HAMILTON, JAMES: Church of Scotland; b. at Paisley (7 m. w.s.w. of Glasgow) Nov. 27, 1814; d. in London Nov. 24, 1867. He studied at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, became assistant to Robert Candlish at St. George's, Edinburgh, in 1838, took charge of the parish of Abernyte in 1839, and early in 1841 removed to Roxburgh Church, Edinburgh. In July, 1841, he became pastor of the National Scotch Church,

Regent Square, London, and remained pastor of this congregation till his death. In 1849 he became editor of the Presbyterian Messenger, and in 1864 editor of Evangelical Christendom, the organ of the Evangelical Alliance. He was an incessant literary worker and the author of some of the most widely circulated books of his day. His beat known works are: Life in Earnest (London, 1845), of which 64,000 copies had been sold before 1852; The Mount of Olives (1846); The Royal Preacher (1851), homiletical commentary on Ecclesiastes; and Our Christian Classics (4 vols., 1857-59). His Works were published in London (6 vols., 1869-73); and his Select Works appeared in New York (4 vols., 1875).

Bibliography: W. Arnst, Life of James Hamilton, New York, 1871; R. Nasmith, Memoirs of Rev. James Hamilton, Glasgow, 1896; DNB, xciv. 188.

HAMILTON, JOHN TAYLOR: Moravian bishop; b. at Antigua, W. I., Apr. 30, 1859. He was edu cated at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa. (A.B., 1875), and the Moravian Theological Seminary in the same town (B.D.,1877). He was then a teacher in Nazareth Hall Military Academy, Nazareth, Pa. (1877-81), pastor of the Second Moravian Church, Philadelphia, Pa. (1881,86), and professor of Greek, church history, and practical theology in the Mora vian Theological Seminary (1886-1903). Since 1903 he has been the American member of the Mis sion Board of the Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Saxony, and in 1905 was made a Moravian bishop. He was also a member of the administrative board of the Moravian Church in 1898-1903 and secretary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in 1886 1898 and 1902--03. In theology he is conserva tively liberal and is positive, not negative. He was associate editor of The Moravian in 1883-93 and sole editor in 1893-94 and 1897-99, and alas written History of the Moravian Church. in America (New York, 1895); History of the Moravian Church during the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (Bethlehem, Pa., 1900); and History of the Missions of the Mora vian Church during the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries (1901).