6. See The Acts and Proceedings of the Synod of the German Re-
The Principle of Protestantism in 1825 on the campus of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. Because of "incompatibility of temperament" between the two schools, the Seminary moved to York, Pa. in 1829, and a high school or preparatory classical department was added to the curriculum. The preparatory school moved to Mercersburg, Pa. in 1835 and the following year was chartered as Marshall College by the State of Pennsylvania. Since the charter of the Seminary stated that it was to be permanently located in York, the removal of that institution to Mercersburg was delayed until the fall of 1837. After the merger of Franklin College
(Lancaster, Pa.) and Marshall College to form Franklin and Marshall College on the Lancaster campus in 1853, the Seminary remained in Mercersburg until 1871, when it also moved to Lancaster.
The corporate name of the institution at the present time is "The Lancaster Theological Seminary of the United Church of Christ." See
George W. Richards, History of the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical and Reformed Church at Lancaster, Pennsylvania
(Lancaster; 1952), pp. 129 ff.
5. Weekly Messenger, Nov. 20, 1844, p. 1913.
6. See The Acts and Proceedings of the Synod of the German Reformed Church at Greencastle, Pa., October
(Chambersburg, 1840) , pp. 25-26.
7. B. C. Wolff, A Sermon Delivered at the Opening of the Synod of the German Reformed Church at Reading, Pa., October 21, 1841
(Chambersburg, 1841), pp. 4-12.
(Appended to The Acts and Proceedings of 1841.) 8. John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886) was born on a farm near
Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in a staid ScotchIrish Presbyterian settlement. Educated at Union College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he became professor of Hebrew and biblical literature at Western Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) , Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1829. He was called to the Theological Seminary of the German Reformed Church, Mercersburg, Pa. in 1840. He became the honored colleague of Philip Schaff at that institution and one of the founders of the Mercersburg theology. His writings have been called
"one of the first significant American contributions to the history of theology." See James Hastings Nichols, Romanticism in American Theology: Nevin and Schaff at Mercersburg
(Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1961); Theodore Appel, The Life and Work of John Williamson Nevin (Philadelphia: Reformed Church Publication House, 1889) .
9. Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration of Rev. J. W. Nevin,