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Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (January 10, 1822 – February 26, 1909) was an American
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler was born on January 10, 1822, in
Presbyterian
Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...
minister and writer.
Biography
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler was born on January 10, 1822, in Aurora, Erie County, New York
Aurora is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 13,782 at the 2010 census. It is one of the "Southtowns" of Erie County and is also erroneously called "East Aurora", the name of its principal village. The town is ce ...
. His father died before he was five years old. Cuyler graduated from Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...
in 1841 and from Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton Theological Seminary (PTSem), officially The Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, is a Private university, private seminary, school of theology in Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Establish ...
in 1846. He first became a pastor in Burlington, New Jersey
Burlington is a City (New Jersey), city situated on the banks of the Delaware River in Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a suburb of Philadelphia. As of the 2020 United States census, the c ...
. Successful in reviving the flagging church, he was called in 1853 as pastor of the Market Street Dutch Reformed Church in New York City. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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in 1857. His success at the Market Street Dutch Reformed Church led to Cuyler's installation in 1860 as the pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, from which he oversaw the construction of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church a block away. Completed in 1862, the church served the largest Presbyterian congregation in the United States. Cuyler's friends and acquaintances included a staggeringly large number of other contemporary notables, including Horatius Bonar
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, Samuel Hanson Cox, Phillips Brooks
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, Horace Bushnell
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...
, Horace Greeley
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, James McCosh
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Biography
McCosh was born into a Covenanter, Covenanting family in Ay ...
, Gilbert Haven, Joseph Addison Alexander, Albert Barnes, William E. Dodge
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, Newman Hall, Richard Salter Storrs
Richard Salter Storrs (August 21, 1821 – June 7, 1900) was an American Congregational clergyman.
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Storrs was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. He bore the same name as his grandfather (1763–1819), pastor at Longmeadow, Massachusetts ...
, Philip Schaff
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Life and career
Schaff was ...
, Stephen H. Tyng, Joseph Parker (theologian), Charles Spurgeon
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, Benjamin M. Palmer, D. L. Moody
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, Charles G. Finney, President Benjamin Harrison
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, Vice President Henry Wilson
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, and Prime Minister William Gladstone
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In a career lasting over 60 years, he was Prime Minister ...
.
A theological conservative, Cuyler was also an outspoken supporter of the temperance movement
The temperance movement is a social movement promoting Temperance (virtue), temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and ...
and an avid abolitionist. In 1872, Cuyler invited Sarah Smiley, a Quaker, to be the first woman ever to preach from a Presbyterian pulpit. Besides numerous books, Cuyler wrote more than four thousand articles, mostly for the religious press.
Cuyler Gore, a park in Brooklyn, was named after him just before the turn of the 20th century. Cuyler politely declined a proposal that his statue be erected there, instead asking only that the park continue to bear his name and "be always kept as bright and beautiful with flowers as it is now."''Recollections of a Long Life'', 300-01.
Publications
Books: *''Stray Arrows'' (1851) *''Sermon on Christian Recreation and Unchristian Amusement'' (1858) *''Intellect, and How to Use it'' (1863) *''The Moral Duty in Total Abstinence'' (1871) *''Thought-Hives'' (1872) *''Heart-life'' (1871) *''Pointed Papers for the Christian Life'' (1879) *''God's Light on Dark Clouds'' (1882) *''Business in Business'' (1883) *''Wayside Springs from the Fountains of Life'' (1883) *''Right to the Point'' (1884) *''Newly Enlisted'' (1888) *''How To Be A Pastor'' (1890) By the Baker & Taylor Co. (Publisher) *''The Cedar Christian'' (1891) *''The Young Preacher'' (1893) *''Beulah-Land; or, Words of Good Cheer to the Old'' (1896) *''Mountain Tops With Jesus'' (1898) *''Well-Built: Plain Talks to Young People'' (1898) *''Recollections of a Long Life (An Autobiography)'' (1902) *''Help and Good Cheer'' (1902) *''Campaigning for Christ'' (1902) *''A Model Christian'' (1903) *''Our Christmas Tides'' (1904)See also
*Cuyler Presbyterian Church
Cuyler Presbyterian Church, also known as Cuyler Chapel and Cuyler Presbyterian Church and Parsonage, is a historic Presbyterianism, Presbyterian Church (building), church at 358–360 Pacific Street in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, New York. ...
References
External links
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