Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1922

business. Twenty percent became teachers. Of Lhose in religious work, 85% are ordained ministers. The total in religious work is 18,205 or about one-tenth of the active ministry of the ehurch sup– plied by these 66 institutions. Some of these colleges have excep– tional records, one reporting 50.7% of its graduates since 1880 in religious work, and eleven running well over 30% for the same period. Out of 22,927 men graduating from 42 Presbyterian colleges up to 1914, 6,044 or 26.4% are ministers and 714 or 3.1% are mission– anes. The Lutheran General Synod reported that 341 out of l,O~U graduates of their five colleges from 1906 to 1916 entered the ministry. Out of 346 Episcopal clergy ordained in 1916-1919, 77% were col– lege men. Since 1910, the five colleges of the United Presbyterian church have turned into the channels of definite religious work 360 students, or more than one third of the ministry in that denomination. Of 464 candidates admitted into the annual conferences of the South– ern Methodist church in 1919 and 19~0, 105 were college graduates and 159 others attended college. A study of comprehensive mis– sionary reports for a decade from 1906 to 1916 shows that 2,261 missionaries have come from church institutions and 312 from state schools. A similar report by Bishop Hendrix indicates that of 2,084 on the mission field, 1,609 came from the church colleges. The esti- 1 mates of the Student Volunteer movement for a quadrennium set the proportion of missionaries from colleges of the church at 82%. Out of 288 sent to the foreign field by the Methodist Episcopal church, South, 236 were educated in their own colleges, 10 in other church schools, and only 12 went out without college training from some source. In 1917 the Methodist Episcopal church sent out 108 foreign missionaries of whom 76 were college graduates. In 1890 only 22% of the students in theological seminaries had their college degrees. In the period 1915-1917 the ratio of col- · lege graduates was 66.5 and 83.4% were college trained. The entire church in the United States requires about 5,000 new recruits each year to replace _its ministry and mission forces and of this number four-fifths come from the colleges. President Bates of Hiram College is authority for the statement that the Churches of Christ have given 1 % of their sons and daugh– ters to their colleges and the colleges have given back 80% to 90% • of the ministers and missionaries of the church. ' "If you want to sustain mis~ions, then sustain the Christian col– leges of the newer states for they furnish the missionaries. From -18-