at Parsippany, near Newark. He attended the first meeting of the Colonization Society, Jan. 1, 1817, which was established by his and Dr. Finley's exertions, and Mills was at that time appointed, together with Dr. Bur- gess, to visit England, and explore the coast of Africa for the society. He sailed in November, 1817, and in a wonderful manner escaped shipwreck on the coast of France. He sailed from England for Africa Feb. 2, 1818, and arrived on the coast March 12. After a labo- rious inspection of more than two months, he embarked on his return in the brig Success, May 22, 1818. A se- vere cold, which he took early in Jmie, was succeeded by a fever, and he died at sea, June 16, 1818. He was buried in the depths of the ocean. See Spring, Memoirs of John Samuel Mills (N.Y. 1820, 8vo) ; Sprague, 4 7ma& ^4 mer. Pulpit, ii, 566 ; Cyclop. Missions, p. 263 sq. ; Ander- son, Hist. Missions of A. B. For. M. in India (1874).
Mills, Thornton A., D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born in Paris, Ky., September, 1810. He early en- joyed excellent educational advantages; graduated at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1830 ; studied the- ology for a short time in Lane Theological Seminarj-^, and afterwards privately, and was licensed in 1833. He labored for some time in Frankfort, Ky., and in 1836 was installed pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati. In 1848 he purchased The Watchman of the Valley, and continued to edit that paper, first under the name of Central Watchman, and later of Central Christian Herald, until Januar}^, 1853, when it was bought by the synods of Ohio, Indiana, Cincinnati, and Wabash. During 1853 he was secretary and general agent for the Church Erection Committee ; in 1854 ac- cepted a call to the Second Church, in Indianapolis; in 1856 was chosen as general secretary of the Permanent Committee of the General Assembly on Education for the Ministry, to which work he devoted the remainder of his life. He died June 21, 1867. Dr. Mills was a man of firm grasp of mind, clear and positive views of truth, and indomitable energy and perseverance. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1868, p. 220; Meth. Qu. Rev. Jan. 1872, p. 27. (J. L. S.)
Mills, "William, an early minister of the Method- ist Church, was born in Monmouth County, N. J., Aug, 26, 1747; entered the United States army in 1776; suf- fered various vicissitudes during the war until he was carried a prisoner to Europe, whence he returned after the war; was converted through Methodist instrumen- tality in 1792; entered the itinerancj' at Pliiladelphia in 1799, and died at Long Branch, N. J., Dec. 5, 1813. He was a most amiable and excellent man, and a very successful preacher. Several extensive revivals resulted from his labors. — Minutes of Conferences, i, 239;
Mills, William Robert, a minister of the Jleth- odist Episcopal Church, was born in Alexandria, Va., July 5, 1816. He enjoyed the advantages of a liberal academical training, and was for some time a student at William and Mary College. At an early age he was converted, and shortly after became fulh' persuaded of a divine call to the ministry ; was licensed to preach, and was admitted into the Baltimore Conference in the spring of 1840. He labored successively on Berwick Circuit; in 1841 on Huntington Circuit; 1842, North- umberland; 1843, Lycoming ; 1844, Lock Haven ; 1845- 46, Penn's Valley;" 1847, Northumberland; 1848-49, Warrior's Mark ; 1850-51, Huntingdon ; 1852-53, Lewis- town Circuit; 1854-55, Newport; 1856, Mercersburg; 1857-58, Liberty, Md., 1859-60, East Baltimore Sta- tion ; 1861-62, is'orth Baltimore Station ; 1863-65, Al- toona; 1866-67, Lewisburg; 1868, Carlisle ; 1869, York. In the last-named place he died, Dec. 18, 1869. Mills was a faithful pastor and an eloquent preacher. His sermons evinced deep research, were argumentative, and logically arranged, and enlivened with illustrative inci- dents.— Minutes of Conferences, 1870, p. 54.
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23"n n^3 Judg ix, 53 ; 2 Sam. xi, 21 ; in Job xli, 24 I astical literature— none which combines such breadth there is'no Hebrew word corresponding ; in Isa. xlvii, 2 ; I «f view with such depth of research, such high literarj- Jer. XXV, 10, D^tl'^ ; elsewhere rendered '• mill ;" Gr. fiv- Xoi). See JIiLL.
and artistic eminence with such patient and elaborate
j investigation." Perhaps we should add the estimate
of one of our own historical writers, tlian whom no
Milman.Henry Hart, D.D., one of the leaders of 'greater or more competent critic could be heard; we
tlie Uroad tJliurch iiarty in tlie Anglican communion of refer to William II. I'rescott {J'/ti/ip II, ii, 60(1, n. G9),
our day, an ecclesiastic of distinction also, botli as a his- torian and a ])oet, was the youngest son of Sir Francis Mihnan, jjhysician to George III, and was born in Lon- don Feb. 10, 1791. He was educated at Eton, and af- terwards at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took the degrees of B.A. and M.A., and of whicli he was elected a fellow. He wrote several poems, and secured mucli distinction by his efforts. In 1817 he toolt holy orders, and was apjiointed vicar of St. Mary's, Heading. In 1820 ;Mr.]Milman published The Fall of Jerusaltin, a dramatic poem, founded on Josephus's narrative of the siege of the sacred city. Tliis, in some respects his most beautiful poetical production, established his repu- tation. In 1821 he Avas elected professor of poetry in the University of Oxford. He now published three other dramatic poems: The Murti/i- of Antioch, Bel- shazzar, and Aime Boleyn. In 1827 he published his