Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode

we are exploring the controversy in Columbia.

Now this is not Columbia the nation, it is Columbia the city

in the great state of South Carolina,

and this controversy surrounds James Woodrow,

a professor at Columbia Theological Seminary

from 1861 to 1891.

Well, long, long, long before he got to Columbia, he was in Edinburgh, Scotland.

And his family then emigrated to Canada, and they found the climate a bit too cold, so they

went a little south to Ohio. When James Woodrow came of age

he went to receive his undergraduate degree at Washington and Jefferson College

in Pennsylvania. He then spent a few years down in Alabama teaching in various schools and in

1853 he enrolled at Harvard University and he studied under Louis Agassis, the great scientist. Agassis, the Great Scientist.

Agassis was born in Switzerland.

He had earned a PhD, and then he went and got an MD on top of that.

In 1847, Agassus arrived at Harvard.

He established the Lawrence Scientific School, which is now known as the School of Engineering

and Applied Sciences, and he opened the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Agassus left quite an impression on James Woodrow.

Woodrow referred to him as a great man.

And a great man is a focal point in which a thousand points of light converge and diverge.

Agassus also held his student, James Woodrow, in high regard, and the two of them kept up with each other throughout their careers.

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