{{Short description|American Baptist minister and author}} thumb|Wayland Hoyt, American Baptist Church minister and author '''Wayland Hoyt''' (February 18, 1838 – September 27, 1910) was an American Baptist minister and author.
==Early life and education== Born on February 18, 1838, in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref name="NYO">''New-York Observer'', Volume 89, p. 446 (October 6, 1910).</ref><ref name="Cathcart pp. 552-553" /> He was born the oldest son of Mary Ella Beebee Hoyt and Dr. James Hoyt, a Baptist minister, lawyer, businessman and author. Wayland was one of six children. One of his brothers, Colgate, was in business with his father and another, Elton, practiced law.<ref name="Cathcart pp. 552-553">{{cite book|author=William Cathcart|title=The Baptist Encyclopedia -|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9rqeQKBVabAC&pg=PA552|accessdate=29 April 2013|date=1 April 2001|publisher=The Baptist Standard Bearer, Inc.|isbn=978-1-57978-910-7|pages=552–553}}</ref>
Hoyt graduated from Brown University in 1860 and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1863.<ref name="NYO"/>
==Ministry== He was ordained in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, at a Baptist church. The following year he became pastor of the Ninth Street Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.<ref name="NYO"/><ref name="Cathcart pp. 552-553" />
In 1867 he moved to Brooklyn where he became minister of the Strong Place Baptist Church. The church, described as a "large and influential church", was where Hoyt "began the development of his powers as a profound thinker, a scholarly writer, and an able preacher."<ref name="NYO"/><ref name="Cathcart pp. 552-553" /> Hoyt left the Strong Place church and was briefly the minister at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in New York and then the Shawmut Baptist Church in Boston. He then returned to Strong Place in Brooklyn.<ref name="NYO"/><ref name="Cathcart pp. 552-553" />
In July, 1882, he succeeded Dr. Henson at Memorial, Philadelphia. Seven years later, in December, 1889, he moved to Minneapolis.<ref name="NYO"/><ref>{{cite book|title=The American Baptist Year-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=398pAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA9|accessdate=29 April 2013|year=1898|publisher=American Baptist publication society|page=187}}</ref>
He thereafter returned to Philadelphia to accept a call to Epiphany. At the Memorial Church in eight years he baptized 319 converts, the chapel was remodeled at a cost of $8,966.<ref name="NYO"/> Hoyt developed a widespread reputation as a preacher.<ref name="NYO"/>
==American Baptist Church== {{main|American Baptist Churches USA}}
Hoyt was one of the managers of the American Baptist Publication Society and served on the Missionary, Publication and Bible Committees. He was a manager on the American Baptist Missionary Union in 1899.<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Baptist Year-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=398pAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA9|accessdate=29 April 2013|year=1898|publisher=American Baptist publication society|pages=5, 9}}</ref>
Hoyt delivered addresses to young ministers and the Ministers' Union of the American Baptist Church.<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Baptist Year-book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=398pAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA9|accessdate=29 April 2013|year=1898|publisher=American Baptist publication society|pages=29, 49}}</ref>
==Causes== Among the causes to which he dedicated himself were the education of freed slaves and their descendants, following the Civil War; the expanding of missions to Native Americans and to Mexico, and the prohibition of liquor.
==Publications==
===Sermons and articles=== Many of Hoyts sermons and articles were published in newspapers, such as the ''New York Times'', or in books or journals.<ref name="Cathcart pp. 552-553" /><ref>{{cite web | url=http://ibiblestudies.com/authors/hoyt.htm | title=Sermons of Wayland Hoyt | publisher=iBible Studies}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/11/17/79055987.pdf | title=Streams in the Wilderness, Sermon by Wayland Hoyt | publisher=New York Times (archive) }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1881/10/04/106237470.pdf | title=The Spoils System, What the Rev. Wayland Hoyt Thinks About It | publisher=New York Times (archive) }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Ernest Cushing Richardson|author2=Charles Snow Thayer|title=Periodical articles on religion, 1890-1899|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ynJaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA374|accessdate=29 April 2013|year=1911|publisher=For the Hartford Seminary Press by C. Scribner's sons|page=374}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Homiletic Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdEnAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA574|accessdate=29 April 2013|year=1894|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls|pages=355, 358, 539, 543, 572–574}}</ref>
===Books=== The following is a partial list of Hoyt's publications:<ref>{{ cite web | url=https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Wayland+Hoyt%22 | title=Search Google Books on author 'Wayland Hoyt' | accessdate=April 29, 2013 }}</ref> * {{cite book|title=For Shine and Shade: Short Essays in Practical Religion|year=1899|publisher=Amer. Baptist Pub. Society}} * {{cite book|title=Gleams from Paul's Prison, Or, Studies for the Daily Life in the Epistle to the Philippians|year=1903|publisher=Griffith and Rowland}} * {{cite book|title=Lay Preaching: Sermon by Rev. Wayland Hoyt, Pastor of the Strong Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, at the First Anniversary of the New York Baptist Lay Preaching Association, Held in the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, New York City, Sunday Evening, November 14th, 1869, with an Abstract of the Proceedings of Said Anniversary|year=1869|publisher=American Baptist Publication Society}} * {{cite book|title=Light on Life's Highway: For the Despondent and the Cheerful, the Tried and the Toiling, the Doubting and the Believing--for Those Under Bright Skies Or Gray|year=1891|publisher=P.W. Garfield}} * {{cite book|title=Saturday Afternoon: Or, Conversations for the Culture of the Christian Life|url=https://archive.org/details/MN40270ucmf_5|year=1889|publisher=American Baptist publication society}} * {{cite book|title=Some Reasons Versus Destructive Criticism|year=1908|publisher=American Baptist Publ.}} * {{cite book|title=The Brook in the Way (reprint)|date=October 2009|publisher=BiblioBazaar|isbn=978-1-115-67130-9}} * {{cite book|title=The Teaching of Jesus Concerning His Own Person (reprint)|date=January 2012|publisher=HardPress|isbn=978-1-4077-0026-7}} * {{cite book|title=Walks and Talks with Charles H. Spurgeon|year=1892|publisher=American Baptist Pub. Society}} * {{cite book|title=Young Men of the City; Their Dangers and Needs|year=1866|publisher=The Association}}
==Death== He died at Salem, Massachusetts.<ref name="NYO"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * {{cite book|author=Robert Thomas Middleditch|title=Thirty-third anniversary of Strong Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VVw-AAAAYAAJ&q=Strong+Place+Baptist+Church+Brooklyn+Hoyt&pg=PA26|year=1882|publisher=L. Middleditch, Printer}}
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