work is finished: we are only at its commencement; we have done little, very little; there is still everything to do. This thought we wish to see graven on the hearts of all the friends of this undertaking. It is not within the school only that we must labour. Many prejudices attend every new institution; those which yours has to encounter are naturally much more numerous and grave than in a common undertaking. It is needful to remove these, to clear the road, to lay open on all sides the approaches to your institution, that it may be a centre which shall be always receiving and always giving back. "Go through! go through! prepare the way! Take away the stumbling-block from the way of my people!" We have already, gentlemen, much more than we had expected; for we had determined to open our lectures if we had obtained but one student, and they have just opened with a larger number of pupils than several institutions now flourishing have had at their beginning; but let us forget those things which are behind, and reach forth unto those things which are before," as the apostle tells us.

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Friends of the gospel in Geneva! we have already received from several among you precious tokens of Christian regard; yet may we ask from you for others still more numerous; for there are some distant places whence we have received more in proportion than from Geneva, for a work which has already made so many Christian churches in Europe and America fix their thoughts with pleasure on our city. But it is not contributions alone that we desire from you; it is, above all, a place in your hearts for our work, a place in your prayers and the zeal of your charity.

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Young men ! pupils in the school, we also depend on your contributing to the prosperity of this Christian work! Recollect that it is not enough that you should have books in hand for a certain number of years. Enter fully into the spirit which you ought here to learn; how we long to see you wise in the knowledge of the Word of God. And especially remember the words of St. Paul to the young Timothy: "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity."

Friends of this work in foreign lands! friends of the gospel in the Protestant churches of Switzerland, France, and wherever the light of the word is shining, we entreat you, in the name of the living God, let this work be precious to you! You cannot hear us now, but perhaps this voice may reach you! The time is now come when the church of Christ on this continent ought to enlarge her desires! Let her seek then to have schools of instruction, which are so lavishly supplied to contrary creeds! May she take an unshaken resolution of presenting her children to the truth which she has acknowledged, and tremble" to make her sons pass through the fire!" 2 Kings xvi. 3. And thou, Saviour! our great, our only refuge! May thy look of deliverance and of might rest upon this little work done in thy name! If it be found in our hands, may it now be transferred to thine own! May this school become truly a school of prophets? May it hasten that time, when they shall teach no more every man his neighhour, and every man his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," for they shall all know thee, from the least of them even unto the greatest.

RULES OF ADMISSION TO THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL.

Art. I. The students who present certificates of study, necessary for admission to a theological faculty of Switzerland, France, Germany, or other Protestant countries, will be received on the production of these papers, without any examination.

Art. II. Those who cannot furnish such certificates, will go through an examination on the following points :

1. For Hebrew, on the first elements of the gram

mar.

2. For Greek, on the interpretation of the four Gospels and the Acts, of an historical book of the Septuagint version, of a discourse or treatise of one of the fathers of the church (Chrysostom or any other), of two discourses of Demosthenes, or a book of Herodotus and Xenophon.

3. For Latin, on the interpretation of a book of Cicero, and a book of Virgil or Horace.

4. On the elements of universal history and geography.

5. On rhetoric and the French classics considered with reference to style.

6. On the elements of geometry, physics, natural history, globes, and astronomy.

Art. III. The student who presents certificates, proving that he has already, in a satisfactory manner, passed examinations on any of these sciences, will not be required to submit to fresh examinations on the same subjects.

Art. IV. The committee will seek to aid the pupils desiring to enter the school in studies preparatory to the required examination.

Art. V. Any one may attend the theological courses as an auditor, without having passed the above examination; but those who seek to receive certificates of theological study must strive to acquire, by assiduous labour, the preliminary knowledge, that they may be able to pass the required examination, at latest a year and a half after their admission to the school. The auditors will be objects of the same interest and care to the professors as the students.

DISCOURSE

ON THE STUDY

OF THE

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY.

GENTLEMEN,

I propose to treat with you of the history of the Reformation in Germany in the sixteenth century. Literature, science, and arts, philosophy, the civil history of nations, have been successively chosen by justly celebrated men, in this city and in the midst of yourselves, as the subjects of their instructions. I now call you into a new field-the history of Christianity: I ought therefore to inform you of the motives which engage me to do this, and to explain to you the peculiar use of this study in the present day.

Perhaps you are yourselves, at this moment, my justification. It is one among the many signs of the times, that the history of the Christian religion is a subject capable of attracting attention, and of collecting auditors. It is a proof that the interest of