Madison Clinton Peters

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Madison Clinton Peters (1859-1918) was an American clergyman, born in Lehigh Co., Pa. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College, and at Heidelberg Theological Seminary, Tiffin, Ohio, whence he entered the ministry of the reformed church in 1880. From this year until 1907, when he gave up a denominational connection to become a "free" preacher, he was pastor of the following churches: First Presbyterian, Philadelphia; Bloomingdale Reformed, New York; Sumner Avenue Baptist, Brooklyn; Immanuel Baptist, Baltimore; and Epiphany (Episcopal), New York. He wrote:

  • Justice to the Jew (1899; new edition, revised, 1910)
  • The Birds of the Bible (1901)
  • Will the Coming Man Marry? (1905)
  • Abraham Lincoln's Religion (1909)
  • Haym Salomon (1911)
  • The Mission of Masonry (1913)
  • The Genius of the Jew (1914)