Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1883 — The Education of Ministers. [ARTICLE]

The Education of Ministers.

President Eliot struck the note when he claimed that ministers ought to be educated to understand the social spirit and forces of the age. The study of sociology is just as important as the study of theology. You must have knowledge of both. Men who have preached about God what they did not know; they are preaching about man to the ignoring of the divine revelation; what is most needed is that they shall put the Christian church before our communities as the divine state of human society. It is, doubtless, import-'” ant to s well the membership of churches; but it is vastly more important to make our American Christianity respectable enough to secure the assent and co-op-eration and enthusiasm of the capable young men ®f the community.— Poston Herald.