Professor Dunlop.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4370, 6 February 1909, Page 2

Professor Dunlop.

AN APPRECIATION [By Rev. W. Blair.] By the death of Professor Dunlop, the New Zealand Presbyterian Church has lost one of its ablest and most distinguished members. The son of a Dundee farmer, he early in life displayed unusual mental powers and passing from school to Glasgow University, graduated M.A. While there, the late professor gained distinction in the physic classes taught by Sir William Thomson, afterwards Lord Kelviu. After many years service as clergyman in the Free Church, Dr. Dunlop was appoint.ei Professor of Theology in the Dunedin Theological Hall. This pcsitiou he held for about twenty years.

The late professor was a master in the domain of theology and philosophy, nor was he ignorant of physical and social science. One of the leading literary men of New Zealand, intimately acquainted with many writers, pro-' fessors and preachers of Britain, declared Professor Dunlop to be the most widely read man he knew. Au oftrepeated exhortation to his students was contained in he words “ Read widely, gentlemen.” In his strength of conviction and hatred of sham, social, political, scientific or religious, one was reminded of his great countryman Thos. Carlyle In the New Zealand Presby ei n Church there are about eighty five Colonial trained ministers. Of these the great majority studied Divinity with Professor Dunlop, and among them there will be deep regret at the death of “ the old Doctor.”