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An Appeal in Behalf of the Indiana Theological Seminary: Located at South ... Benjamin Cothen Cressy No preview available - 2019 |
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ABLE MINISTERS accommodate Alleganies Andover annually poured APPEAL IN BEHALF Atheism Atlantic become benevolent brought to view calculated to furnish Catholic combination of causes contemplated Cornhill course of study demand destined doubt Eastern friends effort England enterprise ere long established exert expence extensive region extent facilities for navigation fact FEEBLE CHURCHES FRIENDS OF LEARNING future millions gospel hundred Illinois importance inaries INDIANA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Infidelity institutions of learning land laying deep learning and religion LITERARY DEPARTMENT LOCATED AT SOUTH manual labor Seminaries manual labor system Mathews means ministry Missouri mountains multiplied necessary aid nunneries Oneida Institute patriots PEIRCE & PARKER Popery portions Presbyterian present Professor Protestant rapidity equal RELIGION TO AID riously Roman Catholic Seminary in Indiana SOUTH HANOVER square miles supply sustaining Synod of Indiana tend to elevate THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT tide of emigration tion train up ministers twenty years ago Union West Western country Western valley
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Page 5 - Should the United States continue to populate for years to come, with a rapidity equal to years past, there will then be a population in this country, within an hundred years, of 300,000,000.
Page 14 - You have come too late, — we have already preoccupied the ground : if you intended to have done any thing, you should have been here twenty years ago.
Page 5 - ... in the Atlantic states. Hence there is reason to believe that the excess of population in the valley, over the Eastern section, will ex- . 4 ceed within a century, the expectations of those, who are at present most sanguine in their calculations.
Page 12 - We believe that He, whose is the silver, and the gold, will incline the friends of learning and religion to aid us in sustaining this enterprise.
Page 14 - Europe, know full well, that the great valley is destined to rule the United States: and no effort will be spared on their part, to be able ere long to rule the valley themselves.
Page 13 - Catholic schools: but the result has been, that in nine cases, out of ten, the children have returned home bigoted Catholics ; and of this the Jesuits have made their boast.
Page 14 - ... too late, — we have already preoccupied the ground : if you intended to have done any thing, you should have been here twenty years ago." Equally arrogant, is the language of the Bishop of Cincinnati, who, in writing to his Catholic friends in Europe, remarks to this affect, " Our cause triurrphs gloriously in America, and especially in the Mississippi valley.
Page 6 - The tide of emigration is rolling Westward with every setting sun. Prejudices and obstacles are daily increasing, associations and habits are fast forming in the West, which will exert n controlling influence upon their conduct when called to wield the destinies of this nation.