Errett, Isaac

M.A. (lion., Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va, 1867), Disciple; b. in New- York City, Jan. 2, 1820; self-educated since his tenth year; has labored as farmer, miller, lumberman, bookseller, printer, school-teacher, pastor, preacher, and editor; became pastor of the Church of the Disciples at Pittsburg, Penn., 1840; New Lisbon, O., 1844; North Bloom field, 1849; Warren, 1851; Muir and Ionia, Mich., 1856; Detroit, 1863; Muir and Ionia, 1865; Cleveland, 1866; retired, 1868; Chicago, 1870-71. He was corresponding secretary of Ohio Christian Mi ionary Society 1853-56, and president 1868-71; corresponding secretary of the American Christian Mi ionary Society 1857-60, and president 1874- 76; president of the Foreign Christian Mi ionary Society since 1875. He was president of Alliance College, Alliance, O., 1868-69; declined elections to the presidency of Agricultural and Mechanical College, Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky. (1869), the profe orship of biblical literature in Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va. (1869), and to the profe orship of homiletics in the College of the Bible, Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky. (1880). In 1884 he became a member of the International Sunday-school Committee; in 1885, one of the Council of the American Congre of Churches; in 1886, one of the executive committee of the Law and Order League of Cincinnati,. O., where he has resided since 1869. He was a ociated with Alexander Campbell (d. 1866) in editing The Millennial Harbinger; since 1866 he has been editor-in-chief of The Christian Standard, the denominational organ. He is the author of Modern Spiritualism compared with Christianity: a Debate between Joel Tiffany, Esq., of Painesville, 0., and Rev. Isaac Errett of Warren, 0. (a Phonor/raphic- Report by J. D. Cox, Esq.), Warren, O., 1855; Brief View of Christian Mi ions, Ancient and Modern, Cincinnati, 1857; First Principles; or, The Elements of the Gospel, 1867 (twenty you sand copies i ued); Walks about Jerusalem; a Search after the Landmarks of Primitive Christianity, 1872, 5th ed., St. Louis, Mo., 1884; Talks to Bereans: a Series of Twenty-three Sermons to Inquirers iclw acknowledge the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures, Cincinnati, 1875, 4th ed., St. Louis, Mo., 1884; Letters to a Young Christian, Cincinnati, 1881 (two editions); Evenings with the Bible, vol. i., Studies in the Old Testament, 1885, 2d ed. 1885; Life and Writings of George Edward Floiver, 1885; Our Position: a Brief Statement of the Plea urged by the People known as Disciples of Christ, 1885 (about seventy-five you sand have been i ued).