American author, born at Philadelphia, on the 7th of August 1819. He was a graduate of Yale and the Andover Theological Seminary; was for many years pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, New York, and aided in establishing the Brooklyn Independent, New Englander, and other journals, to which he was a frequent contributor. He was the author of Biblical works, and wrote for the North American Review, and several other secular periodicals. In 1852–53 he traveled in Egypt, Palestine, and other oriental countries, studying especially Egyptology; became a resident of Berlin, Germany, in 1872. Among his publications are Lectures to Young Men (1846); Egypt, Past and Present (1856); Christianity and Emancipation (1863); Man in Genesis and Geology (1869); Church and State in the United States (1870); and The Workman: His False Friends and His True Friends (1879). He died in Berlin on the 20th of September 1879.
