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FRANCIS NATHAN PELOUBET

Congregationalist; born in New York City December 2, 1831; raised in New Jersey. He was educated at Williams College in Massachusetts, taught for a year, and Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine where he got his divinity degree. At this time he was thinking about service in India. For several months he did study the Tamil language. He then held Massachusetts pastorates at Gloucester 1857-1859 (where he married Miss Mary Abby Thaxter), Oakham 1860-1865, Attleboro 1866-1871 and Natick 1872-1884. After 26 years of service, he retired from active ministry in 1884. Since 1884 was engaged as an editor of Sunday School literature. In theology he is a liberal conservative.

He did take time out of 26 years of ministry to serve with the Civil War Commission, which aided soldiers on the battlefields.

He is the author of Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons (36 vols., partly with his wife and Amos Russel Wells); Sunday School quarterlies in three grades; Suggestive Illustrations on the New Testament (3 vols., John, Acts, and Matthew); Loom of Life; The Teacher's Commentary (2 vols., Matthew and Acts); The Front Line of the Sunday School Movement; The Book of Jo, the Problem of the Ages; and Gates to the Prayer Country. He also edited a revision of W. Smith's abridged Bible Dictionary and Select Songs for the Sunday School (2 vols).

Died in 1920.


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