William Reed Newell
NEWELL, William Reed. b. Savannah, Ohio, 22 May 1868; d. Deland, Florida, 1 April 1956. Newell was educated at Wooster College (1891), and then at Princeton Theological Seminary and Oberlin Theological Seminary. He served as pastor of the Bethesda Congregational Church in Chicago, before becoming assistant superintendent of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago in 1895. In his evangelical career, Newell taught widely popular Bible classes in Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, and St Louis, traveling between them by train. These sessions led to various published Bible commentaries, such as The Book of the Revelation (1935) and Hebrews, verse by verse (1947). ‘Years I spent in vanity and pride’* (‘At...
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