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118 RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA Blixab°0'~ ~~t Elliott several parts of the Old and the New Testament (of the latter, the Pauline epistles). What their views of Christ were is not certain. On the one hand they described him as an angel; on the other they taught a repeated or continuous incarnation of Christ, although the virgin-birth seems to have been retained. The Lord's Supper was celebrated with bread and salt; the eating of meat was for bidden; marriage was highly esteemed; renuncia tion of the faith in time of persecution was allowed. A prayer, which is preserved by Epiphaniua (xix. 4), is entirely unintelligible. Much as the Clem entine Homilies agree with the doctrinal system of the Elxai-book, there are differences which prove that the latter represents the older, the Homilies the later form of the doctrinal system. Ritachl regards the Elkesaitea as the antipodes of the Mon taniats, and asserts as their chief peculiarity the setting forth of a new theory of remission of sins by a new baptism. Gieseler has wrongly identified them with the Ebionitea (KirchengescTtichte, I. i. 134, 279). The Elkesaitea were not a distinct sect, but rather a school scattered among all parties of the Judeo-Christian Church. This syncretietic gnoatic Judaism contributed to the origin of Islam. (G. Uxlaoxxt.) BaLioaswrar: A. Ritechl, in ZHT, 1853, part 4; idem, Entafehunp der attkathotiachen Kirclu, pp., 234, Bonn, 1857; A. Hilgenfeld, Ketzergeachiehte, pp. 433 eqq., Leip aic, 1884; idem, Judentum and Judenchriatsntum, pp. 95 eqq., ib. 1888; NPNF, aeries 2, i. 280, notes: Har nack, Geachichte, i. 207-209; idem, Dogma, i. 240 248, 304 aqq., ii. 110, iii. 320, 331; Neander, Christian Church, i. 352; Schaff, Christian Church,, ii. 430 eqq.; DCB, ii. 95-98; and the literature under CLEncExrrnas. ELLER, ELIAS. See Rorrsnox.>· SECT. ELLICOTT, CHARLES JOHN: Bishop of Glou cester; b. at Whitwell (21 m. e. of Leicester), Rutlandshire, Apr. 25, 1819; d. at Birchington-on Sea (1? m. n. of Dover), Kent, Oct. 15, 1905. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1841), where he was fellow 1845-48, and was or dered deacon in 1845 and ordained priest in 1846. From 1848 to 1861 he was professor of divinity in King's College, London, and also rector of Pilton, Rutlandahire, until 1858. In 1860 he was appointed Hulsean professor of divinity at Cambridge, but in the following year resigned both professorships on being appointed dean of Exeter. In 1863 he was consecrated bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and on the division of the see in 1897 became bishop of Gloucester, resigning his diocese in 1904. He was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1858, a member of the royal commission on ritual and the rubrics in 1867, and was chairman of the British New Testa ment Revision Company 1870-81. He wrote The History and Obligation of the Sabbath (Cambridge, 1844); Treatise on Analytical Statistics (1851); Critical and Grammatical Commentary on Gala tians (London, 1854); Ephesians (1855); PhiliP pians, Colossians, and Philemon (1857); Thessa lonians (1858); Pastoral Epistles (1858); Historical Lectures on the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ (Hulaean Lectures for 1859; 1860); Considerations on the Revision of the English Version of the New Testament (1870); Modern, Unbelief, its Principles and Characteristics- (1876); The Present Dangers of IV.--8
the Church of England (1878); The Being of God (1880)-; Are we to modify Fundamental Dotxrinet (Bristol, 1885); 1 Corinthians, with a Critical Commentary (London, 1887); Spiritual Needs in Country,Parishes (1888); Christus Comprobator (1891); Sacred Study (2 vole., 1892-94); Our Reformed Church and its Present Troubles (1897); The Reviaed Version of Holy Scripture (1901); and Sermons at Gloucester (1905). He also edited A New Testament Commentary for English Readers (3 vole., London, 1877-82) and An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers (5 vole., 1882-84).
ELLINWOOD, FRANK FIELD: Presbyterian; b. at Clinton, N. J., June 20, 1826; d. at Cornwall, Corm., Sept. 30, 1908. He studied at Hamilton College (B.A., 1849) and Auburn and Princeton theological seminaries, being graduated from the latter in 1852. He was ordained in 1853, and held pastorates at Belvedere, N. J., 1853-54, the Central Church, Rochester, N. Y., 1854-65. He was secretary of the Presbyterian Committee of Church Erection 1866-70 and of the Memorial Fund Committee 1870-71. Since 1871 he was corresponding secretary of the . Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and from 1886 till 1904 was professor of comparative religion in New York University. He wrote Oriental Religions and Christianity (New York, 1892) and Questions and Phases of Modem Missions (1899).
ELLIOTT, CHARLES: Methodist Episcopal clergyman; b. at Killybega (14 m. w. of Donegal), County Donegal, Ireland, May 15, 1792; d. at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Jan. 6, 1869. After having been denied admission to the University of Dublin for refusal to take the prescribed teat oath, he pursued advanced studies privately and emigrated to America in 1815. He joined the Ohio Conference in 1818, and during the next twelve years served successively as traveling preacher, superintendent of the mission among the Wyandotte Indians, presiding elder of the Ohio district, and professor of modem languages in Madison College, at Uniontown, Penn. Later he was presiding elder of the Pittsburg district and editor of the Pitta= burg Conference Journal (1833-36). He also edited the Western Christian Advocate (1836-48, and 18521856). As editor of the Central Christian Advocate of St. Louis, Mo. (1860-64), he strongly supported the cause of the Union. From 1857 to 1860 he was professor of Biblical literature and president of the Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant, and again from 1864 to 1867. His principal works were Delineation of Romanism (2 vole., New York, 1841; London, 1851); The Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church (Cincinnati, 1855); and South-western Methodism, a History of the M. E. Church in Missouri (New York, 1868).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. M. Buckley, History of Methodism in the United States, Passim, New York, 1897.
ELLIOTT, CHARLOTTE: English hymn-writer; b. at Brighton Mar. 17, 1789; d. there Sept. 22, 1$71. She lived with her father at Clapham, a suburb of London, till 1845, then at Torquay till 185?, returning then to Brighton. In 1822 she met Cksar Malan (q.v.), who influenced her strongly.