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PHELPS, AUSTIN (182o-1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHELPS, See also:AUSTIN (182o-1890) , See also:American Congregational See also:minister and educationalist, was See also:born on the 7th of See also:January 1820 at See also:West Brookfield, See also:Massachusetts, son of Eliakim Phelps,' a clergyman, who, during the boyhood of his son was See also:principal of a girls' school in See also:Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and later pastor of a Presbyterian See also:church in See also:Geneva, New See also:York. The son studied at See also:Hobart See also:College in 1833—1835, then at See also:Amherst for a See also:year, and in 1837 graduated at the university of See also:Pennsylvania. He studied See also:theology at See also:Union Theological See also:Seminary, at the Yale Divinity School, and at See also:Andover, and was licensed to preach in 184o by the Third See also:Presbytery of See also:Philadelphia. He was pastor of the See also:Pine See also:Street (Congregational) Church in See also:Boston in 1842—1848, and in 1848—1879 was See also:professor of sacred See also:rhetoric and See also:homiletics at Andover Theological Seminary, of which he was See also:president from 1869 to 1879, when his failing See also:health forced him to resign. He died on the 13th of See also:October 1890 at See also:Bar Harbor, See also:Maine. His Theory of See also:Preaching (1881) and See also:English Eliakim Phelps afterwards lived in See also:Stratford, See also:Herkimer See also:county. New York, where his See also:house was " possessed " and was See also:long a See also:place of curious See also:interest to students of " See also:spiritualism." See also:Style in Public Discourse (1883) became See also:standard textbooks; and personally he was a brilliant preacher. He married in 1842 See also:Elizabeth See also:Stuart (1815-1852), eldest daughter of See also:Moses Stuart, then president of Andover; she was the author of the popular See also:story Sunnyside (1851) and of other books. In 1854 he married her See also:sister, who died only eighteen months later; and in 1858 he married See also:Mary A. See also:Johnson, of Boston. With Professors E. A.

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Park and D. L. Furber he edited See also:Hymns and Choirs (186o), and with Professor Park and See also:Lowell See also:Mason The See also:Sabbath Hymn See also:Book (1859). The Still See also:Hour (1859), a See also:summary of a See also:series of sermons on See also:prayer, is a devotional classic. His other See also:works are: The New See also:Birth (1867), portraying See also:conversion (in some instances) as a See also:gradual See also:change; Sabbath See also:Hours (1874); Studies of the Oid Testament (1878) ; Men and Books (1882) ; My See also:Portfolio (1882) ; My Study (1885); and My See also:Note Book (189o). See Austin Phelps: A Memoir (New York, 1891), by his daughter, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps-See also:Ward.

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