Gardiner Spring (1785–1873)
Autore di Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character
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Gardiner Spring was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1785, the son of Samuel Spring, a Congregational minister of some note, and graduated from Yale in 1805. After teaching in Bermuda for a brief time, he attended Andover Theological Seminary, a school which his father had helped to found. In mostra altro 1810, the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York City was looking for a pastor. Their first call to a minister from New Jersey had been rejected. They then looked for regular pulpit supply, inviting among others the renowned Lyman Beecher, but this too was unsuccessful. A few in the congregation had heard a young candidate for the ministry named Gardiner Spring preach in a nearby church, and were quite impressed. He was invited to fill the pulpit for three weeks by the session of the Brick Presbyterian Church. After his first sermon, the session and the congregation voted unanimously to call him as their pastor, a love relationship which lasted 62 years mostra meno
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Opere di Gardiner Spring
The Power of the Pulpit: Thoughts Addressed to Christian Ministers and Those Who Hear Them (1986) 82 copie
Memoir of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills;: Late missionary to the south western section of the United States, and agent of… (1820) 5 copie
The Bible Not of Man; or The Argument for the Divine Origin of the Sacred Scriptures, Drawn from the Scriptures… (1847) 3 copie
Plea To Pray For Pastors 1 copia
Noah (booklet) 1 copia
The Apostle Peter (booklet) 1 copia
Balaam (booklet-water damage) 1 copia
The Three Powers (booklet) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1785
- Data di morte
- 1873-08-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- clergy
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Utenti
- 521
- Popolarità
- #47,687
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 39
- Lingue
- 1