The Institutional Church; A Primer in Pastoral Theology
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Edward Judson was an American Baptist clergyman. He also was a popular professor on Baptist principles and pastoral polity at Union Theological Seminary and University of Chicago.
Background
Edward was born on December 27, 1844 in Maulmain, Burma. His parents were Adoniram Judson and Sarah (Hall) Boardman Judson. Left motherless when only a few months old, he was cared for temporarily in the home of Edward A. Stevens, one of his father's colleagues, and then by his stepmother, Emily Chubbuck Judson.
Upon the death of his father in 1850 the family went to America, where Edward, not quite seven, saw for the first time two older brothers and a sister. Most of the remaining years of his boyhood were spent in Hamilton, New York. After his stepmother's death, he lived for some time in the home of Dr. Ebenezer Dodge.
Education
Judson was prepared for college in the academy at Hamilton. Later, he spent one year at Madison (now Colgate) University, then transferred to Brown University, where he was graduated in 1865, ranking high in scholarship.
Career
Having served two years as principal of Leland and Gray Seminary at Townshend, he returned to Madison University, first as instructor in languages and from 1868 to 1874 as professor of Latin and modern languages.
Following a year of study and travel abroad with his wife, in 1875 he became pastor of the North Orange Baptist Church, Orange, New Jersey. Here he found a most congenial field, in a community of wealth and refinement, where he could expect considerate treatment and great opportunity for the enjoyment of the quiet tastes of his mind and his spirit. He was much impressed, however, by the religious needs of great cities, being particularly aware of the necessity for readjustment in the relations of the down-town city church with its immediate community. Because of his interest in this problem he accepted, in 1881, the call of the Berean Baptist Church in New York, at a salary of only $1, 000, far less than he was receiving at Orange. This sacrificial act, which attracted attention and brought some financial support to the enterprise, was only the beginning of the continued self-sacrifice.
In 1890 the church moved into the Judson Memorial, on Washington Square, one of the first institutional church buildings in the country. For about ten years the senior class from Colgate Theological Seminary spent its winter term in New York under his instruction. He contributed a monograph, "The Church in its Social Aspect, " to the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1907. He lectured on pastoral theology at the University of Chicago, 1904-06, and on Baptist principles and polity at Union Theological Seminary, 1906-08 - he was offered several professorships.
In 1883 he published a biography of his father, The Life of Adoniram Judson, and in 1892, with C. S. Robinson, he edited The New Laudes Domini.
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Views
Judson believed that upon the local church must remain the primary responsibility for meeting the needs of individuals and of groups in its own community.
Personality
Edward was a gifted as a teacher. He had a wide knowledge of the best in literature and a memory rich in its store of poetry.
A man of quiet demeanor, with humor now sparkling and now subtle, he was a charming personality; association with him was both delightful and memorable.
Connections
In 1871, he married Ellen Antoinette Barstow, daughter of the Congregational minister at Lebanon, New York.