Summary View of the Foreign Mission Operations of the l'r.i:.-i:i human ( UUROII.
MISSIONS.
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g2 >a
America. .Indians —
1763 MOO
11 5
15 9
36 8
24 2 4 8
13
2 I
283
40
402 281
7.01O
Roman Catholic- Mexico
South America, Brazil,
Chili, Colombia
Africa West Coast
810
Mil
780 62 L250 64 240 840 573
Shun
3 104! 80 781 ... 121
2 195 50 1,102 13 2.2S2
( Chinese in California...
•Tapau
Persia
Syria
Total
132 13,501
Com r.Iliri ions OF tiik Pri m;\ pert/ SIONARY am) Benevolent W'ouii 1870 77.
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Education
Publication
Church Erection
Aa;ed Ministers
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< CutjRon i or M i - during the Year
The Presbyterian Church, from the earliest period, has been an earnest worker and strenuous advocate for edu- cation ; and one of the chief causes of the secession of the Cumberland branch was the tenacity with which the General Assembly insisted on high educational qualifi- cations for ministers. As early as 1739, a proposition was brought before the Synod of Philadelphia for the erection of a school or seminary of learning. The synod approved of the design and appointed a committee to carry it into effect, and in 1711 a synodal school was i s- tablishcd. The College of New Jersey al Princeton, char- tered in 1746 and opened in 1717. was founded under the auspices of the Sj I of New York. Other institu- tions have been organized under Presbyterian auspices. asfollows: Washington and Jeffi rsonCollegel Washing- ton, Pa., 1802), Hamilton College (Cli N. V.. 1815),
Mary, ille Colli en Man ville,Tenn., 1819), CentreCol- lege (Danville, Ky., 1823), Hanover College (Hanover, Ind., 1827), Lafayette College (Easton, Pa., 1831), Wa-
bash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.. 1832), Lincoln I'ni- ver.-ity (Oxford, Pa., 1853 . University College (San Francisco, CaL, 1859), Blackburn University (Carlin- ville, III.. 1867), King College (Bristol, Tenn, University of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio, 1870), Evans University (Evans, Col., 1874), and Parsons (Fairfield, la.. 1875). '1 luce colleges are jointly under Presbyterian and i longregal tonal control: namely, Knox, at Galesburg, III.. 1841; Beloit, at Beloit, Wis., 1847; and ( llivet, at Olivet, Mich., 1828. The academies and ladies' colleges under the auspices of the denomination are numerous.
Not until 1812 did the Presbyterian Church make any provision lor the theological education ol persons seeking the ministry. In that year it organized its tirsi theological seminary, locating it at Princeton, N. J., already well known for its college, which had bei 0
founded in 1746. Since then seminaries have been es- tablished in different pan- of the country by presbyter- ies or by synods. Of these institutions the appointing the professors, the arranging the length of the curricu- lum, and the prescribing the course of study —the en- tire control, in tact has remained in the bauds of their founders. This state of things was so unsatisfactory and so unpresbyterian that, on the reunion in 1869, the directors of the different seminaries agreed that, while reserving to themselves the general control, the Assem- bly should in future have a veto power over the ap- pointment of every professor, and should receive from the directors an annual report of their administration.
The Church has thirteen theological seminaries, as follows: at Princeton, X. J., 1812; at Auburn. X. V.. L820; Western, Allegheny City, Pa., 1827; Lane. Cin- cinnati, O., 1832 ; Union, New York City, 1836 ; al Dan- ville, Ky.. 1853; Theological Seminary of the North- west, Chicago, I1L, 1859 ; Blackburn University (theo- logical department), 18o7; at San Francisco, Gal., 1*71 : German. Bloomtield, N. J., L869; German, Dubuque, la.. 1870; Lincoln University (theological department I, 1871; and Biddle Memorial Institute (theological de- partment), Charlotte, N. C, 18G7. Of these, the last two are for colored people, and the two immediately preceding them for Germans. In 1*7.") 7ii they had. in all, 56 professors and 578 students. The number grad- uating that year was 134. The board of education of the Church in 1*7(1 received $72,040, and gave financial aid to 458 students (222 theological. 218 collegiate, and 18 academical). In the same year the Church main- tained, for freedmen, 39 day schools. with 65 teachers
and 3176 pupils and 5 higher schools, with 903 sliidents. of whom ID were preparing for the ministry. Sec (lil- lett. Hist, of tht J'n.<J>. Church (2 vols. l2mo, rev. ed., Phila. 1877)); Hodge. Constitutional Hist, of tin Presb. Church (terminates in 1788; Phila. L840 11. J vols.); Webster. Hist, of tht Presb. Church till 1758 (Phila. 1857, 8vo); Presb. Reunion Memorial Volume, L837 71 (N.Y. l871,8vo); Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac ,• Min- utes of the General Assembly (ibid. 1*77. new sine-, vol. [\ i; Blaikie, Sketch ofth Presb. Churches throughout th World (Edinb. 1877), p. 38 sq.
11. Cumberland Pkesbytkrtak Church. — In the beginning of the present century there was a \. ry ex- tensive revival of religion in the south-western part of Ken tuck}', w ithin the bounds of the Presbj tery ol Tran- sylvania. It is frequently called " the Great Western Revival of 1800," and is regarded by some as one of the most important religious movements in the history of the Protestant Church of the United States, as it firmly
fixed the people ol the valley ol the Mississippi in the Christian faith. The supply id' preachers being inade- quate, the Presbytery appointed at different nines a numb r of lay exhorlers. and. after trial id' their gifts, licensed some to preach. They did not require ol them