Introduction

Biography

Educated pri­vate­ly and at High­bury Col­lege for the Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­try, Ave­ling be­came pas­tor of the in­de­pend­ent cha­pel at Kings­land in 1838.

From 1848–53, he ed­it­ed the Jew­ish Her­ald, the month­ly jour­nal of the British So­ciety for the Pro­pa­ga­tion of the Gos­pel Among the Jews (BSPG).

In 1874, he re­ceived an hon­ora­ry DD de­gree from How­ard Uni­ver­si­ty, Wash­ing­ton, DC.

In 1876, Ave­ling became chairman of the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Union. He al­so served as hon­or­ary sec­re­tary of the Asy­lum for Fa­ther­less Child­ren at Pur­ley.

Works

In 1834, Ave­ling pub­lished a small vol­ume of po­ems and hymns. Those of his hymns which have come in­to com­mon use were most­ly writ­ten from year to year to be sung when he preached his New Year’s ser­mon to the young. Some of them were pub­lished in ma­ga­zines.

His oth­er works in­clude:

• The Ir­ish Scho­lar, a Nar­ra­tive, 1841
• Naaman, or Life’s Sha­dows and Sun­shine, 1853
• Voices of Ma­ny Wa­ters, 1855
• The Ser­vice of the Sanc­tu­ary, 1859