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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."
"It s a saving," he said, "to
tjw ministry, the church and the
parishioners - when a man is
spared the aeony of getting Into
a profession for which he is not
lilted." -
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