[George Whitefield]. American theologian and art critic, born in Harvard, MA, on the 29th of September 1819; graduated at Brown University in 1839; at Newton Theological Institute in 1843; was pastor of a Baptist church at Washington, District of Columbia; president of Columbia College, District of Columbia, (1859–71); of Rutgers College for Girls (1871–79), and pastor at Harlem. He traveled extensively in the East, and published his impressions in 1848. Among his other works are To Daimonion, or the Spiritual Medium (1852); Spiritualism Tested, a revised edition of the former (1860); Outlines of the History of Ethics (1860); Elements of Art Criticism (1867); Physical Media in Spiritual Manifestations (1869); The Atonement Viewed as Assumed Divine Responsibility (1878); The English Revisers’ Greek Text Shown to be Unauthorized Except by Egyptian Copies Discarded by Greeks (1882); Guide to Bible Interpretation (1887); Tested Truths as to Relations of Capital and Labor (1890); Classic Text of Authorship: Authenticity of Authorship Applied to the Old and New Testament Scriptures (1893).
