Thompson, August us Charles

D.D. (Amherst College, Ma ., 1860), Congregationalist; b. at Goshen, Litchfield County, Conn., April 30, 1812; educated at Yale College, New Haven, Conn., with the cla of 1835, but did not graduate graduated from the Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn., 1838; studied at the University of Berlin, 183S-39; ordained at Eliot Church, Roxbury, Ma ., July 27, 1842; now senior pastor. He was a ociated with Rev. Dr. Ruf us Anderson in a deputation to the mi ions of the A. B. C. F. M. in India, 1854-55; with Rev. Dr. N. G. Clark, as a delegate to the Mi ionary Conference in London, Eng., 1878; lecturer on foreign mi ions at And over Theological Seminary (Ma .), 1877-80; at the Boston University (Ma .), 1882; and at Hartford Theological Seminary (Conn.), 1885-86. He is the author of Songs in the Night, Boston, 1845,- Young Martyrs, 2d ed. 1848; Lambs Fed, 1849 (translated into Mahrathi, Bombay, 1853); Last Hours, 1851; Poor Widow, 1854 (translated into Tamil, Jaffna, Ceylon, 1855); The Better Land, 1854 (republished Edinburgh 1865, new ed. 1869); The Yoke in Youth, 1856; Gathered Lilies, 1858 Eliot Sabbath-school Memorial, 1859; Morning Hours in Patmos, 1860; Lyra Ccelestis, 1863; The Mercy Seat, 1863 (republished London, 1864); Our Little Ones, 1867; Chrislus Consol at or, 1867; Seeds and Sheaves, 1868; Discourse Commemorative ofRev. Rufus Anderson, DD., 1880; Moravian Mi ions, New York, 1882; Happy New Year, 1883; Future Probation and Foreign Mi ions, 1886; various sermons, addre es, and articles in sundry periodicals.