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Agar, John

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Newtonbrook, Canada, Feb. 10, 1843. He received an academical education; experienced religion at the age of seventeen; soon began preaching; about 1864. removed to New York State, and in 1873 was received into the Western New York Conference, wherein he labored until his death, at Kendall, Feb. 9, 1878. Mr. Agar was a young man of more than ordinary preaching abilities; his pulpit efforts were logical, scriptural, and forcible; in his pastoral work he was systematic and faithful. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1878, p. 71.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Agar, John'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/agar-john.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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