[Arthur Tappan]. American clergyman, born in New York City, on the 6th of March 1837; graduated at Hamilton College in 1857, and at the Union Theological Seminary in 1860; was pastor of Congregational churches, and then of Presbyterian churches, becoming pastor of the church at Bethany, Philadelphia, in 1883, after which he supplied the Metropolitan Tabernacle, the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon’s church, London, 1891–93, and was Duff lecturer in 1892. He published Many Infallible Proofs (1886, 1889); The Crisis of Missions (1886); Evangelistic Work in Principle and Practice (1887); Keys to the Word (1887); edited The Inspired Word (1887); and The Divine Enterprise of Missions (1891); The Miracles of Missions (1891); The Heart of the Gospel (1891); The Divine Art of Preaching (1892); The New Acts of the Apostles (1894); and was editor of The Missionary Review of the World.
