Sereno D. (Sereno Dickenson) Clark

Sereno Dickenson Clark was an American minister and author whose published work places him in the world of 19th-century Protestant thought. He wrote as Rev. Sereno D. Clark, and his best-known book, The Faithful Steward; or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character (1853), presents a practical and deeply moral argument for regular charitable giving.

That book was issued as a prize essay after a committee reviewed many submitted manuscripts and chose several for distinction, suggesting that his writing was respected for both its usefulness and its religious seriousness. Clark also wrote Utility and Glory of God's Immutable Purposes and, later, The New England Ministry Sixty Years Ago (1877), a substantial memoir centered on John Woodbridge that reflects his interest in ministers, revivals, theology, and the religious culture of New England.

Although detailed biographical information about his personal life is not easy to confirm from the sources available here, his surviving books show a writer concerned with duty, generosity, and the moral shape of Christian life. Readers coming to him now will find a voice that is earnest, practical, and rooted in the religious debates of his time.