Putnam, George, D.D., a Unitarian minister of the did School, was born in Massachusetts in 1808, and was educated at Harvard University, class of L826. lie early entered the ministry, and finally became pastor at lioxlairy. .Mass.. where he sustained a pastorate of nearly half a century, enjoying not only the warm af- fection of ids own people, hut the highest respect and confidence of the whole community. Away from home
also Dr. Putnam wielded a very wide influence in all directions, and he was beloved by men of every relig- ious school in an eminent degree. I >r. Putnam was more than an ordinary man. He was not only pos- sessed "i ih'' most noble personal characteristics, but
was endowed with excellent scholarship, remarkable
intellectual powers, and great wisdom in judgment He was always vigorous, fresh, ami often very eloquent in liis pulpit discourses. For years his Past-day and Thanks- giving services were largely attended by visitors from
what was then the adjoining city ( Boston), to listen to
his tl ghtful ami powerful discussions upon public
and national questions. A shock of paralysis in 1872 warned him that the period of his vigor was terminat- ing, and lie was obliged to consent to have a younger associate with him in the pastorate. For the last two years before his death", which occurred in L878, lie was
aide to render Bervici ly al tin' marriage or funeral
of some one of Ids beloved parishioners, who. in these joyful and painful domestic MTa-, especially welcomed
even the trembling voice of their old pastor. From
1849 to 1850 Dr. Putnam was editorially connected with tin- Christian Examiner. lie- published a number ■■!' separate sermons, orations, , t,-.
Putnam, Jonathan W.. a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, was bom in Leyden, N. T., July 31, 1815. lie wa.s converted at the age of twelve, and was received into the Methodist Episcopal < hurch. He was Licensed to exhort in L835; in L836 he received li- cense to preach. He travelled four years in the New- Jersey Conference, ami then went to the Wisconsin Conference. In L856 he was transferred to the East- Genesee Conference, ami stationed at East Palmyra. Afterwards he was successively appointed to Tyrone, Catharine, Soutbport, Jackson, Canton, Prattsburgh, I hresden, .and Middlesex, lie had just b< gun the work of the second year on this last charge, with good prom- ise of .success, when death overtook him on Septs '.'. 1871. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1872, p. 130, 131; Northern Christian Advocate, 1871.
Putsha, in Hindu mythology, is the name of the small, bloodless sacrifices, consisting of fruits and flow- ers, which were offered to the genii, as well as to the three greal gods.
Putshiaii, in Hindu mythology, is the name of the Brahmins who, after twelve years' study, determine to di -\ ote their Lives entirely to the gods, and in conse- quence attach tic msi Lves to some pagoda.
Puxis is the box in which the consecrated hosts fur the sick are preserved. See l'v.x.
PuZZa is a Chinese goddeSS who has sole, ri -• m-
blance to the Cybele of the Greeks and the [sis of the Egyptians. The bonzes relate that three genii ot the female se.x descended once from their heavenly ahode to enjoy a hath in an earthly stream. The water had scarcely touched their bodies when the most beautiful of them perceived on her garment a lotos-plant, with blossoms and fruit, and could not imagine whence the plant had come. She could not resist the desire of tasting the fruit ; but this was attended with evil con- sequences, for behold a little son was horn from hi r al the same moment. She brought him up, and when he had reached the years of maturity she returned to heaven. This nymph was Puzza; and, as her offspring became a mighty ruler of the heavenly empire of ( hina. she was worshipped as the queen of the world, the 1 1 mi her of all that is good, and the supporter of all that is living. Puzza is represented with eighteen arms. sitting on a flower, and her head surrounded with an aureola. — Yollmer. Worterb. </. MythoU s. v.
Pyer, John, an English minister who labored suc- cessively with the \Vcsle\ans ami the Independents, was born in L790. He began his labors as a tint mis- sionary, devoting himself entirely to the connected evangelistic work. After the tint ceased to he the property of tin- Methodist body, he built a chapel at Mam hosier, where he remained nine years. As lie changed his doctrinal views, he abandoned the Wes- leyan church, and joined the Congregationalista For the succeeding four years he was agent of the London Christian -Instruction Society. Hi-health finally re- quired him to seek a less laborious position, ami he be- came the Congregational pastor of. South Molton. Later he removed to Cork, and in 1889 accepted a pastorate at Devon, where he remained the last twentj years of
his life, and died in 1859, laborious and active to the
very last : he was found by the servant- lit. l, s~. having
literally fallen asleep in -h mi-. I'm. na- I he writer of
a lew useful hymns; ai iu them, "Met again in Je-
sus' name." which is found in the X.ir Congregational Hymn-book, No. 808.