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A. C. (Augustus Charles) Thompson
1812–1901
A 19th-century Congregational minister and prolific religious writer, he spent decades connecting local church life with the wider missionary movement. His books range from sermons and hymns to wide-angle studies of Protestant and Moravian missions.
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Memorial of Mrs. Lucy Gilpatrick Marsh delivered June 22, 1868.
by A. C. (Augustus Charles) Thompson
About the author
Born in 1812 and dying in 1901, Augustus Charles Thompson was an American Congregational minister, pastor, and author whose work was closely tied to Protestant missions. Records from Hartford International University describe him as a Congregational minister deeply involved in the foreign missionary movement, and note that his personal library eventually numbered around 10,000 volumes.
He is also associated with the Eliot Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where contemporary records place him as pastor beginning in the 1840s. Alongside pastoral work, he wrote extensively, publishing devotional books, sermons, hymn collections, church histories, and larger studies such as Moravian Missions and Protestant Missions: Their Rise and Early Progress.
His writing suggests a minister who wanted faith to feel both personal and far-reaching: attentive to suffering, worship, and ordinary church life, yet always aware of the global spread of Christianity. That mix of local ministry and missionary curiosity gives his work its distinctive voice.