TOWNSEND, Luther Tracy, clergyman, born in Orono, Maine, 27 September, 1838. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1859 and at Andover theological seminary in 1862, and ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. During the civil war he was adjutant of the 16th New Hampshire volunteers, He was professor of exegetical theology in Boston university in 1867-'8 and of historical theology in 1869-'73, and since the last date has occupied the chair of practical theology. Dartmouth gave him the degree of D. D. in 1871. He has published several addresses and sermons, became an associate editor of "Our Day" in 1888, and is the author of "True and Pretended Christianity" (Boston, 1869) : " Sword and Garment" (1871) ; "God-Man" (1872) ; "Credo" (1873) ; "Outlines of Theology" (New York, 1873) ; " Arena and Throne " (Boston, 1874); " The Chinese Problem" (1876) ; "The Supernatural Factor in Revivals" (1877) ; " The Intermediate World " (1878); "Elements of General and Christian Theology" (New York, 1879); "Fate of Republics " (Boston, 1880); "Art of Speech" (1880); "Studies in Poetry and Prose" (1880) ; "Studies in Eloquence and Logic" (1881); "Mosaic Record and Modern Science " (1881) ; " Bible Theology and Modern Thought" (1883); "Faith-Work, Christian Science, and other Cures" (1885); "Hand-Book upon Church Trials" (1885); "The Bible and other Ancient Literature in the Nineteenth Century" (1885); and "Pulpit Rhetoric " (1886).