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Agar, Joseph

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

an English Wesleyan minister, was born in York. He was converted in his twenty-first year; entered the ministry in 1810; preached on the Driffield, Glasgow, and other circuits and died suddenly in Portsmouth, Aug. 23, 1830, aged forty-two. "I scarcely ever knew a person who had fewer infirmities, nor were they of a nature to form any serious drawback on the very great excellency of his Christian character" (Rev. Daniel Isaac). See Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 1832, p. 161; Minutes of British Conference, 1831.

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