Potts, George, D.D., an eminent Presbyterian divine, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 15, 1802. In his father's family he enjoyed some of the best oppor- tunities for forming his mind and heart. These were derived not only from parental counsels and instructions, but also from the frequent presence in his father's hos- pitable dwelling of refined Christian society. He had a good training for college, and graduated at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1819. He studied theology at Princeton Seminary, and was licensed even before graduation in 1823, and ordained as an evangelist Oct. 7, 1823 ; was pastor of a Church in Natchez, Miss., 1823- 35; of the Duane Street Church, New York, 1836-44; and of the University Place Church from 1845 till his death, Sept. 15, 1864. Dr. Potts was an eminent preacher. He was a man of fine presence, and possessed of great oratorical abilities. But his aim in preaching was practical rather than doctrinal; his style full, and bordering on the figurative; his executive ability was remarkable. He engaged at one time in a controversy with the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, on the rites and disci- pline of the Episcopal Church, in a pamphlet entitled No Church without a Bishop. Strongly attached to the doctrines of his own Church, and laboring zealously for the promotion of its interests, yet he ever cherished the most kindly and fraternal feelings for the follow- ers of Christ in every communion. He was, during his ministry, connected with various literary, benevo- lent, and religious institutions, and rendered efficient service in the cause of humanity. He published single Sermons, Addresses, Letters, etc. (1826-54), and con- tributed two Discourses to The National Preacher, The Character of Jezebel to Dr. Wainwright's Women of the Bible, and Introductions to Potts's Mary, Nos. 1 and 2. See Wilson, P?-esb. Hist. Almanac, 1866, p. 161 ; Apple- tons' . 4 nn. Cyclop. 1864, p. 680 ; Wainwright, Women of the Bible; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Auth. s. v. (J. L. S.)
Potts, John, an eminent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, flourished near the opening of this century. He began to preach in 1812 within the bounds of the Philadelphia Annual Conference, of which body he became a member in the following year. For a quarter of a century he continued in this connection, filling many of the most important posts, and always giving great satisfaction. He died Sept. 22, 1837, after a long and very painful illness. Mr. Potts was a man of varied talent, an efficient business man, an able and dignified presiding officer, a useful pastor, and a suc- cessful preacher. — Minutes of Conferences, ii, 577.
Potts, William Stephens, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Northumberland County, Pa.,
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Oct. 13, 1802. His early education was limited. After learning the printer's trade in Philadelphia, he finally, in 1825, entered the Princeton Theological Seminary,
which ill-health, the resull of i lose application to
lii- Btudies, compelled him to leave in November, 1827. He was, however, licensed by the Presbytery of Phila- delphia, and wen! to St Louis, laboring on the waj as opportunity offered, and was finally ordained and in- stalled pastor of the only Presbyterian Church then in St Louis, Oct 26, L828. Here he labored faithfully • "fully for the extension of the Church until, Marion College having been organized, he was elected president of thai institution by the trustees in 1835, and enti red al once upon tliis new field of labor. After four year- of intense labor, the success of the enterprise no) being equal to his expectations, he accepted another call to St. Louis. In 1841 his health obliged him to travel, and he wenl to Europe, whence he returned in October of the same year, greatly invigorated. Early in 1852 Bickness compelled him to discontinue Ids la- bors, and he died March 27, 1852. He published a large number of occasional Sermons, Addressee, and contro- versial pamphlets. Sec Sprague, Annals of the Amur. Pulpit, iv. 7.';!.
Pou de logoi (Uov c> \6yoi irrcpoevTec) is the beginning of one of Gregory of Nazianzum's (q. v.) hymn-, which lie probably composed during the eight years that he spent in retirement. "When his work was done, the Church of the Anastasia had arisen, and father, mother, brother, and sister, all were dead. In the depths of its natural fears, and the firmness of the hope to which at last it rises, it tells the history of those solitary years, and echoes well the music ol those ancient psalms which soar so often -out of the depths' into the light of God" (Mrs. Charles). Want of space does not allow us to give this beautiful hymn, of which the first stanza runs thus in Mrs. Charles's translation :
" Where are the winged words'/ Lost in the air.
Where the fresh Bower of youth and glory? Gone.
The strength of well-knit, limbs:' Brought low by care.
Wealthy Plnnder'd; none possess but <o>d alone.
Where those dear parents who my life first gave,
And where that holy twain, brother and sister? In the
grave."
Comp. Bassler, Auswahl altchristlicher Lieder, p. 11.
157; Fortlage, Gesangi ckristlicher Vorzeit, p. 360 sq.;
Mrs. Charles, Christian L\ft in Song, p. 65 sq. | B. P.)
Ponget, Antoine, a French Benedictine monk, was born in 1650 in the diocese of Beziers, He en- tered the Congregation of St Maur in 1674, and de- voted himself to the Study of mathematics, in which he i- said to have been very proficient, although he pub- lished nothing about that science. He was a professor of the Hebrew language, and taught distinguished pu- pils, among others Dom Cuarin. While teaching this language, he composed a very easy method, under the title Institutiones lingua Tlebraicce. The work was not printed, but there are numerous copies of it. Pougel published, in collaboration with Montfaucon, the Latin translation of a volume of Analecta Grceca < 1«>88, 4to). He made, together with Dom Martianay, an edition of the works of Jerome, called the edition of the Benedic- tines (Paris, 1693 1706, 5 vols, fol.), of which he directed alone the first volume. He died al Soreze Oct. 14, L709. Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generate, s. v. See Le Cerf, Jiibl. des Auteurs dt In Congrig. <A St. Maur; Fisquet, /.. . (ti iditi i '/' I' II,,, ml/.