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Edinburgh, in 1642. He preached before Charles I. at Holyrood Sept. 12, 1641, and received a pension from Charles Nov. 16. In 1643 he was chosen a member of the Westminster Assembly Though the youngest member of that body he proved to be one of its ablest debaters. He took his leave of the Assembly July 16, 1647. A few weeks later he presented the confession of faith to the General Assembly at Edinburgh and secured its ratification. In Sept., 1647, he was elected to the High Church of Edinburgh and in 164S he was moderator of the General Assembly. His writings, which are almost entirely controversial, include an anonymous Dispute against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded upon the Church of Scotland (n.p., 1637), of which the Scottish privy council ordered all copies to be collected and burned; An Assertion of the Government of Scotland (1641); and Aaron's Rod Blossoming ; or, the Divine Ordinance of Church- Government Vindicated (London, 1646). His works were edited, with a memoir, by W M. Hetherington (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1843-46).
Bibliography: Sources are: R. Wodrow, Hist, of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1829- 1830; idem, Analecta, Glasgow, 1842; Hew Scot, Fasti ecclesice Scoticance, 5 parts, London, 1871. Consult: W M. Hetherington, Hist, of Church of Scotland, pp. 182-197, New York, 1881; DNB, xxi. 359-361 (where other literature is indicated).
GILLESPIE, GEORGE DE NORMANDIE: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Western Michigan; b. at Goshen, N. Y., June 14,1819; d. at Grand Rapids, Mich., Mar. 19, 1909. He was graduated at the General Theological Seminary in 1840, was ordered deacon, 1840, and ordained priest 1843. He was rector of St. Mark's, Leroy, N. Y. (1843-45), St. Paul's, Cincinnati, O. (1845-51), Zion, Palmyra, N. Y. (1851-61), and St. Andrew's, Ann Arbor, Mich. (1861-75). In 1875 he was consecrated bishop of the newly created diocese of Western Michigan. He wrote The Season of Lent (New York, 1877).
Bibliography: W S. Perry, The Episcopate in America, New York, 1895.
GILLESPIE, THOMAS: Founder of the Relief Church in Scotland; b. at Clearburn (2 m. e. of Edinburgh) 1708; d. at Dunfermline (16 m. n.w. of Edinburgh) Jan. 19, 1774. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, then attended Doddridge's academy at Northampton, where he was ordained Jan. 22, 1741. On Sept. 4 following he was admitted to the parish of Carnock, near Dunfermline. For refusing to take part in the settlement of a minister who was opposed by the people he was deposed by the General Assembly in May, 1752. After preaching to large open-air meetings during the summer he settled in Dunfermline the following winter and formed an independent congregation there. In 1761 he joined Thomas Boston (the younger), independent minister at Jedburgh, in ordaining a minister over the parish of Colinsburgh. On Oct. 22, 1761, the three congregations of Dunfermline, Jedburgh, and Colinsburgh formed themselves into a presbytery for the relief of Christians deprived of their church privileges. The Relief Church thus established united with the Secession Church in 1847, the two forming the
United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (see Presbyterians). Gillespie's posthumous Treatise on Temptation was edited by J. Erskine (Edinburgh, 1774).
Bibliography: W Lindsay, Life of T. Gillespie, ed J Harper, Edinburgh, 1849; G. Struthers, Hist, of the Rise . . of the Relief Church, Glasgow, 1843; Hew Scott Fasti ecclesice Scoticanw, iv. 580, London, 1871 ■ DNB xxi' 365-366. ' '
GILLETT, jil'let, CHARLES RIPLEY: Presbyterian; b. in New York City Nov. 29, 1855. He studied at New York University (B.A., 1874; A.M. 1876), Union Theological Seminary (1877-80), and the University of Berlin (1881-83). He was librarian of Union Theological Seminary, 1883-1908, as well as instructor in theological encyclopedia since 1893 and secretary of the faculty since 1898. He became registrar in 1908, and since 1900 has been temporary curator in the department of Oriental Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum, New York City. He was literary editor of the Magazine of Christian Literature, 1891-97, and besides compiling the general catalogue of Union Theological Seminary (New York, 1886, 1898) and catalogues of the Egyptian antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum and of the stone sculptures in the Cesnola collection of the same institution (1896), he wrote the third volume of the Descriptive Atlas of the Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1903), and translated A. Hamack's Das M iinchtum, seine Ideale und Geschichte (New York, 1895) and G. E. Kriiger's Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur in den erslen drei Jahrhunderten (1897).
GILLETT, EZRA HALL: American Presbyterian; b. at Colchester, Conn., July 15, 1823; d. in New York City Sept. 2, 1875. He was graduated from Yale in 1841, and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1844. He was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Harlem (New York City) from 1844 to 1868, when he became professor of political economy, ethics, and history in New York University. Besides numerous articles in the American Theological Review, the Presbyterian Quarterly, the Historical Magazine, and other periodicals, his publications include, The Life and Times of John Huss (2 vols., Boston, 1861); History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1864); God in Human Thought (2 vols., New York, 1874); and The Moral System (1874).
GILLLN, JOHN LEWIS: Dunker; b. near Hudson, la., Oct. 12, 1871. He studied at Upper Iowa University, Fayette, la. (Lit.B., 1894), Iowa College, Grinnell, la. (B.A., 1895), Union Theological Seminary (B.D., 1904), and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1906). From 1895 to 1901 he was pastor of the Brethren church at Waterloo, la., and since 1905 has been connected with Ashland College, Ashland, O., first as professor of church history and social sciences (1905-06), later as president (since 1906). He was also moderator of the General Conference of his denomination in 1904-06. In theology he is, " in general terms, a modified Ritschlian," and has written The Dunkers : A Sociological Interpretation (New York, 1906).