ANDOVER 'THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, at Andover, Mass., founded in 1308, and endowed by Samuel Abbot of Boston, John Phillips, jr., and Plicebe Phillips of Andover; Moses Brown and William Bartlett of Newburyport, and .John Norris. Since the founding the funds have been increased by large donations, and now amount to $600,000. The value of the property is V25,000. The theological seminary was placed under the same management as Phillips academy, which had been in operation more than a quarter of a century; and its purpose was declared to be " to provide for the church a learned, orthodox, and pious ministry." It is doubtless the oldest distinctly theological school in this country. The colleges had .previons)y supplied all the public training of candidates for the ministry. Its general plan has been taken as the model for Many institutions of like purpose. The government is by a board of 13 trustees, 3 visitors, 8 professors, and a librarian. Since the foundation of the seminary, there have been 7 professors of sacred literature, 2 of Christian theology, 7 of sacred rhetoric, 4 of ecclesiastical history, 1 in the special course, and 1 of elocution. In 1879, it bad 7 professors and 4 lecturers. Special lecturers address the students every year in various departments of theological or practical instruction In 1879, the seminary had 90 students. Its graduates number more than 2000; and about 3000 students have been
connected with it. Its situation is quiet and beautiful, about 23 in. n. of Boston. The seminary is under the control of Congregationalists, but is administered in a spirit of such evangelical liberality that many who are now eminent ministers in other denomina tions have availed themselves of its privileges. Room-rent and tuition are free, and indigent students are assisted. The course of study occupies three years, and the aim is for a solid and thorough training. It has a library of 37,000 volumes. On the roll of its professors, past and present, are names distinguished in all departments of theological learning, biblical criticism, and sacred rhetoric. Its graduates are scattered through all portions of the United States, and as missionaries in many heathen lands. Edwards A. Park, D.D., who occupies the chair of theology, has for many years edited the Dibliotheca Sacra, a theological quarterly of the highest rank, well known on both sides of the Atlantic.