The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . persons, andof the average value of $12,644; or of the aggregate value of$4,096,730. Rutgers College at New Brunswick, has the Presidencyof Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL. D., with seven instructors ; its numbei Reformed Dutch Church. 719 of Alumni is 513, of ministers 77, of students 85; and it has a Libraryof about 10,000 volumes. Its Theological Seminary, at the sameplace, has 3 professors, and 25 students, has educated 179 minist
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . persons, andof the average value of $12,644; or of the aggregate value of$4,096,730. Rutgers College at New Brunswick, has the Presidencyof Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL. D., with seven instructors ; its numbei Reformed Dutch Church. 719 of Alumni is 513, of ministers 77, of students 85; and it has a Libraryof about 10,000 volumes. Its Theological Seminary, at the sameplace, has 3 professors, and 25 students, has educated 179 ministers, andhas some 7,000 volumes in its Library. The Seminary has attached toit twelve scholarships, for poor young men devoted to the were founded by a gift of 20,000 dollars from a venerable min-ister of the body, named Van Benschooten. The fund carries its bene-ficiaries through a complete scientific course, as well as theologicalstudies. This body takes also a lively interest in both Domestic and For-eign Missions, liberally contributing to their support; as also to a Sun-day School Union, and an Education Society. THE GERMAN REFORMED ITTLE else than the Historyof eminent men is the Historyof the World, as exhibited inbooks. Such was the sagaciousremark of a writer in one of ourown periodicals a few yearsago. To this writer we ack-nowledge ourselves indebted forthe sketch of Zuingle whichwe now proceed to , Luther, Melancthon, Calvin, and a few others of similarspirit, gave character to the Protestant Church in the sixteenth cen-tury. Whenever we recur to the scenes of that eventful period, ourminds imperceptibly fasten on these distinguished individuals, as therepresentatives of all that was then interesting and great. We loveto dwell on their memories, to retrace the record of their lives, andto learn from our own sympathies with their thoughts and feelings,wJaat it was to be a reformer in Christendom. It delights us, if wemay gathe
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