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Amos Russel Wells

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Amos Russel Wells (1862-1933), 1901. Courtesy IsabellaAlden.com.

Amos Russel Wells (December 23, 1862 - March 6, 1933)[1] was an American poet, editor, prose author, and academic.

Life[]

Wells was born in Glens Falls, New York.[1]

He graduated from Antioch College in 1883.

He was professor of Greek and geology at Antioch College from 1883 to 1891, and from 1891 editor of the Christian Endeavor World, Boston.

He published the Christian Endeavor and Golden Rule magazines.[1]

From 1901, he was associate author of Peloubet's Notes on the Sunday School Lessons. He was a member of the International Sunday-School Lesson Committee.

He died in Massachusetts.[1]

Writing[]

He was a prolific author, with no less than 63 titles being credited to him. His works include books dealing with young people's work and Sunday school, juvenile fiction, poetry and devotional literature.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

Non-fiction[]

  • Social Even­ings: A collection of pleasant entertainments for Christian Endeavor societies and the home circle. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1894.
  • The Junior Manual: A handbook of methods for junior Christian Endeavor workers. Boston: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1895.
  • Prayer-meeting Methods: How to prepare for and conduct Christian Endeavor prayer meetings and similar gatherings. Boston: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1896.
  • Our Unions : a manual of methods for local, county, district, and state Christian Endeavor unions. Boston: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1896.
  • The Officers ̓Handbook: Aa guide for officers in young peoples̓ societies. Boston: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1900.
  • How to Work. Boston & Chicago: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1900.
  • How to Play. Boston: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1900.
  • The En­dea­vour Greet­ing (with Jo­seph Mor­gan). 1901
  • A Double Jury on Woman Suffrage. Boston: Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, 1901.
  • The Cax­ton Club. 1902.
  • Into All of the World. New York: Young People's Missionary Movement, 1903.
  • Expert En­dea­vor: A text-book of Christ­ian En­dea­vor me­thods and prin­ci­ples. Bos­ton: In­ter­na­tion­al So­ci­e­ty of Christ­ian En­dea­vor, 1911.
  • The Suc­cess­ful Sun­day School Su­per­in­ten­dent. 1915.
  • Know Your Bi­ble?: 1500 questions and answers and 21 topical quizzes covering the entire Bible. Boston: W.A. Wilde, 1927.

Juvenile[]

  • Rollicking Rhymes for Youngsters (illustrated by L.J. Bridgman). New York & Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1902; Nabu Press, 2012.

Edited[]

  • A Trea­sure of Hymns. Bos­ton: In­ter­na­tion­al So­ci­e­ty of Christ­ian En­dea­vor, 1914; Witmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2015.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]

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References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Amos Russel Wells, Hymntime. Web, Dec. 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Search results = au:Amos Russel Wells, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 21, 2019.

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