Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . sful, and he gave hisheart and strength to its prosperity without any res-ervation. An infelicity which often attends greatstrength of purpose and of character was sometimessuspected in him, namely, a greater facility in convic-tion than in conciliation. While he had many ar-dent friends, there would be another class who wereas distinctly not his friends. Some of his colleaguesfelt at times that his strong aggressiveness awakenedunnecessary hostility against the college; and in1850, some of his friends having planned a newUniversity at Cleveland,
Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . sful, and he gave hisheart and strength to its prosperity without any res-ervation. An infelicity which often attends greatstrength of purpose and of character was sometimessuspected in him, namely, a greater facility in convic-tion than in conciliation. While he had many ar-dent friends, there would be another class who wereas distinctly not his friends. Some of his colleaguesfelt at times that his strong aggressiveness awakenedunnecessary hostility against the college; and in1850, some of his friends having planned a newUniversity at Cleveland, and invited him to takethe direction of it, he resigned at Oberlin, havingheld the presidency of the college fifteen President Mahan, Oberlin lost somewhat of itspositiveness and aggressiveness. The enterprise at Cleveland was not a success,and Mr. Mahan was called to a professorship inAdrian College, Mich., and at length to the pres-idency of the college. The last ten years he hasspent in England, in abundant labors in the special. PRES. ASA MAHAN. THOSE WHO HAVE SHARED IN THE WORK. 2J() work of promoting the higher Christian experi-ence, and now, at the age of eighty-three, he ispreaching to large congregations, editing a maga-zine called Divine Life, and issuing one volume afteranother, such as The Baptism of the Holy Ghost, Out of Darkness into Light, and Autobiography,Intellectual, Moral and Spiritual. While at Oberlinhe published works on The Will, IntellectualPhilosophy, and Moral Philosophy. Otherworks, since published, are on Logic, Spiritualism,Natural Theology, and a Criticism of the Conductof the War. Rev. G. Finney came in June, 1835,about a month after Mr. Mahan. He was thennearly forty-two years of age, with health somewhatbroken by the exhausting evangelistic labors of thepreceding ten years. He found a theological de-partment of thirty-five students, and entered atonce upon his work, as professor of systematic theol-ogy. His habit was to pre
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