KIKK, KDWAHD N. 



KNAPP, JACOB. 



tion, and stealing 150 camels and fuur 

 the Uu-siaii authorities concluded to iu- 



o ami put uti ond to the insurrection. 

 Tin- ilisturlH-tl condition of this country waa 



-lit by ili.- Russian press to be propitious 

 tor i lu further extension of Russian rule. 



KIKK. KDWABD NORUIS, D. D., an eminent 

 AuuM-ii-aii clergyman, author, and pulpit orator, 

 li'irn iu New York City, August 14, 1802 ; died 

 in l>Hton, March 27, 1874. He was of Scotch 



-try, and was educated at the New York 



.Is and at Princeton College, whence he 

 graduated in 1820. He next studied law for 

 eighteen months in New York City, and then 

 entered Princeton Theological Seminary, where 

 he remained four years. On leaving Princeton 

 he was employed by the American Board of 

 Commissioners for Foreign Missions, to preach 

 on missions to the churches. He was ordained in 

 1S-J7 as assistant pastor of the Second Presby- 

 terian Church in Albany, and in 1828 became 

 pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, 

 which had been gathered by his labors in the 

 great revivals in which Mr. Finney was so 

 conspicuous. Mr. Kirk coincided with Mr. 

 Finney's views, and in connection with Dr. 

 Beman, of Troy, established a school of theol- 

 ogy to train young men for service in the minis- 

 try as Evangelists. He also took a very active 

 part with Mr. E. C. Delavan in promoting the 

 temperance reform. In 1837, his health de- 

 manding a change, Mr. Kirk resigned his pas- 

 torate and went to Europe. He spent some- 

 what more than a year in Paris, where he and 

 Dr. Baird made themselves very useful ; estab- 

 lishing the first American Protestant religious 

 service there, out of which grew the American 

 Chapel, which was afterward built through his 

 exertions, and held in his name till his death. 

 On his return in the spring of 1839, he preached 

 as an Evangelist in the principal cities of the 

 country, his remarkable eloquence and his 

 intense earnestness and faithfulness drawing 

 thousands to hear him wherever he preached. 

 In June, 1842, he accepted the call of the 

 Mount Vernon Congregational Church, Boston, 

 then just organized, to become their pastor, and 

 remained in that relation till 1871, though in 

 1846 and in 1856 he spent considerable time in 

 Europe. His last visit in 1856 was undertaken 

 at the request of the American and Foreign 

 Christian Union (of which he had long been an 

 officer), to organize and erect a chapel for regu- 

 lar worship for American Protestants in Paris, 

 the result of his labors there nearly twenty 

 years before. He accomplished this work, and 

 after a hasty visit to Palestine returned home. 

 In 1871, in consequence of the infirmities of 

 age and nearly complete blindness, he resigned 

 his pastorate, though preaching occasionally. 

 His death was caused by apoplexy. Dr. Kirk 

 had published very many occasional sermons 

 and addresses ; three volumes of collected ser- 

 mons ; a series of " Lectures on Christ's Para- 

 bles ; " and translations of " Gaussen on Inspira- 

 ion " and of Attic's " Lectures on the Liter- 



ature of the Times of Louis XIV.," beside* 

 several smaller works. He received tl. 

 gree of D. D. from Amherst College in 1855. 



KNAPP, Rev. JACOH, an American evange- 

 list and revivalist, born in Central New York, 

 in 1800; died in Kockland, 111., March 2, 1874. 

 11 Ls early life was passed upon a farm, but when 

 he approached manhood he felt the necessity 

 of a better education, especially as he believed 

 himself called to preach. He accordingly, after 

 a brief preparatory course, entered the Hamil- 

 ton Literary and Theological Institution (now 

 Madison University) in 1820 and remained 

 there nearly four years. Ho was but a dull 

 scholar, his early hard life on the farm having 

 made the confinement irksome to him, or, as 

 he himself used to say in after-life, "Hard 

 work had made his blood too thick for any 

 thing but failure as a student." Still there were 

 about him even then a resistless energy, great 

 powers of endurance, a cool self-possession, 

 and an almost Hibernian readiness of wit. lie 

 left the institution before the completion of his 

 full course, commenced preaching and giving 

 vent to his overflowing energy, by managing a 

 farm and conducting a country store at the 

 same time. He was somewhat successful in all 

 these pursuits, but this could not last. After 

 two or three years of what was to him an un- 

 satisfactory life, he passed through what ho 

 regarded as a new conversion, which led him 

 to consecrate his life and all his powers fully 

 to the service of God. He commenced his 

 work as an evangelist, not knowing whence 

 the support of his family was to come, but 

 very soon, from small beginnings in country 

 hamlets, he was called to the larger towns and 

 cities, and, though at times his manners and lan- 

 guage seemed rough, there were such earnest- 

 ness, such intensity of feeling, such deep ten- 

 derness, and such genuine eloquence in his ser- 

 mons and prayers, that none who listened could 

 fail to be impressed by them. This effect was 

 produced as surely among men of the highest 

 culture as among the illiterate. The late Presi- 

 dent Nott, himself one of the most eloquent 

 preachers and orators of the present century, 

 attended his entire course of sermons in Sche- 

 nectady, and took copious notes of them, and 

 said repeatedly in public that, " as a preacher 

 of the Gospel, Jacob Knapp was unequaled 

 among uninspired men." " I could publish a 

 volume of his sermons from my notes," he 

 added, "that would be a credit to our first 

 preachers." Mr. Knapp had held protracted 

 religious services in almost every city and large 

 town in the Northern States during his forty 

 years' labors as an evangelist, and, though he 

 had been oftentimes surrounded by howling 

 mobs, infuriated by his vigorous denunciation 

 of popular vices, he was never injured and 

 never unsuccessful. Many thousands were im- 

 proved in heart and life by his earnest words 

 and prayers, and many others, in whom the 

 ciiange was not so thorough or enduring, were 

 yet for the time transformed and made to have 



