. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. 854; Man Immortal, 1864; andSermons, in 1868. In alltwenty-seven volumes have beenedited by him and published by •the Book Concern. Robert R. Roberts was bornin Frederick County, Md., Au-gust 2, 1778, ordained deaconin 1804, became presiding elderof the Schuylkill district in1815, and was elected a bishop ofthe Methodist Episcopal C
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. 854; Man Immortal, 1864; andSermons, in 1868. In alltwenty-seven volumes have beenedited by him and published by •the Book Concern. Robert R. Roberts was bornin Frederick County, Md., Au-gust 2, 1778, ordained deaconin 1804, became presiding elderof the Schuylkill district in1815, and was elected a bishop ofthe Methodist Episcopal Churchin 1816. He preached in sixStates and to four tribes of In-dians. His oratory was withoutpretension, but for earnest labors in the cause he was March 26, 1843. Charles F. Deems, , , was born in Baltimore, Md.,December 4, 1820 His father was a Methodist minister. Hegraduated from Dickinson College, Pa., in 1839 At twentv-onehe became professor of Logic and Rhetoric in the University ofNorth Carolina (from vdiich, in 1877, he received the degree ), which he occupied for five years, when he was invited tothe chair of Natural Science in Randolph Macon College, Va.,from which, in 1850, he received the degree of In 1846. CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 15 he was called to the presidency of Greensborough Female College,N. C Immediately after the war he settled in New York, wherehe became engaged in journalism, edited and founded LesliesSunday Magazine; after which he spent .six months in the HolyLand ; wrote his great work on Jesus, entitled The Light of theNations, became pastor of the Church of the Strangers (the edificeof which was presented in perpetuity by Cornelius Vanderbilt).He also became editor of Christian Thought, and president of theAmerican Institute of Christian Philosophy. He is widely knownas a man of rare gifts and high scholarly attainments. Beverly Waugh, , was born in Fairfax County, Ya., Oc-tober 25, 1789. Of piou
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