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He was born on March 18, 1823 on his father's farm near Graceham, Frederick County, Maryland, United States, of German stock, the eldest of the four sons of John and Eliza (Schuler) Seiss.
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He was born on March 18, 1823 on his father's farm near Graceham, Frederick County, Maryland, United States, of German stock, the eldest of the four sons of John and Eliza (Schuler) Seiss.
He attended the parochial school; received additional instruction in Latin, history, and the Bible from the pastor, Ambrose Rondthaler; and was confirmed at the age of sixteen in the Moravian Church. Neither his father nor his bishop, however, would allow the boy to study for the ministry.
He left home and, with some assistance from a Lutheran clergyman, Reuben Weiser, betook himself to Gettysburg, where, for the next two years, he pursued a special course of study in Pennsylvania College and its affiliated academy. He mastered the Greek Testament and evinced literary ability, but he was compelled to interrupt his studies and teach school for a living.
At this juncture the Lutheran Synod of Virginia offered to license him if he would enter upon the work at once, and Seiss consented; he was licensed to preach when only nineteen years of age and was ordained two years later.
After a year of missionary activity at Mount Sidney and Harrisonburg, Virginia, he was pastor from 1843 to 1847 at Martinsburg and Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia), from 1847 to 1852 at Cumberland, Maryland, and from 1852 to 1858 at the Lombard Street Church in Baltimore.
His first book, Popular Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1846), was written while his coveals were still theological students, and his reputation as an eloquent preacher was already growing. While in Baltimore he published several other books, carried on a lively, urbane controversy with the Baptist clergyman, Richard Fuller, and was elected president of the Lutheran Synod of Maryland.
In 1858, when St. John's, Philadelphia, the largest English Lutheran congregation in America, sought a worthy successor to Philip Frederick Mayer, Seiss was its unanimous choice. During his pastorate of sixteen years St. John's prospered despite its location in a decaying neighborhood. In 1864-65, during a period of ill health, he visited Europe and the Near East.
Dissatisfied with the location of St. John's, he founded the Church of the Holy Communion at Broad and Arch Streets and was its pastor from 1874 until his death thirty years later. He was dowered with an astounding capacity for work.
From 1867 to 1879 he was editor of the Lutheran. He was president of the board of directors of the Philadelphia Lutheran Theological Seminary from 1865 until his death, managing its affairs with great business acumen and unremitting attention to detail.
He was in his day a noted student of eschatology, and his The Apocalypse: A Series of Special Lectures (1865) went through many editions and was translated into German and Dutch.
For several months before his death he was confined to his bed and died in 1904.
Joseph Augustus Seiss was the youngest Lutheran clergyman licensed to preach in United States. He was also one of the founders of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America. He was the most admired preacher of his denomination and its most prolific author, his publications extending to more than one hundred separate titles, besides numerous contributions to periodicals. No one else has so influenced the style and content of English Lutheran preaching. His most famous sermons: Lectures on the Gospels and Epistles for the Minor Festivals of the Church Year, The Christ and His Church, and Recent Sermons
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Seiss had the great advantage that he not only worked, but looked, like a great man. He was tall and majestic in his carriage, with a leonine head, a magnificent voice, and equally magnificent manners. A certain arbitrariness in the exercise of his power and a reserve that amounted at times to coldness prevented him from becoming a popular leader. He was more admired and feared than loved, but he was loved.
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A 1904 New York Times abstract describes Seiss as "one of the foremost men of the Church".
In 1843 he married Elizabeth Barnitz, who bore him two sons and three daughters, dying in 1900.
