HAMLIN, CYRUS: Congregationalist; b. at Waterford, Me., Jan. 5, 1811; d. at Portland, Me., Aug. 8, 1900. He was graduated from Bowdoin College (A.B., 1834) and at Bangor Theological Seminary (1837). In the following year he went to Turkey under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and in 1840 opened Bebek Seminary on the shores of the Bosphorus, which he successfully conducted for twenty years, also finding an opportunity to aid the Protestant Armenians of Constantinople during the Crimean War. In 1860 he resigned from all relations with the American Board because of his theories on vernacular education, and founded Robert College, Constantinople, finally securing an imperial imde placing the institution under the protection of the United States. After a successful presidency of the new college for sixteen years, he returned to the United States in 1876 as professor of dogmatic theology in Bangor Theological Semi-

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nary, a position which he retained until 1880, when he was chosen president of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. In 1885 he resigned this office and retired to private life. He wrote Among the Turks (New York, 1877) and the autobiographic My Life and Times (Boston, 1893), as well as numerous sermons, lectures, reviews, and similar brief contributions.

HAMMOND, CHARLES EDWARD: Church of England; b. at Bath (12 m. ex.e. of Bristol), SOmersetshire, Jan. 24, 1837. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford (B.A., 1858), where he was fellow in 1859-73, tutor in 1861-73, and bursar and lecturer in 1873-82. He was ordained priest in 1862, and was chaplain of the Oxford Female Penitentiary from 1$70 to 1882. From 1882 to 1887 he was rector of Wootton, Northamptonshire, and since 1887 has been vicar of Menheniot, Cornwall. He was likewise rural dean of East from 1889 to 1890 and from 1893 to 1899, and has been honorary canon of Truro since 1893, examining chaplain to the bishop since 1903, and proctor in convocation for the diocese of Truro since 1905. He has written: Outlines of Textual Criticism applied to the New Testament (Oxford, 1872); Liturgies, Eastern and Western (1878); and The Ancient LMcrgy of Antioch, and Other Liturgical Fragments (an appendix to the preceding volume; 1879).

HAMMOND, EDWARD PAYSON: Evangelist; b. at Ellington, Conn., Sept. 1, 1831. He was educated at Williams College (A.B., 1858), Union Theological Seminary (1858-59), and the Free Church College, Edinburgh, where he completed his education in 1861. In 1862 he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, and since that time has devoted himself to Evangelistic work, particularly among the young, in the United States and Great Britain. He has written, among other works: Child's Guide to Heaven (Boston, 1863); The Better Life and How to Find it (1869); Jesus the Lamb of God (1872); The Conversion of Children (New York, 1878); Roger's Travels (1887); and Early Conversion (1901).