Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822-1909)

Biography (Wikipedia)

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The birthplace of Theodore Ledyard Cuyler in Aurora, New York.

Cuyler Gore Park in Brooklyn, New York is named for Dr. Cuyler.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyler is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyler is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

An Hour’s Talk About History (1842)

Stray Arrows (1851)

The City’s Wants, and the Church’s Work: A Discourse on City Missions (1854)

Past Feeling (1858)

Christian Recreations and Unchristian Amusements: a Sermon by the Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler: Delivered Sunday Evening, October 24th, 1858, at the Cooper Institute, New-York (1858)

The Cedar Christian (1860)

John B. Gough and the Temperance Reform (1860)

A Garden of Spices (1861)

Honey From the Rock (1861)

Spiritual Dyspeptics (1861)

Answering Our Own Prayers (1861)

The Greatness of Small Things (1861)

Fair-Weather Faith (1861)

Words to Seekers (1861)

Cross-Bearing For Christ (1861)

An Evening With Christ (1861)

The Blessings of Disappointment (1861)

True Prayers Never Lost (1861)

The Life Battle (1861)

A Peep Into Cut-Throat Alley (1861)

Following Christ (1861)

Quench Not the Spirit (1862)

Intellect; and How to Use It (1863)

The Inquiry-Meeting (1863)

Somebody’s Son (1863)

The Flaw in the Link (1864)

What Keeps You From Christ? (1864)

Jesus Only (1864)

Light-Holders (1864)

The Sins of the Tongue (1864)

The Heart-House (1864)

Christ a Servant (1864)

God’s Fruit-Trees (1864)

The Soul Neglected (1864)

The Cost of Serving Christ (1864)

The Cedar Christian: And Other Practical Papers (1864, 1891)

One Root of Drunkenness (1865)

Sermon on the Death of President Abraham Lincoln (1865)

The Giant and the Shepherd's Sling: A Discourse Delivered Before the Foreign Missionary Society of New-York and Brooklyn (1865)

A Teacher in God’s School (1866)

The Empty Crib: A Memorial of Little Georgie. With Words of Consolation For Bereaved Parents (1868)

Over the Line (1869)

How to Be a Pastor (1869)

A Walk in Greenwood Cemetery, New York (1870)

Successful Preaching: Addresses to Theological Students (1870)

Preface to Julia M. Wright, The Best Fellow in the World: His Haps and Mishaps. Narrated For Public Benefit (1871)

Heart-Life (1871)

The Moral Duty of Total Abstinence (1871, 1873)

A Woman in the Pulpit (1872)

Heart Thoughts (1872)

Thought-Hives (1873)

Thoughts For Heart and Life (1875)

Extracts From Walter P. Doe, Eminent Authors on Effective Revival Preaching (1876)

Christ, the Restorer (1878)

Golden Thoughts on Mother, Home, and Heaven: From Poetic and Prose Literature of All Ages and All Lands (1878)

Introduction to W.H. Daniels, The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers (1878)

Passing Over to the Other Side (1878)

One Thing (1878)

Sinai Sends Sinners to Calvary (1879)

The Urgent Invitation (1879)

Sons of God (1879)

Peace on Earth (1879)

Address at The Alexander Memorial (1879)

Pointed Papers For the Christian Life (1879)

Popular Amusements (1880)

Dean Stanley’s Funeral (1881)

From the Nile to Norway and Homeward (1881)

The Gift of the Spirit (1882)

“On the Other Side” (1882)

The Necessity of Earnest Living (1882)

Up To the Hills (1882)

Christians For the World — Not of It (1882)

God's Light on Dark Clouds (1882)

Through Amendment (1883)

Reviving (1883)

Jesus a Saviour: Why Not Yours? A Paper For the New Year (1883)

What Next? (1883)

Things That Cannot Be Shaken (1883)

‘Business is Business’ (1883)

Saving Faith (1883)

More Abundantly (1883)

For My Sake (1883)

Head Winds (1883)

Samuel’s Little Coat (1883)

God’s Fatherly Discipline (1883)

The Perils of the Play-House (1883)

Wayside Springs From the Fountain of Life (1883)

Right to the Point (1884)

Stop Before You Begin: A Plain Talk With Young Men (1884)

The Doom of Absalom (1884)

How Gambling Begins: A Plain Talk With Young Men (1884)

There is Nothing (1884)

Converting Souls (1884)

Victory Over Death (1884)

Mary Lyon and Mr. Moody — As Educators (1884)

The Snares of South Winds and Smooth Seas (1884)

Walking in the Light (1884)

Where Do You Spend Your Evenings? A Plain Talk With Young Men (1884)

Well Based and Well Built (1884)

Pastoral and Sermonic Habits: Personal Experiences of Distinguished Clergyman, No. III (1884)

The Punishment of Parental Sins (1884)

The Cry, and the Rope of Relief (1884)

The Tent Home and the Eternal Home (1884)

Christ the Healer (1885)

The Value of Life (1885)

The Value of Life (1885, 1908)

A Tonic For the Tired (1885)

Lafayette Avenue Church: Its History and Commemorative Services, 1860-1885 (1885)

Introduction to One Hundred Years of Temperance: A Memorial Volume of the Centennial Temperance Conference Held in Philadelphia, Pa., September, 1885 (1886)

Paul’s Law of Charity as an Argument For Total Abstinence (1887)

Newly Enlisted: A Series of Talks With Young Converts (1888)

Sweetening Bitter Things (1888)

The Unchanging Gospel (1888)

The Lessons of the Lillies (1888)

Historical Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA (1888)

God’s Children in Dark Hours (1888)

New Every Morning (1888)

Introduction to William Secker, The Nonsuch Professor (1888)

Healing…All Manner of Disease (1889)

Ministers — Young and Old (1889)

Life-Preaching (1889)

The Blessings of Head-Winds (1889)

How To Have a Working Church (1889)

The Girdle of Love (1889)

The Pastor-Preacher (1890)

In the Sunshine of Christ’s Love (1890)

Solid Certainties in Christ (1890)

Curing Dull Prayer-Meetings (1890)

How To Be a Pastor (1890)

A Thirty Years’ Pastorate, With Some Account of the Pulpit, the Preacher, and the People (1890)

Dr. Spear as a Preacher (1891)

Are You Redeemed? (1891)

The Conversion of Children (1891, 1892)

Stirring the Eagle's Nest, and Other Practical Discourses (1892)

The Young Preacher (1893)

When to Keep Still (1893)

A Lofty Ideal (1893)

Mourning and Mending (1893)

Glimpses of Heaven (1893)

The Sound in the Mulberry Trees (1894)

The Lesson of Bethesda (1894)

The Song at the Well (1894)

Looking For the Handfuls (1894)

The Secret of a Strong Life (1894)

Jesus the Joy-Bringer (1894)

Shall Women Be Burdened With the Ballot? (1894)

Shall Women Be Burdened With the Ballot? (1894, 1905)

Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D. (1894)

Words of Greeting to the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor (1895)

Introduction to Louis A. Banks, The Saloon-Keeper's Ledger: A Series of Temperance Revival Discourses (1895)

Some Memories of Henry C. Bowen (1896)

Your Own Company (1896)

The Jubilee of Dr. Richard S. Storrs (1896)

A New Year’s Greeting to Christian Endeavorers (1896)

Beulah-Land; or, Words of Cheer for Christian Pilgrims (1896)

Peter Carter, A Man We All Love: Some Reminiscences of Dr. Cuyler (1897)

William T. Ellis, Dr. Cuyler at Home (1897)

The Dean of the American Pulpit: An Interview With Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler (1897)

Exalt the Cross of Jesus Christ! (1897)

A Brand From the Burning (1897)

God’s Gold Tried in the Fire (1897)

How To Choose Your Calling (1897)

Striving For the Strait Gate (1897)

The Temperance Reform: What Next? (1897)

The Wise Saving of Money (1897)

The Great Mischief of Some Little Things: Practical Words to Young Men (1897)

The Rainbow About the Throne (1897)

God’s Veterans (1897)

“A Merry Heart Doeth Good”: A Talk For Thanksgiving Day (1897)

Introduction to George D. Dowkontt, Murdered Millions (1897)

Well-Built: Plain Talks to Young People (1898)

In Answer to Prayer (1898)

Mountain Tops With Jesus: Calls to a Higher Life (1898, 1899)

Brave Onesiphorus - A Talk For the Times (1898)

Straight to Jesus Christ! (1898)

Thirty-Eight Years in the Independent (1898)

Kindle Your Own Fire (1899)

Dr. Newman Hall’s Life-Story (1899)

Resting at Lakehurst (1899)

Above All Things — The Holy Spirit (1899)

Faith is an Act (1899)

Would You Become a Christian? (1899)

Preaching to the Unconverted (1899)

The Hold-Outs (1899)

Is It Dark? (1899)

Upward Steps to the Higher Life (1899)

The Story and the Song of the Lamb: A Meditation For Passion-Week (1899)

Elements of Power in Some Great Preachers (1899)

Bonnie Bermuda (1899)

The Land of the Lilies (1899)

Closing Days in Bermuda (1899)

Paying the Fare (1899)

The Canteen Let Loose Again! (1899)

Growing Old and Keeping Young (1899)

Emphatic Christians (1899)

A Pleasant Run to Montreal (1899)

The Shadow of the Rock (1899)

The Blow at Civil-Service Reform (1899)

Why Not Rejoice More? (1899)

Jottings at Saratoga (1899)

“To Him That Overcometh” (1899)

Pencillings in Canada (1899)

Old Saybrook (1899)

The New Mohonk (1899)

Musings at Mohonk (1899)

Four Great Hymns (1899)

Last Words From Mohonk (1899)

The People’s Amen (1899)

Christian Motherhood (1899)

Christians Under a Cloud (1899)

Samuel Rutherford and the Anworth Manse (1899)

The Sparks That Kindle Revivals (1899)

Forty Years in The Evangelist (1899)

Introduction to John V. Morgan, The Cambro-American Pulpit (1899)

General Discussions of the Evil and Its Remedies: A New Emancipation Demanded (1900)

Forward! (1901)

The Requests of the Nineteenth Century (1901)

Starting Out For Christ (1901)

Cradled on the Rocks (1901)

From Dr. Cuyler (1901)

Address by Reverend Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D.D., LL.D., at a Service Held in Memory of Dr. John Thomas Duffield, on May 12th, 1901, in the Second Presbyterian Church, Princeton (1901)

Our God as a Rewarder (1901)

What Shall the Church Do With the Temperance Reform? (1901)

This One Thing (1901)

Christ’s Prisoners (1901)

A Timely Text (1901)

Christ’s Workmanship (1901)

A Prescription For Sick Christians (1901)

Treasures in Heaven (1901)

Why Are Conversions Fewer? (1901)

Introduction to Jesse B. Carter, Peter Carter, 1825-1900 (1901)

The Lord’s Day and the German’s Beer (1902)

Some Changes I Have Seen in the American Pulpit (1902)

Dr. Thomas DeWitt Talmage (1902)

Anchored (1902)

Lovable Christians (1902)

The Successful Minister (1902)

Dr. Cuyler's Address to the Presbyterian Historical Society (1902)

Help and Good Cheer (1902)

Campaigning For Christ (1902)

Recollections of a Long Life, An Autobiography (1902)

Fuel and Fire For Prayer Meetings (1903)

Preaching to Win Souls (1903)

Light at Evening Time (1903)

A Model Christian (1903)

Clear Shining After Rain (1904)

Would You Be a Christian? (1904)

The Effectual Prayer (1904)

The Faith That Saves (1904)

Christian Growth — Like the Lilies (1904)

Preaching Outside of the Pulpit (1904)

The Help of Headwinds (1904)

The Fruits of the Holy Spirit (1904)

Our Christmas Tides (1904)

Pray For a Revival (1905)

Light in the Darkness (1905)

A Close and Peculiar Partnership With the Son of God (1906)

Introduction to Ira D. Sankey, My Life and Sacred Songs (1906)

A Motto For 1907 (1907)

A Visit to Theodore Ledyard Cuyler: His Eighty-Fifth Birthday in His Brooklyn Home (1907)

Sketch of Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler (1907)

Tighten the Buckles (1907)

Fishers of Men (1907)

Theodore Ledyard Cuyler ‘41 (1909)

Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D.D., LL.D. (1909)

Neglect of Thanksgiving Day (1910)


“I wrote the first article for the first number of the ‘Nassau Monthly,’ a Princeton College publication, which still exists under another name.” — Theodore L. Cuyler, Recollections of a Long Life, An Autobiography (1902), p. 93. This article, signed by “L,” is the first in the first issue of The Nassau Monthly.

Cuyler’s address was on James W. Alexander.

Abridged.

Also included are addresses by Theodore L. Cuyler, “Pen-Jottings of Early Temperance Reformers,” and “Sketch of Hon. Wm. E. Dodge.”