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Seiss, Joseph Augustus

clergyman, author, was born March 18, 1823, in Graceham, Md. He is an eminent lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, pastor of the Church of the Holy Communion, and a voluminous writer on religious themes. He is the author of The Gospel in the Stars; The Miracle in Stone, a restatement of Piazzi Smyth's famous theory of the Pyramid; Lectures on the Apocalypse; Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews; Luther and the Reformation; The Lutheran Church; Recreation Songs; Life After Death; Right Life; The Children of Silence, the Story of the Deaf; Christ's Descent into Hell; The Last Times; and Voices from Babylon.