Burrell, David James

BURRELL, DAVID JAMES: Reformed (Dutch); b. at Mount Pleasant, Pa., Aug. 1, 1844. He was educated at Yale University (B.A., 1867) and Union Theological Seminary (1870), and after serving as a missionary in Chicago for four years, held successive pastorates at the Second Presbyterian Church, Dubuque, Ia. (1876–87), Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, Minn. (1887–91), and the Marble Collegiate Church, Manhattan, New York City (since 1891). Since 1903 he has also been acting professor of homiletics in Princeton Theological Seminary. He has been on the board of regents of the Theological Seminary of the Northwest, Bennett Female Seminary, Elmira Female College, and McCormick Theological Seminary; and is at present a member of the board of managers of the American Tract Society, the Pan-Presbyterian Council, and the American Sabbath Union; president of the New York State Sabbath Association, a vice-president of the National Temperance Society, and of the Evangelical Alliance; and a trustee of the United Society of Christian Endeavor and the Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church. He is also a member of the New York and Pennsylvania Historical Societies. In theology he is a conservative. He has written: The Religions of the World (Philadelphia, 1888); Hints and Helps (3 vols., New York, 1891–93); Gospel of Gladness (1892); Morning Cometh (1893); Religion of the Future (1894); Spirit of the Age (1895); For Christ's Crown and Covenant (1896); The Golden Passional (1897); The Early Church (1897); The Wondrous Cross (1898); God and the People (1899); The Gospel of Certainty (London, 1899); The Unaccountable Man (Chicago, 1900); The Church in the Fort (1901); The Wonderful Teacher (1902); The Verities of Jesus (New York, 1903); Christ and Progress (1903); Teachings of Jesus Concerning the Scriptures (1904); Christ and Men (1906); The Wayfarers of the Bible (1906); and The Evolution of a Christian (1906).