Cyrus Augustus Bartol, an American author and Congregational clergyman, born at Free-port, Me., April 30, 1813. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1832, completed his theological education at the Cambridge divinity school in 1885, and was settled as colleague pastor with the Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., of the West church in Boston, March 1, 1837. His principal writings are: "Discourses on the Christian Spirit and Life" (1850); "Discourses on the Christian Body and Form" (1854); "Pictures of Europe " (1855), a work combining graphic sketches of travel with philosophical reflections; a history of the "West Church and its Ministers;" "Church and Congregation: a Plea for their Unity" (1858); "Word of the Spirit to the Church;" and "Radical Problem" (1872). He has also published a variety of occasional and miscellaneous discourses and essays, besides numerous contributions to the leading periodicals of the day, and several poetical compositions. His writings are characterized by a remarkable individuality of thought and illustration, and a certain antique quaint-ness of style.

Although of a deeply religious tone, they give more prominence to the ethical and social element than to theological doctrine.