MARTIN, ALEXANDER: Free Church of Scotland; b. at Panbride (11 m. n.e. of Dundee), Forfarshire, Nov. 25, 1857. He was educated at Watson's College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University (M.A., 1880), and New College (the theological hall of the same institution), from which he was graduated in 1883. He was assistant to the professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh University from 1880 to 1883 and examiner in mental philosophy at the same university from 1886 to 1888, while from 1884 to 1897 he was minister of Morningside Free Church, Edinburgh. Since 1897 he has been professor of apologetics and practical theology in New College. In theology he belongs to the modern Evangelical school. He has written Winning the Soul (Edinburgh, 1897) and The Present Position of Apologetics (1897).
MARTIN, CHALMERS: Presbyterian; b. at Ashland, Ky., Sept. 7, 1859. He was educated at Princeton College (A.B., 1879) and Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1882, and where he was fellow in Hebrew in 1882-1883. He was a missionary in Laos, northern Siam, in 188386, after which he held successive pastorates at Moorestown, N. J. (1888-91) and Port Henry, N. Y. (1891-92). He was then Eliott F. Shepard instructor in Old Testament in Princeton Theological Seminary and instructor in J4obitW in Princeton University from 1892 to 1900, and president of Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburg, Pa., from 1900 to 1903. Since 1903 he has been professor of Old-Testament history and literature in the University of Wooster, Wooster, O., and was also students' lecturer on missions in Princeton Theological Seminary in 1895 and 1901. He has been a member of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Systematic Beneficence since 1903, and in the same year became a member of the Religious Education Society. In theology he is a Calvinist of the conservative type, and a firm believer in the traditional view of Biblical criticism. Besides a
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MARTIN, mdr"tan', DAVID: French Protes tant; b. at Revel (167 m. w. of Marseilles) Sept. 7, 1639; d. at Utrecht Sept. 9, 1721. He was edu cated at Montauban and NIiIes, and at the Protes tant academy at Puy-Laurens. Ordained in 1663, he was a pastor at Esptsrausses and Lacaune, but on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he fled to Utrecht, where he spent the remainder of his life, declining many honorable calls to other charges. Martin wrote a Traitk de la religion naturelle (Am sterdam, 1713; Eng. transl., 1720), but his chief reputation was won by his Biblical studies, which comprised Le Nouveau Testament expliW par des notes courtes et claires (Utrecht, 1696); Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament (2 vols., Amster dam, 1700); and especially by his revision of the Geneva translation under the title La Sainte Bible expliqu6e (2 vols., 1707), the latter serving as the standard French version until recent years (see Bible Versions, B, VI., § 3).
Bibliography: E. Petavel, La Bible en France, Paris, 1864; O. Douen, Hiet de la eoeiW biblique yrotestante de Paris, ib. 1868; idem, in Lichtenberger, ESR, viii. 750-751.
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