RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Hamburg, Archbishopric of Hamilton
1552, however, he became a convert to Protestantism, and was deposed as parish priest at Camen and expelled from the town. After two years of wandering, partly spent at Wittenberg with Melanchthon, he was appointed preacher at Bielefeld. His savage opposition to the carrying of the Host in procession caused the Roman Catholics to require him to dispute at Dtisseldorf before the ducal court of Cleves, and there he was again deposed. From 1554 to 1568 he was at Lemgo, where he labored unceasingly for the establishment of Lutheranism as far as Antwerp, and in 1568 he was appointed superintendent of Gandersheim to further the progress of the Reformation in Brunswick, though the interference of the duke caused him to resign four years later. For the remainder of his life he was general superintendent of Oldenburg. Hamelmann's numerous writings contain abundant material for the history of the Reformation in Westphalia and lower Saxony, but can be used only with caution on account of his strong prejudices. His most noteworthy work was his Historia ecclesiastica renati Evangelii (Altenburg, 1586). The manuscripts of his books are preserved at Wolfenbuttel.
(G. UHLHORNf.) Bibliography: A. E. Rauschenbusch, H. Hamelmann's Leben, Schwelm, 1830; J. G. Leuckfeld, Historia Hamelmann, Quedlinburg, 1720; M. Goebel, Geschichte des christlichen Lebens in der rhein-westphdlischen Kirche, i. 449- 459, Coblenz, 1849; A. Doring, J. Lambach und das Gymnasium zu Dortmund, 1643-82, 64 sqq., 103 sqq., Berlin, 1875; KL, v. 1481-84.
HAMILTON, EDWARD JOHN: Presbyterian; b. at Belfast, Ireland, Nov. 29, 1834. He emigrated to the United States in early life, and was graduated from Hanover College, Hanover, Ind. (B.A., 1853), and Princeton Theological Seminary (1858). He was ordained to the ministry (1858), was pastor at Oyster Bay, N. Y. (1858-61), in charge of a congregation at Dromore West, Ireland (1861-62), and chaplain of the Seventh New Jersey Veteran Infantry in the Army of the Potomac (1863- 1865). He was then pastor at Hamilton, O. (1866- 1868), professor of mental philosophy in Hanover College (1868-79), acting professor of ethics, economics, and logic in Princeton College (1882-83), and professor of philosophy in Hamilton College (1883-91). He was then on the staff of the Standard Dictionary (1891-94), after which he was professor of philosophy in Wbitworth College (1894-95) and of the same subject in the State University of Washington (1895-1900), when he retired from active life. He has written: A New Analysis in Fundamental Morals (New York, 1870); The Human Mind (1883); The Modalist (Boston, 1883); The Perceptionalist : or, Mental Science (New York, 1899); and The Moral Law : or, The Theory and Practise of Duty (1902).
HAMILTON, JAMES: Church of Scotland; b. at Paisley (7 m. w.s.w. of Glasgow) Nov. 27, 1814; d. in London Nov. 24, 1867. He studied at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, became assistant to Robert Candlish at St. George's, Edinburgh, in 1838, took charge of the parish of Abernyte in 1839, and early in 1841 removed to Roxburgh Church, Edinburgh, In July, 1841, he became pastor of the National Scotch Church,
Regent Square, London, and remained pastor of this congregation till his death. In 1849 he became editor of the Presbyterian Messenger, and in 1864 editor of Evangelical Christendom, the organ of the Evangelical Alliance. He was an incessant literary worker and the author of some of the most widely circulated books of his day. His best known works are: Life in Earnest (London, 1845), of which 64,000 copies had been sold before 1852; The Mount of Olives (1846); The Royal Preacher (1851) , homiletical commentary on Ecclesiastes; and Our Christian Classics (4 vols., 1857-59). His Works were published in London (6 vols., 1869-73); and his Select Works appeared in New York (4 vols., 1875).
Bibliography: W. Arnst, Life of James Hamilton, New York, 1871; R. Nasmith, Memoirs of Rev. James Hamilton, Glasgow, 1896; DNB, xxiv. 188.
HAMILTON, JOHN TAYLOR : Moravian bishop; b. at Antigua, W. I., Apr. 30, 1859. He was educated at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa. (A.B., 1875), and the Moravian Theological Seminary in the same town (B.D., 1877). He was then a teacher in Nazareth Hall Military Academy, Nazareth, Pa. (1877-81), pastor of the Second Moravian Church, Philadelphia, Pa. (1881-86), and professor of Greek, church history, and practical theology in the Moravian Theological Seminary (1886-1903). Since 1903 he has been the American member of the Mission Board of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Saxony, and in 1905 was made a Moravian bishop. He was also a member of the administrative board of the Moravian Church in 1898-1903 and secretary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in 1886^ 1898 and 1902-03. In theology he is conservatively liberal and is positive, not negative. He was associate editor of The Moravian in 1883-93 and sole editor in 1893-94 and 1897-99, and has written History of the Moravian Church in America (New York, 1895) ; History of the Moravian Church during the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (Bethlehem, Pa., 1900); and History of the Missions of the Moravian Church during the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (1901).
HAMILTON, JOHN WILLIAM : Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. at Weston, Va., Mar. 18, 1845. He was graduated from Mount Union College, O. (1856) and from Boston University (1871), and was admitted to the Pittsburg Conference in 1868, being appointed to a pastorate at Newport, O. In the same year, however, he was transferred to the New England Conference, and in 1871 founded the People's Church in Boston, of which he was pastor until 1880. From that time until 1900 he held various positions in his denomination, and then was elected bishop. From 1892 to 1900 he was corresponding secretary of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society and also editor of The Christian Educator, and has written Memorial of Jesse Lee and the Old Elm (Boston, 1875); Lives of the Methodist Bishops (New York, 1883); Peoples Church Pulpit (Boston, 1884): and American Fraternal Greetings (Chicago, 1899).
HAMILTON, PATRICK: Proto-martyr of the Scottish Reformation; b. at Stanehouse, Lanark,
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