Fosdick at­tend­ed Col­gate Un­i­ver­si­ty, Un­ion The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­a­ry, and Co­lum­bia Un­i­ver­si­ty. Or­dained in 1903, he pas­tored at the First Bap­tist Church in Mont­clair, New Jer­sey, from 1904 to 1915. At Un­ion The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­a­ry, he lec­tured on Bap­tist prin­ci­ples and hom­i­le­tics (1908-1915) and was pro­fess­or of prac­ti­cal the­ol­o­gy (1915-1946). He al­so found time to serve as as­so­ci­ate min­is­ter at the First Pres­by­ter­i­an Church in Man­hat­tan, New York (1919-1925), and pas­tor of Park Av­e­nue Bap­tist Church (lat­er re­named to Ri­ver­side Church) (1929-1946). His pic­ture was on the co­ver of Time mag­a­zine, Sep­tem­ber 21, 1925. His works in­clude:

• A Guide to Understanding the Bi­ble, 1938
• The Living of These Days (an autobiography), 1956
• A Book of Pub­lic Pray­ers, 1960

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Lyrics

1. God of Grace and God of Glory
2. O God, in Restless Living (1931)