. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . n, with a small sum on theright side of the balance sheet. Hebelieved in the institute and laboredunceasingly in its behalf. The Methodist Episcopal churchwas slow in recognizing the exist-ence of this its first school of the-ology. In the Methodist almanac,the official year book of the denomi-nation, brought out by the denom-inational publishing house, thereappears a list of the academies,seminaries, colleges, and other insti-tutions of learning under the controlof the denomination, but it was nottill 1854, nearly
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . n, with a small sum on theright side of the balance sheet. Hebelieved in the institute and laboredunceasingly in its behalf. The Methodist Episcopal churchwas slow in recognizing the exist-ence of this its first school of the-ology. In the Methodist almanac,the official year book of the denomi-nation, brought out by the denom-inational publishing house, thereappears a list of the academies,seminaries, colleges, and other insti-tutions of learning under the controlof the denomination, but it was nottill 1854, nearly two years after one of its professors had been elected abishop, and nearly seven years afterit was founded, that the name of theBiblical institute appears in the the twenty-one years theschool was located at Concord 570students received instruction withinits walls for a greater or less lengthof time. Of this number 211 com-pleted the three years course ofstudy and were graduated. Thenumber of graduates during the firstseven years was 34 ; the next seven, x * The Rev. John W. Merrill, D. D. 83 ; and the last seven, 94. Thesemen went out from Concord into allsections of the country, and intoforeign mission fields to vindicate bya usefulness increased by profes-sional training the value to thechurch of such training. Among the men Concord sent outto mission fields special mentionshould be made of Albert L. Longof the Bulgarian, Stephen E- Baldwinand Carlos R. Martin, of the China,and Edwin Parker of the India mis-sions. A few of the Concord grad- 224 METHOD/ST THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION. fc^SSSWStek I I,
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