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Cotton Smith he edited The Church Monthly, Boston, 1864.
As secretary of the General Convention, he edited the
Journals and Canons, etc., published in 1865, 1868, 1871,
1874. Since 1877 he has edited The Iowa Churchman
A full list of his numer-

Eleven (monthly), ten yearly volumes.

ous and valuable writings down to date is given in Batterson's Sketch-book of the American Episcopate, Philadelphia, 2d ed., 1885. Leaving out sermons, charges, and minor publications, of these may be mentioned, Historical Sketch of the Church Missionary Association of the Eastern District of Massachusetts, Boston, 1859; Journals of the General Convention of the Protestant-Episcopal Church of the United States of America (with illustrative historical notes and appendices by the Rev. Francis L. Hawks and the Rev. William Stevens Perry), Vol. I. (all published), Philadelphia, 1861; Bishop Seabury and Bishop Provoost: an Historical Fragment, privately printed, 1862; Documentary History of the Protestant-Episcopal Church in South Carolina, Francis L. Hawks and William Stevens Perry, editors, No. 1 (all published), 1862; The Collects Reprinted, 1877; of the Church, privately printed, 1863; The Connection of

the Church of England with Early American Colonization,
Portland, 1863; Bishop Seabury and the "Episcopal Re-
corder:" a Vindication, privately printed, 1863; A Cen-
tury of Episcopacy in Portland (a sketch of the history of
the Episcopal Church in Portland, Me., from the organi-
zation of S. Paul's, Falmouth, Nov. 4, 1763, to the pres-
ent time), Portland, 1863; Documentary History of the
Protestant-Episcopal Church in the United States of Amer-
ica (containing numerous hitherto unpublished documents
concerning the Church in Connecticut), Francis L. Hawks
and William Stevens Perry, editors, New York, 1863-64,
2 vols.; Liturgic Worship: Sermons on the Book of Com-
mon Prayer, by Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant-

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Episcopal Church, New York, 1864 (edited, the course
planned, and one of the sermons delivered, by William
Stevens Perry); A Memorial of the Rev. Thomas Mather
Smith, D. D., privately printed, 1866; A History of the
Book of Common Prayer, with a Rationale of its Offices,
by Francis Proctor (with an introductory chapter on the
History of the American Liturgy, by William Stevens
Perry), New York, 1868, new ed. London and New York,
1881; Questions on the Life and Labors of the Great
Apostle, 1869; The Churchman's Year-Book, Hartford,
1870; do., 1871; Historical Collections of the American
Colonial Church, Vol. I., Virginia, 1871; do., Vol. II.,
Pennsylvania, 1872; do., Vol. III., Massachusetts, 1873;
do., Vol. IV., Maryland, 1878; do., Vol. V., Delaware,
1878; Life Lessons from the Book of Proverbs, New York,
1872, 4th ed. 1885; A Sunday-School Experiment, 1874,
3d ed. 1877; Handbook of the General Convention, 1874,
A new edition,
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4th ed. 1881; Journals of the General Convention, 1785 1888';
to 1835, 3 vols., 1874; Historical Notes and Documents
Illustrating the Organization of the Protestant-Episcopal
Church in the United States of America, 1874; The Reunion
Conference at Bonn, 1875; A Personal Narrative, 1876;
The American Cathedral, 1877; Missions and Missionary
Bishoprics in the American Church (a paper read before
the Church Congress held at Stoke-upon-Trent, England,
October, 1875), privately printed, 1877; Scriptural Reasons
for the Use of Forms of Prayer, Davenport, 1878; The
Second Lambeth Conference: a Personal Narrative, 1879;
A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the General Con-
vention held in the City of Boston, 1877, New York, 1880;
Some Summer Days Abroad, Davenport, 1880; Ober-Am-
mergau in 1875 and 1880, privately printed, 1881; Easter
with the Poets, Davenport, 1881; The Church's Year, Dav-
enport, 1881; Catechetical Instruction, with an introduc-

neology, 1875. He belongs to the historical, crit- | he first visited England, and suc

Smell daughter & Thoman Mather Smull Do sometim Preet
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tion, 1882; The Church's Growth and the Church's Needs
in Iowa, 1882; Griswold College: Shall it be built up? a
few words to Churchmen, 1883; Social Purity, 1883; A
Pastoral about the Lenten fast, 1883; Historical Sketch
of the Protestant-Episcopal Church, 1784-1884, New York,
1884; A Discourse on the Centenary of the Consecration
of Bishop Seabury, 1884; The Election of the First Bishop
of Connecticut, an historical review, 1885; The Men and
Measures of the Massachusetts Conventions of 1785–84, a
centenary discourse, Boston, 1885; The History of the
American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883, Vol. I., The
Planting and Growth of the American Colonial Church,
1587-1783, Boston, 1885; do., Vol. II., The Organization
and Progress of the American Church, 1783-1883, Boston,
1885: Ten Episcopal Addresses, 1877-1886, inclusive;
The Service of Song, 1886; A Discourse on the Centenary
of the Consecration of Bishop White, 1887; The Centenary
of the British Colonial Episcopate, anniversary sermon of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in S. Paul's
Cathedral, London, 1887;A Missionary Apostle, Inglis
centenary sermon, in Westminster Abbey, London, 1887.
Bishop Perry is publishing in The Church Review
(monthly), beginning March, 1887, The Life, Times, and
Correspondence of William White, D. D., First Bishop of
Pennsylvania, to be re-issued in two volumes, 8vo., on the
completion of its serial appearance. The Bishop pub-
lished in the same Review, The Life and Letters of Charles
Inglis, D.D., the First Bishop of Nova Scotia. He has in
preparation, A History of the Church of Christ, to appear
in one volume, 8vo., and The Life and Episcopate
Theleam Dacon Stevens, D.D., LL. D.,
Fourthe Bishop of Pennsylvania

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General Convention held in the City of Boston 1877, New York, 1880; Some Summer Days Abroad, Davenport, 1880; Ober-Ammergau in 1875 and 1880, privately printed, 1881; Easter with the Poets, Davenport, 1881; The Church's Year, Davenport, 1881; Catechetical Instruction, with an introduction, 1882; The Church's Growth and the Church's Needs in Iowa, 1882; Griswold College: Shall it be built up? a few words to Churchmen, 1883; A Pastoral about the Lenten fast, 1883; Historical Sketch of the Protestant-Episcopal Church, 1784-1884, New York, 1884; A Discourse on the Centenary of the Consecration of Bishop Seabury, 1884; The Election of the First Bishop of Connecticut, an historical review, 1885; The Men and Measures of the Massachusetts Conventions of 1784-85, a centenary discourse, Boston, 1885; The History of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883, vol. i., The Planting and Growth of the American Colonial Church, 1587-1783, Boston, 1885; do., vol. ii., The Organization and Progress of the American Church, 17831883, Boston, 1885; Ten Episcopal Addresses, 1877-86.

PETERKIN, Right Rev. George William, D.D. (Kenyon College, Gambier, O., and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., both 1878), Episcopalian, first bishop of West Virginia; b. at Clear Spring, Md., March 21, 1841; studied at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 185859; graduated at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, near Alexandria, 1868; ordained deacon 1868, priest 1869; became rector of St. Stephen's Church, Culpepper, Va., 1869; of Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md., 1873; consecrated bishop, 1878.

PETERS, George Nathaniel Henry, Lutheran (Wittenberg Synod); b. at New Berlin, Union County, Penn., Nov. 30, 1825; graduated at Wittenberg College, Springfield, O., 1850; pastor at Woodbury, Springfield, Xenia, and Plymouth, O., but long since retired. He is a conservative premillenarian; and, besides numerous articles, has published, as the result of thirty years' labor, The Theocratic Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, New York, 1884, 3 vols.

PETERS, John Punnett, Ph.D. (Yale College, New Haven, Conn., 1876), Episcopalian; b. in New-York City, Dec. 16, 1852; graduated at Yale College, New Haven, Conn., A.B., 1873; studied theology at Yale Divinity School, and Oriental languages at Berlin (1879-81) and Leipzig (188283); was tutor in Yale, 1876-79; ordained priest, 1877; chaplain of American Episcopal Church at Dresden, 1881-82; assistant minister at St. Michael's Church, New-York City, 1883-84; and since September, 1884, has been professor of Old-Testament languages and literature in the ProtestantEpiscopal Divinity School, Philadelphia, Penn. He translated Müller's Political History of Recent Times, New York, 1883; and edited, with Rev. E. T. Bartlett, The Scriptures for Young People,

1886.

PFLEIDERER, Otto, D.D. (honoris causa, Jena, 1870), German Protestant; b. at Stetten, near Cannstatt, Würtemberg, Sept. 1, 1839; studied under Baur at Tübingen, 1857-61; became pastor at Heilbronn, 1868; superintendent at Jena 1870, and the same year ordinary professor of theology, and Kirchenrath; went to Berlin as professor of theology, 1875. He belongs to the historical, crit

PHILLIPS.

ical, dogmatic, and liberal school of Baur. He is the author of Die Religion, ihr Wesen und ihre Geschichte, Leipzig, 1869, 2 vols., 2d ed. 1878; Moral und Religion, gekrönte Preisschrift, Haarlem, 1870; Der Paulinismus, Leipzig, 1873; F. G. Fichte. Lebensbild eines deutschen Denkers und Patrioten, Stuttgart, 1877; Religionsphilosophie auf geschichtlicher Grundlage, Berlin, 1878, 2d ed. 1883-84, 2 vols.; Zur religiösen Verständigung, 1879; Grundriss der christlichen Glaubens- und Sittenlehre, 1880, 3d ed. 1886; Lectures on the Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity (Hibbert Lectures for 1885), London, 1885.

PHELPS, Austin, D.D. (Amherst College, Mass., 1856), Congregationalist; b. in West Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1820; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1837; was pastor of Pine-street Church, Boston, Mass., 1842-48; and professor of sacred rhetoric in Andover (Mass.) Theological Seminary, 1848-79. He has published The Still Hour, Boston, 1859; Hymns and Choirs, Andover, 1860; The New Birth, Boston, 1867; Sabbath Hours, 1870; Studies of the Old Testament, 1879; The Theory of Preaching, 1881; Men and Books, 1882; My Portfolio, 1882; English Style, 1883; My Study, 1885; and numerous articles.

PHELPS, Sylvanus Dryden, D.D. (Madison University, Hamilton, N.Y., 1854), Baptist; b. at Suffield, Conn., May 15, 1816; graduated at Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1844; at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., 1847; was pastor of First Baptist Church, New Haven, Conn., 1846-74; of Jefferson-street Church, Providence, R.I., 1874-76; and since has been proprietor and editor of The Christian Secretary, Hartford, Conn. He has published Eloquence of Nature, and other Poems, Hartford, 1842; Sunlight and Hearthlight (poems), New York, 1856; Holy Land: a Year's Tour, 1863, republished under title, Bible Lands, Chicago, 1869, 11th ed. 1877; The Poet's Song for the Heart and the Home, 1867; Rest Days in a Journey to Bible Lands: Sermons preached in the Four Quarters of the Globe, 1886.

PHILLIPS, Philip, Methodist layman; b. in Chautauqua County, N.Y., Aug. 13, 1834; brought up on the farm of a neighbor; early attracted attention by his singing, received his first musical education at the country singing-school, and later from Dr. Lowell Mason; began his first singingschool at Alleghany, N.Y., in 1853; conducted such schools subsequently in adjacent towns and cities. His parents were Baptists, and he was one himself from 1852 to 1860; but in 1860 he and his wife (whom he had married that year) joined the Methodist Church at Marion, O., and have ever since been in that denomination. He brought out his first musical publication, Early Blossoms, in 1860, and sold twenty thousand copies of it. In 1861 he moved to Cincinnati, and opened a music-store. His next book, Musical Leaves, Cincinnati, 1862, sold to the extent of seven hundred thousand copies. During the war he entered vigorously into the work of the Christian Commission, and raised much money for it by his Home Songs, and his personally conducted "services of song" in different parts of the country. He then issued The Singing Pilgrim, and since other books. In 1866 his music-store in Cincinnati was burned, and he moved his business to New York. In 1868 he first visited England, and successfully held ser