Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . dford, of Worcester, England, in thepreface to the London edition, which he edited, 1851,writes: As a contribution to theological science, inan age when vague speculation and philosophicaltheories are bewildering all denominations of Chris-tians, this work will be considered by all competentjudges to be both valuable and seasonable. Uponseveral important and difficult subjects the authorhas thrown a clear and valuable light which willguide many a student through perplexities and diffi-culties which he had long sought unsuccessfully toexplain. The
Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . dford, of Worcester, England, in thepreface to the London edition, which he edited, 1851,writes: As a contribution to theological science, inan age when vague speculation and philosophicaltheories are bewildering all denominations of Chris-tians, this work will be considered by all competentjudges to be both valuable and seasonable. Uponseveral important and difficult subjects the authorhas thrown a clear and valuable light which willguide many a student through perplexities and diffi-culties which he had long sought unsuccessfully toexplain. The editor frankly confesses that whena student he would gladly have bartered half thebooks in his library to have gained a single perusalof these lectures; and he cannot refrain from ex-pressing the belief that no young student of theologywill ever regret the purchase or perusal of Mr. lectures. REV. JOHN MORGAN arrived at Oberlin in com-pany with Mr, Finney, in 1835. He was then thirty-two years of age, a native of Ireland, having been. DR. JOHN MORGAN. THOSE WHO HAVE SHARED IN THE WORK. 283 brought to this country at the age of ten, trained asa printer in eastern cities, prepared for college atStockbridge, Mass., and graduated at Williams, asvaledictorian, in 1826. He had taken no seminarycourse, but studied theology some years in NewYork. He was an instructor in the literary orpreparatory department of Lane Seminary, at thetime of the antislavery excitement there, and wasin entire sympathy with the students in their with-drawal. His first appointment to Oberlin was asprofessor of mathematics, but the call which he ac-cepted was to the chair of the literature and exegesisof the New Testament. This work he entered uponat once, but his broad and thorough scholarshipenabled him to fill many a gap, upon emergency, inthe new college. There was not a study in theentire curriculum in which he could not give instruc-tion at an hours warning, as successfully as if it werehis own
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