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PREFACE. 
 
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 Ir is not designed, in these pages, to advocate Mis- 
 sionary Seminaries as substitutes for the cultivating 
 of the missionary spirit at preéxisting Theological 
 Institutions, but only as supplemental thereto. 
 
 In what respects the ‘‘ Episcopal Missionary Train- 
 ing-School,” at Gambier, Ohio, is designed to be 
 supplemental and compensative, is set forth in the 
 extract from the circular letter of the Managing 
 Committee, quoted on page 14. 
 
 In addition to such a strictly Missionary Training- 
 School, there should be, at each Theological Insti- 
 tution, a Professor of the History of Modern Mis- 
 sions, and the Duties of Missionaries in the several 
 Fields, as was recommended by the large Confer- 
 ences of the Friends of Missions, held in New-York 
 in 1854, and in Liverpool in 1859. Were this done, 
 there would not be so very few men offering them- 
 selves for the foreign field, nor such a lack of know- 
 ledge and interest at home concerning missions 
 abroad. 
 
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 The few remarks here offered on the subject ap- 
 peared first in The Christian Times, of this city, and 
 they are republished in this form at the desire of 
 some of the friends of the Missionary Training- 
 School at Gambier. 
 
 If they are blessed to the adding of one to the 
 number of its friends and supporters, they will not 
 have been written in vain. 
 
 New-York, March 10, 1865. 
 
A FEW WORDS 
 ABOUT MISSIONARY SEMINARIES. 
 
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 MISSIONARY SEMINARIES IN THE CHURCH OF 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 Tuat branch of work which is concerned with 
 the calling out, education, and training of missionary 
 laborers is, year by year, assuming greater and more 
 distinct prominence in the Church of England. The 
 missionary clergy of the two great Missionary Socie- 
 ties now number six hundred and eighty-seven; but 
 this is considered a small number to labor for the 
 evangelization of well-nigh a world, especially as the 
 clergy of that Church, in England and Wales, now 
 number no less than eighteen thousand! The num- 
 ber of students at the Church Missionary College, at 
 Islington, is now fifty-five; at St. Augustine’s, Can- 
 terbury, forty-two; and at St. Aidan’s College, Bir- 
 kenhead, fifteen. The Church Missionary College has 
 furnished two hundred and sixty clergy for the foreign 
 field, and St. Augustine’s one hundred. 
 
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 The Rey. Dr. Baylee, the founder of St. Aidan’s 
 College, and now principal of it, says, that he is 
 willing to receive into it men of a lower social class, 
 and of very little education. All he asks is that they 
 give satisfactory evidence of true conversion to God, 
 and devotedness to His cause. They are put in class- 
 es fit for them; and when they attain the necessary 
 amount of knowledge, they enter the candidate 
 class, (translating the Gospels in Greek, and a book 
 in Latin.) If they show an aptitude in acquiring 
 languages, their desire to go as missionaries to the 
 heathen is granted; if not, then they are sent to 
 some English colony, to labor among the English 
 emigrants. Farther detailing the plan pursued with 
 regard to missionary students at St. Aidan’s College, 
 Dr. Baylee says, he now receives them for board and 
 education at thirty pounds a college year, ‘and if 
 any brother knew of any pious young man who pos- 
 sessed the qualifications he had spoken of, and would 
 prevail upon his friends to raise this amount annually, 
 he would receive such with pleasure ; or if any one 
 would pay thirty pounds in to his own hands, he 
 would undertake to find a pious and suitable young 
 man for preparation for this great work.” 
 
 The students at the Church Missionary College, 
 and at St. Augustine’s, are of a somewhat higher 
 class, socially and educationally, than those admitted 
 into St. Aidan’s; but even they are somewhat infe- 
 rior in these respects to those admitted into the 
 English Universities. And it should be borne in 
 
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 mind that the men who have taken the greatest in- 
 terest in the establishment of these separate Mis- 
 sionary Theological Institutions, have also taken the . 
 deepest interest in fostering the missionary spirit at 
 Cambridge, Oxford, and Dublin Universities. One 
 of the Secretaries of the Church Missionary Society 
 goes to these seats of learning every year, and visits 
 from returned missionaries are of frequent occur- 
 rence, Fourteen years ago, some seventy men were 
 in the habit of meeting in the rooms of Mr. Nichol- 
 son, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for 
 the purpose of fostering their missionary spirit; the 
 number has now increased to about two hundred 
 and fifty, and the meetings are no longer held in pri- 
 vate rooms. This ‘Missionary University Prayer 
 Union,” begun at Cambridge, has now extended it- 
 self to Oxford and Dublin. Though the maintaining 
 with spirit of this ‘Prayer Union” is considered of 
 primal importance, other means and agencies are not 
 neglected. The Rey. J. H. Titeomb says: “I have 
 resided fourteen years in the University of Cam- 
 bridge, and I may therefore state what is doing there 
 in connection with missions. There are one or two 
 annual university sermons, preached by request, for 
 the express purpose of setting forth before students 
 the missionary work. There is an officer who holds 
 the appointment of Christian Advocate, whose duty 
 it is to publish a work each year bearing upon the 
 subject of Christianity in relation to various forms of 
 idolatry and false philosophy throughout the world. 
 
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 In addition to that, we have three divinity profess- 
 ors, one of whom, by his office, is obliged to deliver 
 periodically a series of lectures upon pastoral theol- 
 ogy. The subject of missions, of course, comes 
 within these lectures as a particular department. 
 With regard to the students, although there is no 
 professed or formal and stated examination in con- 
 nection with missions, there is a yery large amount 
 of exertion every term going forward among the 
 young men on their behalf; and thus, without any 
 formal training, they are being practically trained for 
 their future work. Year after year numbers of 
 young men come up from the very first term of their 
 residence, determined to devote themselves to the 
 missionary work. They meet with every fayor that 
 the parochial ministers can give them in order to 
 foster and encourage these principles. In connection 
 with this body of young men there is a missionary 
 reading-room, to which the publications of all Soci- 
 eties are sent. There is, too, a large number of 
 young men who are not merely interested in reading, 
 but who deny themselves so far as to go, through 
 evil report and good report, collecting in their various 
 colleges contributions for the missionary cause.” 
 
 As a result of this cultivating of the missionary 
 spirit at the Universities, no less than forty of the 
 European ordained missionaries of the Church Mis- 
 sionary Society are University men; and this result 
 encourages the friends of missions in England to 
 lend all the aid they can toward maintaining a mis- 
 
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 sionary spirit at these celebrated seats of learning. 
 But the fact that only forty out of the one hundred 
 and sixty English missionaries employed by the So- 
 ciety are University men, teaches these same friends 
 of missions that while they should not neglect the 
 Universities, they must not rely too much upon them. 
 As a general rule, men of a high social position are 
 unwilling to go out as missionaries. For one Uni- 
 versity man, who dedicates himself tothe work, 
 there are three who do so of the condition in life 
 to which Carey, Morrison, and Williams belonged. 
 
 Of the first Christian missionaries, there was only 
 one who was learned and scholarly; the others were 
 called from their fishing-nets and their tax-gathering 
 to be trained by the Master for their work ; and the 
 Church, while aiming to get all the men of culture 
 and high social position it can, should remember that 
 “not many wise, not many mighty, not many noble 
 are called ;” and while not neglecting the few such, 
 the Church should ever be intent upon making ar- 
 rangements for the support and training of the many 
 who leave the plough, the work-shop, and counting- 
 room, to dedicate themselves to their Master's service. 
 This is the lesson that has been learned by the mem- 
 bers of the English Church, and this is why it is that 
 these separate Missionary Theological Institutions have 
 been established. 
 
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 ACTION OF THE WESLEYANS AND CONGREGA- 
 TIONALISTS IN ENGLAND, 
 
 When a similar course is proposed in our Church, 
 there are those who reply at once, that we already 
 have divinity schools such as they have not in the 
 English Church, and that the missionary spirit should 
 be cultivated, and men trained for the mission work 
 in the schools we already have, and that separate 
 missionary training institutions are unnecessary. 
 There is some fanbei! in this remark ; and yet it should 
 be borne in mind that those Bhvistan bodies in Eng- 
 land which have theological institutions similar to our 
 own divinity schools, feel the need of, and have re- 
 solved to establish missionary training schools. 
 
 The Wesleyans, for instance, haye a large and 
 flourishing Theological Sear at Richmond, near 
 London, under the presidency of the celebrated Dr. 
 Thomas Jackson. An alumnus of this institution 
 says that the candidates for the ministry “are made 
 to pass through various courses of examination be- 
 fore they are admitted into the Theological Institu- 
 tion; and they are asked at every stage of their pro- 
 gress, whether they feel a special inclination to the 
 home or the foreign work ; but when they come into 
 the Institution, there is no distinction whatever as to 
 the training they receive there.” Finding those who 
 do offer themselves for the foreign work to be too 
 few in number, and to be defective in the training 
 for their peculiar work, the Committee of the Wes- 
 
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 leyan Missionary Society have resolved to establish 
 a missionary theological school at Leeds, and we be- 
 lieve that they have already entered upon the work. 
 A part of the immense sum received during 1864, 
 their “jubilee year,” is to be devoted to this object. 
 
 The action of the Directors of the London Mission. 
 ary Society, which is supported principally by the 
 Independents or Congregationalists of England, is 
 set forth in the following from the June number of 
 their magazine : 
 
 “The number of stupENts for missionary service, 
 including those now finishing their course, amounts 
 to forty-eight ; and to their Christian character, no 
 less than their diligent application, their respective 
 tutors have borne honorable testimony. 
 
 “ After prolonged consideration and repeated con- 
 ference between the Directors, both of town and 
 country, it was unanimously resolved, in October, 
 1861, to establish an Institution in which the students 
 of the Society might spend the last year of their 
 academical course in studies peculiar to missionary 
 life and labor. The course for the year includes the 
 continued study of the sacred Scriptures in the orig- 
 inals; the principles and history of Christian mis- 
 sions, both ancient and modern; the acquisition of 
 at least the elements of the several languages in 
 which the missionary is hereafter to exercise his 
 ministry; and the attainment, when desirable, ‘of the 
 principles and practice of surgery and medicine. In 
 addition to these advantages, the missionary element 
 
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 pervades and characterizes the entire engagements of 
 the Institution in a degree not otherwise to be secured ; 
 and the result of the first session has assured the Di- 
 rectors of the beneficial influence and substantial ad- 
 vantages resulting from the new arrangement. 
 
 “The Directors, sensible that the success of the In- 
 
 »stitution would mainly depend on the missionary spirit 
 -as well as the literary qualifications of the President, 
 ‘were happy in appointing the Rey. John Smith Ward- 
 law, M.A., to that office. The devoted labors of their 
 valued friend as a missionary in India for nearly twen- 
 ty years, in addition to his academical qualifications, 
 afforded the assurance that he was the man for the 
 Office; and the Directors would be wanting both in 
 justice and gratitude did they omit to bear testimony 
 to the judgment, fidelity, and Christian spirit with 
 which Mr. Wardlaw has discharged the various duties 
 of his position. Suitable premises were obtained for 
 the Institution in the salubrious locality of Highgate, 
 which have been found in all respects eligible.” 
 
 THE EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY TRAINING-SCHOOL. 
 
 In our own country, two plans have recently been 
 adopted for increasing the number and the efficiency of 
 the missionaries for the foreign field. The first plan 
 ‘is that of some earnest friends of missions in our own 
 Church of establishing a “‘ Missionary Training-School” 
 at Gambier, Ohio. The second plan is that of the Re- 
 formed Dutch Synod of Chicago, in establishing a 
 
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 ‘“‘Theological Professorship of Missionary Traiming ” 
 at the new Theological Seminary in that city. ° 
 
 The first person to advocate the establishment of 
 the Training-School was our zealous missionary, the 
 Rey. J. G. Auer. His views met the approval of, and 
 his efforts have been warmly sustained by, Bishops 
 McIlvaine and Bedell, the Professors at Gambier, and 
 other clergymen, Admiral Du Pont, and other laymen. 
 Several young men have already offered themselves 
 and been accepted, and under the direction and over- 
 sight of the Bishops, and with the Rey. Mr. Auer as 
 Principal, the “ Episcopal Missionary Training-School” 
 is now in operation. 
 
 In the circular which has been issued by the Bish- 
 ops and the other persons on the Committee, it is said 
 that: ‘‘ A school for missionaries is a pressing want of 
 our Church. The most earnest friends of foreign mis- 
 sions have long felt it. And the experience of the 
 Church indicates that it is not wise, as a general rule, 
 to send young men into the foreign field, however 
 perfectly educated in other respects, without mission- 
 ary training. Such a training is the counterpart of 
 pastoral theology. The relation it bears to missions is 
 the same which that department bears to the pastoral 
 care. With sucha training, we believe that our for- 
 eign missionaries would enter upon their work at im- 
 mense advantage. J¢ is a distinct preparation by 
 which a missionary labors to cope with obstacles pecu- 
 liar to his work—obstacles arising from the structure 
 of heathen languages and heathen society, or the de- 
 
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 structive influences of a heathen demoralization which 
 has been accumulating in power by the habits of a 
 succession of generations.” 
 
 As regards the education at the Training-School, the 
 Committee says that “it is intended to be either sup- 
 plemental or compensative. It will be supplemental 
 in the following cases: to those who are pursuing 
 regular studies in the Grammar School, Kenyon Col- 
 lege, or Theological Seminary at Gambier, and those 
 who, having been educated at other colleges or semi- 
 naries, desire to avail themselves of the advantages of 
 the Mission-House before going abroad. It will be 
 compensative in the cases of those who can not pursue 
 a thorough course in preparing for holy orders, or of 
 those who wish to become lay missionaries ; being di- 
 rected toward supplying deficiencies, and providing 
 the most important qualifications with the least ex- 
 penditure of time and labor.” 
 
 Further details are given in the following communi- 
 cation from the Rey. J. G. Auer: 
 
 ‘* REASONS FOR ESTABLISHING THE TRAINING-SCHOOL. 
 
 “We need a certain and regular supply of mis- 
 sionaries to meet the growing wants of new openings, 
 and at once to fill vacancies. 
 
 “2. As far as missionary work in heathen lands is 
 different from that of the regular clergy at home, mis- 
 sionaries ought to receive a special education therefor. 
 
 “3. Young men, who could, for diverse reasons, not 
 pass through other schools preparing for the ministry, 
 
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 can enter the missionary school with little or much 
 preparation, and they will be carried through their 
 studies sooner than if they had to pass through a 
 Grammar School, College, and Seminary; for young 
 men, about twenty years old, can study with more 
 energy than when they are mixed up with large 
 classes of younger scholars ; and in classic languages, 
 and some other branches, no more need be learned 
 than what is essentially necessary for their future use- 
 fulness. 
 
 “4, In the missionary school, they will have time 
 to prove and to mature their missionary spirit, and 
 their different talents, so that, when actually engaged 
 in missionary work, they will more likely hold to it 
 through life. 
 
 “‘ RECEPTION OF STUDENTS. 
 
 “1, Christian men, from seventeen to twenty-five 
 years of age, from all classes, states, and nations, of 
 any previous occupation, if they have only had a good 
 school education, will be accepted ; and Christian men 
 from other denominations, if they object not to be- 
 coming members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 are welcome. 
 
 “9. The candidates send a short biographical 
 sketch and application, together with a testimony 
 from their pastor, to Rev. J. G. Auer, Gambier, Knox 
 county, Ohio, who, assisted by a committee of two, 
 will prayerfully consider their papers, and in due time 
 give them an answer through their pastor. 
 
 “3. Asa rule, there will be three years’ dedication 
 
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 to a preparatory course, and three years to a semi- 
 nary course. 
 
 ‘‘4, Men of some classical education, or other pre- 
 paration, will be advanced into a higher class at 
 once, and will be received even if older than twenty- 
 five. 
 
 “During the seminary course, their theological train- 
 ing will be at Bexley Hall with the theological stu- 
 dents, and their missionary training at the Mission- 
 House, at which latter house they will reside. In- 
 struction will also be given in medicine and other 
 branches of knowledge useful to the missionary. 
 
 “LIFE IN THE MISSION-HOUSE. 
 
 ‘1, A reasonable number of hours will be given to 
 diligent study, lectures, and essays. 
 
 ‘*2. Some hours will be spent in the garden, farm, 
 workshop, or gymnastic exercises, both for present 
 and future usefulness, exercise of the body, and rest 
 of the mind. 
 
 “3. Prayers in each class and all together, confer- 
 ences among themselves and with the principal, mis- 
 sionary lectures, correspondence with missionaries 
 abroad, and the whole tenor of the instruction, will 
 be to keep up and increase in the students a sound 
 Christian and missionary spirit. 
 
 ‘‘May the Lord of the harvest send us men of the 
 right spirit, and put it into the hearts of his people to 
 supply all their wants, that we may more and more be 
 able to do our part as a Church in filling all the earth 
 with God's glory.” 
 
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 To this statement of the Principal of the Institu- 
 tion, we add the following from the circular letter 
 above referred to : 
 
 WANTS. 
 
 Men—men, whose hearts the Lord has touched 
 with love to perishing souls—men whose lips the 
 Lord himself has opened, so that they say, ‘‘ Woe is 
 me if I preach not the Gospel,” to the heathen! We 
 want men of vigorous capacity in mind and body, 
 men ready for sacrifice, men self-deyoted, men who 
 will labor in any field (under the Foreign Committee) 
 to which the Lord shall call them. 
 
 Tuer Suprorr.—We think $250 per annum, at 
 present prices, will supply all that are necessary ex- 
 penditures for one student. We ask the members of 
 Christ to give this moderate support to every scholar 
 whom the Lord sends. We invite churches or indi- 
 viduals to become responsible for one or more pupils. 
 
 The whole term of preparatory study is intended to 
 be a probation; and none will be sent out or approved 
 until thoroughly tried, and found both worthy and 
 competent for this high vocation. We therefore ask 
 that funds, contributed for the support of scholars, 
 may be placed in our hands without restrictions. 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 Conrrisutions for current expenses, the support of 
 scholars, the establishment of scholarships, the erec- 
 tion of a permanent Mission-House, the providing of a 
 Missionary Library and Museum, and other purposes, 
 
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 may be sent to Rev. Peter Neff, Jr., Treasurer, Gam- 
 bier, Knox county, Ohio, or to either of the under- 
 signed. 
 
 Appiications for admission are to be directed to 
 Rey. J. G. Auer, Mission-House, Gambier, Knox 
 county, Ohio. 
 
 G. T. BEpELt, 
 
 C. P. McIivarng, 
 J. J. McEiurney, | YT agers 
 
 L. W. Bancrort, 
 Henry Turriver, 
 Wi1am Newron, 
 
 ALFRED BLAKE, 
 
 A, M. Morrison, Fititinen 
 Perer Nerr, JR., ; 
 CHARLES SHort, 
 
 G. T. Bepeit, Chairman. 
 
 Gambier Mission-House, July 5, 1864. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 
 
 THE MISSION-HOUSE AT BASLE, SWITZERLAND. 
 
 Tur Mission-House at Basle is a large, magnificent 
 building, five stories high, each with thirteen windows 
 in front and three in each wing. It cost half a million 
 of francs. Yet every thing like luxury or ostentation 
 is avoided. It does not showits broad front to the 
 road. It stands a few yards back in a handsome, spa- 
 cious garden, to which a simple iron gate forms the 
 entrance from the road. It was built three years ago. 
 The former premises, which were situated at another 
 quarter of the town, were no longer fit for the pur- 
 pose. Some of them, also, had to be pulled down in 
 consequence of municipal arrangements. The build- 
 ing of the new house was of necessity. This was ac- 
 knowledged by the friends of the mission, who con- 
 tributed largely to the building fund. Among them 
 the noble Chr. Merian, whose bust adorns the Direct- 
 ors’ room, ranked foremost. And so, surely, does the 
 Basle mission among the Continental societies. It has 
 not yet reached its fiftieth year, and already it has 
 trained upward of four hundred messengers of the 
 Good Tidings, two hundred and eighty-one of whom 
 
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 are still alive, working the work of God in all zones 
 and climates of the globe. Of these ninety-three are 
 in the service of the Basle mission ; eleven are em- 
 ployed by the Bremen Missionary Society, one by the 
 Moravian Brethren, thirty-six by the Church Mission- 
 ary Society, two by the English Baptist Missionary 
 Society, two by the Methodists, one by the Assam 
 Missionary Society, one by the American Episcopalian 
 Mission; four are missionaries among the Jews ; twelve 
 are in the service of the English Church in the col- 
 onies ; seventy-three are ministers of German churches 
 in North-America; five in South-America; two in 
 Australis,; thirteen in Russia; ten in Germany ; five 
 are home missionaries. Indeed, if anywhere the com- 
 mandment, ‘‘Go ye into all the world,” etc., has been 
 attended to, the noble band of Christian messengers 
 that have proceeded from the Basle Mission-House 
 have obeyed it.—From the “ Christian Work.”