Rice, Edwin Wilbur
clergyman, editor, author, was born July 24, 1831, near Gloversville, N. Y. He received a thorough education at the Kingsboro academy and the academy of Little Falls, N. Y. He studied theology at the Union "Theological seminary of New York city, and was ordained in 1860 at La Crosse, Wis., where he had previously been engaged in educational work. He has been the editor-in-chief of the American Sunday School union since 1878. He had served as a missionary of the union in the northwest, as superintendent of an important district, and as assistant secretary of missionary work. He knew by personal observation what teachers and pupils needed, and few men could have met the need so ably. The Scholars' Handbook; the Lesson Leaves; and the first Sunday School Quarterly ever issued, besides fifteen exhaustive works of larger scope, two of which we have already mentioned, are evidences of his devotion and capacity in service.