Mathurins

MATHEWS, SHAILER: Baptist; b. at Portland, Me., May 26, 1863. He was educated at Colby University, Waterville, Me. (A.B., 1884), Newton Theological Institution, from which he was graduated in 1887, and the University of Berlin (1890-91). He was associate professor of rhetoric at Colby University in 1887-89 and professor of history and political economy in the same institution in 1889-94, as well as lecturer in New-Testament literature in Newton Theological Institution in 1888,89, after which he was associate professor of New-Testament history and interpretation at the divinity school of the University of Chicago from 1894 to 1897 and professor from 1897 to 1904. Since the latter year he has been professor of systematic theology in the same seminary, was junior dean of the divinity school 1894-1907, and dean since 1907. In addition to his work as editor of The World Today since 1903 and of the series of New Testament Handbooks, as well as associate editor of The Biblical World and The American Journal of Theology, he has written: Select Mediwval Documents (New York, 1891); The Social Teaching of Jesus (1897); A History of New Testament Times in Palestine (1899); Constructive Studies in the Life of Christ (in collaboration with E. D. Burton, Chicago, 1901); The French Revolution (New York, 1901); Principles aced Ideals for the Sunday School (in collaboration with E. D. Burton, Chicago, 1903); The Messianic Hope in the New Testament (1905); and The Church and the Changing Order (New York, 1907).

MATHIEU, and"tt"O', FRANCOIS DESIRE: Cardinal; b. at Einville (41 m. n. ~ Lun6ville), France, May 28, 1839; d. in London Oct. 26, 1908. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1863, after hav-

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ing been professor at the Petit Séminaire of Pont-&Mousson from 1859, and for ten years was confessor of the Dominican nuns at Nancy. In 1894 he was consecrated bishop of Angers, and two years later was enthroned archbishop of Toulouse. He was created cardinal priest of Santa Sabina in 1899. He wrote L'Aneien regime dana la province de Lorraine et Barrois d'apr�s des documents in�dits (Paris, 1879) and Le Concordat de 1801, ses origines, son histoire (1903).