upon the avails of their own labor for their
support.
IE XP EN SES OF THIE I N S T IT U TI O N e
With a view to extend and equalize the advantages of edu-
cation, the committee have used every effort to diminish the
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expenses of the seminary. The following statement will shew
that the term bills are made so low, as, by the aid of manual
labor, to bring the advantages of this institution within the
reach of all young men of worth, who wish to enjoy its bene-
fits. Students are at no expense for tuition. Board in
commons, varying from $1 00 to $1 374 per week. Room
rent, fuel, light, each $5 per annum. Washing, $7. Fuel
and light for public rooms, sweeping, and all other incidental
expenses, $5. *
EN Dow MENT OF SCHOLARSHIPS, AND A DDITIONAL
BU II, DIN G, S e
As numbers of the friends of this institution have expressed
a desire to do something in a permanent form for its benefit,
and which shall enable them instrumentally to preach the gos-
pel to the future millions of the west, long after they have
gone home to Heaven, we deem it expedient to state that two
additional professors’ houses, and permanent work-shops for
manual labor, are greatly needed; and that $600 will endow
in this seminary a permanent scholarship, by the annual avails
of which, in connection with those of his own labor, one young
man of piety and talents, from year to year, may be carried
forward in his preparation for the gospel ministry. By the
avails of such a foundation, a succession of able and faithful
ministers may be raised up from generation to generation,
while the benevolent donor will enjoy the privilege of opening
a perennial fountain of salvation to bless our land and the
world. All bequests to the institution should be made to the
Trustees of the Lane Seminary.
THIO R O U G. H. C. O U R S E OF EDU CATION,
The securing of such an education is so vitally important
to the best interests of religion throughout this rising empire,
that it cannot be too often mentioned as fundamental to the
highest prosperity and usefulness of this institution. Without
arrogating to ourselves any denominational superiority, every
one knows that the influence of the Presbyterian church in
these United States—her successful management of many of
the colleges and seminaries of learning in this country—her
powerful agency in carrying forward the great enterprizes of
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christian benevolence, depend, under God, in no small degree,
on the fact, that she has been blessed, from her first settlement
in this land, with a well-educated christian ministry. And
while the standard of education is now fast rising in all the
departments of professional education, who does not see the
indispensable necessity of raising up a ministry which shall be
respected for its talents and acquisitions, as well as revered
and loved for its piety? To secure such a ministry, and to
check the tendencies always existing in a new settled country
to keep down the standard of education, was a leading design
in the establishment and endowment of this institution; and
it is confidently believed that this important object will not
fail to be gained, while a college course of education, or that
which is equivalent to it, is required on entering the seminary,
and which is to be followed by a three years' course of theo-
logical study under a full corps of approved professors; and
with other advantages not inferior to those enjoyed in any
similar institution in this country.
Such a ministry is the more indispensable in a new settled
country, where the leading pioneers are known to be men of
great enterprize, of strong and discriminating minds, and where
the enemies of religion are making special and successful efforts
to mould society into their own perverted image.
P L A N OF ST. U. D Y e
The theological course occupies three years, and it is
expected that every student will enter with the intention of
completing the full course. The different branches are pur-
sued simultaneously, so far as practicable. It is the object
of the faculty, in this arrangement, to keep all the departments
of study fully before the mind during the whole course, and
never to allow one branch to be crowded out by an exclusive
attention to any other. The plan is more fully developed in
the appendix to this report.
PR of Esso R of s Acre D R HETO RIC AND PAST ORAL
T H E O LOGY e
It was announced in the last report, that by the very liberal
subscriptions of a few friends in Boston, Hartford, and
Worcester, this professorship had been endowed. The
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addition of a fourth theological professor to complete the
organization of the institution, and furnish the requisite
instruction in rhetoric and sermonizing, has been regarded by
the faculty and trustees as an object of high importance, and
has received the special attention of the executive committee
during the past year; and the committee are now happy in
being able to inform the board, that, after very extended
inquiry on the subject, they are prepared to present for their
consideration a candidate, the Rev. Baxter Dickinson, of New-
ark, New-Jersey, whose usefulness in the church, and fitness
for the station, as well as testimonials from the highest sources,
point him out as a most desirable acquisition to the seminary.”
HII G H A TTA IN MENTS IN HIO L IN ESS AND T H E O I, O GIC A. L.
KNO W L E D G E CO N N E C T E D WITH DIRECT EFFO RTS
TO DO G O O De
While the urgent demand for more ministers is everywhere
deeply felt; and while great efforts are now made to increase
* It will be gratifying to the friends of the institution to learn, that,
at the annual meeting of the board, on the 29th October, the Rev. Baxter
Dickinson was elected to the professorship of sacred rhetoric and pastoral
theology; has accepted the appointment; and has already entered upon the
duties of his office. In securing the services of Professor Dickinson, a
gentleman well known as a judicious counsellor, a thorough scholar, a dis-
criminating theologian, an able writer, and an eloquent preacher, the board, it
is believed, have done much to secure the continued confidence of the christian
public, and the increasing prosperity of the institution.
Professor Dickinson was inducted into office on the 17th December, with
interesting and appropriate services.
The Rev. R. H. Bishop, D. D. president of Miami University and one of the
members of the board, performed the inaugural ceremony, and delivered a
highly interesting charge to the professor. In accordance with the laws of
the institution, Professor Dickinson gave his public assent to the formula
adopted by the other professors, in which he declared his belief in the scrip-
tures of the Old and New Testament, as the only infallible rule of faith and
practice; adopted the confession of faith of the Presbyterian church, as contain-
ing the system of doctrine taught in the holy scriptures; approved, and engaged
to support the government and discipline of the Presbyterian church, and to be
zealous and faithful in qualifying his pupils to explain, defend and apply the
truths of the gospel. The inaugural address which followed, by Professor Dick-
inson, on the importance of a high standard of ministerial qualification, was one
of rich thought and thrilling eloquence, and was listened to with the deepest
interest by a numerous assembly. As the address will soon issue from the
press, we need here only commend it to the attention of the christian public.
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their number, the church is beginning to feel that a no less
important work is to be done in the increase of personal
holiness amongst those who are now in training for the field
of labor. Who can suppress the humiliating conviction that
the vast disproportion which is now seen between the modern
and primitive success of ministerial effort, is not so much
owing to the miraculous powers of the apostles as to the
want of more eminent holiness in the present ministers of the
gospel? &
, In view of this fact, can we resist the conclusion that if
the 2000 ministers now in the Presbyterian church, all possess-
ed the personal piety—the warm-hearted zeal—the self-
sacrificing spirit—the holy energy and efficiency of Paul and
of Brainard, that even without any increase of ministerial
talent or learning, the church and her leaders would immedi-
ately be invested with a moral power which, under God,
would speedily evangelize the world.
And who can doubt that such a spirit in the ministry, and
such corresponding action on the part of the church are not
only practicable, but a most sacred duty?
Now if there be one specific object of our enterprize more
important, and more dear to our hearts than another, it is that
of securing the highest possible standard of holiness among
the sons of this institution. This desirable object the com-
mittee believe can be secured in no way so effectually as by
encouraging our students in direct efforts to do good—to
save the souls of men, and by furnishing them with the requi-
site facilities for so doing while prosecuting their theological
studies.
A little careful observation, it is believed, will show most
conclusively, that the young men in our seminaries who have
been most active and successful in doing good—in attending
to prayer-meetings, Bible classes, and Sabbath schools, and
the enterprizes of christian benevolence; (while at the same
time their conscientious regard to duty has not allowed them
to neglect their studies) have been distinguished for the suc-
cessful cultivation of piety, and for a deep tone of christian
feeling; while in not a few instances students, who have enter-
ed these sacred institutions, with a warmhearted piety, but
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in the ardor of intellectual pursuits have relaxed their efforts
to do good, have lost their ardent spirit of devotion and com-
munion with God, and have, afterwards, in their official charac-
ter, been distinguished in the church as elegant writers, cor-
rect metaphysicians, or classical sermonizers, rather than as
warmhearted, zealous preachers of the gospel, who are filled
with faith and the Holy Ghost, and who turn many to right-
eousness. While the professors of this institution have laid
it down as a first principle that close, thorough and perseve-
ring study is now to be the great absorbing business of the
student, they have also given that encouragement to suitable
efforts in doing good, which has resulted in the actual employ-
ment of nearly all the students in our seminary in those inci-
pient ministerial labors in our city, and in the destitute neigh-
borhoods around us, which are so vital to the cultivation of
their piety, and to their future success as ministers of Christ.
And if those who would know the doctrine—would successfully
study and understand the deep things of God—must learn
first to do the will of God; is there any way by which the rising
ministry can so certainly become mighty in the scriptures—
can learn to speak and mind the same things, as by associating
with laborious study those holy efforts to do good, which are
at once the essence, the evidence, and the soul of religion?
C O N C L U S I O N e
In conclusion, the executive committee would invite the
attention of the board of trustees, and of the christian public,
to the necessity of greater efforts in behalf of theological
education at the west.
1. The great destitution of ministers throughout the
western valley, imperiously demands a large increase of their
number. The state of Ohio has nearly one third of all the
Presbyterian ministers in the ten states of the western valley,
and yet more than one hundred of our churches are now un-
supplied; while in one section of this state, there are ten
adjoining counties in which it is believed there is but one
Presbyterian minister. A far greater destitution, of course,
exists in the other nine states of the valley. In western
Louisiana, a region of country two hundred miles long and
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one hundred broad, as large as two of Connecticut, and with
an extensive and wealthy population, there is but one Presby-
terian minister, and he devotes but half of his ministerial
labors to this destitute portion of country. In the extensive
regions embracing the two Floridas, but three ministers of
our own denomination, one hundred and fifty miles distant
from each other, are found to break to the increasing mul-
titudes the bread of eternal life. Hundreds of our churches,
for want of more ministers, now enjoy the stated preaching
of the gospel but once in two, four, and in some instances
but once in six weeks. With such infrequent ministerial
instruction, and with very little pastoral visitation, who
can think it strange that these neglected churches should
continue to be powerless and inefficient, especially when it is
remembered how difficult it is to advance the cause of religion
in those congregations which are favored with preaching
twice and three times on each Sabbath, besides lectures,
prayer-meetings, and pastoral visitation during the week?
Could an efficient minister be found for each one of these
feeble churches, and his whole time be spent in bringing the
gospel to bear upon the entire community, and especially
upon the rising generation, no doubt can be entertained but
what in most cases these feeble, small and inefficient churches
would soon become numerous, strong and healthy; be able
and willing to support the gospel amongst themselves, and do
much to impart the same blessings to the destitute in this and
other lands. Besides the destitute churches spoken of, hun-
dreds of new ones, it is believed, might speedily be formed,
and built up, if the requisite laborers to do the work could be
obtained. Those who have passed through the length and
breadth of this great land, and have surveyed its moral wants,
think it not too much to say, that if we now had one thousand
additional ministers of the right character, they might all be
most usefully located in a single year.
2. The west will have ministers of one character or another.
Man is a religious being, and will have his altars and minis-
ters; and if they be not consecrated to the living God, they
will become the apologists of his crimes, and the instruments
of his ruin.
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Israel once had but a single prophet of God, but the fearful
deficiency was more than made up by four hundred prophets
of Baal. The heathen world is filled with the ministers of
religion; but are they not blind leaders of the blind? and do
they not lead their deluded followers down to perdition? The
west has her ministers of religion, besides many who are
evangelical and devoted—has she not her Universalists—her
Catholics—her Deists and her Atheists? and are they not
rapidly increasing and taking possession of the fairest portions
of our beloved country? and are they not entrenching them-
selves against the future attacks of christianity? The great
question, then, is not whether the west shall have ministers,
but what shall be their character; whether they shall be the
ministers of righteousness, or the ministers of sin? Whether
they shall conduct the increasing millions of our population
to the joys of heaven, or lead them down to the gates of hell?
Nor should it be forgotten that the church of God is quickly
to decide this momentous question.
3. God has given to the west the requisite young men for
her future ministry. During the revivals of religion through-
out the valley, within the last four years, hundreds of young
men of promising talents and piety, have been brought into
the churches, whose hearts burn with intense desire to preach
the gospel to their perishing countrymen, and who only need
an education to fit them for distinguished usefulness in this
great field, which is white for the harvest. And why has God
converted these young men, and inspired their bosoms with
earnest longings to preach Christ to dying men, if it be not,
that the church should educate them for her service? Though
rich in faith, most of these sons of the church are poor in
the possessions of earth; and the great practical question
for the church now to decide, is, whether they must forever
extinguish their earnest desire and hope to preach the gospel,
and spend their lives in comparative obscurity and uselessness,
or whether the requisite institutions of learning shall be pro-
vided for their education. While we are thus distinctly and
loudly called to this great work, by the number and increase
of our pious young men, the churches, it is believed, will not
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4. The future ministry of the west, to a great extent,
must be raised up in western institutions.
To say nothing of the impossibility of obtaining a sufficient
number from the old states, after they have supplied their own
vacancies, and met the urgent and increasing demand for for-
eign service, an important reason for a supply of western
preachers is found in the fact that young men who are natives
of the soil, who have been formed in a western mould,
are familiar with the manners, and customs, and habits, of
western people, enjoy peculiar facilities for doing good, and
are free from the suspicions and prejudices, which, to some
extent, are met with by all who emigrate from the old states.
It is therefore a serious question whether young men from the
east, who intend to labor in a western field, would not secure
important advantages, by obtaining at least a part of their edu-
cation in our western institutions; and especially if, in doing so,
they can here enjoy as important advantages as at the east.
5. The west, though willing to aid herself, still needs
some assistance from the east, in planting her institutions of
education and religion. It is sometimes said that the west is
rich and able to help herself. We reply: first, that much of
the wealth of the west is prospective—lies undeveloped and
unrealized in rich, uncultivated lands, and in exhaustless and
unexplored minerals; second, that where western wealth is
realized, it is, to a great extent, in the hands of men who do
not appreciate the institutions of education and religion, and
whose wealth can never be secured for such institutions until
its possessors shall be taught their value by beholding their
practical results. Our final answer to the objection that the
west is able to help herself, is that, as a general fact, so far as
ability is found in the hands of good men, they are willing to
do more, and are actually doing more according to their
means, than eastern christians are doing; and we may add,
that if our eastern benefactors will continue their munificence
but a few years longer, until our resources can be developed,
our wilderness subdued, our roads and bridges constructed,
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possess and hold back their wealth are converted and learn
that they are God's stewards; we pledge ourselves that we
will come no more to the east to beg, unless it be to urge them
to receive into their christian treasury the overflowings of our
benevolence and our wealth, for the conversion of the world.
6. The advancement of the cause of ministerial educa-
tion at the west, is indispensable to the success of all our
other benevolent enterprizes.
Bibles and tracts, however necessary and extensively cir-
culated, cannot do their appropriate work until you can send
the living minister to call up the attention of the people and
press the claims of truth upon their hearts and consciences.
Sabbath schools, so important to the best interests of the rising
generation, cannot be established and maintained in thou-
sands of the most destitute neighborhoods, for want of minis-
terial and christian influence.
Good common schools, which, when established on chris-
tian principles, and embracing the entire community, are the
nurseries of the church, and the grand palladium of our liber-
ties, it is very well known as a matter of fact, seldom are
established, especially in a new settled country, beyond the
influence of an enlightened ministry. It is estimated that
there are three millions of uneducated population in the United
States, and a large proportion of them are in the west; and
nothing is more wanting than thousands of competent com-
mon-school instructors, for the education of the rising gene-
ration. That they can never be sent from the east to any
considerable extent, is most evident, though we are thankful
for all that can be thus furnished. *
Our main dependence must evidently be placed upon an
efficient ministry. It must devolve on them to organize the
discordant materials of society; to train up on the ground to
be occupied, and if necessary, under their own eye, the instruc-
tors requisite for the whole community. It cannot be too
deeply impressed upon our minds that, as a general fact,
teachers cannot be sent to prepare the way for ministers, but
ministers must create the teachers, and give moral influence
to their operations. The connection between the establish-
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theological seminaries, and an enlightened ministry, is so
obvious as only to need a passing remark. Equally evident is
it that double energy and efficiency might now be given to the
missionary enterprize at home and abroad, if the men could be
furnished; and now while Providence is pouring the tide of
prosperity upon the church, and filling the treasury of the
Lord, so that hundreds of additional laborers might be sus-
tained, and a new and mighty impulse be given to the cause of
God, if the men could be found, with what fervor and impor-
tunity should the whole church join in the petition that the Lord
of the harvest would send forth more laborers into his harvest!
Finally. The great increase of colleges in the west, during
the last few years, calls loudly for more extended means of
theological education. More than twenty colleges are now
in successful operation within the ten states of the western
valley. In these institutions there are now several hundred
pious young men, most of whom are looking forward to the
christian ministry, and will soon be prepared to enter upon
their theological education in western theological institutions.
From the limited provision yet made for theological training
in the west, it is sufficiently evident that such a school of the
prophets as ours, liberally endowed, fully organized, with able
and well known instructors; having the advantages of the
manual-labor system; and located at the centre of four mil-
lions and a half of our population; is urgently demanded for the
accommodation of theological students, and is destined, under
God, to exert a most powerful agency in training up the
future ministers of the west.
As a number of the most important of these colleges have
been endowed by the same munificence which has given being
and prosperity to this institution, and as a leading object of
these colleges is to train up young men for the ministry, it will
be seen that the establishment of such institutions as this,
is indispensable to the accomplishment of the good work
already so favorably commenced by the friends of western
education. -
By order of the Trustees,
F. Y. VAIL,
Corresponding Secretary and General Agent.



A PPENDIX.
C O U RSE OF STU D Y .
1. BIBLICAL LITERATURE.
THE books used in elementary instruction in Hebrew are Stuart's Grammar
and Chrestomathy, and Gibbs' Manual Lexicon. Every student is expected
to furnish himself with a Hebrew Bible, a Greek Testament, and an appro-
priate Lexicon for each. The edition of the Hebrew Bible most recommended
by its clearness of type and cheapness is that of Hahn, but the editions of
Michaelis, Vanderhooght, Simonis, or Jahn may be used. The Lexicon for
the Old Testament is that of Gesenius, either Professor Gibbs’ English transla-
tion, or the Latin edition published at Leipsic, in 1833. The New Testament
must be in the edition of Knapp, Griesbach, or Water; the first is preferred. For
a Lexicon of the New Testament, Professor Robinson's translation of Wahl,
or the Greek and Latin Lexicons of Bretschneider, Wahl, or Schleusncr may
be used. It is also recommended that each student furnish himself with a
copy of the Septuagint, the cheapest and best edition of which for common
use is that of Van Ess, published at Leipsic, 1824; and Schleusner's Septua-
gint Lexicon.
FIRST YEAR.
1. Biblical Geography and .4ntiquities.—Robinson's Calmet; Jahn's Archae-
ology translated by Professor Upham; Harmer's Observations; Burder's
Oriental Customs and Oriental Literature; Works of Reland, Bochart,
Lightfoot, and Selden; Biblical Repository; Modern Traveler.
2. Principles of Biblical Interpretation.—Stuart's Ernesti. Morus and Keil,
Hermeneutica. Gerard's Institutes. Bishop Marsh's Lectures. Camp-
bell's (Dr. George) Dissertations. Plauck’s Introduction, translated by
Professor Turner.
3. General Introduction to the Old and New Testaments, and Particular Intro-
duction to the Pentateuch, Gospels, and Acts.-Jahn's Introduction to the
Old Testament translated by Professor Turner; Hug's Introduction to
the New Testament, translated and published at Andover; Horne's intro-
duction; Carpzov and Walton; Marsh's Michaelis.
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4. Interpretation of the Gospels in Harmony and the Acts.-Calvin, Com. in
Evan. Har.; Newcome's Harmony, Robinson's edition; Stuart's Grammar
of N. T.; Rosenmueller, Scholia in Nov. Test.; Kuinoel, Com. in Lib.
Hist. Nov. Test.; Campbell (Dr. G.) on the Gospels; Doddridge's Expo-
sitor; Buddeus' Ecclesia Apostolica; Neander's Apostolic Church, trans-
lated by Professor Robinson.
5. Interpretation of the Historical Writings of JMoses.—Calvin, Com. in Lib.
Mos.; Rosenmueller, Scholia in Pent.; Turner's Sacred History of the
World; Michaelis' Commentaries on the Laws of Moses, translated by
Dr. Smith; Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses.
Classical Reading.
Portions of the Historical writings of Herodotus, Tacitus, and Suetonius,
illustrative of the Old and New Testament history.
SECOND YEAR.
6. Particular Introduction to several books of the Old and JNew Testaments.-
Same as No. 3. Also works of Origen, Jerome, and Lardner.
7. Hebrew Poetry, including Figurative and Symbolic Language of Scripture.—
Lowth's Lectures on Hebrew Poetry, with notes by C. E. Stowe; Herder's
Spirit of Hebrew Poetry, translated by Professor Marsh; Sir William
Jones, Comment. in Poes. Asiat.
8. Interpretation of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.—Calvin, Com. in
Lib. Psalm. Do. do. in Jobum; Rosenmueller, Scholia in Psalmos, Jobum,
et Scripta Salomonis. Noyes on Job and Psalms; Dr. Good on Job;
Horsley on Psalms; Bush on Psalms.
9. Eipstles to Romans, Corinthians, Timothy, Hebrews, and I. Peter.—Calvin.
Com. in Epistolas; Jaspis, Versio Epistolarum; Stuart on Romans and
Hebrews; Leighton on Peter; Macknight on the Epistles; Doddridge's
Expositor; Rosenmueller, Scholia in Nov. Test.
Classical Reading.
Cicero de Officiis and Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates.
THIRD YEAR.
10. Nature and Fulfilment of Prophecy, particularly in reference to the JMessiah.
—Professor Smith's Scripture Testimony, vol. I; Hengstenberg, Chris-
tologie translated by Professor Keith; Hurd's Lectures on Prophecy;
Horsley's Sermons on Prophecy; Witsius de Prophetia; Newton on the
Prophecies.
11. Interpretation of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Nahum.–Calvin, Com. in Pro-
phetas. Rosenmueller, Scholia in Lib. Proph. Vitringa, Com. in Je-
saiam. Lowth on Isaiah.
12. Revelation in connection with Ezekiel and Daniel-Eichhorn in Apoca-
lypsin; Calvin, as in No. 11; Rosenmueller, as in No. 11; Rosenmueller,
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. Classical Reading.
Cicero de Divinatione and de Nat. Deorum, and Plato's Phaedo.
NoTE.—It is not to be supposed that the books of the Bible above mentioned
are to be interpreted throughout, in the lectures, in the form of commentary.
The peculiarities of each book are to be brought to view, an analysis of the
contents drawn out, the most characteristic and difficult passages explained,
and directions given for the interpretation of the whole. As opportunity may
be found, during the course, a few lectures will be given on Bibliography.
II. CHURCH HISTORY AND POLITY.
1. Chronology.—Hales’ Analysis with references to Spanheim, Usher, Light-
foot, Newton, Playfair.
2. Ecclesiastical Geography.—Hale's Horne's Introduction; Russel’s Palestine;
Russel's Egypt; Shimeall's Chart; Malte Brun's Geography; Butler's
Geography.
3. Church. History.—Text books for the whole course are Lampe translated
from the Latin with notes from Josephus, Eusebius, Spanheim, and Bud-
deus; Murdock's Mosheim; Milner, and Gieseler's Church History.
(a) Church before Advent of Christ.—Josephus; Stackhouse, Hist. of Bible;
Shuckford; Prideaux; Jahn's Heb. Com. translated by Prof. Stowe.
(b) “Apostolic Church.-Magdeburg Centuriators; Neander's Apostolic Church
translated by Prof. Robinson; Buddeus; Cave's Lives of Apostles.
(c) Church before the time of Constantine.—Lardner's Works, and Mosheim's
Dissertations.
(d) Oriental Church.--Text books as specified in No. 3.
(e) Western Church.--Text books as above.
(f) General Church. History from JMahommed to the Reformation.—Prideaux's
Life of Mahommed; Bush’s do.
(g) Reformation.--Milner. Williers. Scott. Bower's Life of Luther. Coxe's
Life of Melancthon. Robertson’s Charles V.
(h) Roman Catholic Church.-Authors as above, with Campbell's Lectures on
Church History.
(i) Protestant Church, including JNational and Dissenting Churches.—Burnet's
History. Neal's History of Puritans. McCrie's Life of Knox. Cook's
History of the Church of Scotland. Beza's Life of Calvin; Waterman's
do.; Luvall's History of Protestant Churches in France; Bogue and Ben-
net's History; Gough’s History of Quakers; Brownlee's do.; Coke's Life
of Wesley; Watson's do.; Buck's Theological Dictionary.
4. Dogmatic History.—Magdeburg Centuriators. Muenscher's Manual, trans-
lated by Prof. Murdock; Doederlein's Institutio; Storr and Flatt, translated
by Prof. Schmucker. Knapp's Theology, translated by Woods.
5. Church Polity.—Hooker's Church Polity. Ayton on Church Government.
Potter on do. Miller's Letters on Episcopacy. Miller's Ruling Elder.
King's Primitive Church.
6. Sacraments.--Wall's History of Infant Baptism. Gale's Reply to Wall.
Woods on Infant Baptism. Adams' View of Religions. Owen, Charnock
and Watts on Lord's Supper.
7. History of JMissions.--Brown's History. Lord's do. Oldendorp's History of
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III. SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.
1. Cause and Effect.—Brown, Hume, Berkley, and Beattie.
2. JMental Philosophy.—Locke, Stewart, Brown, Abercrombie, Upham, Buffier's
First Truths, Butler's Analogy and Sermons.
3. Atheism, its History, Hypothesis, Jirguments, Objections and Folly.—Cud-
worth's Intellectual System, Brucker's and Enfield's History of Philosophy,
and R. Bentley’s Folly of Atheism.
4. The Being, Character, and Attributes of God.—Locke, Clark, Berkley,
Bates, Paley, Dwight, and Turretin.
5. Reason, Light of .Nature, JNecessity of Revelation.—Knapp's Theology,
Leland's Necessity of Revelation and View of Deistical Writers, Deism
Revealed, Dwight on Infidel Philosophy, and Appleton's Lectures.
6. The Truth and Inspiration of the Bible.—Storr and Flatt's Biblical Theology,
Lardner's Credibility, Paley's Evidences and Horae Paulinae, Chalmer's
Works, Lyttleton on Conversion of St. Paul, Watson’s Apologies, Leslie’s
Short Method, Hume, Campbell and Farmer on Miracles, Witherspoon,
Bogue's Essay, Gospel its own Witness, and Wilson's and McIlvaine's
Evidences. * zº,
7. Doctrines of Revelation.—Augustine, Calvin, Turretin, Van Maestricht, J.
Edwards, J. Edwards, jun., Bellamy, West, Smalley, Witherspoon,
Dwight, Hopkins, A. Fuller, Whitby, Burton's Essays, Spring's Disqui-
sitions, Emmons, Magee on Atonement, Cole on Divine Sovereignty,
Backus on Regeneration, Bates’, Baxter's and Howe's Works, Watts'
Sermons, Doddridge's Lectures, and Owen's Works.
8. The Church, its Qfficers, and Institutions.—Calvin’s Institutes, Campbell's
Lectures on Church History, Rutherford's Rights of Presbyteries, Owen’s
Inquiry, Chauncey’s View of Episcopacy, Miller's Letters on the Ministry
and Eldership, and Horsley and Gurney on the Sabbath.
IV. SACRED REHETORIC.
This department receives attention through the whole course, but occupies
a prominent place in the third year.
1. Public Speaking; the compositions original, and subject to private
criticism.
2. Private Exercises in Reading and Speaking.
3. Skeletons of Sermons for Criticism.
4. Private Examination of Sermons.
5. Lectures on Sermonizing, Preaching, and Public Prayer.
JAuthors for Reference.—Blair, Sheridan, Walker, Campbell, Cicero, Quinc-
tilian, Kaimes, Witherspoon, Whately, Gregory, Reybaz, Fenelon, Massillon,
Claude, Porter, and others.
V. PASTORAL THEOLOGY.
Instruction on this subject is given in a general religious meeting of the
Students once a week, conducted by the Professors in common; also in a
course of Lectures to the Senior Class by the Professor in this Department,

B O A R D OF T R U S T E E S.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
N. WRIGHT, ESQ.. PRESIDENT.
REv. THOMAS BRAINARD, FIRST WICE PRESIDENT.
I. G. BURNET, SEcond WICE PRESIDENT.
AUGUSTUS MOORE, THIRD WICE PREside NT.
REv. F. Y. VAIL, Corr Espond ING SECRETARY.
ROBERT BOAL, REcoRDING SECRETARY.
JOHN H. GROES BECK, TREASURER.
J. C. TUNIS,
J. MELINDY.
STEPHEN BURROWS,
DANIEL CORWIN,
A. W. COREY,
E. ROSS.
OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
REv. A. MAHAN,
“ BENJAMIN GRAVES,
“ R. H. BISHOP, D. D.
“ SAMUEL CROTHERs,
JAMES WARREN, M. D.
WILLIAM SCHILLINGER,
ROBERT WALLACE,
JOHN BAKER,
WM. HOLYOKE,
GEORGE W. NEFF,
DANIEL WURTZ,
WILLIAM W. GREEN.
FA C U L T Y.
REV. LYMAN BEECHER, D. D.
PRESIDENT AND PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY.
REV. THOMAS J. BIGGS,
PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY AND CHURCH POLITY.
REV. BAXTER DICKINSON,
PROFESSOR OF SACRED RHETORIC AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY.
REV. CALVIN E. STOWE,
PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL, LITERATURE.
su PERINTENDENT AND STEWARD.
SAMUEL F. DICKINSON, ESQ.

STU D E N T S.
J UNIOR CLASS.
NAMES, RESIDENCEe GRADUATEDe
Ball, Eleazer T. Orange, N. J. Cº. Union Col.
| Hitchcock, Henry L. Geauga co. Ohio. Yale Col.
ſ Hosmer, John P. Livingston co. N. Y. Hudson Col.
Laughlin, John, Cincinnati, O. Franklin Col.
Leftwich, A. W. Paris, Tenn. Princeton Col. Ky.
Mattison, James H. Worthington, O.
Miner, Lamson, Castleton, Vt. Middlebury Col.
M’Kinney, Colin, Warren co. Ill. Miami Uni.
Pennoyer, Andrew L. New Canaan, Conn.
Sullivan, Samuel S. Boston, Mass. Brown Uni.
Tiffany, J ohn A. Wayne co. N. Y.
Tucker, Joshua T. St. Louis, Mo. Yale Col.

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MIDDLE: CLASS.
NAMES,
Babcock, Hiram A.
Beecher, Henry W.
Beecher, Charles,
Bullard, Ebenezer W.
Caswell, Jesse, Jun.
Clarke, Josiah B.
Clark, Benjamin F.
Duncan, Alexander,
Fowler, Joseph,
Frary, Loring S.
Hastings, George H.
Masters, Samuel C.
Newton, David,
Orr, William,
Paine, Samuel,
Savage, William T.
Stanton, Robert L.
Woodruff, William B.
RESIDENCE,
Ashtabula, Ohio.
Walnut Hills, O.
do.
Sutton, Mass.
Middletown, Vt.
Stratham, N. H.
Lyndsboro, N. H.
Troy, N. Y.
Licking co. O.
South Hampton, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Washington co. Ark.
Templeton, Mass.
Steubenville, O.
Worthington, O.
Bangor, Me.
Rochester, N. Y.
Oxford, O.
GRADUATED,
Middlebury.
Amherst Col.
Bowdoin Col.
Miami Uni.
Middlebury Col.
do.
Miami Uni.
Yale Col.
Amherst Col.
Cambridge Uni.
Western U. Pa.
Bowdoin Col.
Miami Uni.