Excerpt from The Private, Domestic and Social Life of Jesus Christ: A Model for Youth
Biography is always interesting. The mind is pleased in beholding the graphic succession of incidents that pass before us as in a moving panorama; and there is in us a strong natural desire of information concerning those who have distinguished themselves in the world's history. For its gratification, the lives of warriors, philosophers, statesmen, and poets, have been explored with most curious research, and paraded in minutest detail.
Rev. John Michael Krebs was the pastor of the Rutgers street Presbyterian Church, New York from 1830 until 1867.
In 1837 he was appointed Permanent Clerk of the General Assembly, and retained the office till 1845 -- he had resigned it the year previous, but his resignation was not accepted. In 1845 he was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. He was elected Clerk of the Presbytery and Synod of New York in 1841, and Director of the Theological Seminary at Princeton in 1842, and was appointed President of that Board in 1866.
He was a member of the Board of Foreign Missions from its organization till his death. His published works consist of about a dozen occasional sermons, which are marked by great energy perspicuity and precision.
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