The Life of Archibald Alexander Dd First Professor in the Theological Semina
The Life of Archibald Alexander Dd First Professor in the Theological Semina
Alexander, James W. (James Waddel), 1804-1859
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The gift of Walton's Polyglott, by the Eev. Dr. Green, was the first token of any thing like a literary apparatus. In later days the munifi- cence of Mr. Lenox, Dr. Sprague, Mr. Agnew and the Messrs. Stuarts, has caused a happy change ; but it is still to be lamented that the churches at large are supine upon this important subject. Public libraries will generally be the exponent of the degree of scientific and literary advance- ment in a Seminary. The liberality of donors should be SERMONS. 39...1 invited to this object. But the number is small of those who estimate the necessity ; and zeal for great libraries always infers a high measure of literary cultivation. In re- gard to this, we have become accustomed to hear the most narrow and gi'ovelling opinions, from the lips even of clergy- men and so-called scholars ; as if the only intent of a library was to furnish pabulum for the undergraduates. For almost forty years Dr. Alexander was himself the librarian, and he never relaxed his exertions to make the collection more worthy of the place it occupied.
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