Download or read book Bard of the Bethel written by Wendy Knickerbocker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rev Edward T Taylor (1793-1871), better known as Father Taylor, was a former sailor who became a Methodist itinerant preacher in southeastern New England, and then the acclaimed pastor of Boston's Seamen's Bethel. Father Taylor was a sailors' missionary and reformer. This book tells his story.