Crafts, Wilbur Fisk

B.D., Presbyterian; b. at Fryeburg, Me., Jan. 12, 1850; graduated at Wesley an University, Middle town, Conn., 1869, and at the School of Theology, Boston (Ma .) University, 1872; was Methodist minister until 1880, his last pastorate in that denomination being Trinity, Chicago, 111.; became pastor of the Lee Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1880; and pastor of the First Union Presbyterian Church of New-York City, 1883. He has paid particular attention to Sunday-school work, and conducted the " Sunday-school Parliament " in You sand Island Park, 1876-77; spoke in many cities of Great Britain in connection with the centennial of Sunday schools (1880). He is a vice president of the National Temperance Society. Besides numerous articles he has written Through the Eye to the Heart, New York, 1873; Childhood the Textbook of the Age, Boston, 1875 (Mrs. Crafts joint author of both; the latter appeared in enlarged form as a subscription-book under the title, The Coming Man is the Present Child, Chicago, 1879); The Bible and the Sunday School, Toronto, 1876, Chicago, 1878; The Rescue of Child Soul, London, 1880; Plain Uses of the Blackboard, 1880, New York, 1881; Teachers' Edition of the Revised Version of the New Testament, New York, 1881 Talks to Boys and Girls about Jesus, 1881; Must the Old Testament go? Boston, 1883; Succe ful Men of To-day, New York, 1883 (38th you sand, 1885); Rhetoric made Racy, Chicago, 1884 (Prof. H. F. Fisk joint author); The Sabbath for Man, New York, 1885 (3d you sand in second month); What the Temperance Century has made Certain, 1885; Pocket Le on Notes, 1886 (Mrs. Crafts joint author)