Relationship With Lottie Moon
In addition to his controversy at Southern Seminary, Toy is also famous for teaching and once being engaged to Lottie Moon (Charlotte Diggs Moon), the "patron saint" of Southern Baptist missions. Toy first encountered Lottie Moon at the Albemarle Female Institute, founded by Southern Seminary founder John Broadus. Lottie was a capable student in languages, becoming one of the first women in the south to earn a master's degree in the field. Lottie—who previously learned Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and Spanish—would learn Hebrew and English grammar under Toy's tutelage. Toy wrote of Moon, "She writes the best English I have ever been privileged to read."
Lottie Moon went on to become a missionary in Tengchow, China. In her 1881 correspondence with FMB secretary H. A. Tupper, Moon expressed her plans to marry Toy, who was now a professor at Harvard. Ultimately, Toy and Moon's relationship was broken before their marriage plans were realized. Moon cited religious reasons for calling off the wedding—his controversial new beliefs regarding the Bible and her commitment to remain in China doing mission work for Southern Baptists.
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