is carried on by establishments known as sailors' homes. London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastleon-Tyne, Cardiff, Leith, Antwerp, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Sydney, Bombay, Karachi, Calcutta, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore have such places supported by (1) the income from lodgers; (2) general subscriptions; (3) state subsidy, tir city grant. Nearly all of them have resident chaplains, missionaries, or helpers who devote time to the spiritual and moral welfare of the seamen. Sailors' homes are no longer being built, the changed conditions of sea life rendering them obsolete, and seamen's institutes, adapted to modern conditions of sea life, are taking their place.

The papers published by the missionary societies laboring among seamen are an important factor in the work, helping to carry the Gospel afloat. The oldest paper in the world for seamen is the Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend, in its eighty-second year, published by the American Seamen's Friend Society, 76 Wall Street, New York, which society also publishes the Life Boat, devoted to creating marine interests in the Sunday-schools of America. The Chart and Compass is published by the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, London England; The Word on the Waters is the organ of the English Church's society; Sea Breeze is issued in furthering the interests of the Boston Seamen's Friend Society, Boston, Mass.; Toilers of the Deep is sent out by Royal Missions to Deep Sea Fishermen, London, England; Ashore and Afoat, edited by Miss Weston of Portsmouth, England, is circulated in the British and American Navies. Bhdtter fur Seemams Mission is published at Berlin.

Since the Spanish-American War the Young Men's Christian Association in America has devoted considerable energy and money to promoting the standards and principles of that organization among the men of the United States navy, thus leaving the societies engaged in welfare work for seamen to concentrate their energies on the merchant marine, a class of men numbering three millions and a half of all nationalities.

The Seamen's Christian Brotherhood, an organization for Christian seamen, was started at an international conference of seamen's chaplains, held under the auspices of the American Seamen's Friend Society in 1908. In two years it spread into the ports of twelve different countries and promises to be of significance and spiritual worth to seamen. Its flag is a star, cross, and crown on a blue ground. Wherever a chapter of the organization is formed, ashore or afloat, the flag is hoisted on Sunday. The missionary movement on behalf of seamen held aloof from work of a social nature until the last decade when a healthy and conservative movement set in, recognizing the physical and social needs of seamen, resulting in a changed method of work which attracts all classes of seamen, the irreligious as well as the religious.

GEORGE MCPHERSGN HUNTER.

Wints, Our Blue Jackets. Miss Weston's Life and Work, London, 1894; M. Mao Lean, Seafarers from the Land of the Rising Sun in London. London, 1896; J. Slater, The East in the West; or, Work among the Asiaties and Africans in London, ib., 1896; H. Dalton, Deutsche Seeinantmission, Berlin, 1897; O. Strecker, Die Geschichte der . . . verbundenen lutherischen Vereinen for inner@ Mission petriebenen kirchliehen Versorpunp deutscher Seeleute, Hanover, 1899; F. T. Bullen, With Christ in Sailor Town, London, 1901; idem, With Christ at Sea, New York, 1901; idem, A Sailor Apostle, ib. 1903; M. L. Walrond, Launching out into the Deep. The Missions to Seamen, London, 1904; N. Duncan, Dr. Grenjell's Parish. The Deep Sea Fishermen, London, 1905; R. M6aehmeyer, In d. Fremde. Einipe Zeupnisse aus der Auslandsarbeit, Marburg, 1905; and the Reports of the various societies named in the teat.

SEARLE, sfrl, JOHN PRESTON: Reformed; b. at Schuylerville, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1854. He was graduated from Rutgers College (A.B., 1875) and New Brunswick Theological Seminary (1878); was ordained (1878), and after holding pastorates at Griggstown, N. J. (1878-81), and the First Reformed Church, Somerville, N. J. (1881-93), he was appointed in 1893 to his present position of professor of systematic theology at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He has also been president of the faculty of the same institution since 1902. He is vice-president of the Board of Foreign Missions of his denomination, and is the author of a number of sermons, addresses, and contributions to religious periodicals.

SEARS, afrz, BARNAS: Baptist educator; b. at Sandisfield, Mass., Nov. 19, 1802; d. at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 6, 1880. He was graduated from Brown University in 1825; and from Newton Theological Seminary in 1828; was pastor at Hartford, Conn., 1829-31; professor of ancient languages in Hamilton (N. Y.) Literary and Theological Institution, now Madison University, 1831-33; and pastor at the same time at Hamilton. He studied at Halle, Leipsic, and Berlin, 1833-35, and in 1834 baptized J. G. Oncken and six others, forming the first German Baptist Church in communion with the Baptists of England and America. He returned to Hamilton in 1835; was professor of theology in Newton Theological Seminary, 183618; and president, 1837-48. For several years he was the editor of the Christian Review. He was president of Brown University, 1855-67; and general agent of the Pear body Educational Fund, with residence at Staunton, Va., 1867-80. He published a Life of Luther (Philadelphia, 1850), and an edition of P. M. Roget's Thesaurus (Boston, 1854).

SEARS, EDMUND HAMILTON: B. at Sandisfield, Mass., Apr. 6, 1810; d. at Weston, Mass., Jan. 14, 1876; was graduated from Union College, 1834; and from Cambridge Divinity School, 1837; was pastor of Unitarian societies at Wayland, Mass., 1839-10 and 1847-65; at Lancaster, Mass., 1840-47; and at Weston, 1865-76. Though connected with the Unitarian body, he held Swedenborgian opinions, and often'professed his belief in the absolute divinity of Christ. He wrote largely for the Monthly Religious Magazine, of which he was joint-editor, 1859-71. He published Regeneration (Boston, 1853), Pictures of the Olden Time (1857), Athanaeia, or