Maltbie Davenport Babcock. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Babcock, Maltbie Davenport
b: August 3, 1858; Syracuse, New York
d: May 18, 1901; Naples, Italy
Education
- Graduated from Syracuse University in New York (1879)
- Auburn Theological Seminary, New York (1882)
- Excelled in general studies, organ, piano, violin and athletics
Highlights & Accomplishments
- Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Lockport, New York (1882-1885)
- Pastor of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1885-1899)
- Popular among the students from Johns Hopkins University, as well as with people from all walks of life
- Succeeded Henry van Dyke as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1899
- Books published posthumously: Letters from Egypt and Palestine (1902); Thoughts for Everyday Living: From the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901); The Success of Defeat (1905)
Hymns included in the Seventh-Day Adventist Hymnal
This Is My Father’s World, SDAH 92
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JRW. “Maltbie Davenport Babcock.” The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press, accessed July 31, 2017, http://www.hymnology.co.uk/m/maltbie-davenport-babcock.
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