Born: Ju­ly 30, 1866, Wheel­ock, Ver­mont.

Died: March 15, 1931, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois.

Davis grew up in White Ri­ver Junc­tion, Ver­mont, and by age 15 was an ex­pert tel­e­graph op­er­at­or. He at­tend­ed St. Johns­bu­ry Acad­e­my and grad­u­at­ed from Dart­mouth Coll­ege in 1859. With the aid of a fel­low­ship from Hart­ford The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, he earned a PhD in Leip­zig, Ger­ma­ny. He pas­tored in Spring­field, Ver­mont; New­ton­ville, Mas­sa­chu­setts, and New Bri­tain, Con­nec­ti­cut. From 1909-1929, he was pres­i­dent of Ch­i­ca­go The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary. In 1927 he be­came Mod­er­at­or of the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church­es. His works in­clude:

• John Robinson–The Pil­grim Pas­tor, 1903
• The Pilgrim Faith, 1913
• Using the Bi­ble in Pub­lic Address, 1916
• Meeting the Mas­ter, 1917
• Interna­tional As­pects of Christ­ianity, 1919
• Comrades in the Great Cause
• The Gospel in the Light of the Great War, 1919
• Evan­gel­istic Preach­ing, 1921
• Preaching and the So­cial Gos­pel, 1922

Sources

Hymns

1. At Length There Dawns the Glorious Day
2. We Bear the Strain of Earthly Care