them, with the blessing of God, in the exercise of their ministry. In a word, the design of this institution is to contribute what we can, towards the church and world’s having able ministers of the New Testament.”6 Significantly, Hugh Evans headed this list of goals with the ability to read the Scriptures in Hebrew and Greek. In his opinion this ability enabled the student of the Bible to avoid the problem of always having to view it through the “medium of fallible and varying translations.”7 Moreover,