Bowen, George

BOWEN, GEORGE: Methodist Episcopal foreign missionary; b. at Middlebury, Vt., April 30, 1816; d. in Bombay, India, Feb. b, 1888. He was graduated at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1847; was ordained by the presbytery of New York, and the same year went to Bombay under the American Board. He spent the rest of his life in that city, but severed his connection with the American Board in 1855 and was an independent missionary till 1872 when he connected himself with the Methodist Episcopal missionary society. He edited the Bombay Guardian from 1854 on; and was also the secretary of the Religious Tract Society of Bombay. By the volumes which have been made up from his writings he has helped many spiritually. They are: Daily Meditations (Philadelphia, 1865); Discussions by the Seaside (Bombay, 1857); Love revealed. Meditations on the parting words of Jesus with his disciples in John xiii. to xvii. (Philadelphia, 1872); Verily, Verily. The Amens of Christ (1879).