STEARNS, John Glazier, author, born in Ackworth, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, 22 November, 1795; died in Clinton, New York, 16 January, 1874. He was graduated in the first class at Hamilton literary and theological institution (now Madison university) in 1822, and was ordained a minister of the Baptist church. He was for fifty years a preacher in central New York, and published, among other works, " Dialogue on the Means of separating Masonry from the Church of Christ" (Utica, 1828) ; "Inquiry into the Nature and Tendency of Freemasonry" (1829) ; " An Antidote for the Doctrine of Universal Salvation" (1829) ; "Essays on the Influence of the Spirit and the Word in Regeneration"; " The Primitive Church" (1853) ; " The Sovereignty of God and Moral Agency" (1856) ; "Letters on Freemasonry" (1860); and several smaller works.