Daniel Worcester Faunce

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Daniel Worcester Faunce (1829-1911) was an American clergyman, father of William Herbert Parry Faunce, born at Plymouth, Mass. Graduating from Amherst College in 1850, he then studied at the Newton Theological Institution, was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1853, and thereafter held charges from 1853 to 1866 in Somerville, Worcester, and Malden — all in Massachusetts — in Concord, N. H. (1866-75), Lynn, Mass. (1875-81), Washington, D. C. (1881-89), West Newton, Mass. (1889-93), and Pawtucket, R. I. (1894-99. He was a member of the board of managers of the American Baptist Missionary Union. His works include:

  • Words and Works of Jesus (1873)
  • Words and Acts of the Apostles (1874)
  • The Christian in the World (1875)
  • A Young Man's Difficulties with his Bible (1877)
  • The Christian Experience (1880)
  • Hours with a Sceptic (1889)
  • Prayer as a Theory and a Fact (1890)
  • Advent and Ascension (1893)
  • Shall We Believe in Divine Providence? (1900)
  • The Mature Man's Difficulties with his Bible (1908)



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