Excerpt from An Address in Behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West: Delivered in Tremont Temple, Boston, May 29, 1850And in the first place, these schools are monuments to the dignity and worth of mind. This dignity and worth must be respected, or the doctrines and forms of Puritanism will not be loved. These doctrines and forms require a taste for intellectual statements, for pure, naked truth. Hence they encourage a style of thinking and Writing which fails to interest men of mere ¿esh. Our clergy, not being priests but moral teachers, must depend for their in¿uence, under God, upon their Spiritual cultivation, and, giving themselves wholly to their work, they must rely for their maintenance, not so much on rich benefices as upon the will of the people, and unless the people revere their own inward, more than their outward nature, they will give no adequate support to an intellectual ministry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.