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Thompson, Joseph Parrish

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an eminent congregational clergyman of New York city, pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in 1845-71, and from 1872 a resident in Berlin, Germany. He was the author of The Theology of Christ; Man in Genesis and Geology; Lectures to Young Men; Church and State in the United States; The United States as a Nation; Egypt Past and Present; The Workman:

His False Friends and His True Friends; Life of Christ; American Comments on European Questions; Christianity and Emancipation; and The Holy Comforter.

He died Sept. 20, 1879, in Berlin, Germany.