Dexter, Henry Martyn

D.D. (Iowa College, 1865), S.T.D. (Yale, 1880), Congregationalist; b. at Plympton, Ma ., Aug. 13, 1821; graduated at Yale College 1840, and at And over Theological Seminary 1844; became pastor at Manchester, N.H., 1844; in Boston, 1849 (also editor of The Congregationalist 1851-66, and of The Congregational Quarterly, 1859-66); resigned pastoral charge to be editor of The Congregationalist and Recorder, 1867. From 1877 to 1880 he was lecturer on Congregationalism at And over Theological Seminary; since 1869 he has been member of the American Antiquarian and Ma achusetts Historical Societies, since 1884 of the American Historical A ociation. Besides contributions to The New-Eng lander, The New-England Historic- Genealogical Register, The British Quarterly, the Memorial History of Boston, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Schaff'-Hei-zog, etc., he has written The Moral Influence of Manufacturing Towns, And over, 1848; The Temperance Duties of the Temperate, Boston, 1850; Our National Condition and its Remedy, 1856; The Voice of the Bible the Verdict of Reason, 1858; Street Thoughts, 1859; Twelve Discourses, 1860; What Ought to be Done with the Freedmen and the Rebels'? 1865; Congregationalism: What it is, Whence it is, How it Works, Why it is better than any other Form of Church Government; and its Consequent Demands, 1865, 5th ed. 1879; The Verdict of Reason upon the Question of the Future Punishment of Those who Die Impenitent, 1865; Mauri's Relation, 1865; Church's Philip's War (both edited with notes), 1865; The Spread of the Gospel in the City among the Poor toho habitually neglect the Sanctuary, 1866; Church's Eastern Expeditions (edited with notes), 1867; A Glance at the Ecclesiastical Councils of New England, 1867; The Church Polity of the Pilgrims the Polity of the New Testament, 1870; Pilgrim Memoranda, 1870; As to Roger Williams, and his " Banishment " from the Ma achusetts Colony, 1876, 2d ed. 1877; The Congregationalism of the last Three Hundred Years, as seen in its Literature: with Special Reference to Certain Recondite, Neglected, or Disputed Pa ages: with a Bibliographical Appendix, New York, 1880; A Handbook of Congregationalism, Boston, 1880; Roger Williams's Christenings make not Christians: a Long-lost Tract recovered and exactly reprinted, and edited, Providence, 1881; The True Story of John Smyth, the Se-Baptist, as told by himself and his Contemporaries, with an Inquiry whether dipping were a new Mode of Baptism in England in or about 1641.' and some consideration of the historical value of certain extracts from the alleged " Ancient Records" of the Baptist Church of Epworth, Crowle and Butter wick, England, lately published, and claimed to suggest important modifications of the history of the seventeenth century; with collections toward a bibliography of the first two generations: of the Baptist controversy, 1881; Common Sense as to Woman Suffrage, 1885.