Miller, James, a Presbj'terian minister, was born near New INIilns, Ayrshire, Scotland, Feb. 4, 1803. He was educated at Glasgow College, Scotland; studied di- vinity in the theological seminary at Glasgow, and was licensed by Kilmarnock Presbytery of the United Se- cession Church. Soon after he came to the United States; was ordained in 1841 by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ohio as pastor over the Church in Perrysburg and Scotch Ridge, Wood Co., Ohio ; sub- sequently removed to Iowa, preaching as opportunity offered, and died Jan. 26, 1867. Mr. Miller was a suc- cessful and useful minister, and did much to advance the cause of truth. — Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1868, p. 274. (J. L. S.)
Miller, Johann Peter, a German Protestant the- ologian, was born at Leipheim April 26, 1725 ; was edu- cated at the university at Helmstadt ; in 1747 went to Gottingen, and in 1750 became rector of the Latin school at Helmstadt. In 1756 he accepted a similar position at the Lutheran Gymnasium at Halle, but re- turned in 1766 to Gottingen, as professor of theology, and there died, May 29, 1789. Miller wrote and pub- lished a continuation of Jlosheim's Sittenlehre. His productions of value are, Bas Reich der Natur mid Sitten (Halle, 1757-1762): — Diss, in locum ad Roman. S. 28 (Helmstiidt, 1747) : — Diss, locus antologicus de Eodem et Diverso (Gotting. 1748, 4to) -.—Diss, de notabili et maxi- mo vei-sionis Italm ad verba Christi Matt, ax, 28 addita- mento (ibid. 1749, 4to) :— J. L. Mosheimii Commentationes et orafinuis rdriigniiris ( ll;iniliurg, 1751,8vo) : — Voll- stdmli'i, r .\ii.<~iiii (AK.t olhii III inn. Theilen der Moshei- mischdi Sitti nil hi; d.r hi i/igni Srhrift (Halle, 1765,8vo; 2d auriage, ibid. 1777, 8vo) '-.—Die Eoffnung besserer Zei- tenfiir Schulen (ibid. 1765, 4to):— Pro/;?-, quo probatur,^ cum theqpneustea Apostolorum mc omniscientiam quasi
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Miller, John E., a minister of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, was born at Albany in 1792; gradu- ated at Union College in 1812; was licensed in 1817; serveil the Church as missionary in the South and West in 1817 and 1818; was pastor at Chester, N. J., Presby- terian Church from 1818 to 1823; and then of the Re- formed Church, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, until he (lied, in 1847, in the midst of a powerful revival of re- ligion in his Church. Jliller was also chajilain in the Marine Hospital and at the Seaman's Retreat. In this place he exhibited the highest degree of moral courage and religious faith and zeal in times of appalling pesti- lence, and among sufierers of all kinds. Contagious dis- eases had no fears for him. lie was a simple-hearted, bold, tender, and faithful preacher of the Gospel ; a guile- less, outspoken, honest soul; a hater of strife; and a brave, calm, earnest, uncompromising lover and defender of the faith once delivered to the saints. His memoir is to be fomul in a goodly volume, called An Old Disci- ple and Ith Descendants, by Rev. F. M. Kip, D.D., which contains brief biographies of his patriarchal father (Christian Miller, Esq., of Albany) and several of his lamily, who were noted for unusual gifts of mind, char- acter, and piety. Among these was a grandson, Isaac Livingston Kip Miller, a youth of unusually brilliant and jiowcrful intellect, and of great promise, who died ill IMtl. while studving for the ministrv. He was the elder brother of Dr." W. A. Miller (q. v.)." (W. J. R. T.)
Miller, John Peter, a talented but eccentric American minister, was born in the Palatinate, Germa- ny, about the year 1715; was thoroughly educated in his native land ; came to this country in 1730 ; was li- censed and ordained by the Philadelphia Synod of the Presbyterian Church; and in 1731 became pastor of the German Reformed Church in Tulpehoeken, Berks Coun- ty, Pa., where he laljored successfully for about four years. In 1735 he fell in with an enthusiast by the name of Beissel, by whom he was immersed, and so be- <'ame identified with the Seventh-day Baptists. Flying from tiie society of the world, he entered upon a solitary or monastic life at the base of a mountain, near a "lim- piil spring." He afterwards, urged by the force of his trials, entered the cloister of the Seventh-day Baptists at Ephrata, Pa. " Here, under the name of Jabez, he lived a quiet life as a Protestant monk, using a board for his bed at night, and devoting himself by day to what he imagined to be the service of God in severe self-castigation." See Ilarbaugh, Fathers of the Ref. Chunk, i, 301^311. (D.Y.H.)
Miller, John Wesley, a minister of the Meth- odist lOpiscoiial Clnireh, South, was born at Charleston, South Carolina, Oct. 27, 1829. He enjoyed a collegiate education, and entered the ministry in 1850; was, as licentiate, deacon, and elder, on circuits, stations, mis- sions, and in the Southern anny as chaplain of hospi- tals, always a faithful, devoted servant of Christ. He died in the village of Darlington, South Carolina. June 29, ixili;.— .l/(»//^.v <;/■///-- .1/. /•;. Church, South, 180G.
Miller, Louis Pilketon, a minister of the Meth- o(li>t I',pisci>pal Church, w.ns bi>ru in Union Comity, Pa., Jan. «, 1X09. He joined the Church in his sixteenth year. He was soon after imjjressed by a strong convic- tion that it was his duty to preach the Gospel to others. He worked in his father's lields iiy moonlight, that lie might procure religious books to (jualify himself for this station in life. In 1828 he entered the academy at Mil- ton, Pa., and in 1830 he was admitted into the Ohio Conference. He was successively stationed at Athens, Norwich, Georgetown, ^ladisonville, South Charleston, Wilmington, Franklin, White Oak, ^ladisonville, Ame- lia, Williamsburg. Locklanti, West White Oak, Amelia, Milford, New Carlisle, Raysville, Batavia. ^ladisonville, Miami, Jamestown, and ^loscow. In 18til he entered the army as chaplain, and served until peace was re-