Phelcnium (jpeXovtov), a cloak, which in the Greek Church corresponds t.. the chasuble in the Latin Church. This ecclesiastical vestment is worn by the priests, and that worn by the patriarch is embellished with triangles and crosses. This is supposed to have -■hi of garment which Paul left at Troas, and his anxiety for it- restoration i- to be attributed, we are told, to its sanctity as an ecclesiastical robe. St i I lard- ner, Faiths oftht World, ii. 654.
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, an American lady, noted as i be ant hor of a number of moral and religious Btory-books, was born at Andover, Mass., in 1815. She was the daughter of Dr. Moses Stuart, the celebrated professor ol O.-T. exegesis at the Andover divinity
feci 1. and wife of Dr. Austen Phelps, she dud at
Boston Nov. 30, L852. We have not space here for a list of her writings, hut those interested will find it in Allihone. Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Author*, .-. \.
Phelps, Joseph T., a minister of th,' Methodist
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Episcopal Church, was horn in Anne Arundel County. Md.. Sept. 21, 1818; was converted at sixteen, and in 1840 became a member of the Baltimore Co and tor eighteen years travelled in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Hi- last appointment in the Balti- more Conference was Harper's Perry. In 1858 he took a supernumerary relation, and moved to Ohio. At the ensuing Conference he was, at hi- own request, located. In I860 til he was employ t d by the pn siding elder on Clarksfield Circuit, and in 1863 he was admitted into the North < »hio < inference, and tm\ 1 11' d the following circuits: Sullivan, one year; Republic, two years ; Per- kins, two years; and Centerton, one year. His last ap- pointment was Republic, "lie was a man of general intelligence, of goodly presence, and unassuming man- ners, lie was a very good and acceptable preacher, a true Christian gentleman, and success attended his min- isterial labors." He died near Ri public, Si m ca County. Ohio, April •_':>. 1870. See General Minutes oftfo Ann. ( 'i>t< ft r< nces.
Phelps, Servis W., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in 1846. After completing his studies at Lowville Academy, where he was con- verted, he joined the New York Conference in 1868. He was lir.-l appointed to New Bremen, and tie u to ll.iruc -'s Corners, where, under his ministrations, more than fifty persons w ere added to the Church. His health suddenly
failed him. and at the Conference of 1870 he was com- pelled to take a supernumerary relation. He did in Martinsburgh, N.Y., Feb. 28, 1871. Phelps was natu- rally kind and benevolent, and possessed many excel- lent qualities as a minister. He hail high opinions of the ministerial office, and aimed to exemplify them in iii- entire life ami influence. See minutes ofth Aim.
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Phelps, Thomas, a Wesleyan preacher and mis- sionary, was born at Rudford, Gloucestershire, England, in 1817. He was of humble parentage, and did not en- joy more than the usual advantages of a common-school education. In 1849 he was selected as a laborer in the Jamaica mission. He promptly accepted the work, and though more or less disabled by severe attacks of trop- ical fever, he yet continued faithful in the discharge <•( his duties. He died peacefully at Port Morant,Aug. 13, 1852. - I'lulps's amiable disposition, and his habits of industry and punctuality, secured lor him the love and esteem of the brethren with whom he was associated, and his brief ministry was not without fruit. His pulpit labors were acceptable; and his diligent attention to other pastoral duties obtained for him the love of the people among whom he was stationed." So- H Magazim (Sept 1853), p. 869.
Phelypeaux, Georges Lot t-. a French prelate, was horn in 1729 in the chateau d'Herbaut, diocese of Orleans. He entiled holy orders, became commenda- tory abbe* of the royal abbey of Thouronel, and was ap- pointed in 17.">7 archbishop of Bourges, and in 177D chancellor of the < Irder of the Holy Ghost, He distin- guished himself as much by the activity of his pastoral zeal as by his inexhaustible beneficence. He founded
several colleges in the principal cities of his diocese, in- stituted bureaus of charity, and succeeded in • ably diminishing mendicity. See Blin de Sainmore, Elogt HisLdt G.-L. Phelypeaux (1778, 8vo) ; Fauchet, Oraison Funebn il< G.-L. Phelypeaux, Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, xxxix. MM.
Pheni'ce ; Bome Phi nia |: a.t Vets wi ii, Phoenix. 6. (Acts xi, 19 ; xv, 3). See Phoenicia.
Pheni'cia. See Pho sn< t \.
Phenolion. See Lit rxm.iiM.
Phenomenon. See Ph i komi noj .
Pherecydes (Qtpticvdni I, an ancient Greek phi- losopher, was a native of the island of Sj ros e of the
Cyclades, and flourished in the 6th century B.C. He i- said by Diogenes Laertius to have been a rival of
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Thales, and to have learned his wisdom from the sacred books of the Phoenicians, or from the Egyptians and Chaldseans. He is also reputed to have been a disciple of Pittacus, and to have taught Pythagoras. He wrote a cosmogony in a kind of prose much resembling poe- try, under the title 'ETrrd/xuxot:, the meaning of which bdoubtful. In a manner rather poetic than philosophic, ! he endeavored in this work to show the origin of all things from three eternal principles: Time, or Kronos ; Earth, as the formless and passive mass; and JEiher, cr Zeus, as the formative principle. He taught the doctrine of the existence of the human soul after death ; but it is uncertain whether he held the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, afterwards promulgated by his disciplePythagoras. Of his work only fragments are extant, which have been collected and elucidated by Stiirtz (Gera, 1798; 2d ed. Leips. 1824).— Chambers. See Smith, Diet, of Gr. and limn. Bioff. and Mythol, s. v.; Butler, Hist, of Anc. Phil. vol. ii; Cudwortb, In- tell. System of the Universe (see Index in vol. iii).