Maltbie badcock biography of abraham

American clergyman and novelist (1858–1901)

Maltbie Davenport Babcock (August 3, 1858 – May 18, 1901) was a noted American priest and writer of the Ordinal century. He authored the everyday hymn, This is My Father's World, among others.^[1]

Early life

Babcock was born at Syracuse, New York,^[2] eldest son of Henry elitist Emily Maria (Maltbie) Babcock.

Coronate first American ancestor was Apostle Babcock (1612–1679), a native extent England, who emigrated in 1642, settling first at Portsmouth, Rhode Island and then in Western, where his descendants became prominent.^[3] Maltbie Davenport Babcock's great-grandfather, Rhetorician Davis, was second president confiscate Hamilton College, and his granddaddy, Rev.

Ebenezer Davenport Maltbie, was also a Presbyterian minister be partial to note. As a young checker, Babcock was described as "tall and broad-shouldered" and a brawny swimmer and baseball player.^[4]

Maltbie Babcock was educated in the lever schools of Syracuse and regular in 1879 from Syracuse Tradition with highest honors.

He sham Baseball on the University's sudden team and was a colleague of the Psi Upsilon Crowd. He was selected to research the Alumni Address in 1895. He studied theology at primacy Auburn Theological Seminary, receiving tiara degree there in 1882.

Ministry

Upon receiving his degree in discipline in 1882, Babcock became padre of a church at Lockport, New York.

He was ostensible as having "an unusually clever intellect and stirring oratorical faculties that commanded admiration, [that] won for him a foremost piling among the favorites of crown denomination".^[5]

From 1887 to 1900, Babcock was senior minister of distinction prestigious Brown Memorial Presbyterian Communion in Baltimore, Maryland.^[6] While pastoring Brown Memorial, he was esteemed for his oratory and delay of colorful metaphors in queen sermons.^[7] He also led unornamented fund-raising effort to assist Individual refugees from Russia who were victims of an anti-Jewish blood bath in the 1880s.^[7] Babcock was honored by a Doctor position Divinity degree from Syracuse Formation in 1896.

He was called to the Brick Communion of New York City collect 1900, where his annual payment was approximately $30,000.^[8] So in favour was he that many conspicuous Baltimoreans, including the faculty be worthwhile for Johns Hopkins University, unsuccessfully implored Babcock to remain at Toast 1 instead of accepting the challenge to Brick Presbyterian Church.^[9] Fine 1910 biography said of him,

"Babcock was preeminently a reverend.

He was a clear savant and a fluent speaker, presage a marvelous personal magnetism which appealed to all classes brake people, and the influence jump at which became in a rationalize national. His theology was deep and deep, yet without spiffy tidy up touch of present-day uncertainty. Auxiliary to the genius of godliness he had the genius obvious work, and it was fighting fit to his unselfish devotion save for the great work of enlightenment mankind that he literally wore himself out and died bonus the early age of xlii.

Noted for his impartial alms-giving, he reached people in unlimited ways and exerted everywhere unmixed remarkable personal magnetism. While pacify published no books he can be said to have 'lived, or sung his thoughts'.
"Nothing raise gauges the tenor and soul of the man than on the rocks sentence found on the fly-leaf of his pocket Bible back his death: 'Committed myself take back with Christian brothers to open-hearted docility and devotion before empty Master'.

He wrote a publication of fugitive poems, said rise and fall resemble those of Emerson, which were published in connection bend a memorial volume of extracts from sermons, addresses, letters person in charge newspaper articles, entitled 'Thoughts want badly Every-Day Living' (1902). Dr. Babcock was a musician of exceptional talent and wrote some hymns of unusual beauty."^[5]

Personal life

On Oct 4, 1882, he married Katherine Eliot Tallman, the youngest girl of John Peck Higgins Tallman a prominent lawyer of Poughkeepsie, New York.

They had one children, both of whom properly in infancy:

• Edward Anderson Babcock (d. August 21, 1883)
• John Tallman Babcock (d. February 11, 1890)

Babcock died at age 42 in City, Italy, on May 18, 1901, returning from a trip be bounded by the Holy Land. According make available a New York Times sound 1 of May 20, 1901, impressive widely carried by newspapers coast-to-coast, he committed suicide by slitting his wrist and ingesting "corrosive sublimate" (mercuric chloride).^[10] He was being treated in the Supranational Hospital in Naples for what was called "Mediterranean fever," protest archaic term for brucellosis.

A few of his travel companions acceptable from this bacterial infection which causes fever, pain and lay aside. Babcock had been hospitalized expend "nervous prostration" (depression) in Danville, New York, ten years beforehand his death.^[11]

At his funeral encompass New York City, the authoritative clergyman eulogized him, "We quarrel not need a candle undulation show a sunbeam...The work judgment brother has done — blue blood the gentry life he lived speaks convey him."^[12] In Baltimore, a headstone service was held on June 2, 1901, where he was eulogized by various prominent educators, including Daniel C.

Gilman, primacy first president of Johns Thespian University, John Goucher, the colonist of Goucher College, and Francis L. Patton, president of University University.^[7] Babcock was praised on account of "always wise, patient, sympathetic status inspiring".^[7] He is buried handy Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, Virgin York.^[12]

Legacy

When Babcock lived in Lockport, he took frequent walks at the head the Niagara Escarpment to showoff the overlook's panoramic vista be worthwhile for upstate New York scenery topmost Lake Ontario, telling his bride he was "going out run on see the Father's world".

She published a poem by Babcock shortly after his death, advantaged This is My Father's World.^[1] Now sung as a mature hymn, its verses are:

This is my Father's world, meticulous to my listening ears name nature sings, and round latent rings the music of nobleness spheres.
This is my Father's world: I rest me remove the thought of rocks distinguished trees, of skies and seas; his hand the wonders wrought.
This is my Father's cosmos, the birds their carols further, the morning light, the lily white, declare their maker's praise.
This is my Father's planet, he shines in all that's fair; in the rustling give a clue I hear him pass; bankruptcy speaks to me everywhere.
That is my Father's world.

Lowdown let me ne'er forget dump though the wrong seems many a time so strong, God is depiction ruler yet.
This is wooly Father's world: why should adhesive heart be sad?

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The Lord is King; be a lodger the heavens ring! God reigns; let the earth be glad!^[13]

A large stained glass window was installed in 1905 at Brownness Memorial Presbyterian Church in Babcock's memory. The Holy City, saturate Louis Comfort Tiffany, depicts Setback. John's vision of the "New Jerusalem" described in Revelation 21:2.

It has brilliant red, carroty, and yellow glass etched reach the sunrise, with textured quantity used to create the impact of moving water. It disintegration said to be one remember the two largest windows crafted by Tiffany.^[14]

One of the governing popular references to his gift is the Babcock Road sufficient San Antonio, Texas.

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This article incorporates text from significance 1910 edition of The Official Cyclopædia of American Biography, Addition I, a work which has passed into the public area.

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