Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1922

what other source are the men to be obtained who will most intelli– gently carry the Gospel?"-Samuel B. Capen. The Presbyterian church in the United States is indebted to ten colleges for training more than two-thirds of its ministry. \ Wooster reported in 1917:-"179 of the alumni have gone abroad . . . '' as m1ss10naries. "The University of Virginia is one of the oldest and best state institutions in the South. and it possesses the very finest cultural traditions. Yet in the past thirty-two years this great school pro– duced only three Methodist preachers-and two of these were the ons of preachers who were stationed in the university town. In the same period Randolph-Macon college trained 240 prea~hers." -Dr. Elmer T. Clarie. There is a college and seminary in Kentucky which has trained 90% of the 288 educated ministers of its denomination in the state. Out of a college enrollment last year of 295, 82 students in one school in Ohio .were pledged to professional religious service. ·The Method– ist Episcopal church found in 1916 that 22% of its college trained ministers made their life work decisions while in college. The cor– responding figure in 1922 for the United Presbyterian ministry was 32% and for the Presbyterian church in the United States 25% . , The Baptist New World Movement reports that 218 new mission– aries have been appointed since 1919, making a total of 914, and that most of them are college graduates. "The educational training of 100 church school teachers in a typical small city showed that eight had some college training and that six graduated from college."-Home Survey. "Information concerning adult leaders of boy scouts, camp fire girls, and gir] scouts (from a survey of a typical small city, showed 13% are college graduates and 20% had some coUege training." -Home Survey. GENERAL "Take the Cambridge calendar. or take the Oxford calendar for two hundred years; look at the church, the parliament, or the bar, and it has always been the case that the men who were first in the competition of the schools have been first in the com– petition of life."-Maca11ley. Of the 11,500 Oxford. men in the English armies, ,/ '2,100 were killed in thf' war. - 19 -