Difference between revisions of "George Burder"

<p> was born in London May 25 (O. S.), 1752. About 1773 Mr. Burder became a student in the [[Royal]] Academy; but shortly afterward he began to preach, and at length determined to relinquish his profession of artist, and to devote himself to the [[Christian]] ministry. In 1778 he became pastor of an [[Independent]] [[Church]] at Lancaster; in 1783 he removed to Coventry, during his residence in which city he took an active part in the formation of the London [[Missionary]] Society; and in 1803 he accepted a call to the pastorship of the [[Congregational]] Church in [[Fetter]] Lane, London, and also to undertake the office of secretary to the London Missionary [[Society]] and editor of the [[Evangelical]] Magazine. The duties of these offices were performed by Burder with much zeal and talent, until increasing years and infirmities compelled him to resign them. He died May 29, 1832. lis numerous publications consisted chiefly of essays and sermons. Of these, the [[Village]] Sermons, of which six volumes appeared at various times between 1799 and 1812 (new ed. Lond. 1838, 8 vols.), and which have been repeatedly reprinted and translated into several [[European]] languages, are perhaps the best known. Of forty-eight [[Cottage]] Sermons, [[Sea]] Sermons, and Sermons to the Aged, written for the [[Religious]] [[Tract]] Society for gratuitous distribution or sale at a very cheap rate, the aggregate circulation during his life amounted to little short of a million copies. [[Among]] his other publications were Evangelical [[Truth]] defended (1788, 8vo): — The [[Welsh]] Indians, or a [[Collection]] of Papers respecting a People whose [[Ancestors]] emigrated from [[Wales]] to [[America]] in 1710 with Prince Madoc, and who are said now to inhabit a beautiful [[Country]] on the west [[Side]] of the [[Mississippi]] (8vo, 1799): — Missionary Anecdotes (1811, 12mo); see the [[Memoir]] by [[Henry]] [[Forster]] Burder, D.D. (Lond. 1833). See Morison, Missionary Fathers, 268; [[English]] Cyclopedia, s.v. </p>

<p> [[Congregational]] minister, became secretary to the London [[Missionary]] Society, author of "Village Sermons," which were once widely popular (1752-1832). </p>