PREPARATION FOR THE MINISTRY.

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  If I may be allowed to speak of my own personal experience, I would wish to make it admonitory to those who are coming after me. I entered on professional studies after a course of academical preparation, extended to nearly seven years, and pursued under as good advantages as the state of the country then allowed. This preparatory course was not interrupted by School teaching, a practice which most unhappily prevails of late, in some of our Colleges, to such an extent as virtually to reduce a four years' education, to less than three, especially if we inculde the exhaustion of vital power under which a student must go on in College, who has devoted all his vacations to a most arduous employment.