The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . duties in this line extendover the American continent,embracing Mexico and under his manage-ment the department has con-structed about seventy - fivechurch
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . duties in this line extendover the American continent,embracing Mexico and under his manage-ment the department has con-structed about seventy - fivechurches a year. He lias goneover, personally, the entire field east of the Rockymountains, made fifteen trips into Mexico, andvisited the chief European cities. The society overwhich he presides is composed of 3,000,000 mem-bers, who contribute about $500,000 for variedmissionary labor. He writes for denominationalpapers of the best standing, and gives the churchtlie benefit of his commercial skill. In 1880 he re-ceived the degree of from Baylor Pope is a member of the Calvary Baptist York city. In business he is thoroughly efii-cient, steadily accumulating capital. In the pulpithe is ready and forcible; his writings exhibit concisepresentation of his thought. His powers of endur-ance, sanguine temperament, and genial disposition,added to his mental skill, are traits well adapted to. iP, t^.^^,^/uL. ensure success. RICE, Willard Martin, clergyman, was bornin Lowville, Lewis county, N. Y., Aiir. 30, 1817. ,He was graduated from Wesleyan university in 1837,was tutor there for three years, and then establisheda classical school in Philadelphia. Having studiedtheology privately, he was, in October, 1858, or-dained pastor of the Moyamensing churcli. In 1863he was transferred to the Fourth Presbyterian church,and in 1874 to Berwyn, Chester county, Pa. Thischarge he resigned in October, 1876, and has sincelived in Philadelphia, devoting himself to the workof
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