- William Patton
Rev. William Patton (
23 August ,1798 inPhiladelphia ,Pennsylvania -9 September ,1879 inNew Haven ,Connecticut ), was the son of patriotRobert Patton .and father of theabolitionist William Weston Patton .Career
He graduated at
Middlebury College in 1818, and, after studying at Princeton theological seminary, was ordained. During twenty-six years of his life he waspastor of churches in New York city. From 1834 till 1837 he was secretary of the American education society. He spent the latter part of his life inNew Haven ,Connecticut , engaged in literary and ministerial work. He was the first to suggest the idea of the World's evangelical alliance, which he did in a letter to ReverendJohn Angell James , of England. in 1843. He attended the convention inLondon in August, 1846, that organized the alliance. He was a founder of the New York union theological seminary, and first proposed its establishment. He made fourteen visits toEurope between 1825 and 1879. He was an earnest opponent of slavery, and for forty years a member of the executive committee of the American home missionary society. His views on the subject of temperance were equally radical. In the pulpit he was characterized not so much by breadth and accuracy of scholarship, finish of style, or elegance of delivery, as by his strong grasp upon his subject, his simplicity, directness, aptness, and freshness. He received the degree of D. D. from theUniversity of the city of New York .Publications
Besides editing President Jonathan Edwards's work on "Revivals" and Charles G. Finney's "Lectures on Revivals" (London, 1839), preparing the American editions of "The Cottage Bible". of which over 170,000 copies were sold, and "
The Village Testament " (New York, 1833), and assisting in editing "The Christian Psalmist " (1836), he published "The Laws of Fermentation and the Wines of the Ancients" (1871); "The Judgment of Jerusalem , Predicted in Scripture, Fulfilled in History" (London, 1879); "Jesus of Nazareth" (1878); and "Bible Principles and Bible Characters" (Hartford, 1879).References
*Appletons
External links
*gutenberg|18329|name=The National Preacher, Vol. 2. No. 6., Nov. 1827, Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers
*worldcat id|id=lccn-nr90-13491
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