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are: Segersvdrdet (1884); Undersokningar i germansk Mythologi (2 vols., 1886-90; Eng. transl., Teutonic Mythology, Aberdeen, 1889); and Om Ting och fenomen ur empirisk synpunkt (1890). Complete works, Skrifter, were issued by Carl Warburg (15 vols., Stockholm, 1896-1900).

RYDER, WILLIAM HENRY: Congregationalist; b. at Elyria, O., July 24, 1842. He was graduated from Oberlin College, Oberlin, O. (A.B., 1866), and Andover Theological Seminary (1869). After being pastor of the Congregational church at Watertown, N. Y. (1869-70), he was professor of Greek at Oberlin until 1877, and was then pastor of the First Congregational Church at Ann Arbor, Mich., until 1888; then became professor of New-Testament interpretation at Andover Theological Seminary. He served throughout the Civil War in the Union Army and was promoted second lieutenant.

Canadian Methodist; b. at Charlotteville, Norfolk County, Ontario, Mar. 24, 1803; d. at Toronto Feb. 19, 1882. His father was an American loyalist from New Jersey. The son entered the Methodist ministry in 1826; became editor of the Christian Guardian in 1829; was first president of Victoria College, 1841-44; and superintendent of education in Upper Canada, 1844-76. As a preacher he was eloquent and effective, and in representative missions for his church he was able and commanding. His main work was in organizing education; the act which he drafted in 1850 is the one under which the schools of Ontario have since been maintained. He published Epochs of Canadian Methodism (1882), and The Loyalists of America and their Times: 162'01816 (1880).

RYLAND, JOHN: Baptist; b. at Warwick (20 m. s.e. of Birmingham) Jan. 29, 1753; d. at Bristol May 25, 182:1. He was exceedingly precocious as a child, learning Hebrew when only five years of age, and Greek when nine; when fifteen he began to teach at Northampton in the school of his father (who was also a pastor); he began to preach to Baptist congregations in 1769, and was admitted to the ministry in 1771; he continued to teach till 1778, and became assistant pastor with his father in 1781 and sole pastor in 1786; in 1793 be took charge of the Broadmead chapel at Bristol and became president of the Baptist college there, holding both positions till his death. He was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792, and its secretary from 1815 till his death. He was also a hymnist of some note, and a few of his hymns continue in use, including " In all my Lord's appointed ways." Among his works may be noted: Serious Essays on the Truths of the Glorious Gospel (London, 1771; 121 pieces in verse, including some hymns); The Divine Inspiration and Authority of the Holy Scriptures Asserted and Proved (1772); Compendious View of the Principal Truths of the Glorious Gospel of Christ (Salisbury, 1774); A Candid Statement of the Reasons which induce the Baptists to differ in Opinion and Practice from their Christian Brethren (London, 1827); Memoir of the Rev. Andrew Fuller (1816); Serious Remarks on the X.-9

Different Representations of Evangelical Doctrine by the Professed Friends of the Gospel (2 parts, Bristol, 1817-18); Pastoral -Memorials; with a Memoir of the Author (2 vols., 1826-28); and Hymns and Verses on Sacred Subjects, with a biographical Sketch (1862).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Besides the sketches as noted above consult: the memorial sermon by Robert Hall, in the latter's Works, i. 369-414, London, 1832; F. A. Cox, Hist. of the Baptist Missionary Society, i. 1-290, ib. 1842; F. L. Colvile, Worthies of Warwickshire, pp. 623-625, ib. 1870; J. B. Meyers, Centenary Volume of the Baptist Missionary Society, ib. 1893; S. W. Duffield, English Hymns, p. 259, New York, 1886; Julian, Hymnology, pp. 983-984; DNB, 1.55-56.

RYLE, rail, HERBERT EDWARD: Church of England, bishop of Winchester; b. in London May 25, 1856. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1879; M.A., 1882), of which he was fellow (1881-1901). He was ordered deacon (1882), and ordained priest (1883); was divinity lecturer at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1881-84) and at King's College (1882-86). He was principal of St. David's College (1886-88); Hulsean professor of divinity in the University of Cambridge (1887-1901); president of Queen's College, Cambridge (18961901); examining chaplain to his father the bisholl of Liverpool (1883-87), to the bishop of St. Asaph (1887-89), and to the bishop of Ripon (1889-1901); select preacher at Cambridge in 1889, 1892, 1895, 1899, and 1902, and at Oxford in 1901-03; Warburton lecturer at Lincoln's Inn and chaplain in ordinary of the same body in 1898-1901; honorary canon of Ripon and commissary of Wellington (1895-1901); honorary chaplain to the queen (1896-98), and chaplain in ordinary (1898-1901). In 1901 he was consecrated bishop of Exeter, and in 1903 was translated to his present see of Winchester. He has edited The Psalms of the Pharisees (in collaboration with M. R. James; Cambridge, 1891), and has written The Canon of the Old Testament (London, 1892); The Early Narratives of Genesis (1892); Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah (Cambridge, 1893); Philo: Quotations from the Old Testament (London, 1895); On the Church of England (1904); and On Holy Scripture and Criticism (1904).

RYLE, JOHN CHARLES: Church of England; b. at Macclesfield (30 m. e.s.e. of Liverpool) May 10; 1816; d. at Liverpool June 10, 1900. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1838; M.A., 1871). He became curate of Exbury, Hampshire, 1841; rector of St. Thomas, Winchester, 1843; of Helmingham, Suffolk, 1844; vicar of Stradbroke, Suffolk, 1861; rural dean of Hoxne, 1869; honorary canon of Norwich, 1872; select preacher at Cambridge, 1873-74; at Oxford, 18741876, 1879 1880; dean designate of Salisbury, 1880; and was bishop of Liverpool, 1880-1900. He was an Evangelical in type, and in an uncommonly pure and expressive style wrote more than a hundred tracts on doctrinal and practical subjects, of which more than two millions have been circulated, and many have been translated into foreign languages. He was also author of The Bishop, the Pastor, and the Preacher, being biographical Lectures on Latimer,