Church, Pharceflus

D.D. (Madison University, N.Y., 1847), Baptist; b. at Seneca, near Geneva, Ontario County, N.Y., Sept. 11, 1801; educated for the ministry at Hamilton, N.Y.; became pastor at Poultnev, Vt., 1825; in Providence, R.I. (Central Church), 1828; in New Orleans, La., 1834; of the First Church, Rochester, N.Y., 1835; of the Bowdoin-square Church, Boston, Ma ., 1848; resigned in consequence of disease induced by many years of exciting evangelistic labors, 1852; was occasional supply of destitute churches in Montreal and Williams burg; from 1855 to 1865 was editor and proprietor of The New-York Chronicle, merged in The Examiner (1865); since 1870 he has lived in retirement at Tarry town, N.Y. He was baptized in Lake Ontario, June, 1815. During 1848 he devoted himself to the movement which gave being to the Rochester University and Theological Seminary. In 1846 he attended the Evangelical Alliance meeting in London, and was shipwrecked on his way home, on the coast of Ireland, and compelled to return to Liverpool. He is the author of The Philosophy of Benevolence, New York, 1836; Religious Di ensions, their Cause and Cure (prize e ay of $200), 1838; Addre at the dedication of Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y., 1838; Antioch, or the Increase of Moral Power in the Church, 1842; Pentecost (sermon to the Mi ionary Union at Albany), 1843; Memoir of Theodosia Dean (wife of Dr. William Dean, mi ionary to China), Boston, 1850; Map let on, or More Work for the Maine Law (a temperance tale), Montreal, 1853; Seed Truths (written in Bonn on the Rhine), 1870; and of many articles in periodicals.