McGARVEY, JOHN WILLIAM: Disciple; b. at Hopkinsville, Ky., Mar. 1, 1829. He was educated at Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va. (A.B., 1850), and after conducting a private school for boys from 1850 to 1852 and being the head of a boarding-school from 1856 to 1858, besides holding pastorates at Fayette, Mo., Dover, Mo., and Lexington, Ky., was appointed professor of sacred history at the College of the Bible, Lexington, in 1865, a position which he still retains. Since 1895 he has also been president of the same institution. He was president of the Kentucky Christian Missionary Society for nearly forty years and of the Christian Education Society for over thirty, and has been editor of the department of Biblical criticism in The Christian Standard (Cincinnati) since 1893. In theology he is strongly conservative on questions connected with Biblical criticism. He has written: Commentary on the Arts of the Apostles (Cincinnati, O., 1863); Commentary on Matthew and Mark (1867); Lands of the Bible (1881); Text arid Canon of the New Testament (1886); Credibility arid Inspiration of the New Testament (1891); MeGarvey'a
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McGARVEY, WILLIAM: Roman Catholic; b. at Philadelphia Aug. 14, 1861. He was educated by private tutors and at the General Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1886. He was ordained to the priesthood of the Protestant Episcopal Church (1886); was curate of the Church of the Evangelists, Philadelphia (1886-96); rector of St. Elizabeth's, Philadelphia (1896-1908); but in 1908, together with his assistant clergy, embraced Roman Catholicism, the immediate cause of his conversion being his fear that a so-called "open pulpit" would be permitted in the Episcopal Church. While in his former communion he was superior of the Congregation of the Companions of the Saviour and chaplain general of the Sisters of Saint Mary in the United States. He has written: The Ceremonies of a Low Celebration (Milwaukee, 1891); Liturgite Americance (Philadelphia, 1895); The Doctrine of the Church of England on the Real Presence (Milwaukee, 1900); and Ceremonies of the Mass (in collaboration with C. P. A. Burnett; New York, 1905).
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