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Barnes, Albert

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 1, 1798, in Rome, N. Y.

Rome, N. Y.

He was a leader of new school presbyterian thought and an able scriptural commentator. He was a clergyman of Philadelphia, and was at one time tried for heresy. He was the author of Notes on the New Testament; Scriptural Views of Slavery; The Atonement; Life at Three Score; Prayers for Worship; Family and Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century. He died Dec. , 1870, in Philadelphia, Pa.

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