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sions in South America, New York, 1900; H. Lawaetz, Brodremenighedens Mission i Dansk Vestindien, 1769- 1848, Copenhagen, 1902.
For Asia consult: James Hough, The History of Christianity in India from the Commencement of the Christian Era, London, 1839; G. H. Carpenter, Self-Support; History of the Bassein Karen Mission, Boston, 1883; L. Hertel, Den Nordiske Santhalmission, Copenhagen, 1884; M. A. Sherring, History of Protestant Missions in India, 1706-1881, London, 1884; Missionary Conference, Statistical tables of Protestant Missions in India,? 'Burma and Ceylon, Calcutta, 1892; L. B. Wolfe, After Fifty Years, Historical Sketch of the Gunthur Mission of the Lutheran Church of the United States of America, Philadelphia, 1896; J. Johnston, China and Formosa: Story of the Mission of the Presbyterian Church of England, New York, 1897; H. Ritter, A History of Protestant Missions in Japan, Tokyo, 1898; M. G. Guinness, The Story of the China Inland Mission, 2 vols., London, 1900; E. Chatterton, Story of Fifty Years' Mission Work in Chhota-Nagpur, ib. 1901; S. Coolsma, De Zendingseeuw voor Nederlandsche Oost- Indie, Utrecht, 1901; E. A. Lawrence, Modern Missions in the East, Chicago, 1901 ; F. Penny, The Church in Madras: the History of the ecclesiastical and missionary Action of the East India Company in Madras, London, 1904; H. K. Miller, History of the Japan Mission of the Reformed Church, 1879-1904, Philadelphia, 1905; J. Jackson, Lepers, 31 Years' Work among them: Hist, of the Missions to Lepers in India and the East 1874-1906, London, 1906; D. MacGillivray, A Century of Protestant Missions in China, 1807—1907, London, 1908; Centenary Missionary Conference Records; Report of the great Shanghai Conference held April 25 to May .2, 1907, New York, 1908; A. Lloyd, The Wheat among the Tares . . . Exposition of . . . missionary Problems of the Far East, ib. 1908; L. G. Mylne, Missions to Hindus, London, 1908; J. Gindraux, Hist, du christianisme dans le monde paten. Les Missions en Asie, Geneva, 1909.
Special works on parts of Oceania are: J. Williams, Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, Philadelphia, 1889; London Missionary Society; Ten Decades, Australian Centenary Story, London, 1895; F. Awdry, In the Isles of the Sea: The Story of fifty Years in Melanesia, London, 1902; J. Chalmers, Work and Adventure in New Guinea, London, 1902; H. A. Robertson, Erromanga, the Martyr Isle, London, 1902; H. H. Montgomery, The Light of Melanesia, London, 1904; R. L. Lamb, Saints and Savages: Five years in the New Hebrides, Edinburgh, 1905.
Hints on medical missions may be gained from: V. F. Penrose, Opportunities in the Path of the Great Physician, Philadelphia, 1902; G. Saunders, The Healer Preacher, London, 1884; J. Lowe, Medical Missions, their Place and Power, New York, 1891; W. B. Thompson, Reminiscences of Medical Missionary Work, London, 1895; J. R. Williamson, The Healing of the Nations, New York, 1899.
MITCHELL, ALEXANDER FERRIER: Church of Scotland; b. at Brechin Sept. 10, 1822; d. at St. Andrews Mar. 22, 1899. He studied literature, philosophy, and theology at the University of St. Andrews (M.A., 1841), became minister of the parish of Dunnichen, in the presbytery and county of Forfar, in 1847, professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages in the College of St. Mary in the University of St. Andrews in 1848, and was transferred to the chair of ecclesiastical history and divinity in the Bame college in 1868. He retired in 1894. From 1856 to 1874 he was convener (chairman) of the Church of Scotland's Jewish Mission, visited the stations of the mission in Turkey, and recommended the occupation of Alexandria, Beirut, and Constantinople. He was first convener of the Assembly's committee on the minutes of the Westminster Assembly, one of the Church of Scotland's representatives at all the general councils of the Reformed Churches, convener of its committee on the desiderata of Presbyterian history, and moderator •f the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
in 1885. He was an authority on all matters connected with Scottish ecclesiastical history, and the author of The Westminster Confession of Faith a Contribution to the Study of its History and the Defence of its Teaching (Edinburgh, 1866; 3d ed., 1867); The Wedderburns and their Work, or the Sacred Poetry of the Scottish Reformation in its Relation to that of Germany (1867); Minutes of the Westminster Assembly from November, I644., to March 1649 (ed. John Struthers), with Historical Introduction (1874); Historical Notice of Archbishop Hamilton's Catechism (prefixed to black-letter reprint of the same, 1882); The Westminster Assembly, its History and Standards (Baird Lecture for 1882, London, 1883); The Catechisms of the Second Reformation (1886); and The Scottish Reformation: Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders and Distinctive Characteristics (Baird lecture for 1899; ed. D. Hay Fleming, 1900). He edited in 1860 the Sum of Saving Knowledge, Translated into Modern Greek by the late Prof. Edward Masson; in 1876 the late Prof. Thomas Jackson Crawford's The Preaching of the Cross and other Sermons; in 1888 John Gau's The Richt Vey to Heuine; and in 1897 The Gude and Godlie Ballatis from the edition of 1567, both for the Scottish Text Society; in 1892 for the Scottish History Society (with James Christie), The Records of the Commissions of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, holden in Edinburgh in the years 161fi and 1647; and for the same and with the same in 1896 the Records of the same in 1648 and 1649. He was a frequent contributor to the periodic press and to encyclopedias.
Bibliography: A biographical sketch by James Christie is prefixed to his Scottish Reformation, ut sup., London, 1900.
MITCHELL, EDWARD CUSHING: Baptist; b. at East Bridgewater, Mass., Sept. 20, 1829; d. at New Orleans Mar. 2, 1900. He was graduated from Waterville College (now Colby University), Me., 1849, and Newton, Mass., Theological Institution, 1853; was resident graduate for a year; pastor at Calais, Me., 1854-56; Brockport, N. Y., 1857-58; Rockford, 111., 1858-63; professor of Biblical interpretation, Alton, 111., 1863-70; of Hebrew and Old- Testament literature, Baptist Union Seminary, Chicago, 1870-77; of Hebrew, Regent's Park College, London, Eng., 1877; president Baptist Theological School, Paris, France, 1878-82; president Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tenn., 1884- 1885. He wrote: A Critical Handbook: a Guide to the Authenticity, Canon, and Text of the New Testament ( Andover, 1880) ; Les sources du Nouveau Testament, recherches sur I' authenticity, le canon, et le texte du Nouveau Testament, Paris, 1882; Hebrew Introduction, An Elementary Hebrew Grammar and Reading Book, Andover, 1883. He also edited and enlarged Benjamin Davies' Hebrew Lexicon (Andover, 1880); revised and reedited Davies' Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (1881); and edited The Present Age (Chicago, 1883-84). He also delivered the Lowell Institute lectures for 1884 upon Biblical Science and Modern Discovery.
MITCHELL, HINCKLEY GILBERT: Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Lee, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1846. He was educated at Wesleyan University, Middle-