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CYCLOPEDIA
BIBLICAL,
THEOLOGICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE.
PKEPAEED BY
THE REV. JOHN M'CLINTOCK, D.D.,
AND
JAMES STRONG, S.T.D. Vol. VI.— ME-NEV.
PRIVATE LIBRARY
RICHARD C. HALXCn-rM
N E W Y O E K : HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
188 3.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
PREFACE TO VOL. VI.
In the preparation of the present vohime Dr. Strong has remained the responsi- ble editor. Professor Worman has continued to act as assistant in the non-biblical department. Special contributions are designated by the initials of the writer ap- pended to each. The issue of the volume has been delayed by the extended tour of Dr. Strong in Europe and the East ; but the readers will receive a compensation in the additional value which his observations abroad will impart to the work. No material change has been deemed desirable in the scope or plan of the Cyclopcedia, and the cordial approbation generally expressed by the public as to its essential feat- ures and fliithful execution is an encouragement to proceed as rapidly as practicable in its completion.
The department of modern biography has been found to call for the greatest ex- ercise of editorial discretion. The aim has been to insert only names of deceased persons who have exerted a more or less marked religious influence upon the com- munity by their personal labors or their writings, and to give them respectively a space as nearly as possible proportioned to the extent of their influence. If the ministers of any particular denomination shall seem to be more numerously noticed than others, this has not arisen from any favoi-iiism, i-at simply from the fact that the ecclesiastical records of their necrology are more complete and accessible.
The following are the names of the special contributors to this volume:
C. W. B.— Professor Charles W. Bennett, D.D., of the Syracuse University, N. Y. P. A. C— President Paul A. Chadbourne, D.D., LL.D., of Williams College, Mass. H. P. C— The Eev. H. P. Collins, A.M., Oxford, N. Y.
G. F. C— Professor George F. Comfort, A.M., Ph.D., of the Syracuse University, N. Y.
G. P. F.— Professor George P. Fisher, D.D., of Yale College.
E. n. G.— The late Professor E. H. Gillett, D.D., of the New York University.
N. S. G.— The Rev. N. S. Gould, Morristown, N. J.
D. Y. H.— The Rev. D. Y. Heisler, Mt. Alto, Pa.
G. F. IT.— Professor George F. Holjies, LL.D., of the University of Virginia.
E. H.— The Rev. R. Hutcheson, A.M., Washington, Iowa.
H. E, J.— Professor H, E. Jacobs, D.D., of the Gettysburgh (Pa.) College.
D. P. K. — Professor D. P. Kidder, D.D., of the Drew Theological Seminary, N. J.
E. A. JI. — The Rev. E. A. Manning, Boston, Mass.
J. W. M.— The Hon. J. W. Marshall, A.jNL, First Assistant P. M. General, Washington, D. C.
G. JL— The Rev. George Miller, B.D., of the Newark Conference,
^ ^.— The Rev. B. Pick, B.D., Rochester, N. Y.
J. N. P.— Mr. J. N. Proeschel, Paris, France.
A. J. S.— Professor A. J. Schem, A.M., N. Y. City.
E. de S.— The Right Rev. E, de Schweinitz, D.D., editor of The Moravian, Bethlehem, Pa.
S. S.— The Rev. Samuel Scoville, A.M., Norwich, N. Y.
L. E. S.— Professor L. E. Sjiith, of the Examiner and Chronicle, N. Y. City.
R, P. S.— The Very Rev, R. Payne Sjiith, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, England,
J. L, S.— The Rev. J. L. Sooy, A.M., Princeton, N. J,
PREFACE TO VOL. VI.
IM. L. S.— The late Professor JI. L. SroE\-EK, D.D., of Pennsylvania University.
X. O. S.— The Kev. Thomas O. Sl-.mju:us, D.D., of Vanderbilt University, Teiin.
G. L. T.— The licv. Gkougk L. Tayi.ou, A.M., of the N. Y. East Conference.
W. J. R. T.— The Rev. W. J. R. Taylor, D.D., Newark, N. J.
G. A. T-— George A. Thomas, A.M., Norwich, N. Y.
II. W. T.— Howard W. Tilton, A.B., of the Chicafjo Post.
T.AV.— The Rev. Thomas Webster, D.D., Ncwburj-, Canada.
E.-\V._The Rev. E. "Wkntwortii, D.D., editor of 7'/ie Ladles' Repository, Cincinnati, 0.
J. P. W.— The Rev. J. P. Weston, D.D., President of the Franklin Academy, Mass.
D. A. W.— The Rev. D. A. Whedon, D.D., of the Providence Conference.
T. D. W.— The Rev. Theodore D. Woolsey, U.D., LL.D., ex-President of Y'ale College.
J. II. W.— Professor J. H. Wokmax, A.M., of Lawrence University, Wis.
C YC L OP^ D I A
BIBLICAL THEOLOGICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE.
ME.
Mead, MattheTW, an English divine, was born in Buckinghamshire in 1G29. Of his early history we know but little. He first came prominently into pub- lic nf)tice during the Cromwellian movement. Mead identified himself with the cause of the Independents, and was appninted by the Protector to the living of ShadwcU in l(j.")8. Four years later he was ejected for nonconformity, and removed to Holland, in common with many other ministers of that age. He became acquainted with the duke of Orange, and was greatly favored by him and the States. Afterwards he returned to England, and gathered about him one of the largest congregations in London. He settled at Stepney as pastor of a dissenting congregation in 1674, and the commimity betokened their love and esteem for him bj^ presenting him with building material for a new chapel. He died in 1699. Matthew Mead, whom his friend and associate, Howe {Funeral Sermon for Mead), describes as " that very reverend and most laborious servant of Christ," was as indefatigable in Christian work as he was amiable in spirit, and, in consequence of his mild temperament and the moderation of his opinions, formed the strongest personal link between the Presbyterians and Independents of England in the second half of the 17th century. Among his publications are, The A Imost C/iristidii, or seven sermons on Acts xxvi, 28 (Lond. i66(5, 8vo) : — 77(6 Almost Christian Discovered (1684, 4to; Glasgow, 1755, 12mo; with Essav by Dr. Young of Perth, Lond. 1825 ; 1849, 12mo) -.—Life 'and Death of Nathaniel Mather (1689, 8vo): — Vision of the Wheels: sermon on Ezek. x, 13 (1689^4to). See Calamy, Noncon- formists ; Skeats, Hist, of the Free Churches of England, p. 167 ; Allibone, Did. of Brit, and Amer. Ailth. ii, 1257.