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Up for sale a RARE! RARE! "Theologian" Morgan Dix Hand Written 3 Page Letter Dated 1893.
in New York City – April
29, 1908) was an American Episcopal Church priest, theologian, and religious author. Dix was born on November 1,
1827 in New York City. He was the son of Catherine Morgan, the adopted daughter
of Congressman John J. Morgan (1770-1849),
and Major General John Adams Dix (1798-1879), U.S. Senator from New York (from 1845–1849), Secretary of
the Treasury (from January–March 1861), Governor of New York (from
1873–1874) and Union major general during
the Civil War. His father was
notable for arresting six members of the pro-Southern Maryland legislature, preventing
that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner
exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded
in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill. Dix
was educated at Columbia
College and the General Theological
Seminary. For almost fifty-three years, he was identified with Trinity Church, New York,
of which he became assistant minister in 1855 and rector in 1862. As
well as being a very active churchman, Dix also wrote widely about the practice
of Christianity. Among his
major works are Commentaries on Romans and on Galatians and Colossians; The Calling of
a Christian Woman; The Seven Deadly Sins; The Sacramental System; and Lectures
on the First Prayer-Book of Edward VI.Louis
Harmon Peet.[ He objected to the entrance of girls into
universities, because it was not "proper for young women to be exposed to
the gaze of young men, many of whom were less bent upon learning than upon
amusement." He was an hereditary companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. In
1880, he was subject to a sinister hoax that stretched over several months and
became the subject of much comment in the New York City newspapers of the time. The
arrest of the hoaxer (who was subsequently given a prison sentence) ended the
incident.