A Sketch of the Life of Rev. Joseph Hardy Neesima: President of Doshisha University, Kyoto
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The life, character, and work of our brother who was so recently called up higher were remarkable and unique; much of his life was spent in our midst here in Kyoto. For over fourteen years it was my privilege to be very intimately associated with him, and I have been asked to prepare a brief sketch of his life which may perhaps serve as an introduction to larger works which will doubtless be published later both in Japan and in the United States.
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Jerome Dean Davis
s.n., 1889
Religion; Christian Theology; Apologetics; Apologetics; Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics
Jerome Dean Davis was an American Congregational clergyman and missionary. At first, he devoted his life to military work, later as a missionary he was sent to Japan, where he played an importatnt role in Kobe College and the Doshisha University appearing.
Background
Jerome Dean Davis was born on January 17, 1838 in Groton, New York, United States. He was one of the seven children of Hope and Brooksy (Woodbury) Davis. The ancestors of both his parents came from England to Massachusetts, John Woodbury to Salem about 1623, and Isaac Davis to Cape Cod about 1690.
Education
As soon as Jerome was twenty-one and was no longer bound to help his father, he began to follow definitely his plans for an education. He attended Lawrence University at Appleton, Wisconsin, decided to become a minister, and during 1860 and 1861 was a sophomore and junior in Beloit College.
During 1865-66 he completed his course at Beloit College; and in 1869, he was graduated from the Chicago Theological Seminary.
Career
When Jerome was fourteen or so, his father, a rigid, righteous combination of farmer and country school-teacher, took his family with him to live at Dundee, Illinois. Shortly before, the boy had been converted, and when he was sixteen he took part as church clerk in the trial of a minister suspected of Unitarianism. With little or no encouragement from any one, he studied what books he could lay hold of, and by the time he was twenty was head teacher in a school at Carpentersville.
He entered the Union army as a private in September 1861, and rose in rank till at the close of the war he was a lieutenant-colonel. Among the soldiers he was drastic in his attacks on liquor—rearing empty whiskey bottles on poles with the legend “Death to the Bottle”—and whenever possible he went about distributing Bibles, he was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh and he conducted himself with bravery and shrewdness on his long march with Sherman to the sea. Financial support of his activities was not liberal, and other considerations persuaded him that his true work was in Japan. He left San Francisco in November 1871 as a missionary of the American Board.
Arriving at Kobe several weeks afterward, he settled there, and by his teaching formed the nucleus of what became Kobe College.
Later, in association with his friend, the American-educated Joseph Hardy Neesima, he helped found and in the most intimate fashion helped shape the Doshisha University in Kyoto.
Practically throughout the nineties, there was controversy both in America and Japan between persons who wished the Doshisha to be Christian pervadingly and by constant implication, and those who wished it to be so pointedly and aggressively. The former of these positions seeming to Davis to be spineless pacifism, he became chief, in a sense, of those who agreed with him, and in the end had the satisfaction of seeing his view adopted in the official policy of the school.
He was a prolific writer on subjects of a theological and historical nature.
For all his virility and the glamour of his Civil War recollections, he counseled his student son at the time of the Spanish-American War to keep out of the army; leave soldiering, he said, in so far as you can, to others —“War is hell on earth—keep out of it” .
Achievements
In English Davis' most important work is biography of his friend, A Maker of New Japan: Reverend Joseph Hardy Neesima (1890), and in Japanese, the thousand-page Great Principles of Theology (1893).
He was a delegate to the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh.
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Connections
In 1869, Davis married Sophia D. Strong. His wife died in 1886 and two years later he was married in Kyoto to Frances Hooper. He had three daughters and one son, all of whom were foreign missionaries.