James Harris Fairchild Presidential Papers, 1771-1926, 2000 | Oberlin College Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: James Harris Fairchild Presidential Papers, 1771-1926, 2000

Predominant Dates:1819-1926

ID: RG 2/003

Primary Creator: Fairchild, James Harris (1817-1902)

Other Creators: Fairchild, Mary Fletcher Kellogg (1817-1890)

Extent: 19.75 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Series I. Correspondence, 1852-1903, undated (Calendared)

The correspondence (largely incoming) of James Harris Fairchild is housed in Boxes 1-19 of this collection and calendared in six volumes (including index) prepared in 1955-1956 by Susan F. Zearing. In Boxes 1-18, correspondence is chronologically arranged; in Box 19, correspondence is alphabetically arranged by correspondent.

Series II. Correspondence, 1819-1900, undated (Uncalendared)

Includes a series of letters from James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg (1838-1841) and a series from Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild (1838-1841) written during their engagement. Fairchild’s letters describe his activities as a student in Oberlin’s Theological Department. These letters, together with a group of letters received by James H. Fairchild (1838-1864), are too fragile to handle and must be viewed either on microfilm, or patrons must use the bound volumes found in Series 8. In this three-volume set, some letters are not dated, others appear in abbreviated form (being edited down), and apparently two original letters were not included. Four letters appearing in the typescript form no longer exist in original form. Among the personal papers filed here is the will (1898) of James H. Fairchild. Files are arranged alphabetically by writer and chronologically thereunder.

Series III. Courtship Correspondence of James H. Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg (typescript), 1838-1841

This series contains Fairchild Family materials including Mary Kellogg Fairchild’s autograph album (1835-1838) and a photograph album presented to Nancy Harris Fairchild on her golden wedding anniversary in November 1863. Also filed here is “Where Liberty Dwells: the letters of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg from the Western Reserve [1838-41]” a three volume work edited by their son, James Thome Fairchild, and granddaughter Dorothy Kellogg Fairchild Graham (1939). See also above, series description for Series 2.

Series IV. Miscellaneous Institutional Records Kept by James H. Fairchild, ca. 1833-1840, 1854-1884

Includes an incomplete run of President Fairchild’s Annual Reports (1867-1884); notebooks containing Fairchild’s lectures on theology, international law, and painting (1862-1882); and various date books and account books which include lists of subscribers to Oberlin College (ca. 1867) and to the Organ Fund (n.d.). Early faculty records (ca. 1833-1840) may have been collected by Fairchild while President for the purposes of historical research. Materials are arranged alphabetically by type.

Series V. Miscellaneous Non-Institutional Records Kept by James H. Fairchild, 1771-1909, 1926, undated

Contains detailed meteorological observations (1849-1858) made in Oberlin by Fairchild and Professor of Natural History (1849-1864) George N. Allen, which include data on atmospheric pressure, temperature, moisture, and sidereal and planetary movements; several ms. sermons collected by Fairchild (1771-1865), and three ms. letters to “the people of Oberlin” relating to temperance (1881). Two folders, marked “Folder 1” and “Folder 2” include miscellaneous papers such as passports, poems, sermons, and maps. Records are arranged alphabetically by type of material.

Series VI. Teaching Files of James H. Fairchild, 1862-1882, undated

Contains lecture notebooks in 14 volumes spanning 1862-82, academic grade sheets, miscellaneous teaching files, and a manuscript draft of regulations prohibiting pilfering by students, undated.

Series VII. Travel Diaries, 1870-1871, 1884

Diaries are arranged chronologically. Letters of introduction (1870), written for Fairchild prior to the European tour described in three of the diaries (1870-1871), are housed in Series 2, Box 21.

Series VIII. Writings by James H. Fairchild, 1852-1910, undated

Writings by Fairchild separated into manuscript and printed materials. These writings treat matters of theology, morals, historical Oberlin, and travel. Most ms. writings are undated. Writings about Fairchild include both typescript and printed essays by J.G.W. Cowles, Judson Smith, and C.J. Ryder, as well as one modern scholarly study (1966).

Series IX. Sermons, 1869, ca. 1870, 1874-75, 1877, 1880-83, 1885-89, undated

Sermons by James H. Fairchild are arranged in three subseries. Subseries 1. Old Testament Sermons and Subseries 2. New Testament Sermons are arranged by the order of the verses in the Bible on which they are based, and are undated. Series 3 contains sermons delivered at commencements, and are arranged in date order.

Series X. Miscellaneous Printed Writings by James H. Fairchild, 1852-1897

These printed writings consist of newspaper articles and pamphlets of addresses of a much shorter nature than those contained in Series VIII.

Series XI. Writings about James H. Fairchild, 1883-1910, 1966, undated

Includes typescripts of undated tributes and an essay, as well as various printed writings and clippings.

Series XII. Photographs, 1835-1838, 1863, undated

Consists of one photograph of four of Fairchild’s daughters and an album containing fifty albumen portraits of the Fairchild Family. The pictures are arranged by family, with the children in each family following their parents. Some subjects are unidentified. (This album was formerly described as the one presented to Nancy Harris Fairchild on her golden wedding anniversary in November 1863; however, Nancy Fairchild’s album was received in accession 2001/94 and is filed in Series 8.)

Series XIII. Miscellaneous Fairchild Correspondence, 1881, 1887-1889

This late accretion contains a lot of 45 original handwritten letters and postcards, primarily consisting of correspondence (professional and personal) received by President James H. Fairchild, 1887-89. Also included are letters sent and received by other members of the Fairchild family.

Date Acquired: 06/21/1968. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Courtship--United States, Fairchild, James Harris, 1817-1902, Fairchild, James Harris, Mrs., 1817-1890, Oberlin College. President, Sermons, American--19th century.

Forms of Material: autograph albums, diaries, lecture notes, manuscripts, microfilm, photograph albums, photographs, photographs - photographic prints, postcards, publications, records (documents), sermons

Languages: English, Arabic

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The papers (1771, 1819-1926, undated) of James Harris Fairchild do not provide users a complete record of the Fairchild presidency, 1866-1889, or of the personal life of their creator. The body of documentation is instead a mix of personal and professional papers, the bulk of which consists of incoming correspondence (1852-1903). All but two boxes of this correspondence has been described at the item level in a six-volume calendar, plus an index, prepared by Susan F. Zearing in 1955-1956. The correspondence treats those subjects that Oberlin College officially represented, including support of coeducation, missions, black education, and opposition to secret societies and to the use by individuals of alcohol and tobacco. Many of Fairchild’s schoolmates and former pupils sought his counsel, and they communicated with him regarding the “Oberlin Enterprise.” Correspondents include Congregationalists William E. Barton, Sherlock Bristol, Frank Hugh Foster, Abel Hastings Ross, Judson Smith, Josiah Strong, and John M. Williams, and educators William S. Scarborough and Henry A. Schauffler. The family correspondence is extensive, although only a few letters exist of James H. Fairchild. Of interest among the uncalendared letters (1819-1900) is the correspondence between James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg during their courtship (1838-1841). The family reproduced the originals in a three-volume set in 1939.

The papers are divided into the following record series: I. Correspondence (Calendared); II. Correspondence (Uncalendared); III. Courtship Correspondence (typescript); IV. Miscellaneous Institutional Records Kept; V. Miscellaneous Non-Institutional Records Kept; VI. Teaching Files; VII. Travel Diaries; VIII. Writings by Fairchild; IX. Sermons; X. Miscellaneous Printed Writings by Fairchild; XI. Writings about Fairchild; XII. Photographs; and, XIII. Miscellaneous Fairchild Correspondence.

Series VIII. Miscellaneous Family Papers was added when additional Fairchild family materials were received from the Oberlin College Library in 2001. Within series, files are typically arranged alphabetically by type of material or chronologically. In the attached Inventory, volume is only indicated for more than one folder of material.

Included with Fairchild's professional and institutional records are several notebooks containing Fairchild's lecture notes for his courses in Moral Philosophy (1862), Theology (1881), and Natural Theology (1881), as well as a series of “Lakeside Lectures” on Scripture (1879, 1880) and lectures on evolution (1876), international law [1878], and painting (1878). The Annual Reports of President Fairchild (1867-1880) to the Board of Trustees, while incomplete, provide information about student health and discipline, curriculum changes, and conditions at the seminary with regard to its low enrollments and faculty shortage. The gap for the years 1881-1889 is filled by a bound volume of reports (1876-1893) in the Oberlin College Archives.

Fairchild’s scholarship is represented in these papers mainly by manuscript and typescript drafts of addresses, articles, and sermons, by printed pamphlets, and by newspaper articles, in the original and in photocopy. None of his books are contained in the collection, although Series VII does contain the manuscript draft of Oberlin, the Colony and the College (1883). Reminiscences about Fairchild, written mainly by former students, are housed with Fairchild’s own writings.

Fairchild’s activities outside of teaching and theological scholarship are evident here in his travel diaries (1870-1871) and in his precise meteorological observations made in Oberlin over a period of nine years (1849-1858). With the exception of the diaries (in Series III), these records are housed together with materials of a miscellaneous character in Series VI. Miscellaneous materials include circulars from various Congregational Church organizations, clippings, an emergency passport issued in 1909 to Mary Flagler Cowles (b. 1862, Lit. 1891), files relating to the Oberlin Agricultural and Horticultural Society (1838-1849), the Oberlin Evangelist Association (1845-1862), and the temperance movement in Oberlin (1881). Miscellaneous papers of a personal nature (1835-1900) are filed in Series II.

Collection Historical Note

James Harris Fairchild (1817-1902), teacher and theologian, served as third President of Oberlin College with which he was associated from its beginnings and for sixty-eight years thereafter. He was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts to Grandison (1792-1890) and Nancy (Harris) Fairchild (1795-1875). The family joined the westward current of migration in 1818, settling in the town of Brownhelm in the Western Reserve of Northern Ohio, nine miles from Oberlin. At the age of fourteen, Fairchild attended the newly opened high school in Elyria, and at seventeen, he entered the first freshman class at Oberlin Collegiate Institute (as Oberlin College was known until 1850). Fairchild graduated from the College Department in 1838 and entered the graduate Theological Department, completing the theological course in 1841. He was married November 29, 1841 at Minden, Louisiana to Mary Fletcher Kellogg (1817-1890), one of the first women to enroll in the College course in 1837. Six girls and two boys were born to the Fairchilds, all but one of whom attended Oberlin.

During his years in the Theological Department, Fairchild served as Tutor in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew for the College Department (1839-1842), becoming Professor of Languages in 1842. In 1847, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and in 1858, he was named to the chair of Systematic Theology and Moral Philosophy. During Charles Grandison Finney’s tenure as President (1851-1866), Fairchild assumed most of the administrative duties of the office. Upon Finney’s resignation in 1866, Fairchild, then chairman of the faculty, was elected President. During his twenty-three year tenure as President, the college’s assets increased to a value of one million dollars, and its faculty grew from ten to twenty-three professors. Through Fairchild’s personal example and theological bent, Oberlin’s reputation evolved away from that of the Finney-inspired reformist enclave towards the mainstream. At Oberlin, Fairchild encouraged a respect for pure reason and expressed his belief in the power of education to shape human character. Although he supported the education of women and their right to the vote, he nevertheless wrote in an 1870 article, “Woman’s Right to the Ballot,” that the ballot had been “withheld from woman because the work of government seemed incompatible with the womanly character and work,” adding, “If a woman chooses to feel dishonored by the arrangement, it is merely a matter of her own interpretation.” His anti-slavery stance is well known, particularly after he provided the refuge of his own garret to the fugitive slave, John Price, in 1858. In questions of reform, Fairchild was a moderate.

In 1870 and 1871, President Fairchild traveled in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land. In 1884, he visited California and Hawaii. Fairchild resigned the presidency in 1889 and retired as Professor of Theology in 1898, but he continued to teach as Professor Emeritus until 1902. He served as a member of the Prudential Committee from 1847 to 1901, as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1889 to 1901, and, during the last year of his life, was prevailed upon to continue his service as an honorary member of the Board.

In addition to numerous essays, commencement addresses, and sermons, Fairchild published several books, including Moral Philosophy or the Science of Obligation (1869) and Elements of Theology, Natural and Revealed (1892). His pamphlet, “Coeducation of the Sexes,” appeared in the annual report of the United States Commissioner of 1867. Fairchild’s Oberlin, the Colony and the College (1883) and his inaugural address published in 1866, “Educational Arrangements and College Life at Oberlin,” remain major sources for the study of early Oberlin history.

Fairchild’s last years in Oberlin were occupied with writing, teaching, and lending counsel to the college with which he had become wholly identified over more than six decades; yet, he was not an unbroken man. Grief was a constant companion for Fairchild, who had endured the untimely deaths of six of his eight children: Emma Frances (d. 1859), Alice Cowles (d.1876), Grace Augusta (d. 1893), George Hornell (d. 1894), Mary Fletcher (d. 1897), and Catherine Cooley (d.1902). Just one month after losing daughter Catherine, Fairchild himself died in Oberlin on March 19, 1902, at the age of 84.

Subject/Index Terms

Courtship--United States
Fairchild, James Harris, 1817-1902
Fairchild, James Harris, Mrs., 1817-1890
Oberlin College. President
Sermons, American--19th century.

Administrative Information

Repository: Oberlin College Archives

Accruals: Accession No: 48, 74, 84, 1977/002, 1999/007, 2001/094

Access Restrictions: Unrestricted. Fragile materials in Series II must be accessed on microfilm; see microfilm note.

Acquisition Method: The bulk of the Fairchild Papers, the calendared and uncalendared correspondence, was received by the Oberlin College Library under deed of gift from Mrs. Lucy Kenaston in 1904 and transferred to the College Archives in 1968. Also included in this gift were the diaries and portrait album. The Fairchild-Kellogg letters were given to the library by Donald Love in 1967. Fairchild’s meteorological records arrived in 1969, with other records, and his annual reports arrived in 1977 from the Oberlin College Secretary’s Office. The three volumes of transcripts of the Fairchild-Kellogg letters were given to the Oberlin College Library in 1961 by James Thome Fairchild and Dorothy Kellogg Fairchild Graham; they were transferred to the Archives from the Library’s Special Collections in 2001.

Related Materials: For letters by Fairchild to W.C. Cochran and references to Fairchild’s preaching, consult the papers of W.C. Cochran (30/8). The Oberlin College Archives holds the papers of Lucy Fletcher Kellogg (1793-1891) (RG 30/88), the mother of Mary Fletcher Kellogg. Berea College holds the papers of E.H. Fairchild (1815-1889), Fairchild’s brother and first Berea College President. See RG 21 for a ninety-nine year lease of Oberlin College land granted to James Henry Fairchild, 9 September 1852. RG 30/165 contains a map of Ban de la Roche, the parish of Jean Frederic Oberlin, which was drawn by Oberlin. This was presented to James H. Fairchild in 1871 by Oberlin’s grandson Dr. Witz.

Processing Information: Processed by Valerie S. Komor, 27 August 1991.

Finding Aid Revision History: Revised 5 April 1995; 7 November 2001 by Melissa Gottwald; 2004-05 by Roland M. Baumann, Alice Culbert (OC 1958), and Tammy L. Martin; August 2012 by Anne Cuyler Salsich; May 2024 by Louisa C. Hoffman.

Other Note:

Microfilm Note:

Two-thirds of the James H. Fairchild Papers have been microfilmed. The microfilm consists almost entirely of the calendared correspondence (1852-1903). Also on microfilm is uncalendared correspondence (1835-1870), which includes the Fairchild-Kellogg courtship letters (1838-1841) and Fairchild’s letters (1870-1871) describing his travels. Fairchild’s diaries (1870-1871, 1884) have been microfilmed as well. An unpublished guide to the microfilm is available in the archives.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series I: Correspondence (Calendared), 1852-1903, undated],
[Series II: Correspondence (Uncalendared), 1819-1900, undated],
[Series III: Courtship Correspondence of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg (typescript), 1838-1841],
[Series IV: Miscellaneous Institutional Records Kept by James Harris Fairchild, ca. 1833-1840, 1854-1884],
[Series V: Miscellaneous Non-Institutional Records Kept by James Harris Fairchild, 1771-1909, 1926, undated],
[Series VI: Teaching Files of James Harris Fairchild, 1862-1882, undated],
[Series VII: Travel Diaries, 1870-1871, 1884],
[Series VIII: Writings by James Harris Fairchild, 1852-1910, undated],
[Series IX: Sermons, 1860-1870, 1874-1875, 1877, 1880-1883, 1889, undated],
[Series X: Miscellaneous Printed Writings by James Harris Fairchild, 1852-1897],
[Series XI: Writings about James Harris Fairchild, 1883-1910, 1966, undated],
[Series XII: Photographs, 1833-1838, 1863, undated],
[Series XIII: Miscellaneous Fairchild Correspondence (later accession), 1881, 1887-1889],
[All]

Series IX: Sermons, 1860-1870, 1874-1875, 1877, 1880-1883, 1889, undated

Arranged by the order of the books in the Bible

Subseries 1: Old Testament Sermons, 1860-1861, 1865, 1872, ca. 1874, undated

Box 1

Folder 1: Lists of sermon topics, undated
Folder 2: “The Creation” (Genesis 1), undated
Folder 3: “In the beginning…” (Genesis 1:1), undated
Folder 4: “The Creation No. 2” (Genesis 1:6), undated
Folder 5: The Interpretation & the Tale (Genesis 2, 3), undated
Folder 6: “God’s Language towards the sinner” (Genesis 2:17, I John 2:1), undated
Folder 7: “What hast thou done?” (Genesis 4:10), undated
Folder 8: “Enoch walked with God” (Genesis 5:24), undated
Folder 9: “The Deluge and its Lessons” (Genesis 6, 7, 8), undated
Folder 10: “Noah and the dove” (Genesis 8:10, Genesis 29:27), undated
Folder 11: “The deliverance from Egypt” (Genesis 9:13), undated
Folder 12: “The Call of Abraham” (Genesis 12), undated
Folder 13: “Picture of the Patriarchs,” “The Word of the Lord came unto Abraham” (Genesis 15:1), undated
Folder 14: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25), undated
Folder 15: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25), undated
Folder 16: “And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh” (Genesis 22:14), undated
Folder 17: “We are verily guilty concerning our brother” (Genesis 42:21), undated
Folder 18: “Giving of the Law” (Exodus 19, 20), undated
Folder 19: “No other Gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3), undated
Folder 20: “Thou shall have no other Gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3, Deuteronomy 5:7), undated
Folder 21: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” (Exodus 20:4-6, Deuteronomy 5:8-10), undated
Folder 22: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” (Exodus 20:4, 5, 6), undated
Folder 23: “Thou shalt not take the name…” (Exodus 20:7), undated
Folder 24: “Thou shalt not take the name…” (Exodus 20:7), undated
Folder 25: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8), undated
Folder 26: “The Sabbath” (Exodus 20:8), undated
Folder 27: “Fourth Commandment” (Exodus 20:8-11), undated
Folder 28: “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8-11), undated
Folder 29: “Honour thy Father and thy Mother” (Exodus 20:12), undated
Folder 30: “Honour thy Father and thy Mother” (Exodus 20:12), undated
Folder 31: “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13), undated
Folder 32: “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13), undated
Folder 33: "Thou shalt not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14), undated
Folder 34: “Thou shalt not steal” (Exodus 20:15), undated
Folder 35: “Thou shalt not steal” (Exodus 20:15), undated
Folder 36: “Thou shalt not bear false witness” (Exodus 20:16), undated
Folder 37: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” (Exodus 20:16), undated
Folder 38: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house” (Exodus 20:17), undated
Folder 39: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house” (Exodus 20:17), undated
Folder 40: “Speak unto the children of Israel” (Exodus 25:2), undated
Folder 41: “Six days shall Work be done” (Leviticus 23:3), undated
Folder 42: “You shall utterly destroy all the places…” (Deuteronomy 12:2, 3), undated
Folder 43: “For the Lord’s portion is his people” (Deuteronomy 32:9), undated
Folder 44: “It is the Lord. Let him do…” (I Samuel 3:18), undated
Folder 45: “It is the Lord, Let him do what seemeth him good” (I Samuel 3:18), undated: Given after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Folder 46: “They set Dagon in his place” (I Samuel 5:3), undated
Folder 47: “And they took Dagon and set him in his place again” (I Samuel 5:3), undated
Folder 48: “Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings…” (I Samuel 15:22), undated
Folder 49: “Too proud to wash in the Jordan” (II Kings 5:12), undated
Folder 50: “The God of heaven, he will prosper us” (Nehemiah 2:20), undated
Folder 51: “And who knoweth whether thou are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14), undated
Folder 52: “Loweth the ox over his fodder” (Job 6:5), undated
Folder 53: “Acquaint self with Him and be at peace” (Job 22:21), undated
Folder 54: “Acquaint self with Him and be at peace” (Job 22:21), undated
Folder 55: “Against now thyself with him” (Job 22:21), undated
Folder 56: “For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels” (Psalms 8:5), undated
Folder 57: “Some trust in chariots” (Psalms 20:7), undated
Folder 58: “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalms 46:10), undated
Folder 59: “Create in me a clean heart” (Psalms 51:10), undated
Folder 60: “We spend our years as a tale that is told” (Psalms 90:9), undated
Folder 61: “So teach us to number our days” (Psalms 90:12), undated
Folder 62: “Because He hast set His love upon me…” (Psalms 91:14), undated
Folder 63: “He that planted the ear…” (Psalms 94:9), undated
Folder 64: “Like as a father pitieth his children” (Psalms 103:13), undated
Folder 65: “Oh that men would praise the Lord” (Psalms 107:8), undated
Folder 66: “Whosoever is wise…” (Psalms 107:43), 1860 Thanksgiving
Folder 67: “Whosoever is wise…” (Psalms 107:43), 1861 Thanksgiving
Folder 68: “Whosoever is wise…” (Psalms 107:43), 1872 Thanksgiving
Folder 69: “Whosoever is wise…” (Psalms 107:43), undated
Folder 70: “Snares of Students,” “I will keep thy statutes” (Psalms 119:8), undated
Folder 71: “Surely I will not come into the tabernacle” (Psalms 132: 3-5), 1865
Folder 72: “My son, if thou wilt receive my words” (Proverbs 2:1-5), undated
Folder 73: “Devise not evil against thy neighbor” (Proverbs 3:29), undated
Folder 74: “The wise shall inherit glory” (Proverbs 3:35), undated
Folder 75: “The path of the just is as the shining light” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated
Folder 76: “The path of the just is as the shining light” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated
Folder 77: “The Path of the Just, the way of the wicked” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated: 1 card.
Folder 78: “The path of the just is as the shining light” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated
Folder 79: “The path of the just” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated: One sheet.
Folder 80: “They are all plain to him that understandeth” (Proverbs 8:9), undated
Folder 81: “They are all plain to him that understandeth” (Proverbs 8:9), undated
Folder 82: “He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul” (Proverbs 8:36), undated
Folder 83: “Thou shalt be wise for thyself” (Proverbs 9:12), undated
Folder 84: The Liberal Soul. “There is that scattereth…” (Proverbs 11:24), undated
Folder 85: “By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil” (Proverbs 16:6), ca. 1874
Folder 86: “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps” (Proverbs 16:9), undated
Folder 87: “A man’s heart deviseth his way” (Proverbs 16:9), undated
Folder 88: “Every way of man is right in his own eyes” (Proverbs 21:2), undated
Folder 89: “Buy the Truth and Sell it Not” (Proverbs 23:23), undated
Folder 90: “He that turneth away his ear” (Proverbs 28:9), undated
Folder 91: “Even one sinner destroys” (Ecclesiastes 9:18), undated
Folder 92: “Fear God and keep his commandments” (Ecclesiastes 12:13), undated
Folder 93: “Fear God and keep his commandments” (Ecclesiastes 12:13), undated
Folder 94: Balm in Gilead” (Jeremiah 8:22), undated
Folder 95: “Come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18), undated
Folder 96: “When the enemy shall come” (Isaiah 59:19), undated
Folder 97: “…friends and enemies of God” (Ezekiel 9:4), undated
Folder 98: “Yet saith the home of Israel” (Ezekiel 18:25), undated
Folder 99: “…stone that smote the image…” (Daniel 2:35), undated
Folder 100: And he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven” (Daniel 4:35), undated
Folder 101: “…the God in whose hand…” (Daniel 5:23), undated
Folder 102: “And He shall come unto us as the rain unto the Earth” (Hosea 6:3), 1866 September 22
Folder 103: “And He shall come unto us as the rain unto the Earth” (Hosea 6:3) (photocopy), 1866 September 22
Folder 104: “O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself” (Hosea 13:9), undated
Folder 105: “Evil in a city” (Amos 3:6), undated
Folder 106: “What doth the Lord require of thee?” (Micah 6:8), undated: See also in the "Religious Ideas and Thought sermon.
Folder 107: “A son honoreth his father & a servant his master” (Malachi 1:6), undated
Folder 108: “Discern between the righteous and the wicked” (Malachi 3:18), undated

Subseries 2: New Testament Sermons, 1874-1875, 1877, 1869, 1881-1883, 1885, 1889, undated

Box 2

Folder 1: “And thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21), undated
Folder 2: “Light of the World” (Matthew 5:14), undated
Folder 3: “Light of the World” (Matthew 5:14), undated
Folder 4: “Light of the World” (Matthew 5:14), undated
Folder 5: “Let your light so shine before men” (Matthew 5:16), undated
Folder 6: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law” (Matthew 5:17), undated
Folder 7: “Lay not up for yourself treasures on earth” (Matthew 6:19), undated
Folder 8: “Do Not Hoard Treasures” (Matthew 6:19-20), undated
Folder 9: “You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24), undated
Folder 10: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33), undated
Folder 11: “Ask and It Shall Be Given, Seek…” (Matthew 7:7), undated
Folder 12: “Ask & it shall be given unto you” (Matthew 7:7), undated
Folder 13: “Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way” (Matthew 7:14), undated
Folder 14: “Himself took our infirmities” (Matthew 8:17), undated
Folder 15: “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered”, undated
Folder 16: “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered” (Matthew 10:30), undated
Folder 17: “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:25, 29-30), undated
Folder 18: “Come unto me all ye that labor” (Matthew 11:28, 29, 30), undated: One sheet.
Folder 19: “But I say unto you that every idle word” (Matthew 12:36), undated
Folder 20: “For whosoever shall do the will of my father” (Matthew 12:50)undated
Folder 21: Parable of the Sowers (Matthew 13), undated
Folder 22: “Where Gathered Together in My Name, there am I” (Matthew 18:20), undated
Folder 23: “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matthew 19:17), undated
Folder 24: “Why stand ye here all the day idle?” (Matthew 20:6), undated
Folder 25: “Go ye also into the Vineyards” (Matthew 20:7), undated
Folder 26: “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God” (Matthew 22:37), undated
Folder 27: “Love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:39), undated
Folder 28: “Love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:39), undated
Folder 29: “Thou hast been faithful over a few things” (Matthew 25:21), undated
Folder 30: “Thou hast been faithful over a few things” (Matthew 25:21): Two pieces.
Folder 31: “Then he which had received the one talent” (Matthew 25:24, 25), undated
Folder 32: “And have no root in themselves” (Mark 4:17), undated
Folder 33: “And have no root in themselves” (Mark 4:17), undated
Folder 34: “For what shall it profit a man” (Mark 8:36), undated
Folder 35: “But Jesus said, Forbid him not” (Mark 9:39), undated
Folder 36: Institutions of Moses “For the hardness of your heart” (Mark 10:5), undated
Folder 37: “Render to Caesar…” (Mark 12:17), undated
Folder 38: “The Golden Rule” (Luke 6:31), undated
Folder 39: “Every tree is known by his own fruit” (Luke 6:44), undated
Folder 40: “Take heed, therefore, how ye hear” (Luke 8:18), undated
Folder 41: “And he said to them all, if any man will come after me” (Luke 9:23), undated
Folder 42: “And he said to them all, if any man will come after me” (Luke 9:23), undated
Folder 43: “Take up the Cross and follow Me” (Luke 9:23) (part 2), undated
Folder 44: “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it” (Luke 9:24), undated
Folder 45: “Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of” (Luke 9:51-56), undated
Folder 46: “…who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29), undated
Folder 47: “Thou art careful and troubled about many things. But one thing is needful.” (Luke 10:41-42), undated
Folder 48: “Be ye ready” (Luke 12:40), undated
Folder 49: “Many to Seek—Few to Enter” (Luke 13:24), undated
Folder 50: “Jesus Received Sinners” (Luke 15:2), undated
Folder 51: “Righteousness in Seeking Friends” (Luke 16:9), undated
Folder 52: “If they hear not Moses & the prophets” (Luke 16:31), undated
Folder 53: “The Kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), undated
Folder 54: “Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God” (Luke 18:17), undated
Folder 55: Resurrection of Jesus (Luke 24), undated
Folder 56: “The Lord is risen, indeed” (Luke 24:34), undated
Folder 57: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power” (John 1:12), undated
Folder 58: “And the Word was made flesh…” (John 1:14), undated
Folder 59: “And the Word was made flesh” (John 1:14), undated
Folder 60: "And there were set there six waterpots of stone” (John 2:6), undated
Folder 61: “Thou art a teacher come from God” (John 3:2), undated
Folder 62: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3), undated
Folder 63: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3), undated
Folder 64: “Light is come into the world” (John 3:19), undated
Folder 65: “God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24), undated
Folder 66: “God is a spirit” (John 4:24), undated
Folder 67: “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God” (John 6:28, 29), undated
Folder 68: “No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him” (John 6:44), undated
Folder 69: “And we believe for sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the Living God” (John 6:69) ("Part First"), undated
Folder 70: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God” (John 6:69) ("Part Second"), undated
Folder 71: “If any man will do his will” (John 7:17), undated
Folder 72: “My sheep hear my voice” (John 10:27, 28), undated
Folder 73: “Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died” (John 11:21), undated
Folder 74: “What falleth into the ground abidith alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” (John 12:24), undated
Folder 75: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth” (John 12:32), undated
Folder 76: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth” (John 12:32), undated
Folder 77: “Because I live, ye shall live also” (John 14:19), undated
Folder 78: “Inspiration” (John 14:26), undated
Folder 79: “Peace I leave with you” (John 14:27), undated
Folder 80: “Abide in me” (John 15:4), undated
Folder 81: “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth” (John 15:6), undated
Folder 82: “Greater love hath no man” (John 15:13), undated
Folder 83: “It is expedient that I go away” (John 16:7), undated
Folder 84: “And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross” (John 20:19), undated
Folder 85: “What is that to thee? Follow thou me” (John 21:22), undated

Box 3

Folder 1: “Neither is there salvation in any other” (Acts 4:12), undated
Folder 2: “They had all things in common” (Acts 4:32), undated
Folder 3: “Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized?” (Acts 10:47), undated
Folder 4: “For as I walked by & beheld your devotions” (Acts 17:23), undated
Folder 5: “And hath made of one blood all nations” (Acts 17:26), undated
Folder 6: “And hath made of one blood all nations” (Acts 17:26), undated
Folder 7: “And the times of this ignorance God winked at” (Acts 17:30), undated
Folder 8: “He said to them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost?” (Acts 19:2), undated
Folder 9: “A conscience void of offense toward God” (Acts 24:16), undated
Folder 10: “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian” (Acts 26:28), undated
Folder 11: “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost ye…” (Acts 26:28), undated
Folder 12: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ” (Romans 1:16), undated
Folder 13: “The Reprobate Mind” (Romans 1:28), undated
Folder 14: “…to every man according to his deeds?” (Romans 2:6), undated
Folder 15: “Thou therefore which teachest another” (Romans 2:21), undated
Folder 16: “For what the law could not do in that it was weak” (Romans 8:3, 4), undated
Folder 17: “For what the law could not do in that it was weak” (Romans 8:3, 4), undated
Folder 18: “For what the law could not do in that it was weak” (Romans 8:3, 4), undated
Folder 19: “That the righteousness of the law” (Romans 8:4), undated
Folder 20: “For to be carnally minded is death” (Romans 8:6), undated
Folder 21: “But to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Romans 8:6), undated
Folder 22: “So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:8), undated
Folder 23: “The whole creation groaneth” (Romans 8:22), undated
Folder 24: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” (Romans 8:35), undated
Folder 25: “For who hath known the mind of the Lord?” (Romans 11:34), undated
Folder 26: “Give an account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12), undated
Folder 27: “So then everyone of us shall give account of himself” (Romans 14:12), undated
Folder 28: “Therefore glorify God in your body” (I Corinthians 6:20), undated
Folder 29: “If meat make my brother to offend…” (I Corinthians 8:13), undated
Folder 30: “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth” (I Corinthians 10:12), undated
Folder 31: “Do all to the glory of God” (I Corinthians 10:31), undated
Folder 32: “Whether therefore ye eat or drink” (I Corinthians 10:31), undated
Folder 33: “Whether therefore ye eat or drink” (I Corinthians 10:31), undated
Folder 34: “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit” (I Corinthians 12:4), undated
Folder 35: “Therefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast” (I Corinthians 15:58), undated
Folder 36: “For we are not ignorant of his devices” (II Corinthians 2:11), undated
Folder 37: “By manifestation of the truth” (II Corinthians 4:2), undated
Folder 38: “But we have this treasure” (II Corinthians 4:7), undated: Copied.
Folder 39: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels” (II Corinthians 4:7), undated
Folder 40: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels” (II Corinthians 4:7), undated
Folder 41: “Yet of myself I will not glory” (II Corinthians 12:5), undated
Folder 42: “For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse” (Galatians 3:10), undated
Folder 43: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law” (Galatians 3:13), undated
Folder 44: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law” (Galatians 3:13), undated
Folder 45: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering” (Galatians 5:22-23), undated
Folder 46: “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh” (Galatians 5:24), undated
Folder 47: “Bear ye one another’s burdens” (Galatians 6:2), undated
Folder 48: “Each has his own Burden” (Galatians 6:5), undated
Folder 49: “But God forbid that I should Glory…” (Galatians 6:14), undated
Folder 50: “But God forbid that I should Glory…” (Galatians 6:14), undated
Folder 51: God’s Providential Government “Who worketh all things” (Ephesians 1:11), undated
Folder 52: “And you hath he quickened” (Ephesians 2:1), undated
Folder 53: “Without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12), undated
Folder 54: “Without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12), undated
Folder 55: “Without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12), undated
Folder 56: “So the Church May Know God’s Wisdom” (Ephesians 3:10), undated
Folder 57: “Awake from Sleep and Death” (Ephesians 5:14), undated
Folder 58: “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest” (Ephesians 5:14), 1869
Folder 59: “And ye fathers, provoke not your children” (Ephesians 6:4), undated
Folder 60: “But bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4), undated
Folder 61: “Let this mind be in you” (Philippians 2:5), undated
Folder 62: “For our conversation is in Heaven” (Philippians 3:20), undated
Folder 63: “Our conversation is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20), undated
Folder 64: “Set your affection on things above” (Colossians 3:2), undated
Folder 65: “Set your affection on things above” (Colossians 3:2), undated: One card.
Folder 66: “Set your affection on things above” (Colossians 3:2), undated: One card.
Folder 67: “For if we believe that Jesus died & rose again” (I Thessalonians 4:14), undated
Folder 68: “Jesus came to save sinners” (I Timothy 1:15), undated
Folder 69: “This is a faithful saying” (I Timothy 1:15), undated
Folder 70: “Who will have all men to be saved” (I Timothy 2:4), undated
Folder 71: “But she that liveth in pleasure is dead” (I Timothy 5:6), undated
Folder 72: “Godliness with contentment” (I Timothy 6:6), undated
Folder 73: “Godliness with contentment is great gain” (I Timothy 6:6), undated
Folder 74: “The rich fall into temptation” (I Timothy 6:9), undated
Folder 75: The common figure [making full proof of thy ministry] (II Timothy 4:[5], 7, 8), undated
Folder 76: “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God” (Hebrews 4:9), undated
Folder 77: “Faith without Wavering” (Hebrews 4:14), undated
Folder 78: “Faith without Wavering” (Hebrews 4:14), undated
Folder 79: “We have not a high priest” (Hebrews 4:15), undated
Folder 80: “Hope as an anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19), undated
Folder 81: “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19), undated
Folder 82: “Without faith” (Hebrews 11:6), undated
Folder 83: “The Pilgrim Fathers” (Hebrews 11:13), undated
Folder 84: “Character of Moses” (Hebrews 11:27), undated
Folder 85: “For he endured…” (Hebrews 11:27), undated
Folder 86: “For he endured, as seeing him who is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27), undated
Folder 87: “For he endured as seeing him who is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27), undated: Sermon by Z.B.?
Folder 88: “…who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright” (Hebrews 12:16), undated
Folder 89: “Brotherly Love” (Hebrews 13:1), undated
Folder 90: “Pure religion…” (James 1:27), undated
Folder 91: “Keep the whole law” (James 2:10), undated
Folder 92: “To do Good” (James 4:17), undated
Folder 93: “Be patient” (James 5:7), undated
Folder 94: “Whom having not seen, ye love” (I Peter 1:8), undated
Folder 95: “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers & pilgrims” (I Peter 2:11), undated
Folder 96: “Use hospitality one to another without grudging” (I Peter 4:9), undated
Folder 97: “He careth for you” (I Peter 5:7), undated
Folder 98: “Be sober, be vigilant” (I Peter 5:8), undated
Folder 99: “Wherefore the rather, brethren give diligence” (II Peter 1:10), undated
Folder 100: “For we have not followed…” (II Peter 1:16), undated
Folder 101: “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved” (II Peter 3:11), undated
Folder 102: “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved” (II Peter 3:11), undated
Folder 103: “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved” (II Peter 3:11), undated
Folder 104: “If we say that we have no sin” (I John 1:8), undated
Folder 105: “Love not the World” (I John 2:16), undated: Likely from I John 2:15.
Folder 106: “And every man that hath hope in him purifieth himself” (I John 3:3), undated
Folder 107: “His commandments are not grievous” (I John 5:3), undated
Folder 108: “And his commandments are not grievous” (I John 5:3), undated
Folder 109: “And his commandments are not grievous” (I John 5:3) (Second Part), undated
Folder 110: “Confidence that we have in Him” (I John 5:14), undated
Folder 111: “Contend Earnestly for the Faith” (Jude [1]:3), undated
Folder 112: “Contend Earnestly for the Faith” (Jude [1]:3), undated
Folder 113: “Keep yourselves in the love of God” (Jude [1]:21), undated
Folder 114: “Behold I stand” (Revelation 3:20), undated: One side of a card.
Folder 115: “Behold I stand at the door & knock” (Revelation 3:20), undated
Folder 116: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock” (Revelations 3:20), undated
Folder 117: “Behold …,” “Addressed to the 7 churches. Applicable to all” (Revelation 3:20), undated: Two cards.
Folder 118: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me” (Revelation 3:21), undated
Folder 119: “Sit with me in my throne” (Revelation 3:21), undated
Folder 120: “Sit with me in my throne” (Revelation 3:21), undated

Subseries 3: Baccalaureate Sermons, ca. 1870, 1874-1875, 1877, 1881-1883, 1885-1889, undated

Box 4

Folder 1: “Whosoever will be great among you” (Parable of the Labourers), (Matthew 20:26), undated
Folder 2: Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world” (II Timothy 4:10), ca. 1870
Folder 3: “Keep thy heart with all diligence” (Proverbs 4:23), ca. 1874 August 5
Folder 4: “Say not then, what is the cause that the former days were better than these” (Ecclesiastes 7:10), ca. 1875 August 1
Folder 5: “Except a corn of wheat fall into ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit” (John 12:24), ca. 1877
Folder 6: “Religion and the State”, 1880: Following page 61, attached to "My Young Friends of the Graduating Classes."
Folder 7: “The Conditions of a Successful Life” (Proverbs 16:9), ca. 1881
Folder 8: “The Ministry of Pain” (Romans 8:22), ca. 1882
Folder 9: “Providential Aspects of the Oberlin Enterprise” (Psalms 127:1), ca. 1883 July 1
Folder 10: “Personal Power and its Opportunities” (Matthew 25:40: “His blood be on us and on our children”), 1885 July
Folder 11: “The Golden Rule and the Labor Question” (Matthew 7:12), ca. 1886 June 27
Folder 12: “The Building of Character of Life” (Hebrews 3:4), ca. 1887
Folder 13: “Sowing and Reaping” (Psalms 126:6), 1888 June 24: Typed and newspaper copy.
Folder 14: “Sowing and Reaping” (Psalms 126:6), 1888 June 24: Typed and newspaper copy.
Folder 15: “The Divine Personality” (Psalms 18:31), ca. 1869, 1889
Folder 16: “The Divine Personality” (Psalms 18:31) article manuscript, 1889 June 23
Folder 17: “The Personal Nature and Character of God” (Psalms 18:31), 1889: Oberlin Weekly News printed entire sermon, which is the same as a sermon given in 1869