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CHAPTER XIV

Theological Libraries

Theological libraries may be divided,
either according to their accessibility or non-
accessibility to the public, or according to
their connection with specific institutions,
such as the seminary, the church, the cathe-
dral, the Sunday school, the religious associa-
tion or society, the mission, reading room
or settlement.
The priestly class has from time immemo-
rial had a reputation for learning, the word
doctrine itself meaning nothing else than
teaching. The clergy were the teachers of
men before modern educational methods
came into being, and they have not only been
the makers but the preservers and dissemina-
tors of many books. It is, therefore, not sur-
prising to find almost every priest, minister,
or other religious teacher supplied with an
effective library of his own or possessed of
the right of access to some available general
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