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JOSEPH PARKER (183o-1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH See also:PARKER (183o-1902)  , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at See also:Hexham-on-See also:Tyne on the 9th of See also:April 183o, his See also:father being a stonemason . He managed to pick up a See also:fair See also:education, which in after-See also:life he constantly supplemented . In the revolutionary years from 1845 to 1850 See also:young See also:Parker as a See also:local preacher and See also:temperance orator gained a reputation for vigorous utterance . He was influenced by See also:Thomas See also:Cooper, the Chartist, and See also:Edward See also:Miall, the Liberationist, and was much associated with See also:Joseph See also:Cowen, afterwards M . P. for See also:Newcastle . In the See also:spring of 1852 he wrote to Dr See also:John See also:Campbell, See also:minister of See also:Whitefield See also:Tabernacle, Moorfields, See also:London, for See also:advice as to entering the Congregational See also:ministry, and after a See also:short See also:probation he became Campbell's assistant . He also attended lectures in See also:logic and See also:philosophy at University See also:College, London . From 1853 to 1858 he was pastor at See also:Banbury . His next See also:charge was at See also:Cavendish See also:Street, See also:Manchester, where he rapidly made himself See also:felt as a See also:power in English See also:Nonconformity . While here he published a See also:volume of lectures entitled See also:Church Questions, and, anonymously, Ecce See also:Deus (1868), a See also:work provoked by See also:Seeley's Ecce Homo . The university of See also:Chicago conferred on him the degree of D.D . In 1869 he returned to London as minister of the Poultry chur h, founded by Thomas See also:Goodwin .

Almost at once he began the See also:

scheme which resulted in the erection of the See also:great See also:City See also:Temple in See also:Holborn Viaduct . It cost £70,000, and was opened on the 19th of May 1874 . From this centre his See also:influence spread far and wide . His stimulating and See also:original sermons, with their notable leaning towards the use of a racy See also:vernacular, made him one of the best known personalities of his See also:time . Dr Parker was twice chairman of the London Congregational See also:Board and twice of the Congregational See also:Union of See also:England and See also:Wales . The See also:death of his second wife in 1899 was a See also:blow from which he never fully recovered, and he died on the 28th of See also:November 1902 . Parker was pre-eminently a preacher, and his published See also:works are chiefly sermons and expositions, See also:chief among them being City Temple Sermons (1869–187o) and The See also:People's See also:Bible, in 25 vols . (1885-1895) . Other volumes include the autobiographical Spring-See also:dale See also:Abbey (1869), The Inner Life of See also:Christ (1881), Apostolic Life (1884), Tyne Chylde: My Life and Teaching (1883; new ed., 1889), A Preacher's Life (1899) . See E . C . See also:Pike, Dr Parker and his See also:Friends (1905) ; Congregational See also:Year-See also:Book (1904) .

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