Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . ssued in division, illustrates the vastimportance of the subject and the intenseinterest which it has awakened. The schismof 174-1 has already been alluded to, theeducation of ministers being the greatquestion at issue. The difficulties whichresulted in the setting up of the CumberlandPresbyterian Church in 1810 arose fromthe unwillingness of certain brethren inKentucky to heed the admonitions of theGeneral Assembly with regard to thelicensing and ordaining of men to theministry without those literary qualificationswhich are required in our boo
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . ssued in division, illustrates the vastimportance of the subject and the intenseinterest which it has awakened. The schismof 174-1 has already been alluded to, theeducation of ministers being the greatquestion at issue. The difficulties whichresulted in the setting up of the CumberlandPresbyterian Church in 1810 arose fromthe unwillingness of certain brethren inKentucky to heed the admonitions of theGeneral Assembly with regard to thelicensing and ordaining of men to theministry without those literary qualificationswhich are required in our book, to say noth-ing of cordial agreement with the doctrineand government of the Church. Theseadmonitions were most mildly given, andallowance was made for exceptional cases,and for the appointment of catechists, butin the great excitement attending revivalscenes all admonition was given in vain. The question of education was againseriously involved in the controversies of1837, the $ew School brethren adhering 292 THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. [October,. Charles Hodge, to the plan ofvoluntary edu-cation societies,while the OldSchool prefer-red to operatethrough aBoard as the or-gan of the Gen-eral was, however,a providentialpreparation forthe reunion of1870 when aPerrnan entCommittee on Ministerial Education inconnection with the General Assembly(N. S.) was appointed in 1856, and thecorresponding secretary, Rev. ThorntonA. Mills, set himself to the task ofinducing churches and presbyteries toabandon traditional methods for the newpolicy, and by six years of toil succeededin good measure in rescuing the cause from the skepticism, indifference, misapprehen-sion, prejudice and contempt which wereconnected with it. His able successor,Rev. J. G. Atterbury, had only been inoffice a short time when the reunion came,and the present Board with its new charterand constitution became the successor of theNew School Permanent Committee and ofthe Old School Board, Dr. Herrich Johnso
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