. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . A STUDY OF STATISTICS. The Statistical Table opposite page 9 suggests interestingthings. College Students. Of 3,729 students enrolled by our 38 aided institutions thisyear 563 are in college classes. That is 15 per centum of thewhole number. Our institutions are raising their grade ofwork. Conversions. Two hundred and twenty-one students were credibly con-verted between 1 September, 1893, and 1 April, 1894. Ouraided institutions began this school
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . A STUDY OF STATISTICS. The Statistical Table opposite page 9 suggests interestingthings. College Students. Of 3,729 students enrolled by our 38 aided institutions thisyear 563 are in college classes. That is 15 per centum of thewhole number. Our institutions are raising their grade ofwork. Conversions. Two hundred and twenty-one students were credibly con-verted between 1 September, 1893, and 1 April, 1894. Ouraided institutions began this school year with about 2,109students who were not church members, and converted 221 upto 1 April, with three months of work yet to be heardfrom. Meaning to he Ministers. Two hundred and thirty-three students have given them-selves to the ministry, per centum of the whole number. 6 COLLEGES AND ACADEMIES. [1894. The catalogues (for 1893-4) of nine of our TheologicalSeminaries report 820 students for the ministry. 56, or centum of the whole number, are from state institutions —high schools, normals and universities. 658, or per cen-. CORNING ACADEMY, IOWA. turn of the whole number, are from Christian colleges. Whenceshall we get ministers, so imperatively needed by our Churchin increasing numbers, without our own schools and colleges ?Two hundred and eighty-four theological students, or centum of the whole number, are from the region west ofthe Ohio river. But that territory contains per centum ofour church membership in the United States. It ought to fur- 1894.] ELP^VKNTII ANXUAI, KldoRT. 7 iiisli caiKlidatts for the ministry in the same proportion ; whichwould be 442 to mateli the Eastern regions 536. Unless thewest can be brought up to that mark the number of ministers,now so far below our needs, must become proportionally lessevery decade. But every student of the subject knows that theonly imaginable way of bringing the West toward the mark isthe mul
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