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News and Courier.


Place-A SIX ketch OF His Life.
News and Courier.
Camden, Ala, Nov. 17.-At the bus
mess session of the Associate Reform
ed Presbyterian Synod Of the South,
now In session here, the Rev. J. s.
Mofatt, D. D., Of Chester, was unani-
mously elected president of Erskine
College, the denominations institu-
tion supported by the Associate Re
formed Presbyterian Church and To-
Gated at Due West, s. G.
DR.. Moffatt succeeds the Rev. F. Y.
Pressly. D. D., who has been president
of the College since the death Of DR..
w. M. Grier, in 1899. DR.. Pressly re-
signed several months ago to accept
the presidency Of Erskine Theological
Seminary.
The College is now in splendid con-
dition. It has the largest attendance
in its history. Its equipments are new
and modern it has an exceptionally
strong faculty. and it is believed that
in DR.. Moffatt has been found man
who is capable of carrying 1t forward
to greater and still greater things.
A Sketch OF DE-. Moffatt.
The Rev. James s. Mofatt, D. D., is
the son of the Rev. and Mrs. William
8. Moffatt. He was born at Wheel
ing, Fulton County, Ark, July II,
1850.
From his mother he gained the rudi-
ments of an education and to this
sainted woman he attributes all Of his
interest in things intellectual and spir-
itual. To her untiring efforts In his
behalf and to her constant solicitude
is due the fact of his conversion and
his subsequent achievements in the
cause of Christ.
In his boy hood he attended public
schools, Uniontown and st. Claire-
Vile, all in Ohio. He next went to
Due West and spent two years in Ers-
kline College, leaving this institution
to become student at Muskingum
College at New Concord, Ohio, grad
uating at this institution in 1888.
in the fall of 1883 he became stu.
dent Of theology at Allegheny Semi
nary, graduating from this institution
three years later.
In April, 1885, Mr.. Moflatt became
connected with the First Presbytery of
the A. r. P. Synod, and took charge
Of the mission work at Charlotte, N.
c., for one year, beiug ordained to the
full work Of the ministry in July, 1885.
In the spring of 1887 he was called
to the passorate of the A. r. P.
Church, In this city, and was installed
in the summer Of the same year. Dur
ing his nineteen years pastorate he
has wrought great work. From a
struggling and obscure little church,
with membership of scarcely eighty,
the church has go progressed that to-
day it vies with any Of Its sister
churches of the city, the membership
having been more than trebled, cost
ly church edifce built and a commo.
dious parsonage purchased. ,.
But 1t is not in things materia. >at
has come DR.. Moffatt's greatest tri-
umph. It is rather in the impress OF
bis personality that he has stamped
upon the years and upon those among
whom he has moved. Thoroughly
conscientious, bold and outspoken, be
has yet about him the gentleness Of q
woman, and no household Of suffering
or sorrow is ever left unvisited by him.
His personality makes itself felt ss
we'll on the moral tone of the cor =
nifty. To observant men there ls no
doubt whatever that there has been q
wholesome growth and improvement,
morally speaking, in this city within
recent years, and In this move for
Righteousness DR.. Moffatt has always
been in the van, terror to the forces
of unrighteousness, and an encourage.
ment and an examplar to the forces
that are striving to bring about moral
and spiritual improvement. The peo-