Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . in 1850. He graduatedfrom Wesleyan University in 1869 andwas ordained a Methodist clergyman in1867. In 1880 he joined the Congrega-tional Church, and in 1883 the Presby-terian, serving in pastorates in severalchurches in New England, Chicago,Brooklyn, and New York. Always havingbeen active in Sunday School work, hefounded, in 1889, the American SabbathUnion. He lectured throughout theUnited States as field secretary of thisorganization, and in 1895 founded andwas superinten
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . in 1850. He graduatedfrom Wesleyan University in 1869 andwas ordained a Methodist clergyman in1867. In 1880 he joined the Congrega-tional Church, and in 1883 the Presby-terian, serving in pastorates in severalchurches in New England, Chicago,Brooklyn, and New York. Always havingbeen active in Sunday School work, hefounded, in 1889, the American SabbathUnion. He lectured throughout theUnited States as field secretary of thisorganization, and in 1895 founded andwas superintendent of the InternationalReform Bureau. He made many journeys CBAIO 184 CRAIOVA to Europe and to the Orient, lecturing onreligious subjects. His writings includeThe Ideal Sunday School (1876), Suc-cessful Men of To-day (1883), Practi-cal Christian Sociology (1895), Patri-otic Studies (1906), Prohibition Hand-book (1911), and Bible Stories andPoems (1914). He served as a memberon many commissions on prohibition andother social subjects, and was a memberof many commissions on war-time activ-ities during the World CRAIK, DINAH MARIA MULOCK, an English author; born in Stoke-upon-Trent in 1826. She early took the burdenof supporting an ailing mother and twoyounger brothers and wrote stories. Herfirst serious appearance as a novelist wasin 1849, with her story, The Ogilvies,which was followed by Olive, TheHead of the Family, and AgathasHusband. She never surpassed, how-ever, or even equaled her domestic novel,John Halifax (1857), which had anextraordinary popularity, and has beentranslated into French, German, Italian,
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