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Reynolds and James Boswell whose Life of Johnson is one of the best biographies ever written.

(33) St. Anselm (1033-1109). From his early youth he desired to enter upon a monastic life; when he was twenty-three years old he was attracted to the monastery at Bec by the teachings of Lanfranc and became an ardent pupil of this great prior. Lanfranc was, a few years later, raised to the see of Canterbury and Anselm succeeded him in the abbacy of Bec, then the most famous school in Europe. In 1093 he was given the regalia of the see of Canterbury. The last sixteen years of his life were spent in conflict and stress. He was canonized in 1494.

(34) Simon J. McPherson (1850-1919) was for twenty years Head Master of Lawrenceville School.

(36) Charles Carroll Albertson, the pastor of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, New York, is the founder and president of the Book Lovers' Guild and president of the Council of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He is editor and author of numerous literary works, including: College Sermons, Chapel Talks and Prophets and the War.

(39) St. Augustine (354-430), a renowned father of the Christian Church, was born at Tagaste, Africa. His mother, Monica, was a Christian, his father, Patricius, a pagan. His parents sent him to Carthage to complete his education, but he disappointed their expectations by his neglect of serious study and his devotion to pleasure. He left Christianity and became a disciple of the Manichæans but St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan, later converted him to the faith of his boyhood, and the reading of Paul's epistles wrought an entire change in his life and character.

(41) Rowland Williams (1817-1870) was for many years a fellow and tutor at King's College in Cambridge. In 1854 he became select preacher at Cambridge and vicar of Broad Chalk. His views on inspiration, however, brought him into disfavor with the Welsh clergy and in 1862 he was prosecuted and condemned for heresy in the Court of

Arches but, two years later, he secured from the Privy Council a reversal of the judgment against him.

(43) William Aitken has been the Canon Residentiary of Norwich Cathedral, England, since 1900.

(47) Clayton E. Wheat is the Chaplain of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

(50) Hugh Birckhead is the Rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland.

(51) Herman Page is the Bishop of Spokane, Washington. He was at one time in charge of the mission churches at Wallace and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

(52) J. Ritchie Smith is a professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

(53) Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was an American clergyman, editor, lecturer, orator and writer. He had a wide personal influence in the public affairs of his day; he joined freely in the politics of the anti-slavery, Civil War and reconstruction periods and championed the poor, the weak and the opppressed. In 1870 he started The Outlook Magazine. The best known of his published works include: Lectures to Young Men, Yale Lectures on Preaching, Morning and Evening Devotional Exercises and Patriotic Addresses in England and America.

(55) Michael Sailer (1751-1832).

(58) Bishop Lawrence is the Bishop of Massachusetts and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Mark's and Groton Schools.

(60) Donald Wheeler is a professor of Public Speaking at Princeton Theological Seminary and Lawrenceville School.

(61) William H. Matthews is pastor of Greenwich Presbyterian Church, New York City.

(64) Horace Holley is a young American author and poet. His books include: The Inner Garden, Read-Aloud Plays and Bahaism.

(65) Evangeline Booth is the daughter of the late Commander William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army.

For her work during the war Commander Booth was
awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the United
States Government.

(66) Wm. De Witt Hyde (1858-1917) was for more
than thirty years president of Bowdoin College. Before
taking up his life work of teaching he was a Congrega-
tionalist pastor at Patterson, N. J. His books include:
The Five Great Philosophies of Life and The Quest of the
Best.

(67) Maria Alexandra Victoria, grand-daughter of Queen
Victoria, was born in Eastwell Park in Kent. Her father
was the Duke of Edinburgh and her mother the Grand
Dutchess Marie of Russia, the only daughter of Czar
Alexander II. Her Majesty is the author of a number
of books including: The Stealers of Light, The Dreamer
of Dreams, The Lily of Life and Ilderim.

(68) Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was an American
clergyman of the Episcopal Church and became Bishop of
Massachusetts in 1891. He was an impressive pulpit orator
of great spiritual force. His published lectures and sermons
include: Lectures on Preaching and Essays and Addresses.

(69) St. Clement was born about A.D. 30. It is sup-
posed that he is the same Clement mentioned by St. Paul
(Phil. IV:3) as one of his fellow-laborers. He was, ac-
cording to tradition, baptised by St. Peter and ordained
Bishop of Rome in 91.

(70) James G. K. McClure is the President of the
McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill.

(71) The Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885, Anthony
Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury). He became a
member of parliament for Woodstock in 1826 and, eight
years later, was made a Lord of the Admiralty. During his
life he was closely connected with reforms in poor law,
the treatment of lunatics and the condition of factory
operatives.

(72) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1893-1882). An American
lecturer, essayist and poet. He worked side by side with

Channing and Thoreau in developing transcendentalism, particularly in its theological aspect, as a protest against dogmatic rationalism in religion. He believed in a Godlike nature of the human soul and the correlation of human and divine wisdom.

(73) Charles R. Brown has been dean of the Divinity School of Yale University since 1911. He is the author of a number of books, written especially for boys and young men. They include: The Young Man's Affairs, The Modern Man's Religion and The Quest of Life.

(74) A. W. Beaven is the pastor of Lake Avenue Baptist Church, Rochester, N. Y.

(75) Henry Sylvester Nash (1854-1912) was a theologian and for twenty-eight years professor of literature and interpretation of the New Testament at the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass.

(77) Samuel McComb, after receiving his degree of D.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1901, began his professional life as a Presbyterian minister with pastorates at Reading, England and Armagh and Belfast, Ireland. Since 1916 he has been Canon of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, Baltimore. He is especially well known for his book, Prayer: What it is and what it does and Faith.

(78) Robert Watson is pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of New York City.

(81) George Dawson (1821-1876) was a British Nonconformist clergyman. His followers built the Church of The Savior, Birmingham, where, free of all doctrinal restrictions, he preached from 1847 until his death.

(83) P. K. Emmons is the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Trenton, New Jersey.

(85) Edwin F. Hatfield (1807-1883), an American Presbyterian clergyman, was for a time agent for Union Theological Seminary, and for many years clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly.

(86) Edward S. Ames is a professor of philosophy at

the University of Chicago and pastor of the Hyde Park Church of the Disciples of Christ.

(87) Eugene Bersier (1831-1889) was a pulpit orator of the Reformed Church of France.

(88) Gerhard Tersteegen (1677-1769) was a German poet born in Mörs, Germany. He is particularly remembered for his book The Spiritual Garden and the wellknown hymn Now the Day is Ended.

(90) Gregorian Church, A.D. 590.

(91) Albinus Flaccus Alcuinus (735-804).

He was

born at York and educated there under the direction of Ælbert, whom he succeeded in the headship of the school. In 780 he met the Emperor Charles, the Great who persuaded him to settle down at his court and help educate the Franks.

(92) C. G. Rossetti (1830-1895) was herself a poet and sister of the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Even as a child she wrote verses and at the age of seventeen her first volume of poems was published.

(96) J. R. Miller (1840-1912) was for many years pastor of St. Paul's, Philadelphia, and editorial superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publications.

(97) James Martineau (1805-1900) was a younger brother of the English novelist and political economist Harriet Martineau. Possessed of considerable inventive and mathematical talents, he meant to study for engineering but in 1828 was ordained a Unitarian minister.

(101) Charles R. Erdman is a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary.

(102) D. F. McGill is a clergyman of Ben Avon and for many years was the associate editor of the United Presbyterian.

(103) Hicks' Devotions, 1700.

(104) Bishop Ridley (1500-1555) was the Bishop of London in the reigns of Edward IV. and his successor Mary. On the death of Edwård he was involved in an attempt to secure the Protestant ascendency by placing the Lady

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