W. T. MOORE.

      William Thomas Moore, born in Henry county, Kentucky, August 27, 1832; son of Richard and Nancy M. (Jones) Moore; graduated at Bethany College, West Virginia, (valedictorian) 1858; received A. M. degree in 1861; LL. D. degree from Butler University, Ind., married first, 1864, to Mary A., daughter of the late ex-Governor Bishop of Ohio; second marriage, 1890, to Emma S. Frederick, of New York. Began preaching in 1853, just fifty years ago last August. His first ministry was at Frankfort, Kentucky, beginning the fall of 1858 and closing the spring of 1864. Took ministry at Detroit Mich., Jan. 1, 1865. He left Detroit in February, 1866 to accept a professorship in Kentucky University. Meanwhile, he had received a call from the Central church, then meeting at Eighth and Walnut streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, and having ascertained that he could, for a time at least, do the work at both places, he accepted the call of the church, and gave a brief course of lectures in the University each year. During his ministry in Cincinnati, the Central church was built, containing one of the finest [467] audience rooms in the city, the whole building costing about $130,000. At the general convention in Cincinnati in October, 1874, Mr. Moore urged the importance of starting a Foreign Missionary Society, and for this purpose called a meeting of friends of that enterprise and presided over the meeting. He was then appointed chairman of the committee for organizing the Society, and reported at Louisville, Ky., the next October, when the Society was formally proclaimed. In short, he was the first man who came forward with a definite proposition to found a Foreign Society, and was the first acting corresponding secretary of that Society, and also made the first address before the Society after it was definitely launched at Louisville. He was, therefore, practically the originator of that Society. After serving the church in Cincinnati for nearly thirteen years, during which time it became the largest and most influential in the brotherhood, Bro. Moore resigned and on the 3rd of August, 1878, sailed with his family for England, where he resided nearly eighteen years. At first he located at Southport, and then after three years spent in Lancashire he removed to London and took charge of the West London Tabernacle and started the Christian Commonwealth, which paper soon became one of the influential journals of England. He continued the editorship-in-chief of this paper for over twenty-one years. In addition to this editorial career, his literary work has been somewhat extensive. In 1869 he started the Christian Quarterly and continued it for eight years. He again resumed the editorship of the Quarterly in 1897, and continued for three years. In 1896 he became the Dean of the Bible College at Columbia, Mo., and is now Dean Emeritus of that College. Among his literary productions may be mentioned "Living Pulpit of the Christian Church," "Lectures on the Pentateuch by Alexander Campbell" (edited) "Views of Life," "Conversations at the Unity Club," "Life of Timothy Coop," "The Fundamental Error of Christendom," "Heroes and Heroes," (jubilee poem). Besides he was one of the principal contributors to the "Peoples' Bible History," and also the "Reformation of the Nineteenth Century." Mr. Moore has now in course of publication a volume which it is believed will create considerable interest, entitled "Man Preparing for Other Worlds, or the Spiritual Man's Conflicts, and Final Victory," a study of man in the light of the Bible, science, and experience. He is at present located at Columbia, Mo., where his wife is president of Christian Female College, in which college Mr. Moore teaches Bible Ethics and journalism. He has traveled much in foreign lands and has crossed the Atlantic thirty-six times.

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