Alumnae Recorder . Church in 1852. His teaching powers, however,which had already shown themselves in the interval betweenhis college and theological courses, were so great that he wassoon called to the Professorship of Greek in WashingtonCollege, and from that time his life was devoted mainly to thework of college instruction. And who, that knew him, canthink that he accomplished less for Christ in this way than hewould have done had he given himself wholly to preaching? Testimo-nial after testimonial comes from his old pupils, bearing witness to theactive influence for good that he exerted t
Alumnae Recorder . Church in 1852. His teaching powers, however,which had already shown themselves in the interval betweenhis college and theological courses, were so great that he wassoon called to the Professorship of Greek in WashingtonCollege, and from that time his life was devoted mainly to thework of college instruction. And who, that knew him, canthink that he accomplished less for Christ in this way than hewould have done had he given himself wholly to preaching? Testimo-nial after testimonial comes from his old pupils, bearing witness to theactive influence for good that he exerted through his ordinary class-room recitations. As one of his latest Wooster pupils, in a memorialaddress, said of him : Dr. Black seemed to have a God-given powerof seeing in everything some soul-feeding thought. . Thechained Prometheus reminded him of the crucified read the last defense of the almost perfect sage, who yet lacked theone thing needful; our teacher would point us again to the only perfect. ALUMNA RECORDER. One, who drank the cup of a shameful death that we might take of thewater of life freely. We have forgotten many of these daily lessonsthat he taught, but we shall never forget around whom they centered—his dear Jesus! and let Him be ours, too! For eleven years Dr. Black was connected with Washington College,part of the time being Vice-President of the College, and twice beingoffered the presidency. For two years after this he was at the head ofIowa State University; then he came to be President of our own Col-lege, just founded. Five years later, in 1875, he was called to WoosterUniversity, as Professor of the Greek and English Languages andLiteratures, and there he labored till, a few mouths before the end, hisbody, worn by disease, refused to endure the strain which his activemind wished to put upon it, and he was obliged to give up his classes. The love and veneration in which he was held at Wooster, are shownin the April number of The Post-Gradua
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