Austin Phelps (1820-1890) was a congregational minister, a professor of sacred rhetoric and homiletics, and later a president of Andover Theological Seminary. He wrote several books which were widely read, but none as much as The Still Hour. What is said about THE STILL HOUR deserves to be said about STUDIES OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. The opening essay on The Prophet of the Broken Heart and the closing chapter on Christ the Centre of Biblical Thought are truly worth the price of the book, but all of the other 22 chapters are soul-stirring and heart-warming as well.