Bowery, James, an English Congregational minister, was born at Bristol, July 20, 1816. In 1834 he joined the Congregational Church at Zion Chapel. During the week-days he was engaged in business, yet he managed to prepare himself for the ministry by the time he was twenty-one years of age, and became pastor of the Congregational Church at Whitehurch, Hants. After seven years' work there he offered himself to the London Missionary Society; was accepted and appointed to Rodborough, Berbice, where he labored for nine and a half years, and became very popular. His sermons were clothed in simple language, admirably adapted to his people, full of stirring thought and striking illustrations. In 1854 he was driven from his missionary work by colonial fever. He returned to England, and in 1856 became pastor of Ebenezer Chapel, Shadwell, where he continued as pastor until his death, Aug. 15, 1877. Mr. Bowery's mind was logical rather than imaginative. To feelings of ambition and pride and envy he seemed a stranger. The poor, the suffering, the perplexed not only found in him a sympathizer, but a sharer. See (Lond.) Congregational Year-book, 1878, p. 308.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More