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131BIJOGRAPHY: There have appeared in Eng. tranal., Theory of Pneumatology, London, 1834; Heinrich Stilling, 3 parts, London 1835-36 (transl. of the Jugend, Jiingl4ngajahre, and Wanderschaft, ut sup.); Autobiography, 2 vole., ib. 1835, 2d ed., 1842, abridged, 1847; and Interesting Tales, ib. 1837. For Stilling's life his autobiographic writings, as indicated in the text, are of course authoritative. Among sketches of the life may be named that by A. G. Rudelbach, in Christliche Biographic. Lebenabeschreibungen der Zeugeu der chriatlichen. Kirche, i. 435514, Leipsie, 1849-50; the anonymous Lebenapesch%chte, 3d ed., Berlin, 1859 and ADB, xiv. 697-705. Consult further: Nessler, l~tude thkologique sur Jung Stilling, Strasburg, 1860; and Stilling's correspondence with his

STILLINGFLEET, EDWARD: Church of England bishop of Worcester; b. at Cranborne (22 m. w. of Southampton) Apr. 17, 1635; d. at Westminster Mar. 27, 1699. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. and fellow, 1653; M.A., 1656; B.D., 1663; D.D., 1668). He then served as private tutor, and in 1657 became rector of Sutton. Just after the Restoration, he published his Irenicum, a Weapon Salve for the Churches Wounds (London, 1661), an attempt at a compromise between the established church and the Presbyterians. The following year appeared his Origizzes Sacra, or Rational Account of the Christian Faith as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures, in which he dwelt upon the knowledge, fidelity, and integrity of Moses, and the inspiration of the prophets, as inferred from the fulfilment of their prophecies, and extended the work in the line of a general apologetic. While in many points the work is superseded by later productions, it remains a storehouse of learning, and displays much logical ability and lawyerlike habits of thought. This volume was followed, in 1665, by A Rational Account of the Grounds of the Protestant Religion, a publication issued to meet the Jesuit account of the Laud-Fisher controversy. In 1665 he became rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and preacher at the Rolls Chapel; in 1667, prebend of Islington in St. Paul's, exchanged for Newington in 1672; royal chaplain in 1667-68; canon in Canterbury cathedral in 1669; archdeacon of London, 1677; dean of St. Paul's, 1678. The Unreasonableness of Separation (2 parts, 1681-82) gave unmistakable proof that he had abandoned the moderate opinions, and dropped the conciliatory temper, expressed in his Irenicunz. This brought on him answers in the way of defense, written by Owen, Baxter, and other non-conformists, and he candidly acknowledged his mistake. His Origines Britannicce (1685) was an investigation of the sources of British ecclesiastical history (standard ed., 2 vole., Ox ford, 1842). In 1689 he became bishop of Worcester, and as such took part in the commission for revising the Book of Common Prayer. In 1695 a violent dispute went on among certain non-conformists respecting Antinomianiam; and some of the disputants appealed to Stillingfieet as a sort of arbitrator, a circumstance which showed that by this

time he had recovered his reputation as a healer of strife. An active mind like his would meddle in all aorta of questions, and he could not refrain from taking part in the great doctrinal controversy of the age. A Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity was published in 1697. Stillingfleet was a metaphysician, as well as a divine, and criticized Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding the same year, following that up soon afterward by a rejoinder to Locke's reply. Other works are The Council of Trent Examirz'd and Disprov'd (1688); and Sermons (4 vole., 1696-1701). A collected edition of his works, with his life by Richard Bentley, was published (6 vole., London, 1709-10).

BxaraooaAPay: Besides the Life by Bentley in the Works, ut sup., consult: G. Burnet, Hist. of his own Time, 8 vole.,

Oxford, 1833; T. Baker, Hist. of the College of St. John Cambridge, ed. J. E. B. Mayor, ii. 898-703, London,

STILLMAN, CHARLES ALBERT: Southern Presbyterian; b. in Charlestown, S. C., Mar. 14, 181.9; d. at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. 23, 1895. He received his education at Oglethorpe University, Midway, Ga. (B.A., 1841) and at the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C. (graduated, 1844); was licensed by Charleston presbytery in 1844; in the same year served as substitute pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Charleston for six months during the absence of the pastor; was ordained by the presbytery of Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 1845; was pastor at Eutaw, Ala., 1844-53; at Gainesville, Ala., 1853-70; and at Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1870 till his death. He was moderator of the general assembly in 1876.

He was on the editorial staff of The Southern. Presbyterian for a number of years, while that paper was published in Columbia, S. C. To him, more than to any one else, was due the founding at Tuscaloosa, Ala., of an institution for the training of colored ministers. Prom the time of its founding in 1878 up to within a few months of his death, he was the superintendent of the institution and watched over it with fatherly care. When he resigned from the superintendency, the general assembly in recognition of his services named the school the Stillman Institute for Training Colored Ministers.

STOCK, EUGENE: Church of England layman; b. at Westminster Feb. 26, 1836. He received his education at private schools, and was in mercantile life till 1873, though he acted as honorary editor to the Church of England Sunday School Institute, 1867-75; he was in succession editor, editorial secretary, and general secretary of the Church Missionary Society, 1873-1906, and vice-president since 1906; member of the London diocesan conference since 1882, member of the house of laymen of the Canterbury ecclesiastical province since 1885, and diocesan reader for the diocese of London since 1891; and contributor to the American Sunday School Journal, 1873-81. He belongs to the Evangelical party in the Church of England. He has published: Lessons on. the life of our Lord (London, 1871, and