Hoge

of trustees of the college, Hoge was elected as
president of the college, with the understanding
that he should teach theology in addition to at-
tending to his administrative duties. In October
1807 he was inaugurated. His teaching was the
beginning of Union Theological Seminary in
Virginia, for his work was so successful that at
the time of his death in 1820, sufficient funds had
been collected and a sufficient number of students
enrolled to justify the inauguration of a school
of theology entirely separate from, and inde-
pendent of, the college.

Hoge was the author of two publications, no
longer read, but attracting favorable attention
at the time: one, a criticism of Rev. Jeremiah
Walker's pamphlet, The Fourfold Foundation of
Calvinism Examined and Shaken, and the other
"The Sophist Unmasked," in a work entitled
Christian Panoply (1797), a reply to Thomas
Paine. After his death. Sermons Selected from
the Manuscripts of the Late Moses Hoge (1821)
appeared. While adhering strictly to the sys-
tem of Calvinism, Hoge's general character and
unworldliness were such that he impressed upon
the Virginia ministry of his church the moder-
ate type of evangelical Calvinism that has dis-
tinguished it from his day. John Randolph of
Roanoke once said that there were only two
men who could bring quiet to a certain court
green on court day—"Patrick Henry by his
eloquence, and Dr. Hoge by simply passing
through" (P.'H. Hoge, post, p. 10). He mar-
ried, Aug. 23, 1783, Elizabeth Poage of Augusta
County, Va., the mother of all his children.
Moses Drury Hoge [#.£>.] was their grandson.
A second wife was Mrs. Susan (Watkins) Hunt,
whom he married Oct. 25, 1803.

[See P. H. Hoge, Moses Drury Hoge: Life and Let-
ters (1899); J. B. Hoge, "Biog. of Moses Hoge" (MS.),
in library of Union Theol. Sem. in Va.; manuscript
biography and five letters in MSS. Div., Lib. of Cong.;
Gen. Cat. ...of Union Theol Sem. in Va., 1807-1924
(1924); "Centennial Address by the Hon. H. B. Grigs-
by," Bull, of Hampden-Sidney Coll., Jan. 1913? A. J.
Morrison, The Coll of Hampden-Sidney: Calendar of

Board Minutes, 1776-1876 (1912), and Coll. of Hamp-
- Sidney: Diet, of Biog., 1776-1825 (1921) ; W. B.

den ,

Spragtie, Annals Am. Pulpit, vol. Ill (1859); J. W.
Alexander, The Life of Archibald Alexander (1854) ;
H. A. White, Sou. Presbyt. Leaders (1911). The spell-
ing of the college name has recently been changed from
Hampden-Sidney to Hampden-Sydney.] J.D.E.

HOGE, MOSES DRURY (Sept. 17, 1819-
Jan. 6,1899), Presbyterian clergyman, was born
at Hampden Sydney, Va., the son of Samuel
Davies Hoge, Presbyterian minister, and his
wife, Elizabeth Rice Lacy. He was a grandson
of Moses Hoge, president of Hampden-Sydney
College (1807-20), and of Drury Lacy [g.v.],
vice-president and acting president (1789-97).

Hoge

He graduated with distinction from that insti-
tution in 1839; spent one year in teaching; grad-
uated at the Union Theological Seminary in
Virginia, in 1843 J and became the assistant of
William S. Plumer [q.v.~\y pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va, In Febru-
ary 1845 he was installed as first pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, Richmond, the di-
rect fruits of his work. Under his charge it grew
to be numerically the largest church in the Synod
of Virginia, and one of great influence in the
Presbyterian Church of the United States.
Though receiving many calls elsewhere, he re-
mained pastor of the Second Church until his
death. At least two other large Presbyterian
churches in Richmond were also the outgrowth
of his labors. During the first year of the Civil
War he was volunteer chaplain in the camp of
instructions at Richmond and preached to the
Confederate soldiers at least twice a week, while
carrying on his own church work. In 1862 he
ran the blockade from Charleston, S. C, and
went to England to obtain Bibles and religious
books for the Confederate army. He received
from the British and Foreign Bible Society 10,-
ooo Bibles, 50,000 Testaments, 250,000 portions
of the Scriptures, and a large supply of miscel-
laneous religious books, which reached Rich-
mond after running the blockade. He was a del-
egate to the conference of the Evangelical Alli-
ance, which was held in New York in 1873, and
made an address which attracted wide attention
and discussion. In 1875 he was unanimously
elected moderator of the Presbyterian General
Assembly. He was a delegate to the Alliance of
Reformed Churches, which met in Edinburgh
(1877), and attended the meeting of the Evan-
gelical Alliance at Copenhagen (1884). His ad-
dress there "On Family Religion" was the occa-
sion of an invitation to visit the Crown Princess
of Denmark at the palace. He was sent as com-
missioner to the Alliance of Reformed Churches
which convened in London in 1888, and made
one of the principal addresses. He was a mem-
ber of the conference of the Evangelical Alliance
for the United States, held at Boston in 1889,
again delivering one of the addresses; and of the
Alliance of the Reformed Chuiches at Glasgow,
in 1896. By invitation of the Virginia legisla-
ture, he delivered the oration at the unveiling of
the Stonewall Jackson statue presented to Vir-
ginia by some English gentlemen in October
1875. For five years he was co-editor of the
Central Presbyterian of Richmond.

On the forty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate
he was proclaimed the first citizen of Richmond
by the people of Richmond, regardless of race or

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