In Memory of Thomas Ebenezer Thomas, Delivered Sunday, March 14, 1875, in the First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... ship, to mention but two. I have it from the testimony of an eminent servant of Christ, Dr. John M. Stevenson, of New York, that during his college course, Dr. Thomas fell into deep spiritual distress. "For weeks he was the special subject of prayer on the part of his pious fellow-students. He saw the truth of God's justice, and the criminality of sin, but could not see the infinite mercy of Christ as applied to his own soul. His chosen friends among the students prayed with him and for him, daily and nightly, rising at midnight to walk away into the grove with him to plead for the light of God's countenance." At length it came " God brought him forth in the full and joyful experience of his love in Christ Jesus. From that time he became a bright, trustful, joyous, exultant Christian." He made a profession of his faith in Christ at Venice, Ohio, April 2, 1831, in the twentieth year of his age. Remarkable was his moral heroism, as a youth, and his love of principle. Specially, as some yet remember, did it shine in face of danger, during the dreadful cholera scourge of 1833, when, resisting with a few others, the recalcitrant vote of his fellow-students, determined to abandon the University and seek refuge in flight, he remained firm to the last amid the despairing and the dying, thus supporting the hands of his instructors and receivingtheir warmest encomiums. He was licensed at Oxford, Ohio, October, 1836, to preach the gospel. He was ordained to his first pastorate at Harrison, July, 1837, the period of the division of the Presbyterian Church into Old "and New School. He became the pastor of the church at Hamilton, Ohio, in the fall of 1838. He was elected president of Hanover College in 1849, receiving his Doctorate from Wabash College in 1850, and resi...