Ralston, Thomas Neely

D.D. (Wesley an University, Florence, Ala., 1857), Methodist Church South; b. in Bourbon County, Ky., March 21, 1806; studied at the Baptist College of George town, Ky., but did not graduate; was received into the Kentucky Conference in 1827; was a member of the General Conference of the Methodist-Episcopal Church at Baltimore in 1840, before the division; member of the Convention at Louisville, Ky., in 1845, which organized the Methodist-Episcopal Church South, and of the general conference 187 s of that church at Petersburg, Va., in 1846 (was secretary), at St. Louis, Mo., in 1850, and at Columbus, Ga., in 1854. He was chairman of the committee to revise the Discipline of the Methodist-Episcopal Church South; was principal of the Methodist Female Collegiate High School at Lexington, Ky., 1843-47. He edited The Methodist Monthly (Lexington, Ky.), for 1851. He is the author of Elements of Divinity, Louisville, Ky., 1847, several later editions, republished, revised and enlarged by addition of Evidences, Morals, and Institutions of Christianity (also published separately, 18—), Nashville, Tenn., 1871, 3d ed. 1875 (the book in its first form was translated into Norwegian, 1858, in its enlarged form into Chinese, 1886); (under pseudonym, " Eureka ") Ecce Unitas; or, A Plea for Christian Unity, Cincinnati, O., 1875; Bible Truths, Nashville, Tenn., 1884.