John Love (theologian)

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John Love (born June 4, 1757 in Paisley , † December 17, 1825 ) was a Scottish theologian of the Church of Scotland and promoter of the Incehra mission station in the Cape Colony . Two important mission societies were founded with his assistance.

Life

John Love spent his school days in his hometown. In the course of his further education he earned a Masters at the University of Glasgow . John Love received his Doctor of Divinity from the University of Aberdeen in 1816 .

Love worked from 1788 to 1800 as a clergyman in the Presbyterian Church in the London borough of Spitalfields . After this office he was clergyman of the Church of Scotland in the Anderston district of Glasgow until his death . When the London Missionary Society was formed on September 21, 1795 , John Love served as a secretary at its head.

Until his death, John Love was President of the Glasgow Society for Foreign Missions , of which he was a founding member. In the eastern Cape Colony in the foothills of the Amathole Mountains, representatives of this missionary society built up a vocational and high school facility for blacks and whites from 1824, which, however, did not begin teaching until 1841. Love was one of the sponsors of this project. From here came the first black South African student at the University of Glasgow , who was enrolled at that college in 1851.

A year after his death, the Incehra mission station, located on a tributary of the Tyhume River , was renamed in memory of his services. Since 1826 it has been called the Lovedale Mission Station . The later, in 1841 opened training center for blacks of the Glasgow Missionary Society , the missionaries called Lovedale Missionary Institute .

Works

  • Benevolence inspired and exalted by the presence of Jesus Christ. A sermon preached at Salters-Hall, April 9th, 1794, before the Corresponding Board in London of the Society in Scotland ... for Propagating Religious Knowledge in the Highlands and Islands . London 1794
  • The radical cause of national calamity. A sermon, preached at the Scots Church, Crown-Court, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, October 27, 1794 . London 1794
  • Addresses to the people of Otaheite: designed to assert the labor of missionaries, and other instructors of the ignorant; to which is prefixed a short address to the members and friends of the Missionary Society in London / by John Love, Minister of the Scots Presbyterian Congregration, Artillery Lane, Bishopsgate Street, and Secretary to the Mission Society . London 1796
  • Sermon the second. Christianity and modern Judaism discriminated; or, a view of the leading differences of sentiment between Christians and Jews: ... London, 1798

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b University of Glasgow : John Love . biographical note on www.special.lib.gla.ac.uk (English)
  2. ^ Significant Scots. Rev John Love . on www.electricscotland.com (English)
  3. ^ University of Glasgow's International Story: Earliest African Student . Posted October 18, 2012 on www.uoginternationalstory.wordpress.com (English)
  4. ^ National Library of Scotland , Manuscripts Division: Scottish Missionary Society . on www.mundus.ac.uk (English)
  5. ^ National Library of Australia : bibliographic evidence
  6. ^ National Library of Australia: bibliographic evidence
  7. ^ National Library of Australia: bibliographic evidence
  8. ^ National Library of Australia: bibliographic evidence
personal data
SURNAME Love, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Paisley
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1825