A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . llege; JohnRodgers, long a pastor of the historic Brick PresbyterianChurch in the City of New York; James Finley, who mi-grated to Western Pennsylvania and was for many yearspastor of the churches of Rehoboth and Round Hill, inthe Forks of Yough, and who afterward had private stu-dents in theology, and many others. A classical school modeled on the same plan was in1743 established at New London, Pennsylvania. It was,however, under the care of the Synod of Philadelphia, andwas to be supported by contributions from th
A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . llege; JohnRodgers, long a pastor of the historic Brick PresbyterianChurch in the City of New York; James Finley, who mi-grated to Western Pennsylvania and was for many yearspastor of the churches of Rehoboth and Round Hill, inthe Forks of Yough, and who afterward had private stu-dents in theology, and many others. A classical school modeled on the same plan was in1743 established at New London, Pennsylvania. It was,however, under the care of the Synod of Philadelphia, andwas to be supported by contributions from the congre-gations. The ministers donated a number of books tothe college library. The enterprise on the whole was notsuccessful, as the attention of the students was turned inanother direction—toward Princeton. When the union took place of the Synods of New Yorkand Philadelphia (1758) Nassau Hall or Princeton be-came the favorite of the united synod. The latter soonovershadowed all these classical schools as its curriculumof study was so much more varied and extensive than. Rev. Archibald Alexander, D. D.(129,250, 337.) THE LOG COLLEGES. IJI could be obtained in the former. In consequence, toPrinceton went the majority of the Presbyterian studentsin their preparation for the ministry. Schools beyond the Alleghanies.—The same spirit inrelation to an educated ministry crossed the Alleghaniesinto Western Pennsylvania, with the Presbyterian emi-grants from New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Mary-land and Virginia. It is worthy of note the facilities atthat time for crossing the Alleghany Mountains into thefertile valley of the Ohio were limited to two militaryroads—the one made by Braddock (1755), which com-menced at where Cumberland, Maryland, now stands, andthe other made by General Forbes (1758), up the Sus-quehanna and the Juniata rivers and thence across themountains. Multitudes of immigrants, the great major-ity of whom belonged to the different branches of thePresbyteria
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