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of Springfield, Illinois, was followed by a year in Europe and the Holy Land, when he met and became engaged to her, who in the spring of '75, became Mrs. Barrows. Owing to the failure of J. Cook, he lost his money while abroad, but was able to- finish his tour by preaching for six months in the American chapel in Paris. In the fall of '74 he entered Andover Theological Seminary, and the next spring became the pastor of the Eliot church, Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1880 he changed for the Maverick church, East Boston, which he left in 1881 for the First Presbyterian church, Chicago. This pastorate he resigned in '95 to go to India under the auspices of the University of Chicago, to give the first series of the Barrows Lectures for edu- cated Hindus. In 1893 Dr. Barrows was President of the Parliament of Religions, an undertaking requiring several years of hard work, patience, courage and optimistic faithg this was a good preparation for his journey to the Orient. Since his return from India in '97 he has been lecturing on missions all over the country, and he holds now, as for the last flve years-, the Haskell Lectureship on Com- parative Religion at the Chicago University. In November, '98, he was offered the Presidency of Oberlin College, and accepted. Among President Barrows' books are: The Gospels Are True Histories, I Be- lieve in God, The Life of Henry Ward Beecher, History of the Parliament of Re- ligions, Christianity the World Religion, A World Pilgrimage and The Christian Conquest of Asia. l - 1 13
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From a Log Cabin io the Presidency. OHN HENRY BARROWS was born in a log house in Medina, Michigan, July 11th, 1847. His father and mother, after having been graduated at Oberlin, spent the first years of their married life in one town after another, in quick succession, for each church hated the abolitionist views of the young preacher and his wife and turned them out after a few months, sometimes with an accompaniment of eggs. Medina was no exception to the rule, but after leaving it to start a school for colored people in Woodstock, Michigan, they returned and founded the Union Academy, to which farmers' sons for thirty miles around came. Mrs. Barrows kept the students' boarding house, and in the afternoon taught mathematics in the school, and while her large student family was eating dinner she prepared her lessons by teaching them to her son John, so that before he was twelve he had been through Stoddard's Mental Arithmetic, and a Higher Arithmetic and Higher Algebra. After a. few years spent in West Unity, Ohio, the family settled in Olivet, Michigan, where Mrs. Barrows had charge of the Ladies' Hall, while her husband taught Natural Sciences in the college. Here the boy forgot his love for mathematics and lost his heart to the classics and to oratory. He was a. hard worker and was graduated from the college with honor, before his twentieth birthd-ay, giving a commencement address on Samuel Adams, then and now one of his heroes. Besides studying he had helped his father to cultivate a farm, and once hired himself out to cradle wheat, but this was uncongenial work, and his happiest hours were those spent among the two or three thousand books of the college library, where he counted among his favorites Mllton's Poems, Scott's Novels, Bacon's Essays, Motlcy's Dutch Republic, Parkman's Histories, Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, Volta1re's Charles the Twelfth, Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, Emerson's Representative Men, Macaulay's Eng- land, Tocqueville's Democracy in' Ame-rica, Bulwer's Athens, Webster's and Wendell Phillips' Speeches, Sir William Han1ilton's Essays and Stofford B-rook-es' Life of Fred- erick W. Robertson. Early in '63 he had given his heart to Christ and joined the church, and on leaving college, he set out with his brother Walter for the Yale Divinity School. He stopped in Oberlin on his way and called on President Fairchild, who kindly wrote his name in the young student's autograph album, adding the words, Fidelity is Success. After a year at New Haven, he went to Union Theological Seminary in New York. During this winter he found theology more abundant than food, a twenty-five cent dinner being a luxury he could not always afford. But Mr. Beecher's sermons in part atoned. At the end of this year the young theologue, somewhat worn physically, became Super- intendent of Public Instruction in Osage County, Kansas, and rode over miles of prairie to visit schools. The next year spent in pre-aching for the First Congregational church ' 12
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