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Tyng, Stephen Higginson

clergyman, author, was born March 1, 1800, in Newburyport, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city; rector of St. George's church in 1844-85; and long prominent among low churchmen.

He was the author of The Christian Pastor; Family Commentary on the Gospels; Lectures on the Law and the Gospel; The Israel of God; Christ is All; The Rich Kinsman, the history of Ruth; The Prayer Book Illustrated by Scripture; The Captive Orphan; Esther the Queen of Persia; and Forty Years' Experience in Sunday Schools. He died Sept. 4, 1885, in Irvington, N. Y.