PROFESSOR DUNLOP, M.A.

Evening Star, Issue 7197, 27 April 1887, Page 4

PROFESSOR DUNLOP, M.A.

Letters have been received by the Aorangi that Professor Dunlop and his family were to sail in the Bteamship Liguria, advertised to leave London on the 31st March. We extract the following notice of him from the ' Free Church Monthly':—" The simple intimation of the appointment of the Rev. John Dunlop of St. David's, Dundee, to the Chair of Theology in Dunedin was made in last * Monthly.' Probably our Church knows but imperfectly what a gift she is bestowing upon her sister in the Southern Hemisphere. Mr Dunlop has been sixteen years in his present charge, and as a pastor, an educationist, and a public man, he has established a reputation for himself of a rare, indeed unique kind. His congregation have most justly admired and loved him. Their interests were never neglected. The intense general student and omnivorous reader made his pulpit preparations the first charge upon what proved to be all throughout his ministry an extraordinary fertility of resources. In educational matters, and as a member of the School Board he has taken a foremost place in the community. He has been looked upon as the " member for the teachers," and has done work which is generally recognised as of the very highest value. In his more public ministerial character he has made a deep impression upon the Christian community of Dundee by his high Christian tone, his great intellectual strength, and his wide sympathy with every movement having for-its object the religious, moral, and intellectual advancement of society. Young men especially have gathered round him, and found in him a safe and ever helpful guide and adviser. He not only had a firm grasp of the fundamental doctrines of the faith, holding to them most loyally, but he had a peculiar gift of presenting these in a way fitted to meet the difficulties of many minds. Our friends at Dunedin, we know well, will give a peculiar welcome to Mr Dunlop on these accounts. And as to his fitness for the post of theological professor abundant testimony has been supplied. His friends know him to be specially strong in dogmatics, apologetics, and Church history, and his duties at Dunedin embrace this wide field. He has a remarkable acquaintance with science and its relations to theology ; and, what is all-important, his style is clear and forcible. Iu short, we only say the simple truth when we sincerely congratulate the Church of Otago on getting such a successor to the accomplished Dr Salmond. Like him, Mr Dunlop, while pre-eminently the teacher of theology, will serve the Church and the community in a variety of ways. He will carry with him to his new sphere a matured experience, no part of which will be lost. And he is transplanted to the now world at an age which admits of easy adaptation to altered circumstances and conditions of things."