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Shields, Charles Woodruff

educator, clergyman, author, was born April 4, 1825, in New Albany, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor of the harmony of science and revealed religion at Princeton college from 1865, and active in behalf of church unity. He is the author of The Presbyterian Book of Common Prayer According to the Revision of the Westminster Divines; Philosophia Ultima, or Science of the Sciences; The Order of the Sciences; Religion and Science in Their Relations to Philosophy; Essays on Church Unity; The Historic Episcopate; The Question of Unity; and The United Church of the United States.