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"Finney taught at Oberlin College for the rest of his life, using it as a base from which to travel on revival tours. He also held revival meetings in the town of Oberlin, speaking to overflow crowds in a huge tent that flew a banner inscribed 'Holiness to the Lord.' Finney was both a theology professor and minister of the local First Church, for many years the largest building west of the Appalachians. In 1851, he would become president of the college. During Finney's years there, Oberlin defined the cutting edge of social and religious innovation. At a time when women could find little higher education open to them, it was the first coeducational college in the world. . . . The college was racially desegregated on more than a token basis; indeed, before he accepted his professorship Finney stipulated that 'we should be allowed to receive colored people on the same conditions that we did white people. Oberlin became a safe haven on the underground railroad for slaves escaping to freedom in Canada. . . . More and more he emphasized the freedom of the will and the doctrine of sanctification, that is the duty of Christians after their conversion experience to improve their conduct and purify their lives."