“Go where you will in the history of the church, and whenever and wherever true religion has existed in the midst of her, you have seen her not despising, but valuing and seeking after sanctified learning. The talents the Master has committed to her, you have not seen her wrapping in a napkin and hiding in the earth, but trading with them, gaining other talents, and employing all for the use of her Lord....Mere learning, without piety, is of little avail in the Church of God.” — George Howe, A Discourse on Theological Education (1844), pp. 112, 243