Last week we were together. We talked about the president of Princeton University.

Well, one of those students who went to Princeton University shortly after

Witherspoon died was Charles Hodge. He attended Princeton University from 1812 to

1815. Before that, let's back it up a little bit. He was born in Philadelphia in

1797. His father was a medical doctor, but he died as a young Charles Hodge was

one going on two. So he never really knew his father. Just before he died, his

father invested in the Philadelphia shipping yards. And so the family was able to

have an income even after his father passed away. But in 1812 Thomas Jefferson

issued an embargo because of the war of 1812 that shut down the shipping

yards at Philadelphia and that choked off the money for the Hodge family. Well

Mrs. Hodge sold her home there in Philadelphia took their remaining assets and

bought a large home in Princeton and decided to take in borders as a way to have

income and off Charles went to Princeton. After he graduated from Princeton

University, he entered right into Princeton Theological Seminary. It had been

founded in 1812. When he entered in 1816, it was still a fledgling newborn

seminary. It had two faculty. Archibald Alexander taught theology and Samuel

Miller taught, well, pretty much everything else. And he jumped right into

Princeton. After he graduated from Princeton in 1819, he served in Pulpit Supply for

about a year and then he was back in 1820 at Princeton as a professor and he

stayed there right up until his death of 1878. On his tombstone, and he's there

in the Princeton Cemetery and the Princeton Seminary Row, it says on his tomb

zone, the second professor of systematic theology at the Princeton Theological

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