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Up for sale "Presbyterian Minister" Theodore L. Cuyler Hand Written Note. This item is
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Theodore
Ledyard Cuyler (January 10, 1822 – February 26, 1909) was a leading Presbyterian
minister and religious writer in the United States. Cuyler was born at Aurora, New York, but his father died
before he was five years old.[1] Cuyler graduated from Princeton University in 1841 and from Princeton Theological Seminary
in 1846. He first became a pastor in Burlington, New Jersey. Successful in
reviving the flagging church, he was called in 1853 as pastor of the Market
Street Dutch Reformed Church in New York City. His success there 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, Samuel Hanson
Cox, Phillips Brooks, Horace
Bushnell, Horace Greely, James McCosh,
Gilbert Haven,
Joseph Addison Alexander, Albert Barnes, William E.
Dodge, Newman Hall, Richard Salter Storrs, Philip Schaff,
Stephen H.
Tyng, Joseph Parker (theologian), Charles
Spurgeon, Benjamin M. Palmer, D. L. Moody,
Charles G. Finney, President Benjamin
Harrison, Vice President Henry Wilson,
and Prime Minister William Gladstone. A theological conservative,
Cuyler was also an outspoken supporter of the temperance movement 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 for 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."
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