“ Female College. He continued as a Methodist Episcopal clergyman at various pastorates in North Carolina from 1854 to 1865, for the last seven years being a presiding elder and in 1859 to 1863 being the proprietor of St Austin’s Institute, Wilson. In 1865 he settled in New York City, where in 1866 he began preaching in the chapel of New York University, and in 1868 he established and became the pastor of the undenominational Church of the Strangers, which in 1870 occupied the former Mercer Street Presbyterian church, purchased and given to Dr Deems by Cornelius Vanderbilt ”

“ The Life of Dr Adam Clarke (1840) ; The Triumph of Peace and other Poems (1840) ; The Home Altar (1850) ; Jesus (1872) , which ran through many editions and several revisions, the title being changed in 1880 to The Light of the Nations ”