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SUNDERLAND, Le Roy, author, born in Exeter, Rhode Island, 18 May, 1802; died in Quincy, Massachusetts, 15 May, 1885. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, was converted to Methodism, became a preacher at Walpole, Massachusetts, in 1823, and was soon known as an orator of great power. He was prominent in the temperance and anti-slavery movements, presided at the meeting in New York city in October, 1834, when the first Methodist antislavery society was organized, and in December wrote the "Appeal" to Methodists against slavery, which was signed by ministers of the church in New England. He was appointed a delegate to the first anti-slavery convention in the west, at Cincinnati, in 1841, and to the World's convention in 1843, in London. His preaching was attended by strange phenomena. Under his first sermon the entire audience was "struck down by the power of God," as it was then called; and ever afterward when he preached with reference to the awakening of sinners such manifestations appeared to a greater or less extent. His study of such phenomena had doubtless a determinative effect in his subsequent denial of Christianity, which he opposed during forty years preceding his death. He edited "The Watchman" in New York in 1836-'43; "The Magnet " in 1842-'3 : "The Spirit World," at Boston, in 1850-'2; and was a large contributor to various religious periodicals. He published "Biblical Institutes" (New York, 1834);" Appeal on the Subject of Slavery " (Boston, 1834);" History of the United States" (New York, 1834) ; "History of South America" (1834); "Testimony of God against Slavery" (Boston, 1834); "Anti-Slavery Manual" (New York, 1837); "Mormonism Exposed " (1842) ; "Pathetism, with Practical Instructions" (1843); "Book of Health" (1847); " Pathetism: Man considered in Respect to his Soul, Mind, Spirit" (1847); " Pathetism : Statement of its Philosophy, and its Discovery Defended" (1850); "' Book of Psychology " (1852) ; "Theory of Nutrition and Philosophy of Healing without Medicine "; "Book of Human Nature" (1853); and "The Trance, and how Introduced" (Boston, 1860).
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