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Reverend Luther Tracy Townsend (September 27, 1838 - 1922) was a professor at Boston University and an author of theological and historical works.
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Biography
He was born on September 27, 1838 in Orono, Maine to Luther K. Townsend and Mary True Call. His father died on November 16, 1839 and his mother took the family to New Hampshire. He started work at the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad in 1850. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1859. He then attended Andover Theological Seminary and graduated in 1862. He enlisted as a private in the 16th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in 1862 during the American Civil War. He was ordained by the Methodist church, in 1864,. On September 27, 1865 he married Laura C. Huckins. She was the daughter of David T. Huckins and Sarah F. White of Watertown, Massachusetts. He died in 1922.
Publications
He wrote: Credo, and True and Pretended Christianity (1869); Sword and Garment (1871); God-Man (1872); Lost Forever, and Outlines of Theology (1873); Arena and Throne (1874); The Chinese Problem (1876); The Supernatural Factor in Revivals (1877); The Intermediate World (1878); Elements of General and Christian Theology (1879); Fate of Republics, and Studies in Poetry and Prose (1880); Art of Speech (2 volumes, 1880-1881); Studies in Eloquence and Logic and Mosaic Record and Modern Science (1881); Bible Theology and Modern Thought (1883); Faith-Work, Christian Science and other Cures; Hand-Book upon Church Trials, and the Bible and other Ancient Literature (1885); Pulpit and Rhetoric (1886); History of the Sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers (1896); Story of Jonah in the Light of Higher Criticism (1897); Twelve discourses of the Credo series (1898); Evolution or Creation (1899); Anastasis (1900).