MAGILL
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MAGISTRATE
Theological Seminary ; a member of the American Board of Foreign Missions, also of the Publishing Committee of the American Tract Society, etc. Besides several able published discourses, Dr. Magie was the author of The Sprinci-time of Life (an excellent volume of 350 pages, published by the American Tract Society, N. York, 1852, Itjmo; 1855, IGmo), "in which his own character, and especially his care and counsels for the young, are happily perpetuated." See Wilson, Fresh. Hist. A Ima- nac, l.SGG, p. 128,
Magill, Charles Beatty, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Wellsville, Ohio, Oct. 3, 18-10; graduated at ]\Iiami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1858 ; studied divin- ity at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny City, Pa., and was licensed to preach in April, ISGl. The win- ter of 18G2-63 he spent at Princeton, N. J. ; subsequently he preached in Virginia and Illinois ; and was finally ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Iowa. He afterwards spent a short time in the service of the Christian Commission in Georgia, where he contracted the illness of which he died, Aug. 28, 18G4. Mr. jMagill was thoroughly educated and de- voutlv pious. See Wilson, Presb. I/isf. Almanac, 18G5, p. 98." (,T.L.S.)
Maginnis, John Sharp, D.D., a Baptist minister, was born in Butler Co.. Pa., June 13, 1805 ; was licensed to preaeli May 25, 1827 ; studied afterwards at Water- ville College, INIe., Brown Universitj> and the theolog- ical seminary in Newton, Mass. ; was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Portland, Mc, m Oct. 1832, and there remained initil ill health compelled him to remove. In the winter of 1837-38 he was pastor of the Pine Street Church of Providence, E. I. ; later he be- came prfifessor of Biblical theology in the literary and theological institution at Hamilton, N. Y. (now IMadison University) ; in 1850, professor of Biblical and pastoral theology in the new theological school connected with the Kochester University, and also professor of intel- lectual and moral philosophy in the university. He was made ]M.A. by Waterville College while at Hamil- ton, and D.D. by Brown University in 1844. Failing liealth finally compelled him to resign his professorship in the University, but he continued his labors in the theological school until his death, Oct. 15, 1852. Dr. Maginnis published only a few detached articles, among them one on the philosophy of Cousin (published in the Christian Revieio), which attracted much attention. See Sprague, .4 nnals, vi, 766 ; Christian Rev. vol. xviii (Jan.). Magister DLscipliuEe (master of discipline) was the title of a certain ecclesiastical officer in the ancient Church. It was a custom in Spain, in the time of the Gothic kings, about the end of the 5th century, fiir par- ents to dedicate their young children to the service of the Church. They were taken for this purpose into a bishop's family, and educated, under his supervision, by a discreet and grave person, who was generally a pres- byter, and was called mar/ister clisciplinre. The second and fourth covmcils of Toledo prescribed the duties of this master, the chief of which were, that he should vig- ilantlv watch over the moral character and behavior of the young, and instruct them in the rules and discipline of the Church. — Farrar, Eccles. Diet. s. v.
Magister Sacri Palatii (master of the sacred palact^). This office was created in 1218 by pope Hono- rius III, and was first held by St. Dominic. The latter, during his residence at Rome, had noticed that the per- sons employed by the cardinals and authorities made a bad use of their unemployed time. He therefore had commenced, with the consent of the pope, to give them religious instruction during their leisure time, and was rewarded by Honorius with the above office. The task assigned was like that \\\nc\\ Dominic had previously chosen for himself, but the pope increased it by direct- ing that the employes of the [i.-iiial household should also attend these instructions. The office was made perpetual to the Dominicans. Many privileges were
gradually attached to it. Thus a bull of pope Eugenius
IV, of 143G, ordered that in the papal chapel the Magis- ter s. palatii should be placed next to the dean of the Auditore della Rota ; no one Avas to preach in the chapel without his permission; and on his being temporarily absent from Rome, he was to invest his substitute with the same privileges. These prerogatives were confirm- ed by Calixtus III in 145G, who gave also the right to the Magister s. palatii of reproving the preacher in the papal chapel, even in the presence of tlie pope. Leo X, in 1515, decided that nothing should be printed in the dio- cese of Rome witliout the consent of that official and of the cardinal-vicar. h\ 1625 Urban VIII went further, and forbade the reprinting of works published in the States of the Church without tins authorization. Pius
V, in 1570, connected ^\^th the office a canonicate of St. Peter, which was, however, taken from it in 1586 by Sixtus V. Finally, Alexander VII gave the Magister s. palatii the precedence before all the other clergy com- posing the Roman cabinet. These privileges, however, were gradually taken back, and the censorship of books now alone remains to tlie Magister s. palatii. See Mus- son, Pragm. Geschichte d. MOnchsorden, viii, 33 ; Helyot, Gesch. d. geisil. Kluster- u. Ritterorden (Leipzig, 1754), iii, 252 ; Schrockh, K. G. xxxiii, 95 ; Herzog, Real-Encgklop. viii, 685.