. nt of slavery, infidelity, fash-ionable amusements, ladies fairs and theatrical entertainments. In May,1840, through the earnest solicitation of a committee appointed by the synodof the Reformed Church in the United States, he accepted and was inductedinto the professorship of theology in the theological seminary of that church,then located at Mercersburg, Penn. Here he was associated with the well-known German scholar, FrederickAugustus Rauch, then president of Marshall College, in the same place. Thedeath of Dr. Rauch, March 2, 1
. nt of slavery, infidelity, fash-ionable amusements, ladies fairs and theatrical entertainments. In May,1840, through the earnest solicitation of a committee appointed by the synodof the Reformed Church in the United States, he accepted and was inductedinto the professorship of theology in the theological seminary of that church,then located at Mercersburg, Penn. Here he was associated with the well-known German scholar, FrederickAugustus Rauch, then president of Marshall College, in the same place. Thedeath of Dr. Rauch, March 2, 1841, made it necessary for Dr. Nevin to as-sume the temporary presidency of the college, which was afterward madepermament, and which he filled for ten years. In 1843 he became involvedin what has been known as the anxious bench controversy, through the pub-lication of his tract called The Anxious Bench. The controversy nearlycreated a schism in the Reformed Church, and was regarded as the beginning ofthe movement since spoken of as the Mercersburg
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