See also:CHARLES See also:DEEMS (See also:ALEXANDER) FORCE (1820-1893)
, See also:American clergyman, was See also:born in See also:Baltimore, See also:Maryland, on the 4th of See also:December 1820
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He was a precocious See also:child and delivered lectures on See also:temperance and on See also:Sunday. See also:schools before he was fourteen years old
.
He graduated at See also:Dickinson See also:College in 1839, taught and preached in New See also:York See also:city for a few months, in 1840 took See also:charge of the Methodist Episcopal See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at See also:Asbury, New See also:Jersey, and removed in the next See also:year to See also:North Carolina, where he was See also:general See also:agent for the American See also:Bible Society
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He was See also:professor of See also:logic and See also:rhetoric at the University of North Carolina in 1842-1847, and professor of natural sciences at See also:Randolph-See also:Macon College (then at Boydton, See also:Virginia) in 1847-1848, and after two years of See also:preaching at See also:Newbern, N
.
C., he held for four years (1850-1854) the See also:presidency of See also:Greensboro (N.C.) See also:Female College
.
He continued as a Methodist Episcopal See also:clergy-See also:man at various pastorates in North Carolina from 1854 to 1865, for the last seven years being a presiding See also:elder and in 1859 to 1863 being the proprietor of St See also:Austin's See also:Institute, See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson
.
In 1865 he settled in New York City, where in 1866 he began preaching in the See also:chapel of New York University, and in 1868 he established and became the pastor of the undenominational Church of the Strangers, which in 1870 occupied the former See also:Mercer See also:Street Presbyterian church, See also:purchased and given to Dr See also:Deems by See also:Cornelius See also:Vanderbilt; there he remained until his See also:death in New York city on the 18th of See also:November 1893
.
He was one of the founders (1881) and See also:president of the American Institute of See also:Christian See also:Philosophy and for ten years was editor of its See also:organ, Christian Thought
.
Dr Deems was an See also:earnest temperance See also:advocate, as See also:early as 1852 worked (unsuccessfully) for a general See also:prohibition See also:law in North Carolina, and in his later years allied himself with the Prohibition party
.
He was influential in securing froth Cornelius Vanderbilt the endowment of Vanderbilt University, in See also:Nashville, See also:Tennessee
.
He was a man of rare See also:personal and See also:literary See also:charm; he edited The See also:Southern Methodist Episcopal See also:Pulpit (1846-1852) and The See also:Annals of Southern See also:Methodism (1855-1.857); he compiled Devotional Melodies (1842), and, with the assistance of See also:Phoebe See also:Cary, one of his parishioners, See also:Hymns for all Christians (1869; revised
.
1881); and he published many books, among which were: The See also:Life of Dr See also:Adam See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke (1840);
1 An Anglo-See also:French law See also:term meaning a " See also:scroll " or See also:strip of See also:parchment, cognate with the See also:English " shred." The See also:modern French ecroue is used for the entry of a name on a See also:prison See also:register
.
DEEMS
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The See also:Triumph of See also:Peace and other Poems (184o) ; The See also:Home See also:Altar (1850); Jesus (1872), which ran through many See also:editions and several revisions, the See also:title being changed in 188o to The See also:Light of the Nations; Sermons (1885); The See also:Gospel of See also:Common Sense (1888); The Gospel of Spiritual Insight (1891) and My See also:Septuagint (1892)
.
The See also:Charles F
.
Deems Lectureship in Philosophy was founded in his See also:honour in 1895 at New York University by the American Institute of Christian Philosophy
.
His Autobiography (New York, 1897) is autobiographical only to 1847, the memoir being completed by his two sons
.
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