Log Cabin

George Whitefield in his Journals, dated November 22, 1739, tells of his meeting with Rev. Tennant in New Jersey:

"Mr. Tennant, and his brethren in presbytery, intend breeding up gracious youths for our Lord's vineyard. The place wherein the young men now study, is a log house, about twenty feet long, and nearly as many broad. From this despised place, seven or eight worthy ministers of Jesus have been sent forth, and a foundation is now laying for the instruction of many others. The work, I am persuaded, is of God, and therefore will not come to nought."

Whitefield was right in one sense: this log cabin became Princeton, and in the early years it had such presidents as Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Davies. And over the years the school employed some worthy theologians such as Charles Hodge and B.B. Warfield. The state of the school today from a spiritual sense is another matter all together.