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Rh legion of others whose names are sprinkled all through American history.

If ministers had not reared families, that gratuitous fling, "ministers' sons always turn out badly," would, of course, have never been given currency. Neither would the world have had Morse, the Inventor of the Telegraph; Arthur and Cleveland and Wilson, Presidents of the United States; Field, who laid the Atlantic Cable; Agassiz, one of America's first naturalists; Stuyvesant, ablest Governor of New York; Dwight, renowned College President; Clay, the great Compromiser; Holmes and Lowell and Richard Watson Gilder; Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher; and again a multitude not less conspicuous than those thus named.

One of the great contributions which America has made to civilization is the public school system. This was the development and outgrowth of the Pilgrim-Puritan idea, and ever since the Pilgrim days the Church and its ministry have been the friends of education. Long before universities were instituted by the state, denominational colleges were educating the youth of America. As is well known, Harvard was founded by a minister, Yale by ten ministers, Hamilton College, Rutger's College, Dartmouth, The Woman's College at Baltimore, Willamette University, and a multitude of others were founded by ministers. For many years scarcely others than ministers furnished the chief executives for the institutions of higher learning or took high rank in their teaching forces. To mention the names of Increase Mather and Edward Everett, Presidents of Harvard; Stiles and Dwight and Woolsey and Porter of Yale; Jonathan Edwards, Witherspoon and McCosh, of Princeton; Mark Hopkins, of Williams; Knott, of Union College, president for sixty-two years; Wayland, of Brown University; Haven and Day, of Syracuse; Fisk and Olin and Bangs, of Wesleyan; Cummings, of Northwestern; Simpson, Bowman, John and Gobin, of DePauw, formerly Asbury; and Presidents of Willamette University, Hoyt,