MERRIAM, ALEXANDER ROSS: Congregation- alist; b. at 0osheu~ N. YI1 hpi P1 102

Liu was educated at Yale College (A.B., 1872), and after teaching at the Hartford High School for two years (1872-74) he entered Andover Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1877.

He was pastor of Payson Congregational Church, Easthampton, Mass., from 1877 to 1884, when he accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Congregational Church, Grand Rapids, Mich., which pulpit he filled until 1891. Retiring from the ministry on account of ill-health, he then resided at Brattleboro, Vt., for two years, and since 1893 has been professor of homiletics, pastoral care, and sociology at Hartford Theological Seminary.

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MERRICK, JAMES: Church of England Biblical scholar and poet; b. at Reading Jan. 8, 1720; d. there Jan. 5, 1769. He was graduated from the University of Oxford (B.A., 1739; M.A., 1742); became a fellow, 1745; was ordained, but owing to ill-health 'never took a charge. His earlier productions were on the Greek classics. He issued among other works a Dissertation on Proverbs ix. 1-6 (Oxford, 1744); Poems on Sacred Subjects (1763); Annotations, Critical and Grammatical, on John i. 1-14 (Reading, 1764); and on John i. 15-iii (1767); The Psalms Translated or Paraphrased in English Verse (1765); Annotations on the Psalms (1768). His paraphrases of the Psalms were often reproduced, and some of them are found in modern hymn-books, though in general his poetical work is severely criticized as too verbose for profitable employment in church hymnody.

Bibliography: S. W. Duffield, English Hymns, pp. 578-578, New York, 1888; Julian, Hymnology, pp. 725-728; DNB, Ics:vii. 289-291.

MERRILL, SELAH: Congregationalist; b. at Canton Center, Conn., May 2, 1837. He was educated at Yale College, but left before graduation. He then studied at Yale Divinity School, from which he was graduated in 1864, and after being chaplain of the Forty-ninth (colored) Infantry at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1864-65, was pastor at Chester, Mass., in 1865-6; First Congregational Church, Le Roy, N. Y., in 1867; stated supply at the Third Congregational Church, San Francisco, Cal., in 18678. From 1868 to 1870 he studied in Germany, and after being pastor at Salmon Falls, N. H., in 1871-72 and teaching Hebrew at Andover Theological Seminary in 1872, where he again taught in 1879, he was archeologist of the American Palestine Exploration Society from 1875 to 1877. He has been United States consul at Jerusalem in 1882-1886, 1891-94, and since 1898, and is honorary curator of the Biblical museum of Andover Theological Seminary. He is well and favorably known for his contributions to Biblical archeology, especially in connection with excavations in and about Jerusalem, especially those which disclosed the second wall. He has made collections dealing with the coins, implements, and fauna of Palestine. In theology he is orthodox and approves critical methods so long as they remain reverent. In addition to a large number of contributions to theological and Oriental periodicals, he has written East of the Jordan: A Record of Exploration carried on in 1876-77 (New York, 1881); Galilee in the Time of Christ (Boston, 1881); Greek Inscriptions collected in the Years 1876-77 in the Country east of the Jordan (New York, 1885); The Site of Calvary (Jerusalem, 1885); and Ancient Jerusalem, Topography and Archoology (New York, 1908).