Philip Mauro (January 7, 1859 – April 7, 1952) was an American

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and author.

Biography

Mauro was born in

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. He was a lawyer who practiced before the Supreme Court, a patent attorney, and a Christian writer. He prepared briefs for the Scopes Trial. His works include ''God's Pilgrims''
''Life in the Word''
''The Church'', ''The Churches and the Kingdom''
''The Hope of Israel''
''Ruth'', ''The Satisfied Stranger'', ''The Wonders of Bible Chronology''
''The World and its God''
''The Last Call to the Godly Remnant'', ''More Than a Prophet'', ''Dispensationalism Justifies the Crucifixion''
''Evolution at the Bar''
and ''Of Things Which Soon Must Come to Pass''. In his 1921 work, ''The Seventy Weeks: And the Great Tribulation'', Mauro argued that

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was the "wilful king" of Daniel 11:36. Mauro was a

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and authored an anti-evolution book entitled ''Evolution at the Bar'' (1922).McIver, Thomas Allen. (1989)
''Creationism: Intellectual Origins, Cultural Context, and Theoretical Diversity''
University of California, Los Angeles. He married Emily Johnston Rockwood in 1882 and had two daughters, Margaret Frances Mauro (1882-1948) and Isabel Rockwood Mauro (later Mrs. Charles Stratton French). Together with his daughter Margaret, Mauro was a passenger on the British ocean liner RMS ''Carpathia'' when it rescued the passengers of the ''Titanic'' in April 1912.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mauro, Philip 1859 births 1952 deaths American Christian creationists American Christian writers Lawyers from St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis alumni