{"id":271,"date":"2011-04-11T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2011-05-20T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T17:22:48","slug":"elon-foster-1855","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/graduates\/1868-1950\/elon-foster-1855\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Foster (1855)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A preacher in both the Troy and New York Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for a time Foster edited the <em>Guide to Holiness <\/em>with his mother-in-law, Phoebe Palmer.\u00a0 He assembled several volumes of sermon illustrations that were very popular and reprinted multiple times.\u00a0 He died in Brooklyn, NY, November 15, 1898.<\/p>\n<h4>Works:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Uqk_AAAAYAAJ\" target=\"_blank\">Foster, Elon. <em>New Cyclopaedia of Prose Illustrations, Adapted to Christian Teaching Embracing Mythology, Analogies, Legends, Parables, Emblems, Metaphors, Similes, Allegories, Proverbs, Classic, Historic and Religions Anecdotes, Etc.<\/em> First Series. New York: Funk &amp; Wagnalls Company, 1872.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=3HYeAQAAMAAJ\" target=\"_blank\">Foster, Elon. Cyclop\u00e6dia of Poetry: First Series: Embracing the Best from All Sources and on All Subjects. New York: Funk &amp; Wagnalls, 1872.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=v6k_AAAAYAAJ\" target=\"_blank\">Foster, Elon. <em>New Cyclop\u00e6dia of Prose Illustrations, Adapted to Christian Teaching Embracing Allegories, Analogies, Anecdotes, Aphorisms, Emblems, Fables, Legends, Metaphors, Parables, Quotations, Similes, Biblical Types and Figures, Etc. Second Series. <\/em>New York: Funk &amp; Wagnalls, 1877.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Sources:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Cary, Seth C. <em>A Catalogue of the Alpha Chapter Boston University: Graduates of the School of Theology, 1850-1905<\/em>. Boston: Published by the Biographical Secretary, 1906.<\/li>\n<li>Cooley, Steven D. &#8220;Applying the Vagueness of Language : Poetic Strategies and Campmeeting Piety in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.&#8221; <em>Church History <\/em>63, no. 4 (December 1, 1994): 570-586.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ItspAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA2-PA80&amp;dq=Elon+Foster&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=e5jWTf3dE4fB0AHG2b3UBw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=9&amp;ved=0CEcQ6AEwCDge#v=onepage&amp;q=Elon%20Foster&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Minutes of the Forty-Second Session of the Troy Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Schenectady, NY, April 15-21, 1874. Troy, NY: Brainerd &amp; Brown, 1874.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preacher in both the Troy and New York Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for a time Foster edited the Guide to Holiness with his mother-in-law, Phoebe Palmer.\u00a0 He assembled several volumes of sermon illustrations that were very popular and reprinted multiple times.\u00a0 He died in Brooklyn, NY, November 15, 1898. Works: Foster, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3524,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/928"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}