Greenskj'', Peter, an Indian of the Lake Superior country, one of the first converts under the mission- ary labors of John Sundaj' (q. v.), was born in 1807, and became a Christian in 1830. He received license Sept. 21, 1844. Subsequently he was employed as an interpreter to Rev. Mr. Daugherty, of the Presbyterian Board, for several years. June 18, 1859, he was again licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church ; and in 1862 he was admitted into full connec- tion in the Conference, and ordained deacon. For the t\vo 3'ears following he was in charge of the Oceana Indian Mission. In 1864 he was again appointed in charge of the Pine River Indian Mission. In 1865 he was ordained elder, and returned to Pine River. He died of quick consumption, April 8, 1866. Among his own people he had extraordinary influence. He was a laborious student, a good theologian, and a power- ful preacher. The Indians in Northern Michigan are greatly indebted to him for their civilization and pie- ty.— Minutes if Conferences, 1866, p. 170.
Greenvrood, Francis William Pitt, a Unita- rian minister, was born in Boston in 1797. He gradu- ated at Harvard in 1814, and then pursued his theo- logical studies. He became pastor of the New South Church, Boston, in 1818, but was soon compelled, on account of his health, to go to Europe. He returned in 1821, and passed several years in Baltimore, where he became editor of the Unitarian Miscellany. In 1824 he was made associate minister of King's Chapel, Bos- ton, and, after 1827, pastor. In 1837-38 he was asso- ciate editor of the Christian Examiner, to which he was an able and frequent contributor for manj' years. He died August 2, 1843. Dr. Greenwood was a man of rare gifts ; an eloquent preacher, and a very accom- plished writer. "He gladly acknowledged as Chris- tian brethren those who led a Christian life, though their theological opinions might lead them to exclude him from the fellowship of the saints." He pulilislied Chapel Liturgy (Boston, 1827, 12mo) : — Psalms and Hymns (18S0) : — History of King's Chapel (Boston, 183.3, 12mo) : — Sermons to Children : — Lives of the Ticelve Apostles (1838) : — Sermons of Consolation (1842) : — Ser- 7nons on various Subjects (1844, 2 vols. 12mo). — Allilione, Diet, of Authors, i, 736 ; Christ. Examiner, xxxvi, 227.
Greeting (prop. CiS'J, shalom' , peace ; \air,io, to wish joy ; also 5X'^\ shaal', to ask after one's health). See Salutation.
Gregoire, Henri, constitutional bishop of Blois, was born at Veho, near Luneville, Dec. 4, 1750. He was educated at the Jesuits' College of Nancj', entered the Church, and became teacher in the school at Pont- .^-Mousson, When the French Revolution liroke out he embraced its principles, and in 1789 he was elected a meml)er of the States-general. He soon became dis- tinguished for the boldness of his opinions on civil aud
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religious liberh'; his eloquent efforts in favor of the Jews and the blacks placfd him high among the friends of hunianit}'. It was on his motion that the Conven- tion in 171)4 abolished negro slaver}'. He was the first among the clergj- to take the constitutional oath. In Sept. 1792, he advocated the abolition of roj'altj' in the Convention, yet proposed also the abolition of capital punishment, intending thus to save tlie king's life. In the Keign of Terror he had the courage to resist in the Convention the storm of invectives from the trib- unes, and the threats from the Mountain. "Are sac- rifices demanded for the country.'" he said; "lam ac- customed to make them. Are the revenues of my bishopric dimunded ? I abandon them without regret. Is religion the subject of your deliberations? It is a matter beyond your jurisdiction ; I demand the free- dom of religious worship." Later, he was one of five who opposed the accession of the first consul to the throne. In 1811 he signed the act deposing the em- peror, and the next j'ear, as member of the Institute, declined signing the additional act, which led, in the Restoration, to his expulsion both from that body and from the bishopric. He then devoted himself to liter- ary and benevolent labors until his death, April 28, 1831. He had a large share in the foundation of some of the greatest institutions of that period, such as the Bureau, des Longitudes, the Conservatoire des Ai-ts et 3Ie!iers, and the Institut Xational. Notwithstanding his great services to religion and humanity, and his repeated refusals, in the worst periods of the Revolu- tion, to abandon the Roman Catholic Church, he was treated by the authorities of that Church, on their re- turn to power, not merely with neglect, but with cruel- ty. The archbishop of Paris refused him the last sac- raments, except on condition of retracting the consti- tutional oath taken forty years before, and also refused him Catholic burial! His principal publications are Essai sur la regeneration morale, physique et politique dfs Juifs (Metz, 1789) : — Memoire en faveur des gens de sang mele de St. Domingue, etc. (1789) : — De la littera- tiire des Ni'gres ; recherches sur Jeurs fandtes intelleclu- elles et morales: — Lihertes de I'Eglise Galllcane (1826, 2d edit.) : — Illstoire des sectes religieuses dans les quatre parties du monde (2d ed. 1828, 6 vols. 8vo) : — Chronique religieuse (6 vols. 8vo) : — Recueil de letires encydiques : — A nnales de la religion (18 vols. 8vo). — Herzog, v, 319 ; Migne ; Carnot, Memoires de Gregoire (1837, 2 vols. 8vo) ; Hoefer, Noiiv. Biog. Genei-ale, xxi, 882.