MILLER, HUGH: Geologist and member of the Free Church of Scotland; b. at Cromarty (82 m. w.n.w. of Aberdeen) Oct. 10, 1802; d. by his own hand at Portobello (3 m. e. of Edinburgh) Dec. 24, 1856. He was carefully educated by his two uncles, was apprenticed in 1819 to a stone-mason, and followed that trade for several years. His spare hours he spent in the cultivation of his mind, especially in the study of geology, the first fruits of which appeared in 1840 in Old Red Sandstone (Edinburgh, 1841). In 1834 he received an appointment in the Commercial Bank at Cromarty. In 1840 he accepted the editorship of the Wit mesa, a Free Church paper, which he speedily made very influential against the practise of patronage in settling ministers over churches. Miller's works on geology, in which he was a pioneer, roused violent criticism at the time but were much praised by other geologists. Among his works are: Poems Written ire the Leisure Hours of a Journeyman Mason (Inverness, 1829); Scents crud Legends of the North of Scotland (London, 1835); Memoir of William Forsyth (1839); First Impressions of England and its People (London, 1847); Foot-Prints of the Creator (1847); My Schools and Schoolmasters (autobiographic; Edinburgh, 1852; latest ed., 1906); Fossiliferoua Deposits of Scotland (1854); Geology versus Astronomy (Glasgow [1855]); Testimony of the Rocks (Edinburgh, 1857); Cruise of the Betsy (1858); Sketch-Book of Popular Geology (1859); Essays (ed. P. Bayne, 1862); Tales and Sketches (ed. Mrs. Miller, 1863); and Edinburgh and its Neighbourhood, Geological and Historical (1864). His works were collected in 13 volumes (Edinburgh, 1869).
Bibliography: Consult, besides the autobiographic my Schoole and Schoolmasters, ut sup., the biographies by P. Bayne, 2 vols., London, 1871; T. N. Brown, Glasgow, 1858; J. L. Watson, London, 1880; W. K. Leash, Edinburgh, 1898; also W. M. Mackenzie, Hugh Miller; a critical Study, London, 1905; DNB, IQavii. 408-410.
MILLER, JAMES RUSSELL: Presbyterian; b. at Harehaville, Pa., Mar. 20, 1840. He was educated at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa. (A.B., 1862), and, after serving for two and a half years with the U. S. Christian Commission connected with the Army of the Potomac, entered the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., from which he was graduated in 1867. He then held successive pastorates at New Wilmington, Pa. (1867-89), Bethany Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa. (1869-78), Broadway Presbyterian Church, Rock Island, Ill. (1878-80), and Holland Memorial Church, Philadelphia,(1880-1898). Since 1900 he has been pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in the same city, and has also been editorial superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work since 1880. He has written Week Day Religion (Philadelphia, 1880); Home Making (1882); In His
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Steps (1885); Wedded Life (1886); Silent Times (New York, 1886); Come ye Apart (1887); The Marriage Altar (1888); Practical Religion (Philadelphia, 1888); Bits of Pasture (1890); Making the Most of Life (New York, 1891); The Everyday of Life (1892); Girls: Faults arid Ideals (1892); Young Men: Faults and Ideals (1893).; Glimpses through Life's Windows (1893); Building of Character (1894); Secrets of Happy Home L(fe (1894); Life's Byways and Waysides (Philadelphia, 1895); For a Busy Day (1895); Year Book (New York, 1895); Family Prayers (1895); The Hidden Life (1895); The Blessing of Cheerfulness (1895); Things to Live for (1896); Story of a Busy Life (1896); A Gentle Heart (1896); Personal Friendships of Jesus (1897); By the Still Waters (1897); The Secret of Gla$ness (1898); The Joy of Service (1898); The Master's Blesseds (Chicago, 1898); Young People's Problems (1898); Unto the Hills (New York, 1899); Strength and Beauty (1899); The Golden Gate of Prayer (1900); Loving my Neighbor (1900); The Ministry of Comfort (1901); Summer Gathering (1901); How? When? Where? (1901); The Upper Currents (1902); To day and Tomorrow (1902); In Perfect Peace (1902); The Lesson of Love (1903); The Face of the Master (1903); Our New Edens (Philadelphia, 1904); Finding the Way (New York, 1904); The Inner Life (1904); Manual for Communicants' Classes (Philadelphia, 1905); The Beauty of Kindness (New York, 1905); When the Song Begins (1905); Christmas Making (1906); A Heart Garden (1906); Morning Thoughts for Every Day in the Year (1907); Evening Thoughts for Every Day in the Year (1908); The Wider Life (1908); A Cure for Care (1908); The Gate Beautiful (1909); Bethlehem to Olivet; the Life of Jesus illustrated by Modern Painters (1909); Go Forward (1909); and Devotional Hours with the Bible, vols. i.-iii. (1909).
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