RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Potamius Power
POTTER, HORATIO: Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York; b. at Beekman, N. Y, Feb. 9, 1802; d. at New York City Jan. 2, 1887 He was educated at Union College (B.A., 1826); became deacon 1827, and priest 1828; was pastor at Saco, Me., 1827-28; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Washington (now Trinity) College, 1828-33; rector of St. Peter's, Albany, 1833-54; provisional bishop of New York, 1854- 1861, and diocesan bishop after 1861. His administration as rector and as bishop was marked by energy and success, while literary activity took largely the form of sermons.
POTTS, GEORGE: Presbyterian; b. in Philadelphia Mar. 15, 1802; d. in New York Sept. 15, 1864. He was graduated from the University oi Pennsylvania, 1819; and studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1819-21; was pastor in Natchez, Miss., 1823-36; of Duane Street Church, New York, 1836^4; and of University Place Church, same city, 1845-64. He was an eminent preacher, a leader in religion and philanthropy, a aeloved pastor and friend. He had a memorable jontroversy with Bishop Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright on the claims of the episcopacy upon which tie published No Church without a Bishop (New Yoik, 1844).
POULSEN, ALFRED SVEISTRUP: Danish Dishop; b. in Roskilde (18 m. w. of Copenhagen) Jan. 14, 1854. He was educated at Roskilde School ;B.A., 1871) and at the University of Copenhagen ^candidate in theology, 1878); after traveling ibroad he was appointed minister at St. Hans Hos- Dital and assistant to the provost of the cathedral )f Roskilde; was made court preacher in Copenlagen (1883); provost of the cathedral of Roskilde [1896); bishop in Viborg (1901). For several years le was privat-docent in the university of Copenhagen; was made secretary of the Danish Bible Bociety (1885) ; president of the Danish mission ;o the Jews (1890). In collaboration with Professor Ussing he published a revised translation of the tfew Testament (1895; 2d ed., 1897). Some of his ■vorks are Fra Gethsemane til Emmaus, Faste- og Festprddikener (1889); Fra Kampen om Moseidgerne (1890); Philip Melanchthon i Aaret 1521 '1897); Det nye Testaments Opfattelse af den chriselige Fuldkommenhed (1899); Prddikener holdte i Roskilde Domkirke (1901); Prddikener holdte i Jhristiansborg Slotskirke (1896); Moses. Udldglingsbetragtninger (1903). John O. Evjbn.
POURING. See Baptism, IV., 1, 3,
POVERTY, SUFFERING, AND THE CHURCH.
Bee Social Service of the Church.
POWELL, BADEN: English mathematician md theological writer; b. at Stamford Hill, London, ^.ug. 22, 1796; d. in London June 11, 1860. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford (B.A., 1817; M.A., 1820); was curate of Midhurst, 1820, and vicar of Plumstead, Kent, 1821-27 From 1827 till his ieath he was Savilian professor of geometry at Oxord. He opposed the Tractarians, worked for university reform, and was a member of the committee af 1851. In 1860 he contributed to the famous IX.— 10
Essays and Reviews (q.v.) an essay On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity. His position was, in the main, rationalistic. He rejected miracles as being out of harmony with the methods of God's government. His works of theological interest are, The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth (London, 1838); Tradition Unveiled (1839; Supplement, 1840); Essays on the Spirit of tlie Inductive Philosophy, the Unity of Worlds, and the Philosophy of Creation (1855; 2d ed., 1856); The Study of the Evidences of Natural Theology (in Oxford Essays, 1856); Christianity without Judaism (1857); and The Order of Nature Considered in Reference to the Claims of Revelation (1859).
Bibliography: DNB, xlvi. 237-238, where other literature is cited. Consult also works cited under Essays and Reviews, and cf. the list of works called out by Powell's essay in that volume, given in British Museum Catalogue under " Powell, Baden."
POWELL, LYMAN PIERSON: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at Farmington, Del., Sept. 21, 1866. He was educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., Johns Hopkins University (A.B., 1890), University of Pennsylvania (fellow in history, 1893-95), and the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia (1897). He was staff lecturer in history in the extension department of the University of Wisconsin (1892-93) and in the American University Extension Society (1893-95). Since ordination he has been rector of Trinity, Ambler, Pa. (1897-98), St. Johns, Lansdowne, Pa. (1898-1903), and St. John's, Northampton, Mass. (since 1903). Theologically he is a liberal conservative, and has written: History of Education in Delaware (Washington, 1893); Six Sermons on Sin (Lansdowne, Pa., 1903); Family Prayers (Philadelphia, 1905); The Anarchy of Christian Science (Northampton, Mass., 1906) ; Christian Science: The Faith and its Founder (New York, 1907); and Heavenly Heretics (1909); besides editing the series American Historic Towns (4 vols., New York, 1898-1901).
POWELL, VAVASOR. See Fifth Monarchy Men.
POWER, FREDERICK DUNGLISON: Disciple of Christ; b. at Yorktown, Va., Jan. 23, 1851. He was educated at Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va. (A.B., 1871), where he was adjunct professor of ancient languages in 1874-75, after having held various pastorates in his denomination from 1871 to 1874. Since 1875 he has been pastor of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, Washington, D.C., and in this capacity was pastor of President James A. Garfield. He was also chaplain of Congress from 1881 to 1883, and since 1898 has been president of the American Christian Missionary Society. He was assistant editor of the Christian Evangelist, St. Louis, from 1902 to 1906. Among his writings, special mention may be made of his Sketches of our Pioneers (New York, 1898); Bible Doctrine for Young People (1899) ; The Story of a Twenty-Three Years' Pastorate (Cincinnati, 1899) ; Life of President W K. Pendleton of Bethany College (St. Louis, 1902); The Spirit of our Movement (1902); History and Doctrine of the Disciples of Christ (1904); and Thoughts of Thirty Years (Boston, 1906).
Practical Theology