Edward A. Lawrence

Edward A. Lawrence, Jr. (January 16, 1847 – November 10, 1893) was an American Protestant pastor and author. He lectured on foreign missions, at Andover, Beloit and New Haven. Margaret's father was the theologian, Rev. Dr. Leonard Woods. Lawrence, Jr. had three sisters.

When he was about eight years old, his father became professor in the Theological Institute of East Windsor, Connecticut (now Hartford International University for Religion and Peace at Hartford, Connecticut).

Lawrence graduated from Yale College in 1868. He began the study of theology at Princeton University, but in the spring of 1869, went to Germany, where he spent two years in further theological study in the University of Halle, and one year in the University of Berlin.

Death and legacy

In Baltimore, on November 10, 1893, Edward Alexander Lawrence, Jr. died in office as pastor of Baltimore's First Congregational Church after a week's illness, from peritonitis, at age 46.

Lawrence House Baltimore was named in his memory.

Selected works Address at the funeral of Dr. Joseph Tracy (1874) The progress of peace principles : a paper read before the Peace Congress at Geneva, Sept., 1874 (1875) Does "everlasting punishment" last forever? (1879) National righteousness : a sermon preached at a Union Thanksgiving Service, November 24, 1881 (1881) Modern missions in the East; their methods, successes, and limitations (1894)