Excerpt from An Address Delivered and Published at the Request of the Young Men's Auxiliary Education Society of Newburyport, Sept. 1822

Is the object a good one P - l do not ask whether the ordinance of the christian ministry be of divine ap pointment or of human invention, nor whether the in ¿uence of such a ministry be essential to the highest we'lfitre of mankind. These are questions which wait not our decision. G01) has settled them from the begin ning, and it is not our unhappiness to be united to an as sembly who doubt the wisdom and justice of his decisa ion. But the question whose solution is to have an in ¿uence in governing our actions is, will it promote vir tue, and of consequence diffuse happiness. To aid young men of promise, and dependent on the public bounty, in their preparation for the sacred office? Is [a multiplica tion of well qualified pastors, beyond the ordinary means of supply, actually needed by the church? Are they so urgently called for, as to render necessary this extra, and in the extent preposed, novel method of increasingtheir number P By the correct decision of this question.

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