The New International Encyclopædia/Boardman, George Dana

BOARDMAN, George Dana (1828–1903). An American Baptist clergyman. He was born at Tavoy, Burma, and was educated at Brown University (1852), and at the Newton Theological Institution. He was pastor of the First Church. Philadelphia, from 1864 to 1894. In June, 1899, he established at the University of Pennsylvania the permanent lectureship known as the 'Boardman Foundation in Christian Ethics.' He was president of the Christian Arbitration and Peace Society, and of the American Baptist Missionary Union. His most important production is a monograph. Titles of Wednesday Evening Lectures. It embraces 981 of his lectures, delivered between 1865 and 1880, and comprises a complete exegesis of the Bible. His other writings include The Epiphanies of the Risen Lord (New York, 1879); The Problem of Jesus; Disarmament of Nations (1880); The Coronation of Love: The Two Bibles; The Kingdom (1899); The Church (1901); The Golden Rule (1901).