Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . ble Christian families in the region had alreadypassed through the experience of an emigration, andthe work of making homes in the heavy-timberedcountry; and one such experience, however enjoy-able, suffices in general for a lifetime. Hence thosemust be appealed to who could look with com-placency upon such an enterprise. Such peoplelived in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachu-setts, and Mr. Shipherd had a wide acquaintanceamong them. Hence a journey must be made toNew England for the threefold purpose of securingthe land, the money, and the men.
Oberlin: the colony and the college1833-1883 . ble Christian families in the region had alreadypassed through the experience of an emigration, andthe work of making homes in the heavy-timberedcountry; and one such experience, however enjoy-able, suffices in general for a lifetime. Hence thosemust be appealed to who could look with com-placency upon such an enterprise. Such peoplelived in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachu-setts, and Mr. Shipherd had a wide acquaintanceamong them. Hence a journey must be made toNew England for the threefold purpose of securingthe land, the money, and the men. In November,1832, Mr. Shipherd undertook this journey. The decision to launch out thus upon an untriedexperiment cost him a struggle. He was naturallyhopeful and sanguine. His life-long habit had been,to depend upon Divine guidance, as indicated insome inward conviction or illumination. The evi-dence that he was to go forward was, to his mind,unquestionable. The plan of the enterprise he hadaccepted as divinely given, and through all his re-. HISTORIC ELM. THE ORIGIN OF THE ENTERPRISE. 2$ maining years he was accustomed to refer to it asthe pattern shown him in the Mount. But thus farhe had little human sympathy in his a devoted servant of God, and an earnest andeffective preacher of the Gospel, he had, during thetwo years of his residence in Elyria, secured a wideinfluence. He possessed the confidence of the min-isters and the churches of the region. But thescheme of a college and a colony, to be located inthe wilderness, which he presented as the reason forhis resignation of the pastorate, seemed too vision-ary to command the respect of reasonable and pru-dent men. His earnestness and devotion andintense conviction could scarcely save it from ridi-cule. Here and there a single person was broughtinto sympathy with his views. This was the situa-tion when he set out on horseback for his easterncampaign. Mrs. Shipherds record gives us someinsight into the inward c
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