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percentage of the ministers of the German Methodist Church were educated in this seminary. The names of some of its professors are well known throughout this country and in other countries, as, for example, Dr. C. F. Paulus, Dr. C. Riemenschneider, Prof. V. Wilker, and Bishop John L. Nuelsen (q.v.).

The school has been enabled to do its excellent work partly through its connection with Baldwin University, also located at Berea, O. A contract with this university permits students of German Wallace College and Nast Theological Seminary to pursue, without payment of tuition, class-work in Baldwin University, and students of Baldwin Uni versity are permitted to do the same in German Wallace College. The institution has now (1911) 250 students, 23 instructors, 24 trustees, $300,000 endowment, and about 9,000 volumes in the library, while the campus and buildings are valued at about $150,000. A magazine, Zeitschrift fur Theologie and Kirche, is published bimonthly by the faculty of the seminary. ARTHUR L. BREBLICH.

7. Swedish: The Swedish Theological Seminary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now located at Evanston (a suburb of Chicago), Ill., was organized in Galesburg, Ill., in Jan., 1870, for the purpose of educating ministers for the Swedish Methodist churches in America; and the pastor in Galesburg, Rev. N. O. Westergreen, being, elected its teacher, began his work with three students. Some years afterward the school was moved to Galva, Ill., where it was located two years, with Rev. C. A. Wiren as teacher, until Jan., 1875, when it was moved again, this time to Evanston, Ill., where it is still located, and where it became affiliated with Garrett Biblical Institute of the Northwestern University.

Rev. Win. Henschen, of Upsala, Sweden, now became its president, and served in this capacity till 1883, when he was succeeded by Rev. Albert Ericson, who was its president until 1909. In the year 1883 a suitable building was erected, at a cost of $8,000, on the shore of Lake Michigan, near the Northwestern University, but since this building stood on leased ground the trustees of the seminary bought, in the year 1908, a half block of land on Orrington Ave. and Lincoln St., in Evanston, and erected a commodious building, at a cost of $35,000.

The institution is now owned and maintained by the five Swedish conferences in America through a board of directors consisting of eleven members. The current expenses are raised by an annual collection in the different conferences and by interest from an endowment fund of about $50,000. In 1910 the faculty consisted of three professors, C. G. lVallenius (president), J. E. Iiillberg, and F. A. Lundberg, and for the last ten years the registration has varied between twenty-five and thirty. The course of study extends through a period of four years, the first two comprising an academic course for those who have not completed their academic education, while the last two years are devoted to a thorough study of the theological branches, Since its organization the.school has graduated more than two hundred students who are ministers in different parts of America and Sweden. The seminary has a library of about 1,500 bound volumes (chiefly

theological and historical works), and 500 pam phlets. C. G. WALLENIUS. Btstxoaaerar: C. G. Wallenius, Svenaka Metod7amen d Amerika, Chicago, 1895. 8. Taylor: Taylor University, under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is located at Upland, Grant Co., Ind., and had its origin in 1846 through the union of Fort Wayne College and Fort Wayne Female Academy, its first president being Hon. Alexander C. Heustis. The institution re mained at Fort Wayne until 1893, when, largely through the efforts of Rev. John C. White, of Logana port, Ind., it was removed to Upland, its name now being changed to Taylor University. The seminary, which forms part of the university, stands for the old Bible, full salvation, sanctification as a work of grace subsequent to regeneration, and for every truth taught in the Bible, and it is opposed to de structive criticism and to every form of worldliness and sin. It has been largely influential in helping to uphold the Wesleyan doctrine of entire sanctifi cation, and it is a noteworthy missionary center, not only sending many into the foreign mission field, but also training many from foreign lands to return to their native countries as missionaries. Among its prominent instructors have been T. C. Reade, C. W. Winchester, H. N. Herrick, and B. W. Ayers. In 1910 the university had thirteen professors and four. instructors, and about 160 students, coming from twenty states and from eleven countries, in cluding the West Indies, Russia, Bulgaria, Persia, Africa, and Canada, and representing not only the Methodist denominations, but also the United Brethren, Friends, and Baptists. The institution is governed by twenty-one trustees elected by the National Local Preachers' Association of the United States. It possesses no endowment, but receives annually a considerable sum from regular and vol untary contributions of friends. The library con tains 6,000 volumes. M. VAYIIINGER.

8. Vanderbilt: This seminary constitutes one of the seven departments of Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn., which derives its origin from a gift of $500,000 by Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, to an institution just projected and chartered as " The Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South." He later doubled this gift, and when the university was opened in Sept., 1875, the name was changed to Vanderbilt University. The " Central University " had been chartered June 29, 1872, by several ministers and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the first board of trust represented eight annual conferences of the denomination, located in Tennessee, Kentucky, . Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama, these conferences being termed "patronizing conferences," and each having representatives on the board. In 1898 these conferences transferred their rights in the ownership and government of the university to the General Conference of the denomination, and the institution has since been regarded as connectional in character, being held in trust by its board for the entire denomination, from any part of which this board of trust, thirty-three in number, is chosen. The leading motive in the founding of the university was to,provide the best possible equipment for train.