. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . As was the casein the establishment of the College of New Jer-sey a contention arose between the liberal andconservative elements in the church. Consequent-ly the ministers and congregations, who took partin the movement, were divided into two the Coetus, or progressive party, and the Con-ferentie, or conservative element, agreed upon theneed of an educated ministry. The main part indifference was the advisability of separating theAmerican churches from those in Holland. Asstated by the Rev. David D. Demarest,
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . As was the casein the establishment of the College of New Jer-sey a contention arose between the liberal andconservative elements in the church. Consequent-ly the ministers and congregations, who took partin the movement, were divided into two the Coetus, or progressive party, and the Con-ferentie, or conservative element, agreed upon theneed of an educated ministry. The main part indifference was the advisability of separating theAmerican churches from those in Holland. Asstated by the Rev. David D. Demarest, this in-volved the problems of ministerial training, li-censure, and ordination, particularly as therewere in New Jersey more churches than therewere ministers. A battle royal was waged, withthe result that it was decided to establish a schoolin New Jersey. Hackensack and New Brunswickcontended for the prize, and the latter city, owingto the amount of her subscriptions, won. Scarcely had the church become established erethe Revolution broke in all its fury. Unable to. RVTCrKRH (K)Lf,EGE IN 1842. ONY AND AS A STATE 365 withstand so severe a test, the career of the col-lege was beset with difficulties, and it was notuntil 1808 that Rutgers was able to sustain suc-cessfully her position. The history of the collegetherefore properly belongs to a later period. Accustomed as we are to a plenitude of books,magazines, pamphlets, and especially newspapers,the dearth of reading matter, during colonialtimes, is astonishing. Such books as reached ^e^McJersey from England or Scotland, or were printed^in America, during this period, were largely of areligious character and distinctively , together with the statute laws, proceedingsof colonial legislatures, and an occasional pam-phlet upon some current political topic, with asmattering of novels and the classics, embracedthe range of general literature. Magazines, in the ^ ^latter day sense, were unknown, although the jr^ (
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