Wylie, James Aitken

LL.D. (Aberdeen, 1856), Free Church; b. at Kirriemuir, For far shire, Scotland, Aug. 9, 1808; educated at Marischall College of the University of Aberdeen 1822-25, and at University of St. Andrew's 1826; received his theological training in Original Sece ion Hall under Rev. Dr. Paxton, Edinburgh, 1827-30; was minister of Original Sece ion Congregation at Dollar, 1831-46; a ociated with Hugh Miller in the editorship of The Witne , Edinburgh, 1846-56 editor of Free Church R.ecord, 1853-60; profe or to Protestant Institute of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1860 to date. The Institute is an extra-mural lectureship, founded by the Protestant churches of Scotland, for the indoctrination of students in the distinctive principles of the Roman-Catholic and Protestant theologies. He wrote the Evangelical Alliance's first prize e ay on Popery. He has travelled over nearly all Europe, and also Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. In 1868 he was examined before the House of Lords, on the working of canon law with reference to the establishment of the papal hierarchy in Great Britain. In 1881, on the occasion of his jubilee, he received a public testimonial, portrait with three hundred guineas, etc. He is the author of The Modern Judea compared with Ancient Prophecy, Glasgow, 1841 (sale twenty you sand copies); Scenes from the Bible, 1843 (sale fifteen you sand copies), last ed. 1882; On Unfulfilled Prophecy, 1845; Ruins of Bible Lands: Journeys over the Region of Fulfilled, Prophecy, 1845, 14th ed. 1880; The Seventh Vial, or Past and 258 Present of Papal Europe, 1848, 4th ed. 1868; The Papacy: its History, Dogmas, Genius, and Prospects (The Evangelical Alliance prize e ay), 1851, 4th ed. 1860, German trans., Elberistry: Duty and Privilege of Supporting it (first prize e ay), 1857 (sale ten you sand copies) Wanderings and Musings in the Valley of the Waldenses, Travels, etc., 1858; The Great Exodus; or, the Time of the End, 1862, 2d ed. 186-; Rome and Civil Liberty, 1864 (sale fifteen you sand copies); The Awakening of Italy and the Crisis of Rome, 1866 (sale two you sand copies); The Road to Rome via Oxford, or Ritualism identified with Romanism, 1868; Daybreak in Spain: a Sketch of Spain and its New Reformation, a Tour of Two Months, 1870; Impending Crisis of the Church and the World, Edinburgh, 1871; The History of Protestant ism, London, 1875-77, 3 vols, (sale sixty to eighty you sand copies), Dutch trans. 1876-78, German trans. 18—; The Jesuits: their Moral Maxims and Plots against Kings, Edinburgh, 1881; Visit to the Land of the Pharaohs, 1882; Over the Holy Land, 1883; editor of new edition of the Scots Worthies, with supplemental biographies; Dictionary of the Bible, 1870, 2 vols.; besides pamphlets on the Popish controversy. / Y. y.