Cheever, George Ban-ell

D.D. (New-York University, 1844), Congregatioualist; b. at Hallo well, Me., April 17, 1807; graduated at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1825, and at And over Theological Seminary, 1830. He was pastor of the Howard-street (Congregational) Church, Salem, Ma ., 1833-36; in Europe, 1836-38; pastor of the AJlen-street Presbyterian Church, New-York City, 1839-44; editor of The New- York Evangelist, 1845; pastor of the (Congregational) Church of the Puritans, New York, 1846-70; since 1871 has lived in Englewood, N.J., without pastoral charge. He distinguished himself by the advocacy of total abstinence and of the abolition of slavery. Of his numerous writings may be mentioned, Inquire at Amos Giles's Distillery, Salem, 1835 (this attack upon drink led to his being tried for libel, and imprisoned for thirty days); God's Hand in America, New York, 1841; Lectures on Hierarchical Despotism, 1842; Lectures on The Pilqrim's Progre , 1843; Journal and Diary of the 'Pilgrims of Plymouth, 1848; The Hill Difficulty, with other Miscellanies, 1849; Punishment by Death: its Authority and Expediency, 1849; Windings of the River of the Water of Life, 1849; Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Alps, 1850; A Reel in a Bottle, for Jack in the Doldrums, 1850 (revised ed. under title, The Log-Book of a Voyage to the Celestial Country, 1885); Voices of Nature to her Foster- Child, the Soul of Man, 1852; Powers of the World to Come, 1853, 2d ed. 1856; Discipline of Time for Life and Immortality, 1854; Life, Genius, and Insanity of Cowper, 1856; God against Slavery, 1857; Right of the Bible in our Public Schools, 1858; Guilt of Slavery demonstrated from the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, 1860; Faith, Doubt, and Evidence, 1881; God's Timepiece for Man's Eternity, 1883.