1844 - 1932 Author of "Draw Me, O Lord, to Thee!" in The Hymnal and Order of Service Born: November 10, 1844, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Died: July 7, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Eyster was a graduate of Gettysburg College (1862), and Gettysburg Seminary (1865). While at seminary, he served on the United States Christian Commission in Virginia and Maryland (1864-65). He also attended Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania (DD 1877, LLD 1892) and Muhlenberg College (STD 1907). He later served as principal of Thiel Hall, Monaca, Pennsylvania; as Franklin Professor of Latin and History at the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg College (1870-80); and president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works include:
The Lutheran Movement in England, 1891
History of the Lutheran Church in America, 1893
Book of Concord, 1894
Martin Luther: Hero of Faith
Lutheran Cyclopedia, with John A. W. Haas, 1899
The Lutheran Commentary
The German Emigration to America, 1709-40, 1899
Summary of the Christian Faith, 1905
Works of Martin Luther, translated by Eyster, Adolph Spaeth et al. (Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1915)
Lincoln’s Gettysburg World-Message, 1920
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