On Free Church was transferred to Truro , where an arts course was still maintained, and Professor Smith , for three months of the term, taught with Professors King and McKnight in the theological college in Halifax . THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE. In the year 1848 the Synod of the Free Church of Nova Scotia, with the view of training young men for the work of the ministry, resolved to institute in Halifax an academy and a theological hall. To aid them in this undertaking the Colonial Committee of the Free Church in Scotland generously volunteered to bear the expenses connected with the maintenance of the theological hall for the first four years. The Synod in the same year resolved to raise an endow¬ ment fund of £8,ooo, the interest of which should go to the support of the theological professors. In this undertaking they met with most encouraging success. Accordingly class rooms were fitted up and in the autumn of the same year, 1848, Professors King and McKenzie arrived from Scotland , the for¬ mer to teach moral philosophy and theology, and the latter classics, mathematics and rhetoric. The college was opened with fifteen students, three of whom entered the theological hall. During this ses¬ sion some of the students attended a course of lec¬ tures on natural science, delivered by Rev. Dr. For ¬ rester, one of the most enthusiastic educationalists of his day ; they also attended a class in Hebrew taught by Rev. David Honeyman , a man who, both as a 171