Lectionary Calendar
Monday, January 20th, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Encyclopedias
Stearns, Charles

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Prev Entry
STEARNE.
Next Entry
Stearns, Josiah
Resource Toolbox

Stearns, Charles,

a Unitarian minister, was born at Leominster, Mass., July 19, 1753; entered Harvard University in 1769, and graduated in 1773. Immediately upon graduation he commenced to teach, and during 1780 and 1781 he was tutor at Cambridge. He was first employed to preach at Lincoln in October 1780, over which Church he was installed. Nov. 7, 1781. In 1792 he became principal of a high school in Lincoln, which continued ten years. In 1810 he received the degree of D.D. from Harvard University. He died July 26, 1826. He published, The Ladies' Philosophy of Love (1797), a poem: Dramatic Dialogues for the Use of Schools (1798): Principles of Religion and Morality (1798; 2d ed. 1807): Sermons (1792, 1806, 1815, etc.). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8, 147.

Bibliography Information
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Stearns, Charles'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​s/stearns-charles.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile