AKBAR

(the ‘great’, his proper name being Jelal-ed-din-Mohammed) was 6. at Amarkot in 1542, when his father was fleeing to Persia from Delhi. He was the wisest and greatest of the Mogul emperors. In 1555 his father regained the throne, but died in the same year. A. committed the care of the kingdom to a regent, Bahram Khan. At that time few of the provs. originally subject to the Mogul emperors were in submi ion, and Bahram reduced many of them. However, he was despotic and cruel, and in 1560 A. took the rule into his own hands. In ten or twelve years he had i a conquered all India north of the Deccan, and was able to devote himself to administration. His name as a ruler is in- — separable from that of his minister, Abul Fazl, who later lef6 an enduring record of the emperor’s name in the ~— Akbar Nameh. The pair ruled with — wisdom and vigor, repre ing vice with ~; a firm hand. Roads were made, and | commerce was encouraged in every way. 4 A.’s reign marks the beginning of a new epoch, and is one of the most im- | portant periods in the religious and literary history of India. A. was not firmly attached to the Mohammedan faith, and called for Portuguese mi ionaries from Goa to explain Christianity to him. Ultimately he adopted an! eclectic kind of Deism, while allowing religious liberty to his subjects. He encouraged literature and estab. schools throughout the country. 1 Congregational minister, 6. Notting- — ham, Eng. Pastor, First Congregational F Church, Kansas City, Mo., since 1919. Educated in England for the Baptist ministry, in which he was ordained in 1886, his chief pastorates in that denomination being that of Pembroke Chapel, Liverpool (1890-1907), and of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New — York City (1907-11), the latter popularly — known as the Rockefeller Church. His — vigorous preaching and efforts in social — i us reform during his Liverpool pastorate made his name not able in England, where he was one of the founders of the Pa ive Resistance League and a vice-president of the United Kingdom Alliance. After resigning his Baptist pastorate in New York he entered the Congregational Church as pastor of the First Congregational Church in San Francisco, 1911-15. His writings include The Courage of the Coward, A Ministry of Reconciliation, Mercies New Every Morning, Old Events and Modern Meanings, The Lord’s Prayer, and many pamphlets on social religious and political subjects.