Introduction

Biography

Lindsay was the son of James Bar­ton Long­acre and Eli­za Stiles. He ma­rried twice, to Ara­bel­la Hy­land (1904) and Flor­ence Big­gart.

He gra­du­at­ed from the Co­lum­bia Uni­vers­ity School of Mines (1892), and Drew Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, Ma­di­son, New Jer­sey (BD 1896).

Ordained a Me­thod­ist min­is­ter, he pas­tored in the New York Con­fer­ence (1896–1910). He then be­came head of the De­part­ment of Old Tes­ta­ment Li­te­ra­ture and Re­li­gion at the Il­iff School of Theo­lo­gy, where he served ov­er three de­cades.

Works

• The Riv­er­dale Hymn Book, with Ira Sey­mour Dodd (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell, 1912)
• A Pro­phet of the Spir­it: A Sketch of the Char­ac­ter and Work of Je­re­mi­ah, 1917 & 1922
• Amos, Pro­phet of a New Or­der, 1921
• Deuteronomy, A Pro­phet­ic Law­book, 1924
• The Old Tes­ta­ment: Its Form and Pur­pose, 1945