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and collection of historical archives and sacred books, and by tradition the formation of the third part of the canon is practically traced to him.
(A. Klostermann.)
Bibliography: Consult, besides the literature under Ezra and Nehemiah, Books of, P. Riessler, in Biblische Zeitschrift, i (1903), 232-245, ii (1904), 15-27; DB, iii. 507- 510; EB, iii. 3380-87; JE, ix. 208-211; Vigouroux, Diclionnaire, xxviii. 1565-73.
NEIL, CHARLES: Church of England; b. in London May 14, 1S41. He graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge (B.A., 1862; M.A., 1866); he was ordained deacon 1865, and priest 1866; became curate of Bradford Abbas, near Sherborne, Dorset, 1865; vicar of St. Paul's, Bethnal Green, 1866; incumbent of St. Matthias, Poplar, London, 1875; and vicar of St. Mary's, Stamford Brook, London, 1899. He was called to the bar (Inner Temple) in 1864; and has been joint editor of the Clergyman's Magazine, London, 1876 sqq. He is the author of the volume on Romans, in the Expositor's Commentary (London, 1877); the volumes on Genesis, the Gospels, and Acts, in the Teacher's Catechising Bible (1893-94); The Fallacy of Sacramental Confession; Discourses Delivered at St. Matthias, Poplar (1896) ; and contributed the volume on the Pauline epistles to The Biblical Elucidator (1896). He edited John Todd's Index Rerum (London, 1881); with H. D. M. Spence and J. S. Exell he edited Thirty Thousand Thoughts ([1883] sqq.); and, with C. H. H. Wright, A Protestant Dictionary (1904).
NELLES, SAMUEL SOBIESKI: Methodist educator; b. at Mount Pleasant, near Brantford, Canada, Oct. 17, 1823; d. at Cobourg, Canada, Oct. 17, 1887. He received his education at Lewiston Academy, N. Y., Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, N. Y., Victoria College, Cobourg, Canada, and Wesleyan University, Conn. (B.A., 1846); after teaching for a year he entered the ministry, serving as pastor at Port Hope, Toronto, and at London, Canada; in 1850 he became president of Victoria College, and held the position till his death. See Methodists, IV., 10, § 3.
NELSON, CLEVELAND KINLOCH: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Georgia; b. at Greenwood, near Cobham Station, Va., May 23, 1852. He was educated at St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. (B.A., 1872) and attended lectures at the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., from which, however, he was not graduated. He was ordered deacon in 1876 and ordained priest in the following year, after which he was rector of St. John the Baptist's, Germantown, Pa., from 1876 to 1882, and of the Church of the Nativity, South Bethlehem, Pa., from 1882 to 1892, when he was consecrated bishop of Georgia.
Bibliography: AV. S. Perry, The Episcopate in America, p. 337, New York, 1895.
NELSON, DAVID: Presbyterian; b. near Jonesborough, Tenn., Sept. 24, 1793; d. at Oakland, 111., Oct. 17, 1X44. He was graduated at Washington College, Virginia, in 1810. He practised medicine, imbibed infidel opinions, but was converted, and licensed to preach in 1825. After five years' service in Tennessee and Kentucky, he established Marion
College in Missouri, and was its first president, holding the position for six years; but his abolitionist views at last forced his departure, and in 1836 he opened at Oakland, 111., a training-school, particularly for missionaries. He wrote Cause and Cure of Infidelity (New York, 1836), often reprinted and edited, while it exists in translation in French, German, and Spanish.
NELSON, HENRY ADDISON: Presbyterian; b. at Amherst, Mass., Oct. 31, 1820; d. at St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 31, 1906. He was educated at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. (A.B., 1840), after which he taught at Eaton, N. Y., and Homer, N. Y., until 1843, when he entered Auburn Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1846. He was then pastor at the First Presbyterian Church, Auburn, N. Y. (1846-56), and at the First Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Mo. (1856-68), professor of systematic and pastoral theology at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati (1868-74), pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Geneva, N. Y. (1874- 1885), and acting pastor at Independence, Mo. (1885-86). From 1886 until his retirement from active life in 1897 he was editor of The Church at Home and Abroad (Philadelphia) . He was a member of the joint committee of thirty appointed by the general assemblies of the northern and southern branches of his denomination in 1866 to effect their reunion, and in theology " accepted the standards of the Presbyterian Church, but would much prefer a fair statement of the consensus in doctrine of all the churches which acknowledge each other as evangelicals, eliminating all the dogmas which distinguish them from each other." His works include: Seeing Jesus (Philadelphia, 1869); Sin and Salvation (New York, 1881); and Home Whispers (Philadelphia, 1885).
NELSON, RICHARD HENRY: Protestant Episcopal bishop coadjutor of Albany, N. Y.; b. in New York City Nov. 10, 1859. He was educated at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. (A.B., 1880), the University of Leipsic (1880-81), and Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., from which he was graduated in 1883. After being curate of St. John's, Stamford, Conn. (1883-84), he was rector successively of Grace Church, Waterville, N. Y. (1884-87), Christ Church, Norwich, Conn. (1887-97), and St. Peter's, Philadelphia, Pa. (1897- 1904). In 1904 he was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Albany, N. Y.
NEMESIUS, ne-mi'si-us, OF EMESA: Bishop of Emesa in Phenicia in the fourth century. Of his life nothing whatsoever is known, nor was his work, generally known as " On the Nature of Man " (ed. I. Casaubon, Antwerp, 1565; ed. J. Fell, Oxford, 1671; best ed. by Matthai, Halle, 1802; with collected prefaces also in MPG, xl.; Eng. transl. by G. Wither, London, 1636), mentioned before Maximus Confessor in the seventh century. The date of the work rests entirely on internal evidence, as in its polemics against Apollinarius and Eunomius, and in its evident allusions to Antiochene Christology. On the other hand, there is no allusion to controversies later than the fourth century, such as
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