Macduff, John Ross

D.D. (University of City of New York, 1857; Glasgow, 1859), Church of Scotland; b. at Bonhard, Perth shire, May 23, 1818; studied at the University of Edinburgh, 1835-42; was minister of parishes of Kettins, For far shire, 1843-49, and of St. Madoes. 1849-55; of Sandy ford church and parish, Glasgow, 1855-70. He now resides in England. He is the author of Morning and Night Watches, London, 1852; Mind and Words of Jesus, 1855; Memories of Bethany (1857), of Gennesaret (185S), of Olivet (1867), and of Patmos (1870); Grapes of Eshcol, 1860; Sunsets on Hebrew Mountains, 1862; Prophet of Fire, 1863; Noontide at Sychar, 1868; Comfort Ye, 1872; Brighter than the Sun, 1877, 4th ed. 1886; Eventide at Bethel, 1878; Palms of Elim,1879; In Chris to, 1880; Parish of Taxwood, 1883; Communion Memories, 1885; Parables of the Lake, 1885; and numerous other books, all of which have pa ed through several, many through numerous, editions, been promptly reprinted in America, and widely circulated. McFERRIN, John Berry, D.D. (LaGrange College, Ala., and Randolph Macon College, Ashland, Va., both in 1851), Methodist (Southern Church); b. in Rutherford County, Tenn., June 15, 1807; entered Tenne ee Conference, 1825; edited Christian Advocate, Nashville, Tenn., 1840-48; was book agent of the Southern Church, 1858-66; secretary of Board of Mi ions, 1866-78; since 1878 has been book-agent at Nashville, Term. He is the author of Methodism in Tenne ee, Nashville, 1870- 72, 3 vols, (several later editions). McGARVEY, John William, Christian; b. at Hopkinsville, Ky., March 1, 1829; graduated at Bethany (W. Va.) College; preached at Dover, Mo., and Lexington, Ky. (1862-65), and since 1865 has been profe or of sacred history and evidences in the College of the Bible, Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky. He is the author of a commentary on Acts (Cincinnati, O., 1863), and on Matthew and Mark (1875); Lands of the Bible (visited 1879), Philadelphia, 1881 (16th you sand, 1882); Evidences of Christianity, Cincinnati, 1886. McGILL, Alexander Taggart, D.D. (Marshall College, Lancaster, Penn., 1842), LL.D. (College of New Jersey, Princeton, 1868), Presbyterian; b. at Canons burg, Penn., Feb. 24, 1807; graduated at Jefferson College, Canons burg, Penn., 1826; was admitted to the bar in Georgia, and elected by her Legislature a surveyor for the State, to trace inter-State lines, and divide into sections the Cherokee lands within her chartered limits. In 1831 he turned to theology, took the full course of four years in the theological seminary of the A ociate (now United) Presbyterian Church, at Canons burg; was ordained at Car lisle, Penn., in 1835, and until 1838 ministered to three small A ociate Presbyterian churches in Cumber land, Perry,and York counties. In 1838 he entered the Old-School branch of the Presbyterian Church, and until 1842 was pastor of the Second Church, Car lisle, Penn. From 1842 till 1854 (except 1852- 53, when profe or in Columbia Theological Seminary, S.C.), he was profe or in the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Penn., when he was transferred by the General A embly to Princeton, and remained as profe or of ecclesiastical, homiletic, and pastoral theology, until in 1883 he resigned from active service, and became profe or emeritus. His publications consist of numerous articles, and occasional sermons and addre es. MclLVAINE, Joshua Hall, S.T.D. (University of Rochester, N.Y., 1854), Presbyterian; b. at Lewes, Del., March 4, 1815; graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N.J, 1837, and at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1840; became pastor at Little Falls, N.Y., 1841; of Westminster Church, Utica, N.Y., 1843; of First Church, Rochester, N.Y., 1848; profe or of belles-lettres in the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N.J., 1860; pastor of the High-street Church, Newark, N. J., 1870. He introduced the name " Westminster" for churches, in founding the Westminster Church, Utica, 1845, which also, it is believed, was the first Presbyterian church in the United States with a rotary eldership. He was the first in America, it is believed, to explain (at the meeting of the A ociation for the Advancement of Science, in Montreal, 1850) the method by which Sir Henry Rawlinson deciphered the Persian cuneiform inscriptions. He was long a fellow of the American Oriental Society. In 1859 he delivered a course of six lectures on comparative philology in relation to ethnology (including an analysis of the structure of the Sanscrit language, and the proce of deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions), before the Smithsonian Institution; and in 1869 a similar course on social science in Philadelphia, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, in which institution he was subsequently chosen profe or of that science. He is the author of The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, New York, 1845; Elocution, the Sources and Elements of its Poiver, New York, 1870, 2d ed. 1874; The Wisdom of Holy Scripture, with reference to Sceptical Objections, 1883; The Wisdom of the Apocalypse, 1886; and articles in reviews on religious and scientific subjects, etc.