Edward Norris Kirk

Edward Norris Kirk

Dr. Edward Norris Kirk was a Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist and writer in the Presbyterian, Congregational and revivalist traditions in the USA. He founded the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany, New York, and later served as the first pastor of Mount Vernon Congregational church, Boston, from 1842 to 1871, where his teaching led to the conversion of renowned evangelist Dwight L. Moody.

Life

Kirk was educated at Princeton Theological Seminary under Dr. Archibald Alexander, and after graduating worked as an agent for the "Board of Foreign Missions". In 1827 he was appointed assistant pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Albany, New York, where William Sprague later ministered, and in 1828 he organized the Fourth Presbyterian church in Albany, after controversy at Second church resulted in a church division partly due to the revivalism techniques then being popularized by Charles Grandison Finney. With Dr. Nathan S.S. Beman of Troy, New York, Kirk established a training school which taught theology for aspiring evangelists. After a time preaching in London and Paris, Kirk returned to the USA and took up the pastorate at Mount Vernon which he held for nearly 30 years.

Works

Dr. Edward Norris Kirk was author of the following publications;
*"Memorial of the Reverend John Chester, D.D." (Albany, 1829)
*"Lectures on Christ's Parables" (New York, 1856)
*"Sermons" (2 vols., 1840; Boston, 1860)
*"Canon of the Holy Scriptures" (abridged, 1862)
*Translations of Gaussen's "Inspiration of the Scriptures" (New York, 1842)" and Jean Frederic Astie's "Lectures on Louis XIV. and the Writers of his Age" (Boston. 1855).
*"Lectures on Revivals ", edited by Reverend Daniel O. Mears (Boston, 1874).


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