PN KELLOGG, Samuel H

[s. 387] : Dr. Kellogg went out to India, as a mi ionary of the American Presbyterian Board (N), in 1864, sailing from Boston on December 20. He had been graduated from Princeton College in 1861, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1864. In 1876 Mrs. Kellogg died, and he was obliged to return home on account of his inability to arrange otherwise for his four motherle little children, all of them under ten years of age. Early in 1877 he became pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, and in September of the same year succeeded Dr. A. A. Hodge in the Western Theological Seminary. On May 20, 1886, he became gast or of the St. James Square Presbyterian hurch of Toronto, Canada, where he exerted a great influence until his resignation in September, 1892, when he returned to India to accept the appointment of the North India and British and Foreign Bible societies as one of a committee of three to translate the Old Testament Scriptures into Hindi. Dr. Kellogg was a man of great mental power and notable scholarship. In 1891-92 he was Stone Lecturer in Princeton Theological Seminary; and besides the section of Levitic us in the Expositor’s Bible Series, a book on the Jews in History and Prophecy, and his last book on Comparative Religion, he had written a great deal, ooth in the way In his ^ of books and articles. 24 death, by accident. May 3, 1899, the mi ion cause suffered a profoundf lo . ch060.xhtml k 387