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Deems, Charles Force

clergyman, college president, author, was born Dec. 4, 1820, in Baltimore, Md. He was a methodist clergyman, prominent for many years in New York city as pastor of the Church of the Strangers. He was president of several different colleges in the south. He was the author of Triumphs of Peace, and Other Poems; Home Altar; Twelve College Sermons; Life of Dr.

Adam Clarke; Devotional Melodies; Weights and Wings; The Light of the Nations; The Gospel of Common Sense as Contained in the Epistle of James; The Gospel of Spiritual Insight; A Scotch Verdict in Re-Evolution; My Septuagint, which comprise the larger number of his writings. He died in 1893.

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