Sermons & Devotionals by E.C. Wines

      Enoch Cobb Wines was an American Congregational minister and penologist. He was born at Hanover, New Jersey, and graduated at Middlebury College in 1827. After teaching for some years he studied theology and began to preach in 1849. He served in a number of widely different positions in his lifetime. The foremost of them were: pastor at Cornwall, Vermont and East Hampton, Long Island; professor of languages in Washington College, Pennsylvania (1853); and president of St. Louis University in 1859. In 1862 he became secretary of the New York Prison Association, and of the National Prison Association in 1870. In 1871-72 he organized in London the first international congress on prison discipline.