Well, welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode, we are on location.

We are at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It's a spring day, but it's very brisk here

in Lancaster, and we are here because there was a very

important figure from 19th century American Christianity who served as the president of this

college for 10 years from 1866 to 1876.

That person was John Williamson-Nevin.

John Williamson-Nevin was born on February 20, 1803. He died on June 6, 1803.

He died on June 6, 1886.

His lifespan just about the entire 19th century,

and he was a very important figure

and involved in a number of the significant events and happenings of

19th century American Christianity.

On his mother's side, the Williamsons, they were old Scottish Presbyterian Presbyterian and so Nevin was born into a

Presbyterian home he studied at Union College up in New York it was there that he was

led to Christ by the revival efforts of Nettleton.

Nettleton was a very significant figure in the second grade

awakening, preached a series of revivals there in union.

And as a college student, Nevin had his conversion experience.

Then he went on to study at Princeton Theological Seminary.

He was at Princeton from 1823 to 1828,

and he had basically the original faculty of Princeton Seminary as his faculty.

He had Alexander and he had Miller and of course he had Charles Hotch.

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