MOXOM, Philip Stafford, American Con gregationalist clergyman: b. Markham, Canada, 10 Aug. 1848. During the Civil War he served as °captain's boy” (1862), then enlisted in the Illinois cavalry in 1863, and served till 1865. At the close of the war he entered upon a course of study at Kalamazoo College, Mich., and later studied at Shurtleff College, Ill. (1868-70). Being ordained to the Baptist min itsry in 1871, he studied at Rochester Theolog ical Seminary from 1875 to 1878, and was grad uated from Rochester University in 1879, with the degree of A.B. From 1879 to 1885 he was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio; and from 1885 to 1893 at First Baptist Church of Boston, where he gained a reputa tion as a preacher of marked power. In 1894 he joined the Congregationalists and became pastor of the South Congregational Church at Springfield, Mass. In November 1915 he
resigned and became pastor emeritus. From 1894 to 1897 he was university preacher at Har vard, and has preached frequently at other uni versities and colleges. He delivered the centen nial address on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Browning, in the Brooklyn Institute, 7 May 1912. He was at the World's Parliament of Religions, and presented a paper on 'Immortal ity' ; he was also at the World's Peace Con gress, and has been delegate to several inter national peace congresses. He attended the first Ecumenical Council in the interest of inter national amity at Constance, Baden, in August 1914, which was broken up by the war, but reassembled in London. He has written The Aim of Life (1894) ; From Jerusalem to Nicwa, the Church in the First Three Centu ries' (1895) ; The Religion of Hope (1896).