Aitken, William Hay Mac do wall Hunter

Church of England; b. at Liverpool, Sept. 21, 1841; educated at Wadham College, Oxford; graduated B.A. (2d cla cla ics), 1865; M.A., 1867; was curate of St. Jude's, Mildmay Park, 1866-70; incumbent of Christ Church, Everton, Liverpool, 1871-75; has since devoted himself entirely to mi ion [revival] work, and since 1884 he has been general superintendent of the Church of England Parochial Mi ion Society, which he founded in 1877, with a view to supply competent mi ion [revival] preachers. His theology is "eclectic. He desires to be a Churchman pure and simple, to belong to no party, but to comprehend what is good in all. He holds evangelical principles strongly, but without Calvin ism, and values highly Church order and the sacraments." He conducted a mi ion in New-York City in the winter of 1885. He has published Mi ion Sermons, Brighton, 1875-76, 3 series, 2d ed., London, 1877; Newne of Life, Brighton, 1877, 2d ed., London, 1878; Difficulties of the Soul, London, 1878; What is your Life? 1878; Manual of Parochial Mi ions, 1879; The School of Grace, 1879; God's Everlasting " Yea," 1880; The Glory of the Gospel, 1881 The Highway of Holine , 1883; Around the Cro , 1884; The Revealer revealed, 1885.