John Atkinson (clergyman)

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John Atkinson (December 6, 1835, Deerfield, New York - December 8, 1897, Haverstraw, New York) was an American Methodist clergyman and historian. He wrote histories of Methodism, and the hymn "We Shall Meet Beyond the River".

Biography

He became a preacher at 18 years of age and served in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He filled pulpits in New Jersey (Newark, Jersey City); Chicago; Bay City, Michigan; and finally Haverstraw, New York; after another pass through Newark and Jersey City.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Works deriving from his pastoral experience:

• The Living Way (1856)
• The Garden of Sorrows (1868)
• The Class Leader (1875)

Histories:

• Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey (1860)
• The Centennial History of American Methodism, 1784-1816 (1884)
• The History of the Wesleyan Movement in America and of the Establishment Therein of Methodism (1896)

References

• "Atkinson, John" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
• John Alfred Faulkner (1936). "Atkinson, John". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.