Mitchell, Edward Cushing

D.D. (Colby University, Waterville, Me., 1870), Baptist; b. at East Bridge water, Ma ., Sept. 20, 1829; graduated at Waterville College (now Colby University), Me., 1849, and at Newton (Ma .) Theological Institution, 1853; was resident graduate for a year; pastor at Calais, Me., 1854-56;. Brock port, N.Y., 1857- 58; Rock ford, 111., 185S-63; profe or of bib 157 lical interpretation, Alton, 111., 1863-70; of Hebrew and Old-Testament literature, Baptist Union Seminary, Chicago, 1870-77; of Hebrew, Regent's Park College, London, Eng., 1877; president Baptist Theological School, Paris, France, 1878-82; president Roger Williams University, Nashville, Tenn., 1884-85. He edited The Present Age, Chicago, 1883-84; delivered the Lowell Institute lectures for 1884, upon Biblical Science and Modern Discovery; during the same year, courses at the Hebrew school in Morgan Park, 111., and Worcester, Ma .; and during 1885 in Brooklyn, N.Y. lie edited and enlarged Benjamin Davies' Hebrew Lexicon, And over, 1880; and revised and re-edited Davies' Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (from ed. of Kautzsch), 1881; and has written A Critical Handbook. A Guide to the Authenticity, Canon, and Text of the New Testament, And over, 1881; Les sources du Nouveau Testament, Recherches sur I'authenticite, le canon, et le texte du Nouveau Testament, Paris, 1882; Hebrew Introduction, An Elementary Hebrew Grammar and Reading Book, And over, 1883.