Paine, Timothy Otis

LL.D. (Colby University, Waterville, Me., 1875), New-Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgian); b. at Winslow, Kennebec County, Me., Oct. 13, 1824; graduated at Waterville College (now Colby University), Me., 1847. Since 1856 he has been pastor of the Swedenborgian Church at Elmwood, Plymouth County, Ma . since July 3, 1866 (the date of its o 172 rganization), teacher of Hebrew in the theological school of the General Convention of the New Jerusalem Church in the United States, now located at Boston, Ma . " In all these thirty years he can hardly be said to have taken vacations, or made exchanges with ministers; working through summer, autumn, winter, and spring, again and again, with only one end never for a day out of view, trying to answer the one question: How did the holy forms described in the Scriptures look? He began his study before 1847, but received the first leading thought on the sabbath afternoon of Dec. 26, 1852." He is the author of Solomon's Temple, or the Tabernacle; The First Temple; House of the King, or House of the Forest of Lebanon; Idolatrous High Places; The City on the Mountain (Rev. xxi.); The Oblation of the Holy Portion; and The Last Temple (with 21 plates of 61 figures, accurately copied by the lithographer from careful drawings, made by the author), Boston, 1861; Solomon's Temple and Capitol, Ark of the Flood and Tabernacle, or The Holy Houses of the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Samaritan, Sepluagint, Coptic, and Itala Scriptures (with 42 full plates and 120 text-cuts,, being photographic reproductions of the original drawings made by the author), Boston and New York, 1885.