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MSec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Frl., June 29, '58 lisssjniisjjsjwsjwsj V ,-v: si.: $.:-;. v 'S':v;,';.-;V 'v..'.;j . ' to A : M OfMl (P 3 O Find Fitness of Future Pastors My HERMAN R. ALLEN Fse Giwrfc CoracIO , WASHINGTON ( - What does It take to make a goofl minister? Of course be must have I genu ine calling, or vocation, to enter the ministry. But la this always , enough? Of ficials of the! National Council of Churches are not sure that it Is. Psychological and personality traits, they believe, frequently un fit completely sincere young man for the human relations nec essary In pastoral work. Two years ago the council call ed 25 church leaders and psychol ogists to meet at the offices of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., to talk over how tests might be devised that would Indicate the future effect iveness of seminary applicant. The service already had re searched such tests for the legal and engineering professions. After further conferences, coun cil and service officials worked out an approach to a three-year research project. Now the Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis has made aa $85,009 grant to finance It. AsMaorr Committee The testing service Is to do the work under direction of. an ad visory committee of church offi cials, representatives of partici pating seminaries and experts in research techniques. Committee chairman is Dr. M C. Froyd, di rector of research at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, a Bap tist institution. Some seminaries have used psy chological tests for 25 yeas in screening applicants and weeding out the unfit as they progress through their course. But the Rev. Elmer G. Million, director of the council's depart ment of the ministry, says the new study will be the first wide-, spread effort to find methods of Improving the selection and train-; lng of tomorrow's ministers. Officials of two - seminaries, j asked to assess the value of such , a program, said it could be con siderable. Sveclfle Jobs ."Very little has Been none in this field," said President Norman L. Trott of Westminster Md. Theological Seminary a Method Lot school "It is a good area in which to work. The seminaries are training men for a specific job, and they want to be as spe cific as possible In choosing them." - - Dr. A. T: Mollegen of the Prot estant Episcopal Theological Sem luary In Alexandria, Virginia, said he believed th work "could be venr useful. . Both men emphasised that their Institutions already use testa to weed out the emotionally unfit. Such, tests at pretty well estab lished, but it could well be that a man who is perfectly sound in the psychiatric sense could still lack some qualities needed by a I successful minister. The newTproJ- j ' ect is aimed at determining what these qualities are. Psychological Tests Of six tests given to West- minster .applicants, two arc psy chological in nature a minis terial eounciling "aid form" and temperament survey. , In the past six years. Dr. Trott said, these tests have turned up one man jrho was actually insane.! Others were referred to a staff: psychologist, and 17 were ulti mately dropped. ! Dr. Moliegen explained that the Episcopal Church has a national requirement that candidates for admission to its seminaries under go a psychiatric test and other stiff interviews, including a final one with the bishop of the diocese In which the seminar is located. Most , unlit men, be said, are blocked at this level. Successful applicants are watched constantly during their two-year seminary course (junior and senior college years and some are advised to drop out. Dr. Moliegen said in an average year r I at the Yurinia Seminary s : ISO student body do leave usual ly of their own free will. Chaplata Aide But one of the most effective of weeding out misfits is a re tirement that ministerial candi date spend the summer between their two academic years serving as assistant to a chaplain in a ... prison, . mental institution or Jen- oral hospital. "Here." says the Rev. F.rnest E. Binder, chaplain at St. Eliza beth'f Mental Hospital in Wash ington, "a man gets the first real opportunity to test his vocation. Bruder said that of 140 men checked over a period of 10 years. 11 left the ministry after com Dieting this summer work. - , Bruder said tests such as the National Council and the Kduca. Conal Tesiinit Service propose to develop wuld be a terrific god send" but that he believed they Still ' should be backed up by something like hi church s "elm fcal training." 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