Sander, Antony, a Flemish ecclesiastic, was born at Antwerp iii 1586, and died in 1664. He was the au- thor of several religious and historical works in Latin.
Sander, Imnianuel Friedrich Emil, Ph.D., a (ierman divine, was born in 17117 at Schafstiidt. F'or a time he preached in the University Church at Leipsic; then at VVichlinghansen, in Westphalia; and finally he was pastor at Elberfeld, where he died in 1861. Besidesa great many Sermons, he published, Der Kampfder evan- gelisrhen Kirche mit dem Rationalismus (Barmen, 1830) : — Theologisches Gutachten iibcr die Predigerhibel des Ed. Hijlsmann (ibid. 1836) : — Der Roinanismus, seine Ten- denzen u. seine Methodik (Essen, 1843) : — Das Papstthnm in seiner heutigen Gestalt, etc. (Elberfeld, 1846): — Uie A hendmahlsgemeinschaft znischen Lutherischen v. Refor- 7nisten (ibid. 1859). See Znchold, Bibliotheca Theol. ii, 1113 sq. ; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Literatur, J). 747; Furst, Bihl. Jiidaica, in, 243. (B. P.)
Sandercock, EnwAun, an English dissenting min- ister, was born in 1703. He was pastor of an indepen- dent congregation in Spittal Square, London, in 1727, at Bartholomew Close in 1730, and at Rotherhithe in 1738. He retired to York about 1762, where he died in 1770. He published. Sermons (Lond. 8vo).
Sanders, Billington McCarter, a Baptist min- ister, was born in Columbia County, Ga., Dec. 2, 1789; graduated at the South Carolina College Dec. 4, 1801); and about 1811 or 1812 was rector of the Columbia County Academy. He was for one year a member of the State Legislature, and afterwards for several years one of the judges of the Superior Court. Finally he turned his attention to the ministry, and was ordained Jan. 5, 1825. After preaching for a time at Williams Creek and at Pine Grove, he became in 1826 pastor of the Union Church in Warren County. In Dec, 1832, he commenced, by the desire of the Georgia Baptist Convention, to lay the foundation of the Mercer Insti- tute, afterwards the IMercer University, of which he was appointed the first president. He resigned this office in 1839, after having conducted the institution successful- ly through the six j-ears of its academic minority and the first year of its collegiate career. He occupied highly honorable positions in divers societies. He was for several j-ears clerk of the (ieorgia Association, and for nine years its moderator. For six years he was president of the Georgia Baptist Convention, and for a much longer time a member of its executive board. He
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was often a delegate to the General Triennial Conven- I tion, anil, after the separation, was several times a dele- gate to the Southern Baptist Convention. lie also edited for a year the Christian Index, and was an ardent sup- porter of temperance, foreign and domestic missions, Bible societies, and all kindred forms of Christian beneticence. He died ^larch 12, 1854.— Sprague, .-l/m«is of the A met: Pulpit, vi, 740.
Sanders, Daniel Clarke, D.D., a Unitarian Con- gregational minister, was born in Sturbridge, Mass., May 3, 17G8. He was prepared for college by Kev. Samuel West, admitted at Harvard in 1784, and graduated in 1788. After his graduation he engaged in teaching. He was licensed to preach by tlie Deuham Association, and was ordained and installed pastor of the Congrega- tional Church in Vergennes, Yt., .June 12, 1794. He con- tinued in this charge about six years, when he became president of the University of Vermont, which position he held fourteen years. He was installed as pastor at Medlield, iSIass., May 24, 1815. He was a member of the convention that revised the constitution of Mas- sachusetts in 1820-21. He retired from his pastoral charge in 1829. He died at Medfield, Oct. 18, 1850. His published works consist of a fJigtory of the Indian Wars, etc. (Jlontpelier, Vt., 1812, 8vo), besides more than thirty Sermons. — Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, viii, 226 sq.
Sanders, Edward, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a native of Maryland, and grew up to manhood without religious influences. In early manhood, however, he was brought to see his condition, and found peace in believing. He entered the itinerant ministry as a member of the Philadelphia Conference in 1834, and contiinied in that Conference until the New .Jersey Conference was set off. The remainder of his effective ministry was passed in the latter Conference. While in charge of the Kiver Church, his health failed, and, taking a supernumerary relation, he settled in Pennington, N. J., where he died, Dec. 31, 1859. His life was a rebuke to infidelity and a comfort to Chris- tians.— Minutes of Annual Conf. 1860, p. 39.
Sanders, Nicholas, a prominent Roman Cath- olic writer of the IGth century. He was born at Charle- wood, in .Surrey, about 1527, and educated at Winchester .school, whence he removed to New College, Oxford. He was made fellow of his college in 1548, and in 1550 or 1551 took the degree of bachelor of laws. He de- I'lined the office of Latin secretary to queen Mary for the sake of stiuly. In 1557 he was one of the professors of canon law, and delivered the Strafff/linr/ Lectures (lect- ures not endowed) until the accession of queen Eliza- beth, when his principles induced him to leave England. He arrived at Home in 1560, studied theology, became doctor ofdivinity, and was ordained priest by Dr. Thomas Goldwell, bishop of St. Asaph. Soon after cardinal Ho- sius made iiim a member of his family, using him as as- sistant in the Council of Trent. Returning to Flanders, he was settled at Louvain for twelve years, and in 1579 he arrived in Ireland as papal nuncio. He died in 1580 or 1581. Among his works arc, Si/pper (f Our Lord (Louvain, 15t)6-67, 4to): — Treatise on the Images of Christ, etc. (ibid. 1567, 8vo) -.—The Rock of the Church (ibid. 1566-67, 8vo) : — Treatise on Usury (1566) : — and others. See Chalmers, Diog. Diet. s. v.