John Mitchell Mason (1770 – 1829) was an American preacher and theologian. Born in New York City, he first attended Columbia College later traveling to his father’s home country of Scotland to study theology at the University of Edinburgh. Following his father’s death in 1792, Mason returned to the United States, succeeding his father as pastor of a small ministry in New York. He helped establish The Christian’s Magazine where his Essays on the Church of God were first published.
Quotes by John M. Mason…
The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, and not a reservoir. That which is filled by merely pumping in, will be emptied by pumping out.