VINCENT, JOHN HEYL: Methodist Episopal bishop; b. at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 23, 1832. He was educated at the academies at Lewisburg and Milton, Pa., and at the age of eighteen began to preach. After teaching school at Catasaqua, Pa., in 1850, and being a circuit preacher in Luzerne County, Pa., in 1851, he wa's assistant in the city mission at Newark, N. J., in 1852. In 1853 he joined the Newark Conference and received his theological training at the Wesleyan Institute at Newark, N. J., being pastor at that city in 1852-53, and at Franklin in 1853-54 and Irvington in 1855-58 (both near Newark). He was ordained deacon in 1855 and elder two years later, and in 1857 was transferred to the Rock River Conference, Ill., holding pastorates in that state at Joliet (1857-58), Mount Morris (1858-59), Galena (1859-61), Rockford (1862-64), and Trinity Church, Chicago (1864-65). In 1886-186? he was Sunday-school agent of his denomina-

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tion, founding the Northwest Sunday School Quarterly in 1864; was corresponding secretary of the Sunday School Union and editor of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school publications (1868-88), and in 1874 was one of the founders of the Chau tauqua Assembly, while in 1878 he established the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, of which he became chancellor. In 1888 he was elected bishop and in 1900 was placed in charge of the European work of his denomination with residence at Zurich, but in 1904 retired from active life. He has written Sunday School Institutes and Normal Classes (New York, 1866); The Church School and its Officers (1868); The Chautauqua Movement (1886); The Home Book for the Mothers of our Land (in collabo ration with Josephine Pollard; 1886); Better Not: Discussion of Certain Social Customs (1888); The Church School and the Sunday School Normal Guide (1889); Studies in Young Life (1890); Our Own Church (1890); To Old Bethlehem (Meadville, Pa., 1890); The Modern Sunday School (New York, 1900); and Family Worship for Every Day in the Year (1905).

VINCENT, MARVIN RICHARDSON: Presby terian; b. at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1834. He was educated at Columbia (A.B., 1854), and after being an instructor in the Grammar School of Columbia College (1854-58), was professor of Latin in Troy (N. Y.) University (1858-60). He then en tered the Methodist Episcopal ministry, but in 1863 became a Presbyterian; was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. Y. (1863-73), and of the Church of the Covenant, New York. City (1873-83). Since 1883 he has been professr of New-Testament exegesis and criticism in Union Theological Seminary, New York. Aside from ser mons and discourses he has written The Minister's Handbook (1882); In the Shadow of the Pyrenees (1883); Word-Studies in the New Testament (3 vols., 1887-90): Students' New Testament Handbook (1893); The Age of Hildebrand (1896); Critical Commen tary on, Philippians and Philemon (1897); History of the Textual Criticim of the New Testament (1899); and The Gospel of Luke in the Temple Bible ( London, 1902). He likewise translated J. A. Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament (in collaboration with C. T. Lewis; Philadelphia, 1862) and the Inferno of Dante (New York, 1904).