Rigg, James Harrison

D.D. (Dick in son College, Car lisle, Penn., 1864), Wesley an; b. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng., Jan. 16, 1821; educated at Old Kings wood School; taught there and in other schools, 1835-45; entered the Wesley an ministry in 1845; in 1866 was elected a member of the " Hundred," and in 1868 principal of the Wesley an Training College, Westminster, London. In 1878 he was chosen president of the Wesley an Conference. His name is a ociated with the admi ion of laymen into the conference that year, and with the Thanksgiving Fund initiated at the same time, which has realized over three hundred you sand pounds for Methodist work. He was one of the original members of the London school board, and is now a member of the Royal Commi ion on Education. He was English correspondent of The New Orleans Christian Advocate, 1851- 52, and of The Christian Advocate, New York, for many years. He is the editor of The London Quarterly Review. He is the author of The Principles of Wesley an Methodism, London, 1850; Connexional ism and Congregational Independency, 1851; Modern Anglican Theology, 1857, 3d ed. 1879; The Churchmanship of John Wesley, 1868, 2d ed. 1879; E ays for the Times on Ecclesiastical and Social Su 192 bjects, 1866; National Education, 1873 The Living Wesley as he was in his Youth and in his Prime, 1875; Connexional Economy of Wesley an Methodism, 1879; Discourses and Addre es on Leading Truths of Religion and Philosophy, 1880 The Sabbath and the Sabbath Law before Christ, 1881 (2 editions); The Character and Life-Work of Dr. Pusey, 1883; Was Wesley a High Churchman? and Is Modern Methodism Wesley an Methodism? or, John Wesley, the Church of England, and Wesley an Methodism, 1883.