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See also:DEEMS, See also:CHARLES (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. 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. 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 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.
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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 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.
End of Article: DEEMS, CHARLES (ALEXANDER) FORCE (1820-1893)
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