The principal source for Ximenes' life is Gomez, De Feb. Gestis a Fr. Ximenio Cisnero . . . Lihri Ocfo, in Rei'um IJisp. Scriptoj-es Aliquot (Frankf. 1581), vol. iii. Other Spanish works on Ximenes are given in Pres- cott. A French life was written by Flechier, bishop of Nismes. See also Hefele, Der Cardinal Ximenes, etc. (1844); Prescott, Ferdinand and Isabella ; Saint-Hilaire, Hist. d'Espaffne depuis les Piemieis Temps Historiques jusqu'a la Mort de Ferdinand VII (new ed. 185'2, 6 vols. ) ; Lavergne, Le Cardinal Ximenes, in Rev. des Deux Mondes, 1841, ii, 221 sq. ; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s. V.
Yates, Andrew, D.D., a (Dutch) Eeformed min- ister, was born at Schenectady, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1772. He graduated with honor at Yale College in 1793; studied theology under Dr. John H. Livingston, and was licensed in 1796 by the Classis of New York. In 1797 he was made professor of Latin and Greek in Union College, and held this chair until 1801, when he became pastor of a Congregational Church in East Hartford, Conn.
After thirteen years of efficient service (from 1801 to 1814), he again accepted a professorship in Union College (mental and moral philosophy), which he held eleven years (from 1814 to 1825), and for eleven years more was the principal of a high -school at Chittenango, N. Y. (to 1836). From that time until his death he devoted himself with untiring zeal and great useful- ness to the assistance of no less than thirteen feeble
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churches. During his life as a teacher, he was con- stantl}' engaged in preaching wherever he was wanted. He was the chief instrument in founding a mission among the Indians at Mackinaw, about 1823. He organized a Church at Chittenango, and was its pastor while he had charge of the high-school. His death was the result of illness contracted in his missionary labors. His last ef- fort was the establishment of a Mission Church among a poor people at Day, or Sacondaga, Schenectady Co., N. Y., of which his sister, an aged and benevolent lady, was the chief supporter. But ten days before its dedi- cation, and on a Sabbath, Oct. 13, 1844, he died without a struggle. His epitaph is inscribed on the bell of the little church, which is only one of the many monuments of his apostolic spirit and toils. At East Hartford his pastorate was greatly blessed with revivals and constant ingatherings. There he began, and at Schenectady con- tinued, to teach theology to young men, of whom thirty entered the ministry of Christ. Among these were pres- ident Wayland, of Brown University ; Dr. Mark Tucker, of Wethersfield ; and Dr. B. B. Wisner, of Boston. Dr. Yates was an accurate scholar, a thorough theologian, an effective evangelical preacher, an accomplished col- lege professor and officer, a man of great public spirit and Christian enterprise. He was in the best sense a Christian gentleman, and " a good minister of Jesus Christ." His publications consisted of a few occasional Sermo7is and fugitive pieces. He preferred to let his active works speak for him, for he was not ambitious of distinction. " I allow myself to do nothing," said he, " for the purpose of being superior to my neighbors. Am- bition is a bad motive ; the Bible does not appeal to it." " The dew falls silentlj', nobody hears it, but the fields feel it. The attraction of gravitation makes no noise." So he lived and died, a happy Christian, and " a work- man that needed not to be ashamed." Dr. Sprague has •given an unusual space to his memory in his Annals of' the Amer. Pulpit, ix, 126-138 ; see also Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church, p. 275, 276. (W. J. R. T.)
Yates, John Austin, D.D., a (Dutch) Reformed minister, son of the preceding, was born at East Hart- ford, Conn., May 31, 1801. He graduated at Union Col- lege in 1821, and studied theology at the Seminary of the Reformed Church at New Brunswick, N. J., for two j^ears, when he accepted a tutorship in his alma mater at Schenectady, N. Y. He was licensed to preach in 1824 ; continued as tutor until 1827, and was then made professor of Oriental literature in the same institution. To complete his preparations for this chair, he went to Europe, studied at the University of Berlin, visited Italy and other countries, and returned at the end of two years to his post (in 1829). He was never settled as a pastor, but supplied various churches in Schenectady, Albany, and elsewhere during his collegiate life of twen- ty years. He had, however, accepted a call to the First Reformed Church of Jersey' City, and had informally begun his labors with enthusiasm and great popular- ity. He died very suddenly of Asiatic cholera, Aug. 26, 1849, while on a visit to Schenectady, and his funeral sermon was preached in his church in .Jersey City on the evening that had been set apart for his installation. Dr. Yates was a highly accomplished man, attractive in manners, of genial spirit, and possessed of that magnetic power which is so irresistible in social and public life. He was a man of genius, literary and polished to a high degree, and an enchanting public speaker. His ser- mons, being prepared during his professional life, were written with great care, and often were the fruits of long previous study and repeated revision. His deliv- ery was animated and graceful, with a subdued earnest- ness, and free from all stage effects or merely popular aims. He was as simple as a child, and singularly free from duplicit}' or suspicion. He passed through many trials, to some of which his natural temperament added new pangs and complications. His students and friends loved him unto death with the most ardent affection, while those who opposed him in some of his difficul-