Religious Figure. Arthur Tappan Pierson, an American Presbyterian preacher, received recognition in the late nineteenth-century for leading an evangelical missionary movement. He gave over 13,000 sermons, published over 50 books, and presented Bible studies in world-wide campaigns in Scotland, England, Korea, and other countries. In 1869 he was the pastor of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan. After the church burnt to the ground, he held services in the city's opera house, and as a Bible scholar and a powerful fundamentalist orator, a revival happened. Although he was not a "baptized believer," he accepted the vacancy in the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, England from 1891 to 1893, which occurred after legendary minister, C.H. Spurgeon's sudden death. He supported faith missions, which were Christian missions that were started in the late 1800s with the faith that monetary funds would come. In 1886 he authored "The Crisis of Missions," the major missions-promotional book of the era. He also spoke on missions to a group of YMCA collegians at an 1886 summer conference convened by American evangelist Dwight L. Moody at Northfield, Massachusetts. During his powerful mission speech, he motivated John R. Mott, who would become the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. As a result, 100 young men volunteered to be foreign missionaries, and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions (SVM) was born. As an infant, he was baptized in the Presbyterian faith. In 1896 following scripture, he was baptized for a second time as a "baptized believer." For this action, he was excommunicated by his denomination, but he continued to worship as a Presbyterian. Born the 9th child in a Christian household, he was named in honor of the New York abolitionist Arthur Tappan. He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1857, and Union Theological Seminary in 1869. He was known to have passion for the poor, removing the policy of "rented pews" used by the wealthy, thus allowing the poor to attend his services. He wrote fourteen books on Bible studies and was an original editor of the Scofield Reference Bible. In 1910 he started tour missions in East Asia, but he grew ill and returned home to Brooklyn, where he died. He had visited Korea, and left funds in his will for a four-year university to be built there as the Pierson Memorial Union Bible Institute. In 1996 the facility's name was changed to Pyeongtaek University, offering more studies besides Bible studies. He married and the couple had seven children, who all were missionaries at one point in their lives.