The Fitting Education For the Christian Ministry - Power of the Pulpit

Young men were indeed taught less than they are now taught in theological seminaries; they heard and transcribed fewer lectures;-they were not listeners merely, but were allowed to be inquirers, and even encouraged to be disputants. The consequence was, that while
they were taught less, they studied more, thought more, wrote more; and their minds were better disciplined, if not so richly furnished. With less learning and fewer attainments, they were abler men; abler casuists, abler polemics; abler, more instructive, and more practical and acceptable preachers of the Gospel.