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HUNTINGTON, FREDERIC DAR: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central New York; b. at Hadley, Mass., May 28, 1819; d. there July 11, 1904. He was educated at Amherst (A.B., 1839) and at Harvard Divinity School (1842). He was minister of the South Congregational Church (Unitarian), Boston, Mass. (1842-55), after which he was professor of Christian morals, as well as college preacher, at Harvard (1855-60). In 1860 he withdrew from Unitarianism and was ordered deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, being priested in 1861. He was rector of Emmanuel Church, Boston, which he had organized (1861-69), and in 1869 was consecrated bishop of Central New York. He lectured repeatedly at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., and the General Theological Seminary. Among his works mention may be made of his Lessons on the Parables of Our Saviour (Boston, 1856); Sermons for the People (1856); Christian Believing and Living (sermons; 1860); Divine Aspects of Human Society (New York, 1860); Elim: or, Hymns of Holy Refreshment (Boston, 1865); Steps to a Living Faith (New York, 1870); Helps to a Holy Lent (1872); Christ and the World (1874); New Helps to a Holy Lent (1876); Christ in the Christian Year and in the Life of Man (1878); The Fitness of Christianity to Man (1878); Sermons on the Christian Year (2 vols., 1881), and Personal Religious Life in the Ministry and in Ministering Women (1900).

Bibliography: A. S. Huntington, Memoir and Letters of F. D. Huntington, Boston, 1906.

HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM REED: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at Lowell, Mass., Sept. 20, 1838. He was educated at Harvard (A.B., 1859), where he was instructor in chemistry in 1859-60. He received his theological training privately, was ordered deacon in 1861, and priested in 1862. After being curate at Emmanuel Church, Boston, in 1861-62, he was rector of All Saints', Worcester, Mass., until 1883, when he became rector of Grace Church, New York City. He has been active in the cause of church unity and in the revival of the order of deaconesses, and was a protagonist in the movement to revise the liturgy, being secretary of the joint committee of the general convention for the enrichment and better adaptation to American needs of the Book of Common Prayer, while in 1892 he was joint editor with S. Hart of the Standard Prayer Book. His writings include: The Church Idea: An Essay toward Unity (New York, 1870); Conditional Immortality (1878); Popular Miscon-

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ceptians of the Episcopal Church (1891); The Causes of the Soul (sermons; 1891); The Peace of the Church (Bohlen lectures for 1891; 1891); Short History of the Book of Common. Prayer (1893); The Spiritual House (1895); Psyche, a Study of the Soul (1899); Four Key Words of Religion (1899); Sonnets and a Dream (1899); Theology's Eminent Domain and Other Papers (1902); and A Good Shepherd and Other Sermons, (1906).

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