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1... flc^h and drinkini' his Woorl in the 6th chapter of I and effective oratory. His eulogy on General \^ ash- .In.'s (iosnel is princii.allv meant of the Eucharist, ington " produced a great sensation throughout the com- s wnbhcation, liaving invJlved him in a bitter con- munity. The exordium was spoken of at the time as a „n account of its High-Church views, induced rare specimen of eloquence ; and the whole performance ■ ■ ■ was certainly of a very high order." It was pubhshed by the Legislature, at whose request it was delivered. He also pubhshed several other discourses, and contrib- uted largely to literary periodicals of his day. In per- son he was" tall, slender, well proportioned, and graceful. His imagination was brilliant and his fervor profound, His intellectual qualities and theological and literary attainments were eminent. He wrote his sermons, but deUvered them extemporaneously, with great simplic- ity, directness, and unction. He died of consumption, Aug. 29, 1803. Of his three chiklreu, two became Epis- copalian clergymen : one at Jamaica, L. I. ; the other a professor in the (leneral Theological Seminary at New York. — Rogers, Hklorical Discourse (Albany, 1858) ; Sprague, A niials, ix, 167. (W. J. K. T.)
Johnson, Joseph, an Indian preacher, was bom at Mohegan, near Norwich, Conn., about 1750. After a brief course of instruction under Mr. Wheelock at Leba- non, he was sent, at the age of fifteen, as a schoolmaster to the Six Nations of Indians in New York, and remain- ed there a couple of years. Afterwards he spent a va- grant life for some time, until, during a fit of sickness occasioned by his irregularities, he became a sincere penitent, and determined to preach the Gospel of Christ. He was soon licensed to preach, and for several years was a missionary in the State of New York. He was well acquainted with theologj'. The date of his death is not known to us.
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him to "publish, in 1717, The Unhlooch) Sacrifice, and tar unreik'l and support>'d, part ii, showing the agree- ment and disagreement of the Eucharist with the sac- rifices of the ancients, and the excellency of the former; the great importance of the Eucharist both as a feast and a sacrifice ; the necessity of frequent communion •, the unity of the Eucharist; the nature of excommunica- tion ; th"e primitive method of preparation, with devo- tions for tlie altar. His other works are, A Collection of all Ecclesiastical Laics, etc., concerning the Govern- ment, etc., of the Church of England (Lond. 1720,2 vols. 8vo ; Oxford, 1850-51, 2 vols. 8vo) :— 1 Collection of Dis- courses, etc. (Lond. 1728, 2 vols. 8vo) -.—The Psalter, or Holy David and his old English Translators cleared (London, 1707, 8vo). See Life, by Rev. Thos. Brett.— Hook, Eccles. Diet. s. v. ; AUibone, Diet. Engl, and A m. Auth.ii,a.v. (E.deP.)
Johnson, John (2), an able and popular minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, born in Louisa Co., Va., .Jan. 7, 1783 ; joined the Church in 1807, and en- tered the Conference at Liberty Hill, Tennessee in 1808. Two years after he removed to Kentucky, and was ap- pointed first to the Sandy River Circuit, and in 181 1 to Natchez Circuit. His early educational advantages had been few, and when he entered the ministry of his Church he can hardly be said to have possessed a fair English education; but unremitting efforts to gain knowledge at last made him one of the best scholars of his Conference. Thus, while at the Natchez Circuit, he displayed an extensive knowledge of the Greek and He- brew, of which uo one had believed him to have an idea even, and from that time he began to rise rapidly in the estimation of his colleagues. He now took rank with Lakin, Sale, Page, Hlackman, and Oglesby, and was regarded by many as the most remarkable preacher of the West. In 1812 he was appointed to the Nashville Circuit ; then successively to the Livingston, Christian, and Goose Creek, and finally again to the Livingston Cir- cuit ; and in 1818 he was sent to the Nashville Station. While here he engaged in a controversy on the ques- tion of immersion with the Baptist preacher Varderaan, in which he is generally believed to have come off vic- tor; at least from this event dates his great popularity in the V/est. " Henceforth," says Redford {Methodism in Kenlnckg, ii, 143), " the name of John Johnson was the synonym of success in religious controversies." From 1820 he filled successively tlie Red River, Hopkinsville, and RusscUville Circuits, and in 18-23 he was stationed at Louisville, and in 1824 at :\Iaysvillo, and, after several years of rest, was in 1831 appointed presiding elder of the (Jreen River, and in lH.i2 of Hopkinsville District. In 18:5:) he was finally located, and he now removed to Mi.Vcrnun, Ilhnois. Here he died April 9, 1858. '-As a ( 'hri^iian," says tlie Western Christian Advocate (May 2('., is.'i.s). "lirother Johnson was consistent, exemplary, and dicply devoted. ' Holiness to the Lord' appears to liHvc been his motto. He died in great peace, testifv- ing. as Ills ricsli and heart failed, that God was the stri'ugi li i>r Ids heart and his portion forever." (J. H.W.)
Johnson, John (3). See Johnsonians.
Johnson, John Barent, a minister of the Re- fTuicd (I)ui.li) Cburch, was born in 1769 in Brooklyn, L.I.; graduated at Columl)ia College, 1792; studied the- ology under Dr. John II. Livingston, and entered the mnnstry in 1795. He was copastor of the Reformed Uutch Cluirch, Albany, with Rev. Dr. John Bassett, from 1<9G to 1802, and afterwards pastor of the church in Brooklyn, 1802-3. Of i-repossessing appearance ami en- gaging manners, he won many friends by liis dignified and courteous bearing. He was popular with all class- es, esp<.,-ially with the young. As a preacher lie was Oistinguished for a melodious voice, a natural manner