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Excerpt from Our Want of Clergy, Its Causes, and Suggestions for Its Cure: A Sermon Preached Before the University of Oxford, on the Second Sunday in Lent, March 1, 1863
There have grown up around us many small theolo gical seminaries which qualify for Holy Orders without the aid of the Universities - which yearly increase in number - which gain even a firmer hold upon our ec clesiastical system, supplying already from a fourth to a third part of our ministers. Is it well that such in stitutions should be multiplied, and should absorb, as they threaten to do, the largest share in educating our clergy? Consider the natural and necessary charac teristics of them. Diocesan colleges must be small. In each diocese there are scarcely, on the average, twenty men annually admitted to Holy Orders, and of these certainly not one quarter are likely as a rule to owe their introduction to the Church to the local college g. Theological colleges unquestionably ought to be under the conduct of an able Principal of clear and decided views. But such a man dealing with the class of minds which come under him cannot but turn out continued reproductions of his own Opinions and peculiarities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
