Excerpt from Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: Presented to the General Assembly at Chicago, May, 1877 The number of candidates recommended-and accepted during the past year, is 462, more by 2 than that of last year. Of these, 116 were new recommendations. These in Theological Seminaries number 249 those in their Collegiate course, I9 3 those in their Academic course, regarded as exceptional cases, 20. Those preparing to labor among foreigners naturalized among us, Germans, Portuguese, French, Welsh and others, number 38 those preparing for work among the freedmen and colored Churches, 48. Candidates completing their studies this year are distributed among the Theological Seminaries, as follows: Union, New York, I3; Princeton, I4; Western, Allegheny, 12; Auburn, I; Lane, 8; North west, Chicago, 9;, Danville, Ky, 3; San Francisco. 2. Total, 62. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.