Scott, David, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.. March 13, 1849. When a mere lad, his parents removed to New York city, and there he received his early lessons in the public schools. At the age of tifteen he entered the emploj^ of the JManhat- tan Gas Company as a book-keeper, and until he was graduated spent his vacations in earning the money needed for his education. He was prepared for college at the Lawrenceville (N. J.) High -school, under the Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D.D. He united on profession of his faith with the Fifteenth Street Church (now the Phillips Memorial Church), New York city, at the age of tifteen. He was g,aduated from the College of New Jersey in 1873, taking a fellowship in the classics, one of the conditions of which is that the recijiient shall spend one year abroad in some European university. Immediately after leaving college, Mr. Scott entered Princeton Theological Seminary anil studied one year, at the end of which time he went to Leipsic, Germany, where he pursued the study of theology and philology for one year; then returning, he entered the middle class in the seminary, and, having tinished the remain- ing two years, was graduated in 1877. He was licensed b\' the Presbytery of NeVv York, April 4, 1876, and was ordained by the same presbytery as an evangelist, in the Fourteenth Street Presbyterian Church, June 24, 1877. For nearly a year (from September, 1876, to June 1877) Mr. Scott was tutor of Latin and Greek in Prince- ton College, N. J., while pursuing his studies in the sem- inary. Having been accepted as a missionary by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, he embarked with his wife, Sept. 1, 1877, for Teheran, Persia. There he remained about sixteen months, during which time he had well mastered the Persian language, when, on account of the continued illness of his wife, by the ad- vice of physicians and of the mission, he returned to the United States, intending again to resume his work at Teheran as soon as possible. He arrived in New York near the end of jMarch, almost immediately afterwards grew ill, and died in that city, April 1, 1870. He was a young man of excellent abilities and of tine scholar- ship, and his death is regarded as a sad loss to the cause of foreign missions. (W. P. S.)
Scott, Elisha J., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Greensborough, Yt., Aug. 11, 1803, and joined the Baptist Church at the age of twelve. He continued in that Church about seven years, when he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1828 entered the New England Confer- ence. He was ordained deacon June 27, 1830, and elder Aug. 11, 1832. After tifteen years he was made supernumerary, and was then superannuated for nine years, when he became again eft'ective. He travelled the Montpelier District, Vermont Conference, for four years, ami took once more a superannuated relation, which he held until his death, at Montpelier, Jan. 24, lM6t). He was for several years the Conference secre- tary, delegate to the General Conference in 1836, and editor of the Vermmit Christian Messenger. See Mhb- utes of Annual Conferences, 1866, p. 129.
Scott, Jacob, a. minister of the Baptist denomina- tion, was born in Boston, March 1, 1815, and was a grad- uate of Brown University in the class of 1836, and of the Newton Theological Institution in the class of 1842.
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His ordination occurred at Petersburg, Va., September, 18-t2. He was pastor at Petersburg and Hampton, Va., and for two years chaplain at the University of Virgin- ia. Subsequently he had charge of important churches in Portland, Me. ; Fall Kiver, iNlass. ; and Yonkers, N. Y. He was obliged, on account of his health, to retire from the ministry. For some time he was superintendent of schools in Maiden, Mass.. where he died, Dec. 10, 1871, (J. C. S.)
Scott, James (l).D.D.,a (Dutch) Peformed minis- ter, was born .Sept. "27, IHD'.K at ( ilasgow, Scotland, in the house in which Mary Queen of Scots took refuge after the battle of Laugside. His father, who was educated for the ministry, but never preached on account of ill- health, died when James was four years old. At fifteen he united with t be Church of Loch wiiuioch, and, although struggling with verj' limited means, he ()rosecuted his studies at the University of Glasgow for three years, and afterwards at the college in Belfast, Ireland, for two years. Having married in Ireland, he removed to the United States in 183'2, studied theology under care of the New Y'ork Presbytery, and was licensed by them ill 1834. His first settlement was in the Presbyterian Church, German Valley, N. J., for eight years. In 1843 he accepted the call of the First Keformed Church, Newark, N. J., with which his remaining ininistry was spent. Few men have achieved such thorough pas- toral success as he did in this Church, which was great- ly reduced and broken down when he took it, and grew during his fifteen years of service to be next to the largest Church in its entire denomination, numbering over six hundred communicants, and flourishing out- wardly and spiritually. A large debt was removed, and three new and healthy churches grew out of it within this period. Dr. Scott's mind was sj-nthetic rather than analytical. He was highly imaginative, a great lover of nature and art. literary in his tastes, and excelled in descriptive writing and in illustrative and pictorial address. His style teemed with figures. Rhe- torical in manner and vivid in coloring, with a large, robust frame, a clear, strong voice, a full, canny Scotch face lighted up with benevolent smiles, and an attrac- tive delivery, his preaching always drew large, popular audiences. But he was not content merely with this; his sermons were instructive, expository, free of theo- logical technicalities, earnest, full of cheering Gospel truth, pathetic, faithful, and finely adapted to times, seasons, and occasions. His range of topics was un- usually wide, embracing, among ordinary themes, full courses of pulpit lectures on (Jhurch history, prophecy, the religious condition of Europe, the Pentateuch, Ruth, Psalms, Canticles, harmony of the G()spels, Acts of the Apostles, Revelation, and an inifinished course on Esther. As a pastor he was almost unrivalled. He knew every- body among his people and all alxiut them. Young people and children were his particular delight and care. Among the sick and poor and wretched his at- tentions were untiring. Beyond his own congregation he was so thoroughly well known and identified with every good public interest in Newark that he was just- ly called at his funeral the curate of tlie city. He de- voted himself with zeal to the organization of the ad- mirable Newark Library Association, to various educa- tional movements, such as the public schools of Newark, the endowment of Rutgers College, and the preparation of a series of school-books. In all evangelical mission work, like that among the fJermans, Sunday-schools, and the poor, he was a leading spirit. His disposition was remarkaljiy cheerful, sunny, unsuspecting, frank, generous, self-conscious, and pleasantly egotistical at times, upright, bold, and faithful. He wrote much for newspapers, conducted a constant foreign correspond- ence with eminent men, and delivered literary lectures and addresses, and was always eminent for public spirit. The poet Robert Pollok was his bosom friend. He prepared an excellent life of this favorite author of The Course of Time, which was published by the Carters,