Park, Edwards Amasa

D.D. (Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma ., 1844); b. at Providence, R.I., Dec. 29, 1808; graduated at Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1826; at And over (Ma .) Theological Seminary, 1831; was pastor at Brain tree, Ma ., 1831-33; profe or of mental and moral philosophy at Amherst College, Ma ., 1835-36; profe or of sacred rhetoric at And over (Ma .) Theological Seminary, 1836-47; profe or of Christian theology at And over, 1847-81. He held a profe orship at A 173 ndover forty-five years. In theology he has adopted the tenets set forth in the creed of And over Theological Seminary (see article " And over Theological Seminary," Schaff- Herzocj Encyclopcedia, vol. i., pp. 81, 82). These articles are often called " New-England Theology " (see Encyclopaedia, vol. ii., pp. 1634-1638). In 1842- 43 he spent sixteen months in Switzerland and Germany. In 1862-63 he spent the larger part of sixteen months in Germany. In 1869-70 he spent about sixteen months in England, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. He began to write for the religious periodicals in 1828. Since that time he has written for The A merican Quarterly Register, The Spirit of the Pilgrims, American Quarterly Observer, American Biblical Repository, The Congregational Quarterly, Christian Review, Bibliotheca Sacra, Smith's Dictionary of the Bible (American edition), McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, Schaff-Herzog Encyclopcedia. In 1844 Profe or B. B. Edwards and Profe or Park founded the Bibliotheca Sacra: Profe or Edwards was editor-in-chief from 1844 to 1851; Profe or Park was editor-in-chief from 1851 till 1884. Thus he was an editor of the work for forty years, and was concerned in the publication of forty volumes. He has published sixteen pamphlets. Among these are: a Memorial of Rev. Charles B. Storrs, D.D., president of Western Reserve College (Boston, 1833); of Profe or Moses Stuart (And over, 1852); Profe or B. B. Edwards (And over, 1852); Rev. Joseph S. Clark, D.D. (Boston, 1861); Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., pastor at Brain tree, Ma . (Boston, 1874); Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, D.D. (And over, 1878); Rev. Leonard Woods, D.D., LL.D., president of Bowdoin College (And over, 1880). His last pamphlet was on The A ociate Creed of And over Theological Seminary (Boston, 1883, pp. 98). He was one of the editors and translators of Selections from German Literature, And over, 1839 edited The. Writings of Rev. William Bradford (to which he wrote an introduction of thirty-six pages), 1845; The Writings of Profe or B. B. Edwards (to which was prefixed a memoir of 370 pages), Boston, 1853; published a Memoir of the Life and Character of Samuel Hopkins, D.D., 1852, 2d ed. 1854 (which was also prefixed to the works of Dr. Hopkins). In connection with Profe or Austin Phelps, D.D., and Dr. Lowell Mason, he compiled and edited The Sabbath Hymn-Book, New York, 1858 (between the years 1858 and 1866, with the appendages of tunes for congregational worship, it reached a circulation of about 120,000); in connection with the Hymn Book he, with Drs. Austin Phelps and Daniel L. Furber, published a volume entitled Hymns and Choirs, And over, 1860 (of this work, an e ay of sixty-one pages on The Text of Hymns was written by Profe or Park). He edited The Atonement, Discourses and Treatises by Edwards, Smalley, Maxcy, Emmons, Griffin, Barge, and Weeks, With an Introductory E ay [of eighty pages], Boston, 1860; wrote a Memoir of Nathanael Emmons, 1861 (which was prefixed to the theological works of Dr. Emmons in 6 vols. 8vo.). His last publication is a volume of fourteen Discourses on some Theological Doctrines as related to the Religious Character, And over, 1885.