David Marks papers, 1835-1845.

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David Marks papers, 1835-1845.

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David Marks was a Freewill Baptist minister. The collection consists of his notes pertaining to church services in Portsmouth, N.H. (1835); Rochester, N.Y, (1837); and Oberlin, Ohio (1844-45). Marks comments on lectures and sermons delivered by Amos Sutton, Asa Mahan, President of Oberlin Collegiate Institute; and Charles Finney, professor of theology at Oberlin. Also included are his own sermons, notes concerning Freewill Baptist missions in India, and minutes from several meetings of the Foreign Mission Society (April 1835).

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Bates College Library, George and Helen Ladd Library

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Bates College Library, George and Helen Ladd Library

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Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911)

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Sutton, Amos, 1798-1854

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Oberlin Collegiate Institute

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Mahan, Asa, 1799-1889

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Asa Mahan was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator and the first president of Oberlin College. From the description of Letter, December 28, 1877. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 731674001 Asa Mahan (1799-1889), clergyman, educator and first President of Oberlin College (1835-50), came to Oberlin from Lane Seminary in Cincinnati under an agreement supported by abolitionists Lewis and Arthur Tappan. Mahan advocated the doctrine of full moral freedom and was an...

Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875

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Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875), revivalist, educator, and second President of Oberlin College (1851-65), abandoned the practice of law after a dramatic religious conversion and, following ordination in the Presbyterian Church, launched a decade of extraordinarily successful revivals in New York state (1824-33). He left the Presbyterian Church in 1836 and identified himself as a Congregationalist from then on. Finney's brand of theological perfectionism helped to make Oberlin College famous...

Marks, David, 1805-1845

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