PHELPS, AUSTIN (182o-1890)

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PHELPS, AUSTIN (182o-1890) , American Congregational minister and educationalist, was born on the 7th of January 1820 at West Brookfield, Massachusetts, son of Eliakim Phelps,' a clergyman, who, during the boyhood of his son was principal of a girls' school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and later pastor of a Presbyterian church in Geneva, New

York

. The son studied at

Hobart

College in 18331835, then at Amherst for a year, and in 1837 graduated at the university of

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

. He studied theology at Union Theological Seminary, at the Yale Divinity School, and at Andover, and was licensed to preach in 184o by the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia. He was pastor of the Pine Street (Congregational) Church in Boston in 18421848, and in 18481879 was professor of sacred rhetoric and homiletics at Andover Theological Seminary, of which he was president from 1869 to 1879, when his failing health forced him to resign. He died on the 13th of October 1890 at Bar Harbor, Maine. His Theory of Preaching (1881) and English
Eliakim Phelps afterwards lived in Stratford, Herkimer county. New

York

YORK
HOUSE
- HOUSE
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YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
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, where his house was " possessed " and was long a place of curious

interest

INTEREST

to students of " spiritualism."
Style in Public Discourse (1883) became standard textbooks; and personally he was a brilliant preacher. He married in 1842 Elizabeth Stuart (1815-1852), eldest daughter of Moses Stuart, then president of Andover; she was the author of the popular story Sunnyside (1851) and of other books. In 1854 he married her sister, who died only eighteen months later; and in 1858 he married Mary A. Johnson, of Boston.
With Professors E. A. Park and D. L. Furber he edited Hymns and Choirs (186o), and with Professor Park and

Lowell

Mason The Sabbath Hymn Book (1859). The Still Hour (1859), a summary of a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of sermons on prayer, is a devotional classic. His other works are: The New

Birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

(1867), portraying conversion (in some instances) as a gradual change; Sabbath Hours (1874); Studies of the Oid Testament (1878) ; Men and Books (1882) ; My Portfolio (1882) ; My Study (1885); and My Note Book (189o).
See Austin Phelps: A Memoir (New York, 1891), by his daughter, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps-Ward.

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