Taylor, James A., a Methodist Episcopal minis- ter, was received on trial in the Ohio Conference in 1847, and appointed to Goshen Circuit ; in 1848, to Mad- isonville ; in 1850, to Gallipolis Circuit ; and in 1851, to Jackson, which was his last appointment. He died Aug. 10, 1851. He was a young man of undoubted pi- ety, good mind, and remarkable zeal. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, iv, 665.
Taylor, James Brainerd, a young Congrega- tional minister of ardent jjiety and great promise, was born at Middle Haddam, Conn., April 15, 1801. His parents being members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was trained up in religious associations, and while clerk in a store in New York city was converted, and joined the Church of Dr. Romeyn. He early be- came useful in all Christian activities. The departure of Dr. Scudder for India turned his attention to the ministry, and after a preparatory course of two years at Lawrenceville Academy, N. J., he went to Princeton College as a sophomore in 1823. On his graduation in 1826, he entered the Yale Theological Seminary, but he soon had symptoms of lung-disease, which compelled him to seek relief in a tour tlirough the South. He was licensed to preach by the Middlesex Convocation at East Haddam, Oct. 8, 1828, but the state of his health was such that he resolved to spend the winter at the Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va. He died there March 29, 1829, leaving a briglit example of the power of divine grace and the triumph of Christian hope. See his Memoir by Dr. Rice (N. Y. 1833),
Taylor, Jane, daughter of the Rev. Isaac Taylor of Ongar, and as a writer for youth the worthy rival of Mrs. liarbauld, was born Sept. 23, 1783, in London, where her father then resided iu the practice of his profession as an artist. Even fnun her third and fourth year, in connection with her sister Anne, who was two years older, she is said to have composed little tales and songs, which they would sing together; and Jane especially seemed to live in a fairy-land of her own imagination. Her father removed to Colchester in 1796. There Jane, in her fifteenth year, gave decided indications of per- sonal piety. She was also one of a select society of young friends for tlie reading of original essays and the promotion of intellectual improvement. A visit to London in 1802 first brought her before the public. Her first contribution, The Beggars Boy, appeared in the
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Minors Pocket-book for 1804. It. was followed not loii}; after by the two volumes of Original Poems for Infant Minds. Rhymes for the Xursery, etc., the joint produc- tion of Jane and her sisters, which quickly gained the favor of the public, were reprinted in America, and translated into (ierman. Few books have been found more ajfrecable to cliihlrcii, or more useful in the busi- ness of early education. In 1!S0'.) she coinributed to The Associate Miiu^lrels, and soon after entjaged with her sisters in the more ditiicult task of composing Hymns for Children. This volume must be pronounced equal, if not superior, both in merit and popidarity, to Dr. VVatts's JJii-ine Soiiys. Its success called forth a second volume adapted for Siuiday- schools, the contents of which have been incorporated wiih almost every subse- quent collection for that purpose, and are now continu- ally simg by millions of infant voices in different parts of the world. In 1^14 she published J>isplay. and in 18 IG hex Essays in Rhyme on .)/oraL-< and .I/«««e;\<, which gained her a large increase of well-merited reputation. Her Contrilmlions if(^, i^. to the yon/li's Mayazine were among her last and iiest literary efforts. They have since been republished in two vols. Timo. She died at Ongar, April 13, 1824, confiding, calm, and happy in the Lord. See Mimoirs and Remains, by her brother.
Taylor, Jeremy, D.D.. a distinguished Anglican divine, was Ixirn at Cambridge in 1(513. He entered as a sizar in Caius College, Cambridge, in 16'2G, and became chaplain to archbishop Laud and to Charles I ; was made fellow of All-Souls' College, Oxford, in 1G32; and was rector of Uppingham, Rutlandshire, 1638; se- questered by Parliament in 1642 ; and after the de- feat of the Royalists suffered frequent but short im- prisonments. During the first jear of the Protectorate, he kept a school in Wales in conjunction with William Nicholson, and otHciated as chaplain to the earl of Carberry at Golden (Jrove, Carmarthenshire. In 1658 he settled in Ireland and preached alternately at Lisburn and Portmore. lie returned to London in the spring of 1G60, and signed the loyal Declaration of the Nobili- ty and Gentry April 24, thirt\'-five days before the Res- toration. He w^as consecrated bishop of Down and Con- nor in January, KitJl, made a member of the Irish Privy Council in February, intrusted with the diocese of Dromore in JIarcli, and in the same year was elected vice-chancellor of the I'niversity of Dublin. He died at Lisburn, Aug. 13, 1667, and was interred in the choir of the cathedral at Dromore. His funeral sermon was preached by his chaplain. Dr. George Rust, who said of him : "His endowments were so many and so great as really maile him a miracle. He was a rare humanist and deeply versed in all the polite arts of learning, and thoroughly concocted all the ancient moralists, Greek and Roman poets and orators. He had the good-hu- mor of a gentleman, the eloquence of an orator, the fan- cy of a poet, the acuteness of a schoolman, the pro- foundness of a philosopher, the wisdom of a chancellor, the sagacity of a prophet, the reason of an angel, and the piety of a saint. He had devotion enough for a cloister, learning enough for a university, and wit enough for a college of virtuosi.'^ To sum up all his attainments, Thompson calls him, in his liior/. Hist., the "Homer of divines;" Hannah More, the "Shakspeare of the Church;" earl Shaftesbury, the " Spenser of Eng- lish theological literature." An account of his writings and the various editions would (ill a volume. We give an outline of his works, and simply the first editions: The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy (Oxford, 1642, 4to): — A Discourse concerniny Prayer (Lond. 1G46, 4to): — New and Easy Institution of Grammar : — Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesyiny (1647, 4to): — The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life (1649, 4to) : — The Ride and Exercise of Holy Liviny (1650, r2mo): — The Rule and ExercLie of f/oly Dyiny (1651, 12rao):— .4 Discourse of the Office Ministtrial (Lond. 1651, 8vo) : — Sermons for all Sundays in the I'ear (ibid. 1653, 2 vols, fol.) : — Manual of Daily Prayers (1655,