Round the World, Vol. 1: A Series of Letters; Europe and America (Classic Reprint)
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We have printed these letters just as they were. In a few of them there will be found some repetitions. This was inevitable, for they were written for papers published widely apart, and intended for readers in different sections of the country. But these repetitions are rather a charm than a fault, for they give greater fresh ness and vivacity to the descriptions. Besides, the language is varied, and what is repeated is told in a new way and with additional circum stances. Had we attempted to make any changes, we should have marred the whole; and had we omitted, we would have lost some of the best pages.
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Round the World, Vol. 2: A Series of Letters; Asia (Classic Reprint)
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The Resurrection of the Dead: A Vindication of the Literal Resurrection of the Human Body
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Calvin Kingsley was an American clergyman. He served as Professor of Mathematics at Allegheny College and as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Background
Calvin Kingsley was born on September 08, 1812 in Annsville, New York, United States, the oldest of twelve children. His father, Oran Kingsley, Jr. , was a native of Connecticut, and his mother, of the north of Ireland. When Calvin was about twelve years old the family moved to Ellington, Chautauqua County. His parents were not actively affiliated with any church, but here the boy came under Methodist influence, was converted, and made up his mind to get an education.
Education
Kingsley worked on the farm summers, attended school winters, and at the end of three years was employed by the trustees to teach the school. Later he taught at Randolph, Cattaraugus County. It was not until he was twenty-four that he found opportunity to go to college. With no means of support other than his hands and brains, he entered Allegheny College in 1836, eking out a bare living, first by acting as janitor, and then by cutting wood, which he found more remunerative. Twice his course was interrupted by periods of teaching. He had a keen, logical mind, and showed especial aptitude for mathematics and such science as was then taught. He graduated in 1841.
Career
In 1841 Kingsley was made instructor in mathematics at Allegheny College and was admitted to the Erie Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church on trial. In 1843 he became professor of mathematics and civil engineering. Except for the period 1843 to 1846, when the withdrawal of state aid necessitated the closing of the college, he was connected with the institution until 1856. Ordained deacon in 1843 and elder in 1845, he held preaching appointments at Saegerstown, Pennsylvania (1841), Meadville (1842), and Erie (1844 - 1846).
In 1843, first at Salem, New York, and later at Jamestown, he met in debate Luther Lee, one of the organizers of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection, the question being whether the Methodist Episcopal Church justified slavery, and in government was arbitrary and unscriptural. In Erie he took a tilt at the Universalists; in Meadville, at the Unitarians; and in 1847, having read Anastasis by George Bush, he published The Resurrection of the Dead: a Vindication of the Literal Resurrection of the Human Body: in Opposition to the Work of Professor Bush, which went through several editions.
He was a delegate from the Erie Conference to the General Conference of 1852, and had by this time become well enough known and highly enough esteemed to receive a respectable number of votes for bishop. At the succeeding General Conference (1856), he was elected editor of the Western Christian Advocate, Cincinnati. The question of slavery was causing strife and division in the Church, and Kingsley made the Advocate aggressively antislavery. He was chairman of the committee on slavery at the General Conference of 1860, and presented and ably supported the substituted chapter in the Discipline, which admonished the membership of the Church to seek the "extirpation" of slavery "by all lawful and Christian means. " Throughout the Civil War the Advocate gave strong support to the Union cause.
At the General Conference of 1864 he was elected bishop. Although he was a comparatively young man, his service was brief. He made his home in Cleveland, but his duties carried him far. In 1865 and 1866 he presided at Conferences on the Pacific Coast, and the following year attended the mission Conference in Switzerland and Germany. In 1869 he was again on the Pacific Coast, and from there went to India and China and then again to Switzerland and Germany. While on a trip to the Holy Land he died suddenly of heart disease at Beirut, where he was buried. A monument erected by American Methodists marks his grave. His account of some of his travels, Round the World: A Series of Letters, in two volumes, with a biographical sketch, was published in 1870.