SAXTON S. KELLOGG, æt. 26, Cong. (Theo. stud.), in the GIDEON W. OLNEY, æt. 45, Epis. Portland, Me. Feb. ASA CORNWALL, æt. 56, Epis. Cheshire, Ct. Jan. 28. JAMES BUCKLEY, Meth. Epis. Bloomfield, New Jersey, REV. WILLIAM F. HOUSTON, M. D. Pres. Wrightsville, THOMAS J. KITTS, æt. 49, Bap. Philadelphia, Pa. Jan. 24. THOMAS READ, æt. 90, Epis. Montgomery Co. Md. Feb. 5. WILLIAM J. PRITCHETT, Bap. Green Co. Illinois, March 7, 1838. Whole number in the above list, 12. Maine.... New Hampshire.. Massachusetts...... Rhode Island........... 1 Baptist..... Total......... DATES. 6 1836. December.... 4 1837. January......... March.. 1 May... June.... 30 40.. 40 50.. 50 60.. From 20 to 30........ 1 Maine...... 1 Massachusetts...... 3 Connecticut.... 1 New York.. 60 70.. 1 New Jersey.. 90 100.... 1 Pennsylvania. Not specified..... 4 Maryland... Illinois... 1 September.. November... 1838. January... February 3 Not specified Massachusetts............ 14 Rhode Island.... 2 Total.................. 91 122681452 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY. MAY, 1838. ENGLISH CLASSICAL AND THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS. We have recently received Reports from the Dissenting Institutions of England and Scotland, and shall occasionally insert extracts from them in the Journal. HOMERTON COLLEGE. Report of the Committee of the Society for educating Pious Young Men for the Work of the Ministry, in their College at Homerton, (formerly called the King's Head Society,) instituted in the Year 1730, and holding the Doctrines of the Reformed Churches, as they are summarily expressed in the Catechisms of the Westminster Assembly. WITH unfeigned thankfulness to the Father of mercies, the Committee of the HOMERTON COLLEGE SOCIETY present this Annual Report of their proceedings to their constituents, trusting that they will be found to have discharged faithfully all the duties of the office to which they were appointed. They feel great pleasure in declaring their entire satisfaction with the internal state of the college. The reports of the tutors given at the monthly visits of your committee respecting the talents, diligence, and improvement of the students, and the evidence furnished of their excellent demeanor and of the harmony of feeling subsisting between them and the tutors, as well as among themselves, greatly encourage the hope that this institution will be a continued blessing to the church in supplying a succession of men who shall prove to be "scribes instructed in the kingdom of heaven," so as to "bring out of their treasure things new and old." During the past year nine students have been received into the college, of whom four are under the patronage of the London Missionary Society. tion of a college life, and in January last, he accepted a call to the oversight of the Independent Church at Chigwell Row, where he appears to have been instrumental of much good. Mr. Henry Joseph Haas has accepted a call from the Independent Church in Mersey Island, where he has labored for the last six months with great success. Mr. Edward Porter and Mr. Samuel Wolfe, Missionary students, have been appointed by the directors of their own society to stations in the East; the former to Chicacole and the latter to Pinang, whither they have departed in company with Mr. Colin Campbell, appointed to Bellary, who was formerly a student of this college under the patronage of the same society. Your committee lament to record the death of one of your students who had given the highest promise of future excellence and usefulness. Mr. John Lloyd Morgan, who was admitted in March 1834, was under the necessity of leaving the college last February for home, in a state of health such as to excite very discouraging apprehensions; and on May 4th, he resigned his spirit into the hands of his Redeemer. His memory will be ever cherished with affection by his tutors and former associates. Another young man of most devoted character, Mr. John Vaughan, (who had previously to the time of the last report been admitted as a probationer, and compelled almost immediately on account of ill health to return to his friends,) gradually declined, and at length was removed from the church on earth to the church in heaven. The number of students at present in the college is nineteen, of whom eight are under the patronage of the London Missionary Society. Five students have left the college. Mr. John Masson has received a call to preside over a congregation in one of the Orkney Islands, where it is understood his labors are acceptable and useful. Mr. George Newenham Watson (who, as was intimated in the last report of your committee, had, Your committee bow with submission to by reason of ill health, been advised to the great. Disposer of human affairs in adwithdraw for a time from his studies) was, verting to the fact that, during the past at the beginning of the session in Septem- year, the society has sustained several ber, pronounced by medical men quite losses by death: and they deem it their unfit to bear the confinement and applica-duty to mention with more than ordinary 410 ENGLISH CLASSICAL AND THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS. respect and esteem the name of Ebenezer Maitland, Esq. This gentleman had formerly filled, in a very efficient manner, the office of treasurer to this society, and your committee, upon receiving the intelligence of his death, passed a resolution which is recorded in their minutes, and which they beg to extract as the best mode of expressing their sentiments on this loss to the society. "The committee of the Homerton College Society, having been informed of the decease of Ebenezer Maitland, Esq., cannot but feel itself bound, with respect to that distinguished friend of this institution, to record its affectionate and grateful sense of the wisdom and kindness with which he never failed to regard this college, the lively interest which he always took in its affairs, the zeal with which he sustained and advanced its efficiency, and his valuable services by attending its committee and other meetings so long as the possession of health permitted such exertion. All the members and friends of the college partake with the committee in feeling the loss which the cause of learning and religion has sustained; a loss under which their minds are consoled by reflecting upon the Christian character of Mr. Maitland, his exemplary faith and devotedness to God, his meek submissiveness, and holy serenity under severe and protracted illness, and the abundant evidence that his release from this state of trial and sorrow is an absence from the body to be present with the Lord, and to enjoy an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ." Other causes, besides death, having operated to lessen the number of subscribers, it is earnestly hoped that all the friends of this ancient institution, and the friends of sound learning as well as devoted piety in the Christian ministry, will zealously exert themselves to supply new names in the place of those which no longer appear, and even to increase the former number, so as to render this place the means of diffusing still more copiously and effectually the blessings of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. THE PRESENT COMMITTEE. On behalf of the Society. WILLIAM HALE, Esq. Treasurer. Mr. STEPHEN OLDING. Mr. SAMUEL GOULD UNDERHILL. On behalf of the Congregational Fund Board. GEORGE RUTT, Esq., Treasurer. [MAY, To the above statement it is thought proper to append the following remarks, explanatory of the important purposes of the college, and of the mode of admission into it. The object of this institution is to support twenty young men of decided and approved piety, who possess respectable talents, and are desirous of devoting themselves to the glory of God and the immortal welfare of mankind, by engaging in the work of the Christian ministry, in pursuing a course of study adapted to the attainment of such branches of literature as may best qualify them for the intelligent and honorable discharge of the sacred office to which they aspire. The period of time allotted to the entire course is six years; the first two of which are occupied solely in classical pursuits, and the remaining four in classical, theological, and philosophical studies. In cases where a classical education has been previously enjoyed, the two-years' term may be contracted proportionably to the attainments which have been made, if the tutors judge proper. The present tutors are, Rev. JOHN PYE SMITH, D. D. Rev. DANIEL GODFREY BISHOP. Applicants for admission into the college may address their letters of application either to one of the tutors, or to any member of the committee. These letters must contain a concise statement, drawn up by the applicant himself; first, of what in his judgment are the principal truths of the Christian religion; secondly, of the means by which he hopes that he himself has become a real Christian; and thirdly, of the motives by which he is induced to wish to engage in the work of the ministry. A recommendation signed by the pastor of the church of which the applicant is a member, must accompany his application; which will be strengthened by the additional signatures of the deacons of that church, or any respectable minister who may be acquainted with the case. As the recommendation thus required is a document to which great importance is attached, it is earnestly hoped that the ministers who may sign such recommendations will not be induced so to do upon slight grounds, nor without the most satisfactory assurance of the religious character and estimable qualities, both moral and intellectual, of the young men whom they thus recommend; since it is scarcely possible to conceive of the infliction of a greater injury upon the Christian church, than the introduction of persons into the ministry who are not thus distinguished. In case of the approval by the committee of the preliminary documents now specified, the applicant will receive an appointment to attend a meeting of the committee, for the purpose of such conversation with him as shall appear expedient; upon the favorable termination of which, he | lating critically with the lxx. Also, the will be admitted to a probation for three third chapter of Daniel in the Chaldee, and months, preparatory to his full admission, the third chapter of the Gospel of John in which will then depend upon the report the Syriac. respecting him made by the tutors. Receipts of the society during the year were £1,776 15s. 6d. HACKNEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. Extracts from the Report of the Village Itinerancy, or Evangelical Association, for spreading the the Gospel in England, &c. Read at the Annual Meeting of this Society, holden at Well-Street Chapel, Hackney. FOR Some time past your committee have felt it important to make some arrangements for the better accommodation of the students in the Academy House. The lease of the adjoining houses being to be sold under the saine title as your own, your committee, after careful inspection, purchased the same for a term of thirty years. The premises have since been commodiously fitted up for the purposes of the institution; some important alterations and necessary repairs have been accomplished in the Academy House. The expense of purchase, the alterations and necessary repairs, (as per contract,) and the additional furniture, will, altogether, amount to more than £500. The Academy House having been originally presented to the society by the late Rev. John Eyre, this is the first extensive outlay (except for repairs) which has taken place since the commencement of the theological institution in the year 1803. On the 23d and 24th of June last, the examiners of the students attended at the Academy House. The following is the report of the chairman, addressed to your committee: 66 "Mr. Brainsford and Mr. Firnie read each a very meritorious Essay on the influence of Judaism on Christianity; and Mr. Heath read an Essay of superior character on the different comparative results of the Colonization of North America and South America, in respect to religion. "I have the satisfaction of attesting the evident marks of diligence and accuracy with which the students must have pursued their labors. One entire day, and the greater part of another, having been devoted to the examination, it may be inferred that the readings were not brief and hasty, and I record with lively pleasure, my conviction, that the students under the valuable instruction and superintendence of their learned and critical study of the Holy Scriptutors, are laying a good foundation for the tures, during the course of their future ministry, in an age which will require the the promulgation, and the defence of the most enlarged and efficient apparatus for gospel. I must add, that the exertions of commendation, as their progress, consid the third (Junior) class deserves particular ering the time, is beyond expectation, even allowing for their previous advantages. "I greatly rejoice in the state and prospects of the institution, and feel a strong persuasion, that it has not yet attained to the eminence and usefulness to which it is destined by the great Head of the church. To the Chairman of the Committee of the JOSEPH TURNBULL, A. B. Hackney Theological Seminary." Messrs. Heath and Brainsford, two of your students, who were introduced to your seminary under peculiar recommendations of their respective pastors, and other re Report of the Examination of the Students of the Hackney Theological Sem-spectable ministers, have recently offered inary. - "JUNIOR CLASS. Messrs. Hughes, Bullen, and Richards. Latin-The Eclogues of Virgil-Fourth Oration of Cicero against Catiline In Greek, Lucian's Dialogues. "SECOND CLAss.-Messrs. Heal, Morgan, Harrison, Brainsford, and Firnie. Fourth Book of the Eneid of Virgil-clades caudina in Livy - Herodotus-Gospel of John from the Greek, critically. themselves to the Directors of the London Missionary Society, and have been accepted for the service of that important institution. Mr. Heath is about to accompany Messrs. Murray and Hardy, from Homerton College, with others, on a mission to the Navigators Islands in the South Seas. It is fully hoped, that the acquisitions which Mr. Heath has already made, (some of which have been specifically noticed in the report of the examination,) will qualify him, as an associate with his esteemed brethren, for the important work of translating the Holy Scriptures in the South Sea Islands. "FIRST CLASS. Messrs. Forward, Causby, Chater, and Heath. (Mr. Mial had left the seminary before the examination took place.) Second Book of the Odes of Horace-Life of Agricola, by TacitusFirst Book of the Iliad of Homer-Crito, from the Dialogues of Plato-The Epistle of Paul to the Romans in Greek, with critical Analysis First Chapter of Isaiah in Hebrew. In addition to the above, Mr. Heath, of this class, read Portions of the Prophecy of Habakkuk in Hebrew, col-appoint him. And that Mr. Brainsford's talents, as a regular practitioner of Surgery and Medicine, aided by his diligent and successful attention to languages, since he came to your institution, will peculiarly qualify him for a mission to the Negro colonies, or any other station to which the directors may Eight or ten who were once in your seminary, are now occupying, or soon will occupy, important stations in foreign lands. Rev. W. MEDHURST, at Java. foundland. all praise be to God alone. We must not stand still-we cannot recede. The Son of God expects every true disciple to do his duty. Let us continue to select men of decided and eminent piety-able to endure New-labor; men possessed too, of mental energy, apt to acquire and communicate divine Rev. Mr. JOHNS and Mr. CANHAM, at wisdom: let us do the best we can to eduMadagascar. Rev. Messrs. Howe and HAYWOOD, at Berbice, on the continent of South America. Rev. Messrs. VINE and ALLOWAY, Ja maica. Rev. Mr. HAYDEN, Canada. cate them suitably for our purpose; let us use our best endeavors to place them in useful spheres of action; let us encourage them by every means in our power, and let us pray that the great Head of the church may pour out the Spirit from on fruitful field. Then the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. Blessed are ye that sow beside all Rev. Mr. HEATH, the Navigators Islands. high, that the wilderness may become a And Mr. BRAINSFORD, Jamaica. Thus it has happened that this institution, founded by the late Rev. John Eyre, (at that time secretary to the London Missionary Society,) has been, from time to time, paying its debt of humanity and love, by sending some of its ministers to the heathen world during this period, it has not been unmindful of its character as a Home-Missionary institution, by educating and sending forth more than ten fold that number into our home-population. This meeting will deeply participate in our pleasure, and reckon it a high honor conferred on this society, to furnish six or seven acceptable missionaries, without one shilling of expense in their education, to the London Missionary Society, for the service of the heathen. It is hoped that the era has commenced in our colleges and theological institutions, when some of the most talented and devoted men will respond to the loud calls of the heathen world. In the theological colleges of America, we hear, with pleasure, candidates for the Christian ministry, after having spent four years in general literature and science; and three subsequent years in biblical and theological learning, have voluntarily offered themselves as missionaries to "the far West," endeavoring, like their noble pilgrim fathers, to blend the elements of the gospel with the rudiments of immigrating society, that so they may benefit the men of other generations, in laying the best and surest foundation for their social happiness, in the doctrine, institutions, and morals of that glorious gospel, which secures to every obedient believer salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. America has not suf fered in her revivals of religion at home, by her generous and noble efforts for her own immigrating population, and for the world at large. * * During thirty-two years, your institution has been the occasional, or the instrumental, cause of erecting or enlarging above fifty chapels in sixteen or seventeen counties of England-by the labors of more than 120 ministers sent by you into the harvest field nations. Receipts for the year, £1,900 0s. 3d. COMMITTEE. THOMAS WALKER, Esq. Treasurer. E. ARNOLD. JAMES ELLIOTT. J. H. MANN. STAPELTON. THE IMPORTANCE OF AN ABLE MINISTRY. Extracts from the Rev. BAXTER DICKINSON'S Sermon, delivered on the occasion of his Inauguration as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology, in Lane Seminary. 1. THAT such a ministry was designed of God for men, is clearly manifest from Scripture precept. "The priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth." "Till I come, give attendance to reading." "Neglect not the gift that is in thee." "Meditate upon these things." "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." In accordance with such positive precept, there are also indirect expressions of the |