Capital University - Capitalian Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Professor Matthias Lot, D.D. 16

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 rnumam Matthias Loy, D.D. March 17, 1828 January 26, 1915 15

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o N 'I HE 26tK of January, 1915, Capital University lost the man who longer | 1 than any other had been a member of its faculties, both in active service as a teacher and as Professor Emeritus. This was the Rev. Professor Mat- thias Loy, D.D., whose connection with the institution goes back to March, 1 S65. During these fifty years, he was actively engaged in the work of teaching for about thirty-eight years, having been retired twelve years ago cn account of serious impairment of health. Dr. Loy was born in Cumberland Co., Pa., on the 17th of March, 1828. His father was a Roman Catholic, but his pious mother a staunch Lutheran, and to her influence he always largely attributed his interest in the church. His early educa- tion he received in the Academy at Harrisburg. When still a very young man, he came to Ohio, first to serve as an employee in a printing establishment of another church at Circleville, Ohio. While there he was persuaded to enter the recently es- tablished Seminary of the Joint Synod at Columbus, as a pupil of his colleague of later times, the sainted Professor W. L. Lehmann. At the age of twenty-one, in 1849, he was called as pastor to Delaware, Ohio, and for sixteen years he served this congregation, although often in ill health. He entered upon his duties as Professor of Theology in Columbus in 1865, serving also in the college as occupant of the chair of Mental and Moral Sciences. He was editor of the Lutheran Standard since April, 1864, and in 1881 founded the Theological Magazine. He served as President of the Joint Synod for eighteen years, 1860-78, and later again, 1880-92. After the death of Professor Lehmann, in 1880, he served as President of Capital University and received later the degree of D.D. from Muhlenberg College. He was a very prolific author. Among his works are an “Essay on the Ministry,” The Doctrine of Justification by Faith,” “Sermons on the Gospels,” “Christian Prayer,” The Christian Church,” Story of My Life,” Augsburg Confession,” “Sermon on the Mount,” “Sermons on the Epistles,” Life and Deeds of Dr. Martin Luther,” translated from German. He frequently contributed to our periodicals, German and English. Dr. Loy was a leading representative and protagonist of conservative and con- fessional Lutheranism. He did much to establish the principle for which the Joint Synod of Ohio has stood and still stands. 17