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CHAMBERLAIN, LEANDER TROWBRIDGE: American Presbyterian; b. at West Brookfield, Mass., Sept. 26, 1837. He was graduated at Yale in 1863, and from 1863 to 1867 was attached to the Pacific Squadron of the United States Navy. During this period he made explorations in the Inca civilization of ancient Peru. He studied theology at Andover 1867-69, and was pastor of the New England Congregational Church, Chicago, 1869-76, of the Broadway Congregational Church, Norwich, Conn., 1876-83, and of the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, 1883-90. Since 1890 he has had no charge. He was the first United States representative secretary of the McCall Mission of France, a delegate to the Centennial of Sunday-schools in London in 1880, and a delegate of the General Assembly of the United States to the Pan-Presbyterian Council in the same city in 1888, a founder of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, a representative of the United States Evangelical Alliance to the General Conference of Evangelical Alliances in Florence, Italy, in 1891. He is also president of the Evangelical Alliance for the United States, of the Philafrican Liberator's League, and of the Thessalonica Agricultural and Industrial Institute, Macedonia; secretary and treasurer of the American and Foreign Christian Union; vice-chairman of the national committee on arbitration between the United States and other countries; custodian and patron of the collection of gems in the National Museum, Washington; and curator of Eocene mollusca in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. In theology he is a Calvinistic Presbyterian. He has written: A Short History of the English Bible (Norwich, Conn., 1881); Citizen's Manual (New York, 1898); The State, Its Origin, Nature, and Functions (1898); The Colonial Policy of the United States (1899); Patriotism and the Moral Law (1900); Evolutionary Philosophy (1901); Government not Founded in Force (1904); The Suffrage and Majority Rule (1904); and The True Doctrine of Prayer (1906).
CHAMBERS, TALBOT WILSON: Reformed (Dutch); b. at Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 25, 1819; d.
in New York Feb. 3, 1896 He was graduated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., 1834. He studied at New Brunswick and Princeton Theological seminaries, became minister of the Second Reformed (Dutch) Church of Raritan, at Somerville, N. J., 1839, and one of the ministers of the Collegiate Reformed (Dutch) Church of New Y:>rk in 1849 and continued there till his death. He vas a leader in his denomination, was president of its General Synod in 1863, and for the eight years preceding his death was president of its Board of Foreign Missions; he was one of the organizers of the Presbyterian Alliance (q.v.) and chosen its president in 1892 and expected to preside over its sixth general council (1896). He was a member (from 1881) and president (from 1892) of the Executive Committee of the American Tract Society; chairman of the Committee on Versions of the American Bible Society; and member of the Old Testament company of the American Bible Revision Committee, being tht only pastor in the Old Testament company. Besides many sermons, addresses, and miscellaneous' articles, he published: The Noon Prayer Meeting Fulton Street, New York (New York, 1858); Mem oir of the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen (1863* The Psalter : a Witness to the Divine Origin of t>, Bible, Vedder lectures at New Brunswick, 187 (1876); and A Companion to the Revised Old Testamei (1885). He was editor of The Presbyterian an Reformed Review and of the earlier Princeton Rt view ; translated and edited Schmoller on the Boo' of Amos and prepared the Book of Zechariah fc the Schaff-Lange commentary (1874); edited th American edition of Meyer's commentary on and II Corinthians (1884), and the homilies o, Chrysostom on the same books for The PoU- Nicene Fathers, vol. xii. (1889); suggested anci with the Rev. Frank Hugh Foster contributor to the Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge (1889), edited by the Rev. Samuel Macauley Jackson.
Bibliography: E. B. Coe, Commemorative Discourse, Nev York, 1896.