Pend let on, James Madison

D.D. (Denison University, Granville, O., 1865), Baptist; b. in Spottsylvania County, Va., Nov. 20, 1811; was pastor at Bowling Green, Ky., 1837-57, profe or of theology, Union University, Murfreesboro', Tenn., 1857-61; pastor at Hamilton, Q., 1862-65, and at Upland, Penn., 1865-83. He has never had a collegiate education, but received an honorary A.M. from George town College, Ky., 1841. He is the author of Three Reasons why I am a Baptist, Cincinnati, O., 1853, last ed. St. Louis, Mo., 1884; Sermons, Nashville, Tenn., 1859; Church Manual, Philadelphia, 1868 (40 editions of 500 copies each); Christian Doctrines, 1878, 13th ed. 1885 (each edition 500 copies); Distinctive Principles of Baptists, 1881, 3d ed. 1885 (each edition 500 copies); with Rev. Dr. G. W. Clark, Brief Notes on the New Testament, 1884; The Atonement of Christ, 1885. His Three Reasons was translated into Welsh.