Life And Time. A Birth-day Memorial Of Seventy Years. With Memories And Reflections For The Aged And The Young
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Colleges religious institutions: a discourse delivered in the Park Presbyterian Church, Newark, N.J., Oct. 29, 1851 before the Society for the ... and Theological Education at the West
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Sprinkling, the Only Mode of Baptism Made Known in the Scriptures; And the Scripture Warrant for Infant Baptism
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Absalom Peters was an American Presbyterian clergyman, editor and author.
Background
He was born on September 19, 1793 in Wentworth, New Hampshire, United States, the fourth son of Gen. Absalom Peters, a Revolutionary veteran, and his wife Mary (Rogers) Peters. His first American ancestor in the paternal line was Andrew Peters, whose name appears in Boston records as early as 1659, while his mother's family claimed descent from Rev. John Rogers who was burned at Smithfield in 1555.
Education
He studied at common school and at Dartmouth College, where he was graduated in 1816. Later he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Career
Absalom became a teacher at sixteen. In 1819 he began preaching at the First Congregational Church, Bennington, and was ordained there by the Troy Presbytery in 1820.
His Bennington pastorate continued till December 14, 1825, when he became secretary of the United Missionary Society of New York, an interdenominational agency working mainly in that state. He traveled about 75, 000 miles, largely under difficult frontier conditions, planted many churches, wrote all the society's annual reports, and from 1828 to 1836 edited the Home Missionary and Pastor's Journal. During these years occurred the formation of the Old and New School parties in the Presbyterian Church, leading up to the schism of 1837.
Peters was one of the leading clerical founders, was a member of several important committees and chairman of the one which drew up the constitution. He was also a director of the Union Theological Seminary from its foundation in 1836 to 1842.
In 1837 he retired from his secretaryship to engage in literary pursuits. He became editor of the American Biblical Repository, a quarterly, in 1838, and in 1841 founded the bi-monthly American Eclectic. In 1842 he became financial agent for Union Seminary and the same year was appointed professor extraordinary of homiletics, pastoral theology, and church government. Relinquishing all his work in New York in 1844, he became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Williamstown, Massachussets.
Though not formally dismissed till 1857, he spent much of his time during the latter years of his pastorate in duties devolving upon him as financial agent for Williams College, of which he was a trustee from 1845 till his death, and the presidency of which he had declined in 1836. From 1856 he lived in New York, edited the American Journal of Education and College Review, and did much preaching and writing.
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Religion
Peters was a Calvinist, but of the more liberal, or New England, type and naturally took his place on the New School side.
Personality
Never seeking controversy, he did not shirk it when it appeared to be his duty. He had great skill in debate.
Connections
On October 25, 1819, he married Harriet Hinckley Hatch, daughter of Reuben Hatch of Norwich. Of their seven children, three sons and two daughters survived their parents.