Sitting in the gallery, enthralled by Alexander’s message, was a teenager named Charles Hodge.87 Born in Philadelphia, Hodge moved to Princeton in 1812 to enter the College of New Jersey (later Princeton). In 1815, he was converted in a campus revival, and decided for the ministry. He entered Princeton Seminary and graduated in 1819. Hodge was appointed assistant teacher in biblical languages in 1820, and two years later named Professor of Oriental and Biblical Literature. Beginning in 1826, he spent
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