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Babcock was born at Syracuse on August 3, 1858, in New York, the eldest son of Henry and Emily Maria (Maltbie) Babcock.
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Babcock was born at Syracuse on August 3, 1858, in New York, the eldest son of Henry and Emily Maria (Maltbie) Babcock.
Graduating from Syracuse University in 1879, he at once entered Auburn Theological Seminary, where he finished his course in 1882. At college he took high rank as a student, was leader of the glee club, director of the orchestra, and president of the baseball team.
Had he chosen, he could have had a successful career as a musician, for he was a singer of more than ordinary ability, and a proficient player of several instruments, among them the organ, for which he composed a number of works of merit. He wrote some excellent poetry, mostly of a religious nature, could impersonate with marked success, was clever at drawing, and had a knack with tools. Yet despite his versatility and the ease with which he seemed to do whatever he attempted, he was industrious and methodical in the extreme. As soon as he had completed his theological training, he was called to the First Presbyterian Church of Lockport, one of the most important churches in western New York. Here he was ordained by the Presbytery of Niagara, July 13, 1882.
After five years' ministry in Lockport he became pastor of the Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore, where he soon became greatly beloved for his unselfish service to all classes, and achieved a reputation as a preacher which travelled far. When in 1899 he resigned his charge to become the successor of Dr. Henry van Dyke at the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York, it was in the face of a vigorous protest from the whole city of Baltimore. His success in New York was immediate, the church was filled to the doors and even the steps of the pulpit covered with hearers. Unfortunately his ministry here was brief.
On a trip to the Holy Land in 1901 he was stricken with Mediterranean fever at Naples and taken to the International Hospital there. Some fifteen years before, in Lockport, he had suffered for six months from acute melancholia. A second attack now visited him, during which, while his nurse was out of the room, he cut the arteries of his wrists and drank corrosive sublimate.
Babcock himself published nothing, but after his death there appeared, Thoughts for Everyday Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock (containing collection of poems), edited by Katherine Tallman Babcock and Mary R. Sanford (1901); Three Whys and Their Answer (1901); Letters from Egypt and Palestine (1902); The Success of Defeat (1905); Fragments that Remain, selections from sermons, reported and arranged by Jessie B. Goetschius (1907); The Joy of Work, reprinted chapters from Fragments that Remain (1910).
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Toward the Bible and doctrine his attitude was not critical, but he presented spiritual and ethical truths with freshness and effect.
Maltbie Babcock was not a theologian, or even a deep thinker. His reasoning frequently will not stand the test of rigid logic.
His main interest was in life and the needs and possibilities of men and women and in an extraordinary degree he was able to inspire his hearers with hope, courage, and the will to overcome.
He had an agile mind, a wide range of information, dramatic ability, fluency of speech, and a magnetic personality. His physical characteristics contributed to his power. He was tall, broad-shouldered, sinewy, and graceful in form and gesture, with a face remarkably expressive of the emotions, and a voice vibrant and sympathetic. His sermons were full of original illustrations, touches of humor, which were never in bad taste, and pungent epigrams.
He was married to Katherine Eliot Tallman.
