Rossiter Worthington Raymond

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Rossiter Worthington Raymond is written by Thomas Arthur Rickard and published by General Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1458970035 (ISBN 10) and 9781458970039 (ISBN 13).

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1920 Excerpt: ... Reminiscences By Lyman Abbott Rossiter W. Raymond was born in 1840, studied abroad at Heidelberg, Munich, and the Freiberg Mining Academy; served as lieutenant and captain on staff duty during the Civil War; became an editor and special contributor of the 'Engineering and Mining Journal'; for three years was the president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and for 27 years its secretary; held degrees from Lafayette College and Lehigh and Pittsburgh Universities; was honored by election to scientific societies in France and Japan; attained such eminence in his chosen profession that he was admitted to the Bar as an attorney and counselor that he might argue a mining case before the Supreme Court; was a public Speaker of both charm and power; wrote some entertaining short stories and some verse which has much charm both in its musical phrasing and in the strength and tenderness of its message. For over sixty years he was a member of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and dedicated his varied abilities from the very first to its service. During my pastorate we worked together in intimate personal relations and in this paper I confine myself exclusively to what I know of him as a Christian and a church worker. My personal friendship antedates 1887 and continued to the day of his death, but others better qualified than I will speak of his abilities and services in other relations, as engineer, orator, scientist, and author. Henry Ward Beecher died in March 1887. In the fall of that year I was invited to take pastoral charge of the church as 'stated supply' while the church was looking for a permanent pastor. This invitation came to me in the first instance, if I recollect aright, verbally through Dr. Raymond. On my intimation that I would undertake the servi...