[FROM THE NINTH REPORT OF THE SOCIETY-1852.] PREMIUM OFFERED. A benevolent individual, deeply impressed with the importance of multiplying the number of educated and evangelical ministers of the Gospel, in order to meet the pressing and growing wants of our country and of the world, has placed at the disposal of the Society for the promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to be given to the author of the best Essay on "PRAYER FOR COLLEGES." The writer is expected to set forth the importance of the subject, especially as relates to the conversion of young men in a course of education and the consequent increase of candidates for the sacred ministry. Also the encouragements derived not only from the divinely appointed relations of prayer to the conversion of men, but also from the signal answers to prayer for this specific object furnished by numerous revivals of religion in Colleges. Then, by way of inference, the obligations of Instructors to labor unceasingly for the conversion and sanctification of those under their training, and of pious young men in Colleges to co-operate in this work-together with the obligations of Boards of Trust, to whom the church in an important sense, commits the sacred interests of Christian education. Committee of Award.-Rev. Prof. Ralph Emerson, D. D., of Andover Theological Seminary; Rev. E. N. Kirk, Boston, Mass., and Rev. L. F. Dimmick, D.D., Newburyport, Mass. PREMIUM AWARDED. Newburyport, June 28th, 1854. The Committee for awarding the prize ($150) "To the author of the best Essay on Prayer for Colleges," have received and examined thirty-two manuscripts. Many of the Essays are written with ability, and several appear well worthy of publication. The one best adapted, in the judgment of the Committee, to accomplish the purposes of the donor, is found to have been written by Prof. W. S. Tyler of Amherst College. An earlier decision has been prevented by the absence of one member of the Committee for a considerable period from the country, and by other unavoidable ircumstances. In behalf of the Committee, RALPH EMERSON Chairman "Prayer and Pains can accomplish any thing." ELLIOTT. "I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for any thing, but at some time, in some shape-probably the last I should have devisedit came." JUDSON. "The man who would show to common minds the connection between colleges and the interests of the church, would be a benefactor to his species." DWIGHT. "The Schools of the Prophets are there; is it not a more extensive benefit to sweeten the fountain than to purify a particular stream?" WESLEY, |