A second theological seminary was that estab lished at Hampden, Maine, in October, 1810, but which was removed to Bangor, Maine, in 1819. where it has since continued, and from which place it takes its name. Its most eminent theo logical instructor in the past was perhaps Enoch Pond, whose connection with it extended from 1832 to 1870.
In 1822 the corporation of Yale College—now Yale University—carried into execution a plan which had been entertained by them for a con siderable time, by establishing, a department of theology in the college, which has since been known as Yale Divinity School, and is a co ordinate department of Yale University. lts first professor of theology, from its foundation to his death in 1858, was Nathaniel W. Taylor, whose type of doctrine, though belonging, essen tially to the historic. Edwardean school, yet modified the characteristic teachings of that school in some particulars to such an extent as to receive the name 'New Haven theology,' and subjected its author to noel criticism from the stricter representatives of the Edwardean party. Other conspicuous teachers of the Yale Divinity Sikhool have been Elcazar T. Fitch, from its foundation to 1852; Samuel Harris, professor of systematic theology from 1871 to 1895; Timothy Dwight, professor of New Testament Greek from 1858 to 1886, and president of Yale University from 1888 to 1900; and George Park Fisher, its professor of Church history from IS61 to 1901.
The differences of opinion awakened by the theology of Nathaniel IV. Taylor, already alluded to, led to the foundation of a school at East Windsor, Conn., in 1834, then called the Theo logical Institute of Connecticut, but much bet ter known as Hartford Theological Seminary since its removal to Hartford in 1865. Its founder and first professor of theology was Ben net Tyler. who occupied its most conspicuous chair till 1857. Its chief leader among its later instructors has been Chester D. Hartranft, its president, who has been connected with it since 1878, and under whom its curriculum and its equipment have been greatly developed.
Almost contemporary with the founding of the Hartford Seminary was the establishment of a theological department in connection with Ober lin College, opened under the title of Oberlin Theological Seminary, in 1335. Its most distin
guished instructors have been Charles C. Finney, the eminent revivalist, whose services to it con tinued from IS35 to 1875; and, since his death, :lames H. Fairchild, who was connected with Oberlin College, as an instructor in various de partments. from 1838 to his decease in 1902, and held the office of president from 1866 to 1889. Oberlin is at present distinguished by the hearty reception there given to the theology of the Ritsehlian school.
The growing needs of the Middle West led to the organization, in 1854, and to the complete establishment in 1858, of Chicago Theological Seminary, an institution prevailingly conserva tive in its broader evangelical type of theology, of which it has long been a leader in a region which looks to Chicago as its centre. Con spicuous in its teaching force have been Samuel C. Bartlett, its professor of biblical literature from 1858 to 1877, when he became president of Dartmouth College; Franklin W. Fisk, its pro fessor of sacred rhetoric from 1859 to his death in 1901 ; and George N. Boardman, its professor of theology from 1871 to 1893.
The youngest of the Congregational theological schools is that known as Pacific Theological Seminary, which was established at Oakland, Cal., in 1869, and is now located at Berkeley, in the same State.
The Congregational College of Canada was founded in 1S30 as a 'Congregational Academy,' at Toronto, and was removed to Montreal in 1864, where it is now located as a theological school in affiliation with McGill University.
It will thus be seen that of the American Con gregational theological seminaries, Yale and Oberlin are departments of a university or a college; two others, Montreal and Pacific, are affiliated or in close geographical connection with universities; and four, Bangor, Hartford, Andover, and Chicago, are independent founda tions. While some of them originated in doc trinal discussion, and they still represent in sev eral instances somewhat dissimilar points of view, the general tendency of modern Congrega tional development has been to an increasing similarity in doctrinal position and in methods of instruction, so that good fellowship instead of schism exists among all these theological sem inaries at the present time.