Johnson, Albert Osborne, an American mis- sionary of the Presbyterian Church to India, was born in Cadiz, Ohio, June 22, 1833. He was educated at Jef- ferson College, Pa., where he was converted, and, on grafl- uation (1852), went to the Theological Seminary at Al- leghany, where he graduated in 1855, and was ordained by the presbytery of Ohio June 12, in the same year. He at once entered the missionary work, which was shared by his wife, whom he had married the day he left the Theological Seminary. But both did not long endure the toUs of a missionary life ; during the Sepoy rebellion in 1857 they suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Indian rebels. For details, see Walsh, Memorial of the Futtehgurh Mission anil her Martt/red Mission- aries (Philada. 1859, 12mo), p. 241 sq. Mr. Johnson is spoken of by AValsh as " a man of verj^ genial influences and of fine social qualities. As a Christian he was zealous and devoted, a man of prayer, and faithful in all his duties ; as a missionary he bade fair to excel in every department of labor. His qualifications were of a high order."
Johnson, Enoch, a IMethodist Eiiiscopal minister, was born in North Carolina; he was early converted; joined the itinerancy in 1819, and died November 25, 1824. He was a man of deep piety and useful talents. His labors were abundantly successful, and his character greatly beloved. — Minutes of Coiferences, i, 432.
Johnson, Evan M., D.D., a minister of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church, was a native of Rhode Island. He was ordained to the ministry in Trinity Church, NcAvport, by bishop Griswold, July 8, 1813 ; removed to New York City in 1814, and became assistant rector of Grace Church, but the year following he exchanged this position for the rectorate of St. James's Church, New- town, L. I. In 1824 he settled in Brooklyn, and built St. John's Church. During bis ministry he united near- ly 4000 couples in marriage, and baptized nearly 10,000 children. He was, at the time of his decease, March 19, 1805 (in his seventy-third year), the oldest settled Epis- copal clergyman in the State of New York.
Johnson, Haynes, a ^Methodist Episcopal minis- ter, was burn at N\'wliury. Vernmnt, in 1X01; converted in 1N29: entered the New Hampshire Conference in 1831, anil died at Newbury, April 9, 1850. He was " a faith- fid and laborious preacher," and during the ten months ]irevious to his death he made nine hundred pastoral ais- its. He was very successfid in winning souls to Christ. — Minutes of Conferences, vi, 75.
Johnson, Herman Merrill, S.T.D., LL.D., a prominent minister and educator of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was bom in Oswego County, N.Y., Nov. 25, 1815. After preparation at Cazenovia Semniary, he entered, in 1837, the junior class of Wesleyan University, graduating with distinction in 1839. The same year he was elected professor of ancient languages in St. Charles's College, JNIissouri, where he remained for three years. Thence he was called to occupy the chair of ancient languages in Augusta College, Kentucky, which he held for two years, when he was elected professor of
ancient languages and literature in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. Here he performed for a while the duties of acting president of the institution, organizing its curriculum, and was especially interested in introducing therein a Biblical course of study as a method of ministerial education. In 1850 he was elect- ed professor of philosophy and English literature in Dickinson College, a position which he fiUed for ten years, when he was called to the presidency of this in- stitution, together with the chair of mord science, in 1860. Dr. Johnson died April 5, 1868, just after the me- morials in behalf of the Methodist centenary had secured to Dickinson College a fair endowment. He contributed largely to the Church periodicals, especially the New York Christian Advocate and the Methodist Quarterly Review. Indeed, he was decidedly able both as a writer and an instructor, and his contributions were always read with micommon interest ; for, as a thinker, he was clear, concise, original, and his writings were often eminently distinguished for their simplicity and grace of expression. He had an especial liking for all (piestions of historical and philological inquiry, and published a learned edition of the Clio of Herodotus (N. Y. 1842, and often). He left unfinished another large and valuable philological con- tribution, the translation and revision of Eberhard's great Synonymical Dictionary of German, French, Ital- ian, Spanish, and English. It is especially to be regret- ted that he did not live to complete his Commentary on the historical Books of the Old Test. " Personally, Dr. Johnson was a man of many and rare excellencies. He was pre-eminently a scholar, extensively learned, and yet distinguished for culture rather than for mere learn- ing. He was especially eminent as a teacher, and as an administrator and disciplinarian he had few superiors. In private he was a model Christian gentleman, affable, refined, and unassuming; able and entertaining in con- versation, and as a companion genial, without descend- ing to anj' thing out of harmony with his elevf.ted char- acter and position. As a prer.rher he was both forcible and instmctive, though too rigidly correct in his tastes to allow him to become extensively popular. In his re- lations to the Church he belonged to an important but ver\' small class. His Christian character, his learning, and his confessed abilities fitted him for almost any one of the highest and most responsible offices in the Church. Such was the place he occupied, while others of equal dignitA' and importance were rcadv to be offered to him" {Ch ristian A dvocale, N. Y., AprU 16, 1868) . ( J. H. W.) Johnson, John (1), an eminent and learned ili- vine of the Church of England, Avas bom Dec. 30, 1662. He was educateil at King's School, in the city of Can- terbury, and at St. ]\Iary Magdalen College, Cambridge. Soon after graduation (1082) he was nominated by the dean and chapter of Canterbury to a scholarship in Cor- pus Christi College, and there took the degree of master of arts in 1085. Shortly after he entered into deacon's or- ders, and became curate to Thomas Hardrcs, at Hardrcs, near Canterburj'. In 1686 he became vicar of Boughton under the Bleam, and in 1687 he held the vicarage of Hernhill, adjoining to Boughton. In 1697 he obtained the living of St. John, in the Isle of Thanet, Avhich he shortly after exchanged for that of Appledon. and in 1707 he Avas inducted to the vicarage of Cranbrook. He died in 1725. His Avorks disjday the highest scholar- ship, a mastery both of the Greek and HcbrcAv lan- guages, and a deep research into the Holy Scriptures. His Unbloody Sacrifice (London, 1714, 8vo; latest ed. Oxf. 1847, 2 vols. 8vo) is the most complete Avork on the Eucharist, considered as a sacrifice, extant, particu- larly on account of its large \collection of authorities from the fathers. Avhich are printed in full. These are cited to prove that the Eucharist is a proper matenal sacrifice; that it is both eucharistic and propitiator)'; that it is to be offered by proper officers; that the ob- lation is to be made on a proper altar; that it is to be consumed by manducation ; together with arguments to prove that Avhat our Saviour speaks concerning eating