' From his rough heart a babe could press Soft milk of human tenderness.'
On all the storms of his life were rainbows, but only liis intimate friends were in position to see them." His first book was ^4 Scriptural Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity, a small volume issued in 1843, and to which inultum injjcirvo was peculiarly applicable. In the same year ho began his publication of Tracts for the Times, which at length grew into a small but piquant monthlj-, called at first The Conservative, and afterwards the Prim- itive Christian. In 1846 he published a Avork on As- tronomy, with large astronomical maps — a work of rare merit and popularity. Soon after he issued his Ele- mentary Astronomy, and in 1850 edited a new and im- proved edition of Bun-ett's Geography of the Heavens, for which he is spoken of as "one of the most competent astronomers in the country." In 1853 he published his Hiyh-School Astronomy, and the same year was associ- ated with Prof. J. B.Woodbury in bringing out a music- book. The Lute q/'Zion, which, becoming widely popular, led in a short time to an enlarged edition under the title of Neiv Lute ofZion. The next year his work on Spir- it Rappings was issued, and had a large circulation. In 1856 his celebrated controversy with Dr. J. H. Perry, on tlie Wesleyan Doctrine of Christian Perfection, was pub- lished in successive pamphlets. Three years later he issued another tune-book. Sacred Melodies, " designed for use on all occasions of public worship ;" and the same year also sent forth his Impending Crisis, a stout pam- phlet of pungent facts and impassioned appeals on the slavery question. In 1864 his Ministers Pocket Manual was published, and within the next two years followed with the two most elaborate theological works of his life, Immortality of the Soul, and Resurrection of the Body, books of superior and permanent value. During 1866 he published Select Lesso/is from the Holy Scriptures. and his Defence of American Methodism, and in the next year a timely treatise on Pojnilar Arnusements. The year 1868, the last of his life, was perhaps the busiest, and the most prolific of results in the line of authorship. Besides editing and bringing through the press the work on Perfect Love, he wrote and published Mary Ann Smith, and a surprising number of other works on Ro- manism, from the tract of a few pages to the heavy pamphlet. He left an unfinished treatise on Depravity in its Relation to Entire Sanctification, and the outlines of several other theological works. His contributions to the periodical press were abundant and able. He was the author of several poems of decided merit, and among his issues from the press were various Church and Sunday-school reipiisites. He composed with re- markable ease and rapidity, and seldom rewrote a sen- tence or even a word. His busy life suddenly closed at his residence. Jersey City, N. J., in a signalh' triumphant death, Nov. 24, 1868. s'ee Minutes of Conferences, 1869, p, 55 sq. ; also Work Here, Rest Hereafter, or the Life
MATTISON
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(ind Character of Rev. Hiram Muttison, D.D., by Rev. N. A'aiisaiit, with an Introductivn by bishop Thomson (New York, lf<70, 8vo). (N.V.)
Mattison, Seth, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Shaftesbun^, Vt., Feb. 22, 1788 ; joined the r>Iethodist Chiu-ch in 1805; entered the Genesee Con- ference in 1810 ; and died Oct. 18, 1845, having preached with eminent nsefiilness and great holiness the Gospel of Christ for thirty-four years.— Minufes of Conftrences, iii,(>43,
Mattison, Spencer, A.M., a Methodist Episcopal minister and educator, was born at Plainficld, N. Y., Aug. 2. 1808; was converted in 1825; graduated, with first lionors, at Middlebury College, Vt., in 1830 ; joined Troy Conference the same year, but on his second charge his health failed, and he went to Georgia. On recover}- he spent five years there as principal of VineviUe Academy, and then rejomed the Troy Conference in 1842. In 1846 lie was elected professor of ancient languages and lit- erature in M'Kendree College, Illinois, where he spent six years, and then resigned and re-entered the regu- lar work of the ministry, but at the close of a j-ear he accepted the principalship of Rock River Seminary, jMount Morris, III. His health again failed, and he died aljout the end of October, 1853. Professor Mattison was an excellent linguist and instructor, and greatly beloved by his pupils. He was a minister of fine talents and uniform piety, and a most accomplished Christian gen- tleman.— Minutes of Conferences, v, 455. (G. L. T.)
Mattithi'ah (Heb. Mattilhjah', fl^rilnp, (^ift of Jchorah, compare QdiSorot;, Theodore ; also in the pro- longed form Mattithya'hii, ^n^nPip, 1 Chron. xv, 18, 21 ; XXV, 3, 21 ; Sept. MarTa^iag, but in Ezra x, 43 Ma^SiaSiiaQ v. r. 'MuT^aviaQ ; so also MnrrnSioCj 1 Mace, ii, 1 ; Luke iii, 25, 26) the name of three or four men in the Old Test, and of one or t\vo (Auth. Vers. " I\Iattathias") in the New. See also Mattathah ; 1Iattiie^\' ; Matthlvs, etc. ; and especially ISIatta-
THIAS.
1. One of the sons of the Levite Jeduthun, appointed by David cliief of the fourteenth section of the Temple musicians (1 Chron. xxv, 3, 21). B.C. 1014. He is jirobabh' the same with one of the Levitical wardens who were assigned to the performance of the sacred an- thems on the removal of the sacred ark to Jerusalem (1 Chron. xv, 18, 21 ; xvi, 5). B.C. cir. 1043.