Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . the work of the these circumstances the suggestion wasmade that the General Assembly should affirmits sense of the importance of a system ofChristian Education to be extended as far aspossible throughout its congregations, andthat the general outlines of the system shouldembrace primary schools under the care ofchurches, academies under the care of presby-teries, and ultimately colleges under the care ofone or more synods. The General Assemblywithout a dissenting voice adopted a series ofresolutions substantially in accord with
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . the work of the these circumstances the suggestion wasmade that the General Assembly should affirmits sense of the importance of a system ofChristian Education to be extended as far aspossible throughout its congregations, andthat the general outlines of the system shouldembrace primary schools under the care ofchurches, academies under the care of presby-teries, and ultimately colleges under the care ofone or more synods. The General Assemblywithout a dissenting voice adopted a series ofresolutions substantially in accord with thissuggestion. Dr. Van Rensselaer gave himselfwith the most ardent zeal to the inauguration ofsuch a system, and pursued the matter until hislamented death in 1860. It was in 1850, threeyears after the action of the General Assembly,that Lafayette College came under the care ofthe Synod of Philadelphia, and it continues inthat relationship to the present time. It istherefore an interesting example of a distinc- 327 328 LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. [April,. PRES. E. W. WARFIELD, tively Christian college under Church controlsuch as Dr. Hodge and Dr. Van Rensselaerhad in mind when they were pleading for Chris-tian education and denominational control in1847. The fears of those who imagine thatsuch a college must become narrow and sectarianhave not been realized; nor does there seem tohave been a loss of patronage on account ofdenominational relationship. On the contrarywe are assured that other denominations seem tohave patronized it more liberally than ever before. lafatettes contribution to the ministry. The influence of such a college upon thesupply of ministers is to be noted with in-terest. A careful report made many yearsago to the Synod of Kentucky shows thatfrom 1620 to 1720, a period when the Churchpaid attention to her youth, more than half ofall the graduates of American colleges enteredthe ministry; from 1720 to 1770 one third; from1770 to 1800 one fifth; from 1800 to 181
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