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mount are secured for the endowing of four Professorships, viz:

One by the Synod of New-York and New-Jersey one by the Synod of Philadelphia-one by the Synod of South-Carolina and Georgia-and one by individual subscriptions, to be the Professorship of Oriental and Biblical Literature.

The present number of students in the Seminary is 117 of these 12 are from Kentucky.

Nine ministers and four probationers, belonging at present to the Synod of Kentucky, are from the Princeton Seminary; that is, in the short period of eleven years, this Seminary has furnished to the Presbyterian churches in Kentucky nearly a fourth of their minig try. It is also to be added-that two of the natives of Kentucky from this school are settled in Alabama. The result of the whole is-that there is not a state in the Union which has a deeper interest in the institution than Kentucky has.

We close this article by merely suggesting the in. quiry, viz:-Whether the time has not arrived when a Theological Seminary, such as that at Princeton, is not demanded, and may not now be established in the west? To assist in determining this inquiry, we would urge some such facts as the following.

1. The school at Princeton may be considered as now beyond the reach of danger with respect to funds. It cannot suffer by the attention of a portion of the Presbyterian body being directed to another quarter. At any rate, the western churches uniting to establish and support a Seminary in the West, would not deprive the

Princeton Seminary of any part of the territory from which its funds and its support have hitherto been derived.

2. It is in the nature of things utterly impossible

that a school at such a distance should be able to furnish any thing like the supplies which the increasing wants of the West demand. And,

3. A school located in the West would not only furnish innumerable facilities for the qualifying those among us, who are already looking forward to the ministry, but it would also multiply to a considerable extent the number of candidates.

As to the means which the Synod of Kentucky alone may command for the establishment of an institution of this kind, they are ample. A proper arrangement and action are all that is necessary to insure success.

No. 21.

NAMES OF THE PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE SYNOD OF KENTUCKY.

THE following may be considered as nearly a correct roll of the Kentucky Synod,-the names standing, as far as can be ascertained, in the order of official seniority, viz.

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Rev. William K. Stewart, Rev. Isaac Bard.

Rev. David H. Philips,

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Presbytery of Salem, Indiana.

Rev. Samuel T. Scott,

Rev. John Todd,

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THE Rev. Andrew M'Clure was born in Augusta county, Virginia, in May, 1755. He received his education chiefly under the direction of Rev. Mr. Graham, of Rockbridge, and was licensed in 1783.

He visited Kentucky in 1784-staid some time-returned to Virginia-was ordained-and settled with his family on the waters of Round-Oak, about 100 miles from his father's.

He moved to Kentucky in the fall of 1786. In 1787 he organized Salem congregation, in Clarke county, and Paris congregation, in Bourbon county. He undertook the pastoral charge of Paris church in 1789, and continued with them till his death, which happened in August, 1798.

He left a helpless family in a new and a strange country. The God of Israel has, however, in their case, as well as in thousands of similar cases, been the stranger's shield, and the help and the stay of the fatherless and the widow.

The congregation at Paris was at first large and remarkably promising, but was soon much broken up by disputes about Psalmody. It has, however, outlived that, and many other trials and difficulties, and is now one of the best congregations in Kentucky. Their present pastor is the Rev. John M'Farland, who, though not a native of the state, was educated in the state, and studied divinity in the Theological Seminary of NewYork, under the care of Dr. Mason.

The church of Silver Creek, Madison county, was organized by the Rev. James Crawford, about the year 1790. In 1793, Mr. Carey Allen, a licentiate, came from Virginia, and laboured in that part of the state during the summer, with very marked success. He returned to Virginia in the fall-came out again in the spring of 94-accepted a call from the united congregations of Paint Lick and Silver Creek, and was ordained and installed their pastor, 11th October of the same year.

The unhappy dispute about Psalmody disturbed also the peace, and produced a schism, at this time, in this otherwise promising congregation. The evii, however, was not much felt at its commencement, as God remarkably blest the labours of his young servant, so that Bonsiderably more were added to the church than left

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