Charles Conklin
Charles Conklin (1855-1930) was a Universalist minister. Born in Nyack, New York, and educated at St. Lawrence University and Lombard College, he was ordained in 1876 and held pastorates in Mount Vernon and Troy, New York, in Chicago, and in Brookline and Canton, Massachusetts. He became superintendent of Universalist churches in Massachusetts in 1902 and served as secretary of the state convention, and he was one of the three-member committee authorized by the Universalist Publishing House that prepared the hymnal Hymns of the Church (1917).
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Hymns of the Church: With Services and Chants (1917) with Stephen Herbert Roblin, Cornelius Alpheus Parker
The last hymnal of the independent Universalist church's classic era, edited by Cornelius A. Parker, Stephen H. Roblin, and Charles Conklin and issued at the Murray Press. Hymns with full orders of service and chants, reflecting both the liturgical enrichment and the theological broadening of early twentieth-century Universalism — the book many congregations were still using at mid-century.
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