The New International Encyclopædia/Dexter, Henry Martin

DEX'TER, Henry Martin (1821-90). An American clergyman and historian. He was born in Plympton. Mass.; graduated at Yale in 1840, and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1844; and was pastor of a Congregational church at Manchester, N. H., from 1844 to 1840, and of the Berkeley Street Congregational Church in Boston from" 1849 until 6. He edited the Congregationalist from 1851 to 1866, the Congregational Quarterly from 1859 to 18066, and in 1867 became editor-in-chief of the Recorder, in which the Congregationalist had been merged. He held a pastorate at Dorchester, Mass., from 1809 to 1871, and from 1877 to 1880 delivered annual courses of lectures on Congregationalism at the Andover Theological Seminary. He devoted much of his time to the study of the history of the Congregational Church and of the ecclesiastical history of New England, and wrote several valuable works on these subjects. Among his publications are: The Voice of lite lUblc and the erdict of Reason (1858) ; Congre- yalionalism : ^'hat it is, ^'hencc it is, Uoic it Works, ll'/ii/ it is Better than Any Other Form of Church (Joieriiinent, and its Vonsetjiient VemandJs (1805), which passed into many editions: The Church Polity of the I'ilgrinis I'lir Polity of the yew Testament (1870) ; lioger Williams and His Banishment from the ilassacltuselts Colony (1870) ; The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, icith a Biblioaraphical .Ippen- dix (of 7250 titles) (1881)— his most valuable, work: .1 Uaiidbook of Congregationalism ( 1880) ; The True Utory of John iim'ylh, the tic- Baptist (1881); Common i^ense as to Wontan Suffrage (1885): and Early English Exiles in Amsterdam (1890). He a'iso edited Church's Eastern Expeditions and Entertaining Passages Ileluting to King Philip's War. and Mourt's }te- lat ion; and left in MSS. A Bibliography of the Church Struggle in England During the Six- teenth Century and the Pre-flistory of Plymouth Colony, icilh the English and Dutch Life of the Plymouth Men.