Suspicion consists in imagining evil of others without proof. It is sometimes opposed to charity, which thinketh no evil. "A suspicious temper checks in the bud every kind affection : it hardens the heart, and estranges man from man. What friendship can we expect from him who views all our conduct with dis- trustful eyes, and ascribes every benefit we confer to artifice and stratagem? A candid man is accustomed to view the characters of his neiglibors in the most favor- able light, and is like one who tlwells amid those beauti- ful scenes of nature on which the eye rests with pleas- ure. On the contrary, the suspicious man, having his imagination filled with all the shocking forms of human falsehood, deceit, and treachery, resembles the traveller in the wilderness who discerns no objects around him but what are either dreary or terrible; caverns that open, serpents that hiss, and beasts of prey that howl." See li&XTOw, Sermons ; (i\sboTV\c, Sermons ; Dwigbt, The- olofjii ; James, On Charity. — Buck, Theol. Diet. s. v.
Sustentation Fund. 1. English Wesleyan. — A fund formed in ttie several ilistricts which has for its ob- ject the raising of such an amiunit in each district as, be- ing divided among the poorer circints, will secure to their preachers a much larger salary than could be paid them •without supplementary aid. The whole is under the supervision of Conference. 2. Free Church of Scotland. — A fund provided for the support of ministers of that Church. The idea was probably derived by Dr. Chal-
mers from the Wesleyans; and a scheme was devised by him and made public before the I)isru]ition, and is now carried into operation throughout Scotlanii. The amount of this fund for 1K73 to 1X74 was £152,112.
Sutcliffe (or Soutcliffe), Matthew, an Eng- lish divine, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, In 158G he was installed archdeacon of Taunton, and on Oct. 22, 1588, confirmed dean of Exeter. He died in 1G29. He accpiired some celebrity by his College of Polemical Divines, which came to naught shortly after his death. Among his works are, ^ Treatise of Eccle- siastical Discipline (Lond. 1591, 4to) : — De Preshyterio, ejusque Xora in Ecclesia Christiana Poliliia (ibid. 1591, 4to) -.-De Catholica et Orthmliu-a Christi Kcc/isia (ibid. 1592,2 vols.): — De Pontijicis Injusta Dominatione in Ecclesia, contra Bellarminum (ibid. 1599, 5 vols.): — De Turco-Papismo, or Resemblance between Mahometanism and Popery (ibid. 1599, 4to) : — De Purgatorio, etc. (ibid. 1599, 4to) :— Z»e Vera Christi Ecclesia (ibid. IGOO, 4to) : — De Missa, adrersus Bellarminum (ibid. 1(503, 4to) : — De Indulyentiis et Jubileo (ibid. 1000, 2 vols. 8vo), See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v.; Chal- mers, Bioff. Diet. s. V.
Sutcliffe, Robert Burns, a minister of the Meth- odist Ejjiscopal Church, was born in Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1815, and came to America in 1835, settling in Trenton, N. J. In 1854 he was admitted on trial into the New Jersey Conference, and was actively employed up to the time of his death, which occurred at Vincent- town, Feb. 18, 1874. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, 1874, p. 36.
Suthdure (Sax. south door'), the place where ca- nonical purgation was performed. When a fact charged against a person was unproved, the accused was brought to the south door of his parish church, and then, in the presence of the faithful, made oath of his innocency. This is one reason whj' large south porches are foinid in ancient churches. — Lee, Gloss, of Liturff. Terms, s. v.
Suthreh Shahis, a division of the Sikhs in Hin- dustan whose priests may be known by particular marks. Thus they make a perpendicular black streak down the forehead, and carry two small black sticks, each about half a yard in length, with which they make a noi.-<e when they solicit alms. They lead a wandering life, begging and singing songs in the Punjabi and other di- alects, mostly of a moral and mystic tendency. They are held in great contempt, and are frecpiently disrepu- table in character. They consider Tegh Bahader, the father of Guru Govind, as their father.
Sutphen, Joseph Walw^orth, a Presbyterian minister, was horn at SAveden, N. Y., in 1825. He en- tered Hamilton College, and graduated in 1847 ; after wliich he entered the LTni(m Tlieological Seminary, in 1848; from whence he graduated in 1.S51. He was or- dained with a view of his entering the foreign field as missionary, and on Nov. 7, 1851, departed for Marsovan, in the Turkish empire. His service was brief, as he had but scarcely begun his labors when he was called to the heavenly world.
Sutphen, Morris Crater, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born Dec. 1, l.s;)7, at Hodminster, N. .J. He united with the Church Aug. 1(>, 1855. He gradu- ated from Princeton College in 185G. After teaching in a private family in Virginia, he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, from whence he graduated after a three j'ears' course. In both college and seminary he gained a high position as a scholar. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Elizabethtown, at Hahway, N. J., and on ^lay 1, 1800, was ordained by the I'resbytery of Philaijelphia, and installed as collegiate pastor of the Spring (Jarden Church in that city, to serve as co-pas- tor with the venerable John McDowell, D.D., at whose death, Feb. 13, 1863, he became sole pastor. After a pastorate of great fiilelity and fruitfulncss, in which he became quite popular, he became collegiate pastor with