Nicoll, W. E.; Chambers, H. C.; Stewart, Harris J. [compilers]. A Memorial on the Life of John Herbert Morton, Saint and Scholar and Missionary in the Punjab, India; By His Friends and Fellow-Laborers. Philadelphia: Printed by the order of The Sialkot Mission, India | Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of N. A., (ca. 1912). First Edition. [11395]
Blue cloth with gilt titles, 8 3/4 x 6 inches, edge-wear, a couple of creases in the cloth on the bottom board, private address label on the ffep. 94 pp., illustrations, portraits, infrequent pencil markings. Good. Hardcover.
John Herbert Morton (1875-1910), b. Allegheny, PA As a youth he was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, was educated at Geneva College, and graduated at the Allegheny Theological Seminary in 1901, after which he joined with the United Presbyterians.
In 1903 he became the principal and a teacher in the Gordon Mission College in what is now Rawalpinki, Pakistan, founded in 1893 by the American Presbyterian missionary Andrew Gordon. He remained at this post until 1909, when he took a furlough. His courage was noted during the Rawal Pindi riots, when a mob had driven all of the missionaries into his house. He went outdoors and bravely faced them, persuading "the ignorant peasants and artisans that these were not government officials at all, but benefactors of the Indian people." p. 68.
He was furloughed with the intention to study further for his missionary work, and enrolled at Princeton University in the autumn of 1909. He had begun to weaken before leaving India, and his condition worsened, and his doctors were puzzled as to the cause if his sickness, having ruled out malaria, typhoid, and tuberculosis. He grew weaker, never recovered, and died April 29th, 1910.
