Calvin Wilson Mateer: Forty-Five Years a Missionary in Shantung, China; A Biography (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Calvin Wilson Mateer: Forty-Five Years a Mis...)
Excerpt from Calvin Wilson Mateer: Forty-Five Years a Missionary in Shantung, China; A Biography
Dr. Mateer was a man Of unusual force of char acter; an educator, a scholar and an executive of high capacity. Hanover College, of which Dr. D. W. Fisher was then president, early recognized his ability and success by bestowing upon him the honor ary degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1903 his alma mater added the degree of Doctor of Laws. We mourn that the work no longer has the benefit of his counsel; but he builded so well that the results of his labors will long endure, and his name will always have a prominent place in the history Of missionary work in the Chinese empire.
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Calvin Wilson Mateer: Forty-Five Years a Missionary in Shantung, China : a Biography (1911)
(Originally published in 1911. This volume from the Cornel...)
Originally published in 1911. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
Daniel Webster Fisher was an American Presbyterian clergyman, for twenty-eight years president of Hanover College, Indiana.
Background
Daniel Webster Fisher was born at a place called Arch Spring, in Sinking Valley, then a part of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. His father, Daniel, was a well-to-do farmer of German descent who had married a woman of Dutch ancestry, Martha Middleswarth.
Education
When he was fourteen years of age young Daniel entered Milnwood Academy, located at Shade Gap, and later finished his preparation for college at Airy View Academy. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1857, and from the Western Theological Seminary three years later.
Career
In April 1860, having been accepted by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions for service and appointed to Siam, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Huntingdon. On the 25th of the same month he married Amanda D. Kouns, daughter of Michael Kouns of Ravenswood, Virginia (now West Virginia). The illness of his wife as they were about to sail for their foreign station caused them to postpone the journey, and ultimately led him to resign his appointment.
In the autumn of 1860 he took charge of the Thalia Street Church, New Orleans, but owing to the outbreak of the Civil War, he returned North in June of the following year. From 1861 to 1876 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Wheeling, West Virginia. A trip abroad followed.
but resigned the following March on account of the death of his father who had been one of the founders of the Eagle Anvil Works at Trenton, Second Presbyterian Church, Madison, Indiana, when on July 8, 1879, he was elected president of Hanover College. The institution was financially embarrassed and its existence in jeopardy, but under his administrative skill it was kept alive through the crisis, and as the years went on it increased in endowment, buildings, and efficiency.
During the twenty-eight years of his presidency, he continued active in the affairs of his denomination. In 1866 and in 1874 he had been a member of the General Assembly, and he was again a member in 1889 and in 1900.
In the latter year the Assembly appointed a committee to consider changes in the Westminster Confession of Faith, and as one of its members he assisted in shaping the “Brief Statement of the Reformed Faith” which the Assembly adopted in 1902.
In 1909 he published A Human Life, An Autobiography with Excursuses; and in 1911, The Unification of the Churches and Calvin Wilson Mateer, Forty-five Years a Missionary in Shantung, China, His son, Walter L. Fisher, was secretary of the interior under President Taft.
(Originally published in 1911. This volume from the Cornel...)
Religion
In April 1860, having been accepted by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions for service and appointed to Siam, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Huntingdon.
From 1861 to 1876 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Wheeling, W. Va.
Connections
The illness of his wife as they were about to sail for their foreign station caused them to postpone the journey, and ultimately led him to resign his appointment.