PHILIPPOPOLIS

[s. 603] : A city in Eastern Rumelia, most important city of the southern province. Population (1900), 42,849. The city stands upon and between three isolated syenitic rocks (the highest 695 feet) on the right bank of the Maritsa, 97 miles N. N. W. of Adrianople. It was founded 340 B.C. by Philip II. of Maoedon. Station of the (1859), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries and their wives, 27 native workers, 17 outstations, 12 places of worship, 17 Sunday schools, 8 day schools, 1 printing house, and 472 profe ed Christians. Bulgaria. It is the ABCFM PHILLIPS, Jeremiah: Bom at Plain field, N. Y., January 5, 1812; attended Madison (now Colgate) University, but did not complete his course of study, the Committee of the Mi ionary Society desiring that he should accompany Dr. Sutton He was ordained at Plain and embarked for Calcutta in company with E. Noyes, September 22, 1835, under the on his return to India. field, Dr. Free Baptist Mi ionary Society. His field of labor was Ori a, a region of country hitherto wholly untouched by mi ionary effort, which was occupied in 1836. Balasor was first occupied in 1840 and a boarding school opened, with six Petchaburee Philippine Islands children. The same year Mr. Phillips commenced a new station at Jaleswar with some native of the Balasor boarding scholars and native converts. He was the first to discover the Santate, a race of aborigines previously unknown to miesionaries. He reduced their wild language to writing, prepared and published a grammar and dictionary, and established schools among them for the first time in their existence, so far as known. As a result of his correspondence and pubhshed articles in the papers of India and America, seven mi ions have been establislied, and are succe fully working among them. He translated the Gospels and other portions of the Bible into their language, and also prepared schoolbooks. The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by Bates College, Maine. The India Government officially thanked Dr. Phillips for his great work among the Santals. He died at Hills dale, Mich., December 9, 1879, having served 43 years in India. 603