MILLS, SAMUEL JOHN: Promoter of foreign missions; b. at Torringford, Conn., Apr. 21, 1783; d. at sear June 15, 1818. He was graduated from Williams College (1809), and Andover Theological Seminary (1812); was exploring agent of the Mas sachusetts and Connecticut Missionary Society in the West and Southwest (1812-13); served as mis sionary and Bible agent in the Southwest (1814 1815); was ordained (1815); acted as agent for the School for Educating Colored Men (1816); went as agent of the Colonization Society to western Africa (1817), and died on the return journey. During his college days he had been deeply interested in the work of sending the Gospel to heathen lands; and, while a student at college, he met with several of his fellow students to consult and pray over this question. The meeting was held under a haystack, and the site has been marked by an appropriate monument (of. T. C. Richards, Samuel J. Mills, pp. 247 sqq., Boston, 1906). During his seminary course he joined with Samuel Mott, Jr., Adoniram Judson, and Samuel Newell in an address to the General Association of Massachusetts Proper at Bradford, calling its attention to the claims of the heathen world. To this memorial was largely due the awakened interest in foreign missions which soon followed.

Bibliography: The best biography is that by Richards (ut sup.), which gives an ample bibliography covering all phases of the subject. Others are: G. Spring, New York, 1820, 2d ed., Boston, 1829; and E. C. Bridgman, New York, 1864.

MILLSPAUGH, FRANK ROSEBROOK: Prot estant Episcopal bishop of Kansas; b. at Nichols, N. Y., Apr. 12, 1848. He was educated at the Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. (graduated in 1870), and at Seabury Divinity School in the same city (graduated in 1873). He was ordered deacon in the same year and advanced to the priesthood in 1874; was a missionary in Minnesota (1873-76); dean of Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, Neb. (1876-56); rector of St. Paul's, Minneapolis (1886-94); and dean of Grace Cathedral, Topeka, Kan. (1894-95). Since 1895 he has been bishop of the diocese of Kansas.

Bibliography: W. S. Perry, The Episcopate is America, p. 389, New York, 1895.

MILMAN, HENRY HART: English ecclesiastical historian and poet; b. in London Feb. 10, 1791; d. at Sunninghill (14 m. ex.e. of Reading) Sept. 24, 1868. He was the son of Sir Francis Mil man, physician to George III.; was educated at Oxford (B.A., 1814; M.A., 1816; B.D., D.D., 1849), took the Newdigate prize for poetry by The Bel- videre Apollo (1812), and became fellow of Brase nose College (1815). He was priested (1816); was vicar of St. Mary's, Reading (1818 35); rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster, and canon of West minster (1835-49); and became dean of St. Paul's, London (1849). He was also professor of poetry at Oxford (1821-31), and Bampton lecturer in 1827. In theology he was a liberal, advocating abolition of subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, and in his historical writings somewhat in advance of his times. His literary labors fall into four class: (1) Poetry: The Beltriderv Apollo (ut sup.); Fazio, a Tragedy (Oxford, 1815; 6th ed., London, 1818); Samor, Lord of the Bright City (London, 1818); The Fall of Jerusalem (1820); The Martyr of Antioch (1822); Belshazzar (1822); and Anne Boleyn (1826). (2) Translations: Nala and Damayanti, and Other Poems, Translated from the Sanacnt into English Verse (Oxford, 1835); The Agamemnon of Xachylus and the Bacchanals of Euripides, with Passages from the Lyric and Later Pods of Greece (London, 1865). (3) Editions of other works: Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1838 and often, new ed., ed. J. B. Bury, 7 vols., 1896 1900); and an excellent edition of Horace (1849). (4) Original works: The Character and Conduct of the Apostles Considered as an Evidence of Christian ity (Bampton lectures; Oxford, 1827); The History of the Jews (London, 1830 and often, abridged ed., 1876); The Life of E. Gibbon, Esq., with Selections from his Correspondence (1839); The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire (3 vols., 1840); History of Latin Christianity; Including that of the Popes, to the Pontificate of Nicholas V. (a continuation of the preceding; 6 vols., 1854-55, 4th ed., 9 vols., 1867); A Memoir of Lord Macaulay (contrib uted to the Transactions of the Royal Society, 1859, and prefixed to later editions of Macaulay's Works); Annals of St. Paul's Cathedral (completed and pub lished by his son Arthur after his death, 1878); Savonarola, Erasmus, and Other Essays (collected and published by his son, 1870); and many sermons on occasional topics. Milman contributed also to hymnology; of the thirteen hymns written by him, the two most popular are " When our heads are bowed with woe," and " Ride on, ride on in maj esty." His Poetical Works were collected in three vols. (1839), and a complete edition of his Historical Works is in 15 vols. (186637).

Bibliography: A. Milman, Henry Hart Milman . . . a Biographical SketeA, London, 1900; DNB, savili. 1-4; S. W. Duffield, English Hymns, pp. 484, 801, New York, 1888; Julian, Hymnology, pp. 738-737.