OF

BIBLICAL,

THEOLOGICAL. AND ECCLESIASTICAL

LITERATURE.

PREPARED BY

THE REV. JOHN M'CLINTOCK, D.D.,

AND

JAMES STRONG, S.T.D.

VOL. VI.-ME-NEV.

GRUPERTY OF

Store Historical Society

OF WISCONSIN,

1876

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1876.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

BR 75X125

PREFACE TO VOL. VI.

In the preparation of the present volume Dr. STRONG has remained the responsible editor. Professor WORMAN has continued to act as assistant in the non-biblical department, and the articles in that line will be found to bear increasing marks of his tact and diligence. Special contributions are designated by the initials of the writer appended to each. The issue of the volume has been delayed by the extended tour of Dr. STRONG in Europe and the East; but the readers will receive a compensation in the additional value which his observations abroad will impart to the work. No material change has been deemed desirable in the scope or plan of the Cyclopædia, and the cordial approbation generally expressed by the public as to its essential features and faithful execution is an encouragement to proceed as rapidly as practicable in its completion.

The department of modern biography has been found to call for the greatest exercise of editorial discretion. The aim has been to insert only names of deceased persons who have exerted a more or less marked religious influence upon the community by their personal labors or their writings, and to give them respectively a space as nearly as possible proportioned to the extent of their influence. If the ministers of any particular denomination shall seem to be more numerously noticed than others, this has not arisen from any favoritism, but simply from the fact that the ecclesiastical records of their necrology are more complete and accessible.

The following are the names of the special contributors to this volume:

G. D. B.-Professor GEORGE DAVID BECK, A.M., Ph.D., Strasburg, Germany.

C. W. B.-Professor CHARLES W. BENNETT, D.D., of the Syracuse University, N. Y.

J. B. B.-The Rev. J. B. BRADY, of the Newark Conference.

C. B. Dr. CASPAR BRUCHHAUSEN, Frankfort, Germany.

P. W. C.-President PAUL W. CHADBOURNE, D.D., LL.D., of Williams College, Mass.

H. P. C.-The Rev. H. P. COLLINS, A.M., Oxford, N. Y.

G. F. C.-Professor GEORGE F. COMFORT, A.M., Ph.D., of the Syracuse University, N. Y.

T. J. H. D.-Professor T. J. H. DAUM, Mus.D., N. Y. City.

L. N. D.-LEWIS N. DEMBITZ, Louisville, Ky.

A. P. D.-A. P. DIETZ, Ph.D., N. Y. City.

G. P. F.-Professor GEORGE P. FISHER, D.D., of Yale College.

R. M. F.-R. M. FULLER, N. Y. City.

E. H. G.-The late Professor E. H. GILLETT, D.D., of the New York University.

N. S. G.-The Rev. N. S. GOULD, Morristown, N. J.

D. Y. H.-The late Rev. D. Y. HARBAUGH, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.

G. F. H.-Professor GEORGE F. HOLMES, LL.D., of the University of Virginia.

R. H.-The Rev. R. HUTCHESON, A.M., Washington, Iowa.

H. E. J.-Professor H. E. JACOBS, D.D., of the Gettysburgh (Pa.) College.

D. P. K.-Professor D. P. KIDDER, D.D., of the Drew Theological Seminary, N. J.

E. A. M.-The Rev. E. A. MANNING, Boston, Mass.

J. W. M.-The Hon. J. W. MARSHALL, A.M., 1st Assist. P. M. General, Washington, D. C.

G. M.-The Rev. GEORGE MILLER, B.D., of the Newark Conference.

B. P.-The Rev. B. PICK, B.D., Rochester, N. Y.