WARREN, Israel Perkins, author, born in New Bethany, Connecticut, 8 April, 1814. He is a descendant of Richard Warren, one of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims, he was graduated at Yale in 1838, was principal of the Cromwell, Connecticut, academy in 1838-'9, afterward studied at Yale theological seminary, and became pastor of the Congregational church at Granby, Connecticut, in 1842. He was stationed at Mount Carmel, Connecticut, in 1846, at Plymouth, Connecticut, in 1851, was secretary and editor of the American tract society at Boston in 1859, an editor and book-publisher there in 1870, and became editor and proprietor of "The Christian Mirror " in Portland, Maine, in 1875, which post he has held ever since. In addition to numerous sermons, tracts, and pamphlets, he has published in book-form "The Seaman's Cause" (New York, 1858); "The Sisters, a Memorial of Elizabeth H., Abbie A., and Sarah F. Dickerman" (Boston, 1859) ; "Sadducecism, a Refutation of the Doctrine of the Annihilation of the Wicked" (1860); "The Cross-Bearer, a Vision" (1861); " The Picture Lesson-Book," designed for the use of the refugee slaves in camp (1861) ; "A Chapter from the Book of Nature" (1863) ; "The Christian Armor " (1864) ; "The Cup-Bearer" (1865) ; "The Sabbath at Home : an Illustrated Religious Magazine for the Family" (3 vols., 1867-'9); " The New Testament, with Notes, etc." (vol. i., 1868); " Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern" (1873); " The Three Judges, Story of the Men who beheaded their King," with an introduction by Reverend Leonard Bacon (New York, 1873); "Chauncey Judd, or the Stolen Boy of the Revolution" (Boston, 1874); " The Parousia, a Critical Study of the Scripture Doctrine of Christ'sSecond Coming, etc." (Portland, 1879; 2d ed., rewritten and enlarged, 1884) ; " Our Father's Book, or the Divine Authority and Origin of the Bible" (Boston, 1885): " The Book of Revelation, a Study" (New York, 1886): and "The Stanley Families in America" (Portland, 1887).