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President Loos
Charles Louis Loos was born December 22, 1823, at Woerth-sur-Sauer, Department of the Lower
Rhine, France. His father was Jacques G. Loos, a native of France; his mother a native of Bavaria, consequently, German.
After his fourth year he attended the academy of his native place until his departure for the United States, in 1834. He was reared in the family of a pious grandmother, and by her was carefully trained in the Lutheran faith. In 1837 he was confirmed in the Lutheran Church. Soon afterward he became acquainted with the teaching of the Disciples, and in 1838 united with them under the preaching of J. Wesley Lampheare, being immersed by John
Whitacre. This caused great bitterness and opposition among his Lutheran relatives, but he had taken the step under an earnest conviction of duty, and did not stop to confer with flesh and blood.
He began to teach school at sixteen years of age, and at seventeen began to preach the gospel. In September, 1842, he entered Bethany College, where he graduated in 1846, and then remained three years as teacher in the primary department. July 6, 1848, was married at Bethany to Rosetta E. Kerr, daughter of Rev. John Kerr, a Presbyterian minister, of
Newry, Ireland. She was his devoted companion and helpmate for forty-five years, and very recently has fallen asleep.
In 1849 he was ordained to the work of the ministry. Served the church at Wellsburg, Virginia, one year, then the church at Somerset, Pennsylvania, five years. During two years of this time he edited a monthly paper called The Disciple, and two years was principal of an academy. In January, 1856, he took charge of the church on Eighth and Walnut streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, and became assistant editor of the Christian Age. In January, 1857, having been elected President of Eureka College, in Illinois, he removed to that place and work, remaining until September, 1858, when he was recalled to Bethany College, to the chair of
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In May, 1880, he resigned his professorship in Bethany College, and soon after accepted the Presidency of Kentucky University and the chair of Greek, which position he still occupies.
He was a regular contributor to the Christian Standard from its beginning in 1866, until the death of its editor and founder, Isaac Errett. He was a contributor to Moore's Christian Quarterly and has been a writer also for the Christian Quarterly Review. Of late years he has been writing for the Christian-Evangelist.
He has now been preaching fifty-two years, and engaged in higher educational work more than forty years. His best loved work has been the ancient languages as connected with the Holy Scriptures in preparing young men for preaching the Gospel.
Since the death of Isaac Errett he has been the President of the Foreign Christian Missionary Society.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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