. Barnas Sears, a Christian educator; his making and work . nnection hadpowerfully contributed. It appears that healso served the church in Hamilton as pastorduring a part, at least, of this triennium. But he was presently convinced that thecourse of theological study and instruction,which was the raison detre for the existenceof the school, ought to be extended and im-proved; others agreed with him on thepoint, and in order to accomplish this endhe was transferred from the chair of ancientlanguages to a new chair of biblical as there was no class prepared to enterat once on the n
. Barnas Sears, a Christian educator; his making and work . nnection hadpowerfully contributed. It appears that healso served the church in Hamilton as pastorduring a part, at least, of this triennium. But he was presently convinced that thecourse of theological study and instruction,which was the raison detre for the existenceof the school, ought to be extended and im-proved; others agreed with him on thepoint, and in order to accomplish this endhe was transferred from the chair of ancientlanguages to a new chair of biblical as there was no class prepared to enterat once on the new study, and as he himselffelt the need of further preparation for thegreat chair to which he had been assigned, itwas deemed necessary for him to visit Ger-many, and learn the methods of work in thatland of scholars and libraries. Doubtless theimpulse to visit Germany was due to his ownmind, rather than to that of any other per-son. For already the faculties of theologyin German universities had earned the dis-tinction of remarkable freedom in religious. RESIDENCE OF DR. SEARS, HAMILTON, NEW YORK, 1830-33 A Christian Educator 25 speculation as well as in biblical criticism,and it required more decision of purpose thanit does now for a young professor, who ex-pected to be a teacher of biblical theology, toput in contact with the German free-thinkers or rationalists, as they were Professor. Sears who was a man of deepreligious convictions and quick intellect, re-solved to profit by the stimulating inquiriespushed to their furthest limit by educators inHalle, Leipsic, Berlin, and Paris. CHAPTER III IN GERMANY AND FRANCE(1833-1835) Accordingly, leaving his wife and childwith her parents in Brookline, Mass. (for hehad been married in 1830 to Miss ElizabethG. Corey of that town), he embarked at NewYork on the 12th of July, 1833, for Ham-burg, where he landed on the 24th of Augustand found several pious friends having Bap-tist sentiments, who wished to be immerse
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