Francis
Wayland was the President of Brown University from 1827 to 1855.
Wayland was also the first president of the American Institute of
Instruction in 1830.
He
played a significant part in the creation of the school system of
Providence, Rhode Island. Wayland was a graduate of Union College and
Harvard University.
He
was the author of Elements of Moral Science,
1835; Elements of Political Economy,
1837; Thoughts on the Present Collegiate System in the
United States, 1842; and A
Memoir of the Life of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D.,
1842.
Francis
Wayland a well-known American clergyman who proclaimed:
“That the truths of the Bible have the power of awakening an intense moral feeling in every human being; that they make bad men good, and send a pulse of healthful feeling through all the domestic, civil, and social realms;”
“that they teach men to love right, and hate wrong, and seek each other's welfare as children of a common parent; that they control the baleful passions of the heart, and thus make men proficient in self government;”
“and finally that they teach man to aspire after conformity to a Being of infinite holiness, and fill him with hopes more purifying exalted, and suited to his nature than any other book the world has ever known – these are facts as incontrovertible as the laws of philosophy, or the demonstrations of mathematics.”
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