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John Chambers, Servant of Christ and Master of Hearts, and His Ministry in Philadelphia

Chapter 21: INDEX.
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A biographical portrait traces the life and ministry of a long-serving Philadelphia clergyman from humble beginnings through educational and pastoral stages, recounting family origins, itinerant early career, ordination, and decades leading a single congregation. It interweaves personal reminiscences with episodes of social engagement—temperance advocacy, responses to wartime pressures, church governance changes—and sketches parish life, friendships, sermons, and pastoral methods. The narrative emphasizes moral growth, self-discipline, pastoral leadership, influence on congregants, and the gradual maturation of character, closing with reflections on retirement, community legacy, and the enduring bonds among the church's members.

INDEX.

  • Bacon, Rev. Leonard, 37, 38.
  • Baker, Rev. J. J., 140.
  • Baltimore, 17, 18, 118, 124.
  • Barnes, Rev. Albert, 35, 83, 84.
  • Beatty, Mr. J. T., 103.
  • Bethany Church, 6, 145, 146.
  • Biles, Mr. J. T., 101, 102.
  • Blauvelt, Rev. Augustus, 145.
  • Bliss, Rev. Dr. John, 78, 140.
  • Boardman, Rev. Dr. George Dana, 141.
  • Breed, Rev. Dr., 141.
  • Briggs, Dr. Charles A., 86, 87.
  • British, 17, 18.
  • Broad Street Church, 68-80, 152.
  • Brooks, Rev. Phillips, 82, 83.
  • Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, 151.
  • Brown, Rev. Charles, 127.
  • Bruce, Mr. I., 102.
  • Buchanan, Pres. James, 112, 117.
  • Buck, Dr. F. J., 101.
  • Bucks county, 29.
  • Burial lot, 24, 33.
  • Burtis, Aaron H., 53, 97.
  • Campbell, Mr. S., 102.
  • Campbell, President W. H., 42.
  • Camperduin, 11.
  • Chains across streets, 3-5.
  • Chambers, John,
  • advertising sermons, 81;
  • ancestry, 9;
  • in Baltimore, 17-23;
  • birth, 9;
  • boyhood, 14-17;
  • Broad Street Church, 61, 62;
  • call, 28-33;
  • calls, 124;
  • children, 45;
  • clothes, 92, 93;
  • communion, 73;
  • drinking customs, 14-16, 51;
  • Doctor of Divinity, 103;
  • education, 19-23;
  • emotions, 65;
  • Europe visited, 59;
  • fiftieth jubilee anniversary, 102;
  • finances, 61, 123;
  • first communion and baptism, 41;
  • fortieth anniversary, 123;
  • funerals, 55;
  • grandchildren, 46;
  • growth in character, 122;
  • health, 123;
  • heretic, 30;
  • hymn reading, 91, 109;
  • illness, 130, 131;
  • infancy, 11;
  • jubilee anniversary, 102;
  • last words, 142;
  • licensed, 23;
  • marriage, 44, 66,;
  • marrying couples, 97;
  • memorial churches, 147-153;
  • ordaining of ministers, 40;
  • ordination at New Haven, 38-41;
  • pastor, 110, 126;
  • peacemaker, 16, chapter xiii;
  • personal appearance, 7;
  • physique, 7, 60;
  • platform, 91, 92;
  • politics, 17, 63, 64;
  • prayer meetings, 77-79, 110;
  • preaching, 99, 100;
  • Presbytery, 30, 31;
  • pulpit manner, 90, 91;
  • punctuality, 32;
  • residences, 50;
  • rejected of Presbytery, 31, 34;
  • Sabbath, 55, 56;
  • salary, 123;
  • sermonizing, 81;
  • sermons printed, 57, 113;
  • sermon subjects, 88-90;
  • sorrows, 107-108;
  • Sunday School, 46, 96;
  • teachers, 19-23;
  • temperance, 15;
  • theatre, 48-50;
  • theology, 20, 23, 43, 47;
  • tomb, 145;
  • visits Ohio, 14;
  • voice, 124;
  • wit, 123-125;
  • wartime, 112-120.
  • Chambers, J. M. Duncan, 45, 46, 66, 120.
  • Chambers, Martha, 66, 67, 120.
  • Chambers, Matilda, 103, 143.
  • Chambers, William, 9-15.
  • Chambers-Wylie Memorial Church, 6, 83, 152, 153.
  • China, 76.
  • Church of the Love of God, 147-150.
  • Church on 13th Street, 4, 5, 25, 26.
  • Church on Broad Street, 60-62.
  • Church government, 94.
  • Concert Hall, 69.
  • Congregational Church, 52, 115, 137.
  • Congregational council, 40.
  • Coyle, Mr. R. M., 147.
  • Crowell, Rev. James, 109.
  • Curtin, Governor, 119.
  • Cuyler, Rev. T., 55.
  • Cyclopedia of Temperance, 83.
  • Dexter, Rev. Franklin, 38.
  • Dill, Mr. T. P., 100.
  • Drummond, Professor, 126.
  • Dudleian lecture, 40.
  • Duelling, 58.
  • Duncan Margaret, 25, 26.
  • Duncan, Rev. John Mason, 19-21, 27, 34.
  • Elders, 40, 53.
  • Ely, Rev. Dr. Stiles, 28, 31.
  • Evans, Mr. J., 102.
  • Fashions, 92, 93, 105.
  • Fisher, Prof. W. G., 122, 141.
  • Flag on church, 116.
  • Friends, Society of, 131.
  • Fugitive Slave Law, 114.
  • Funerals, 51, 55.
  • Garrison, Wm. Lloyd, 117.
  • Gashmu, 124.
  • General Assembly, 44.
  • Gettysburg, 118.
  • Gray, Rev. James, 19, 21, 22, 27.
  • Griffis, Capt. John L., 85.
  • Griffiths, Captain, 118.
  • Hackett, Mr. James, 46.
  • Hale, Edward Everett, 106.
  • Hall, Wilfrid, 27.
  • Hartranft, Rev. P. D., 37.
  • Hatfield, Rev. Dr., 141.
  • Hibbert, Mr. Thomas, 55, 94.
  • Higher Criticism, 37, 99, 122.
  • Hinckley, Mr. R. H., 53, 101, 147.
  • Hoyt, Rev. Dr. Thomas A., 152, 153.
  • Huldah, 4.
  • Hunter, Rev. A. B., 101.
  • Hunter, Mr. John C., 100, 151.
  • Hymns, 16, 109, 110.
  • Ireland, 8, 10.
  • Irvine, Rev. Thomas, 127.
  • Japan, 16, 76, 130.
  • Johnson, Rev. Dr. Herrick, 137, 138.
  • Johnson, Mr. J. B., 102.
  • Kelley, Rev. Samuel P., 140.
  • Lawyer, Mr. E. S., 100.
  • Ledger, Public, 81, 82, 85, 88, 121.
  • Lee, Rev. Dr. E. Trumbull, 153.
  • Leslie, Mr. Henry, 102.
  • Levy, Rev. Edgar, 129.
  • Leyburn, Rev. Dr., 122, 145.
  • Luther, Robert, 40, 53, 95.
  • Luther, Rev. Robert Maurice, 95, 124-127.
  • McHenry family, 44, 45.
  • McLeod, Rev. Dr., 145.
  • McNeille, Rev. R. G. S., 140.
  • March, Rev. Daniel, 122.
  • Marrott, Mr. C. D., 102.
  • Mary, 63.
  • Milner, Rev. Dr. Duncan C., 120, 137.
  • Minton, Rev. Henry C., 153.
  • Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, 130, 131.
  • Money raising, 61.
  • Moody, Mr., 90.
  • Mount Pleasant, 13, 100.
  • Munger, Rev. T. T., 38.
  • Myers, Mr. Henry, 102.
  • Nagle, Mr. G. F., 102.
  • Neill, Rev., 122.
  • Newland, Francis, 97, 98, 141.
  • Newton, Rev. Dr. Richard, 152.
  • Newton, Pa., 28.
  • North American building, 1-3.
  • Ohio, 12-16.
  • Otts, Rev. J. M. B., 143.
  • Paine, Thomas, 85, 86.
  • Painter, Mr. Charles, 99.
  • Patterson, Rev. Wm., 147.
  • Penn, Wm., 1.
  • Pennock, architects, 153.
  • Philadelphia in old time, 5, 24, 49.
  • Plumer, Rev. Wm., 119, 122, 141.
  • Post with chain, 3, 4.
  • Prayer meetings, 27, 54, 55, 141.
  • Presbyterian encyclopedia, 34.
  • Presbytery of Baltimore, 34.
  • Presbytery of Philadelphia, 23, 28.
  • Princeton, 19.
  • Pulpit, 70, 71.
  • Pulpit, power of, 2.
  • Purdy, Mr. Harrison, 101, 102.
  • Reed, Mr. Moses, 33.
  • Renan's Life of Jesus, 87.
  • Revivalists, 36, 63.
  • Ross, Miss Anna, 33, 113.
  • Rutledge Church, 6, 152.
  • Sabbath-keeping, 3, 4, 55-57.
  • Sacraments, 73, 74.
  • St. Paul's Pres. Church, 151.
  • Schenck, Rev. Dr., 121.
  • Scotch-Irish, 8.
  • Scott Legion, 117.
  • Scott's soldiers, 112.
  • Scripture references, 5.
  • Sexton, 104.
  • Sheppard, Joseph B., 95, 96, 113.
  • Sheppard, Rev. T. J., 140.
  • Skinner, Rev. Harvey, 35.
  • Smith, Mr. William, 102.
  • Snyder, Mr. J. M., 102.
  • Socrates, 84.
  • Somers, Mr. A., 102.
  • Song of Songs, 24, 44.
  • Steinmetz, Daniel, 98, 113.
  • Stewartstown, 9 12.
  • Stockton, Rev. William R., 141.
  • St. Paul's Pres. Church, 6.
  • Sullivan's Expedition of 1779, 9, 17.
  • Sunday Despatch, 86.
  • Sunday School, 46, 56, 140.
  • Supplee, Mr. C. D., 102.
  • Synods, 20.
  • Talmage, Rev. T. D., 82, 120, 121.
  • Taylor, Rev. N. W., 36.
  • Temperance, 51-54.
  • Theological Seminaries, 19.
  • Theology, 20-22.
  • Thirteenth Street, 35, 46.
  • Thirteenth Street Church, 23, 24.
  • Thompson, Rev. Dr. John, 148.
  • Tone, T. Wolf, 10.
  • Tracy, Mr. E., 102.
  • Trumbull, Dr. Henry Clay, 65.
  • Tyler, Rev. Bennett, 37.
  • Union Theological Seminary, 129.
  • United Irishmen, 10, 11, 22.
  • Universalism, 58.
  • Van Deurs, Dr. George, 147.
  • Vaux, Richard, 60.
  • Vicksburg, 119.
  • Village, The, 46.
  • Walton, Rudolph S., 70, 79, 98, 99, 113, 146, 151.
  • Wanamaker, John, 78, 80, 147, 148.
  • War, Civil, Chapter XIII..
  • War, Mexican, 112.
  • War of 1812, 17.
  • Washington's Birthday, 53.
  • Weaver, Mr. William, 104.
  • Weddings, 105.
  • Wentz, Miss K., 150.
  • West, Mr. Edwin, 102.
  • Westminster symbols, 30, 31, 42, 130.
  • Westwood, Rev. Dr. Henry C., 143.
  • Whitaker, Mr., 144.
  • Whitefield, 65.
  • Whittier quoted, 107, 155.
  • Wilder, Rev., 76.
  • Willetts, Rev. Dr. A. A., 54.
  • Williams, Mr. W. S., 102.
  • Wilson, Rev. James P., 35.
  • Women of First Independent Church, 104.
  • Wylie, Rev. S. B., 10, 22.
  • Yard, Mr. John, 95, 113.
  • Young, Mr. G. I., 102.
  • Young Ladies' Association, 96.
  • Youths' Temperance Society, 53.

Transcriber's Notes:
1. Obvious printer's and spelling mistakes have been corrected.
2. Page 18: The name Thomas Scott Key has been replaced by the correct name of Francis Scott Key.
3. Hyphens have been left in the words "to-day" and "to-morrow", as in the original.