Conscience and the Constitution took the position that slavery was an institution allowed by the Bible, but that, as it was actually practiced in the United States, slavery was morally wrong. Therefore there should be a voluntary emancipation of slaves by the Southern slave owners. However, Parker Pillsbury reported in his 1847 "Forlorn Hope of Slavery" that Stuart of Andover Theological Seminary wrote "to President Fisk of another Theological Seminary, that 'slavery may exist, without violating the Christian faith or the Church.'" Stuart has been called the father of exegetical studies in America. He contributed largely by his teaching to the renewal of foreign missionary zeal—of his 1,500 students more than 100 became foreign missionaries, among them such skilled translators as Adoniram Judson, Elias Riggs and William G Schauffler. In 1848 Stuart resigned his chair at Andover. He died in Andover on January 4, 1852. Major works Winer's Greek Grammar of the New Testament (1825), with Edward Robinson Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1827–1828) Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1832) Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy Second Edition (1842); this Andover printing lacks the Appendix containing his reply to Duffield. The 1851 New York printing of the same edition does contain Stuart's Appendix. Commentary on the Apocalypse (1845) Miscellanies (1846) Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar (1846), a version which involved Stuart in a long controversy with Thomas Conant, the earlier, and possibly more scholarly, translator of Gesenius Commentary on Ecclesiastes (1851) Commentary on the Book of Proverbs (1852) References Further reading Memorial sermons by: Parker Pillsbury (1847). The church as it is, or, The forlorn hope of slavery. A. Forbes, printer. Edwards Amasa Park (Boston, 1852) William Adams (minister) (New York, 1852) External links 1780 births 1852 deaths American biblical scholars Bible commentators Andover Newton Theological School faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Wilton, Connecticut Yale University alumni