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STEARNS, Oakman Sprague, born in Bath, Maine, 20 October, 1817. He was graduated at Waterville college (now Colby university) in 1840, and at Newton theological institution in 1846, and was instructor in Hebrew there in 1846-'7. He was pastor of the Baptist church at Southbridge, Massachusetts, in 1847-'54, at Newark, New Jersey, in 1854-'5, and at Newton Centre, Massachusetts, in 1855-'68. Since 1868 he has been professor of biblical interpretation of the Old Testament in Newton theological institution. Colby gave him the degree of D. D. in 1863. He has translated Sartorius's " Person and Work of Christ" (Boston, 1848), and is the author of " A Syllabus of the Messianic Passages in the Old Testament" (1884).
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