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WINSLOW, MYRON". 



attention abroad. During this period tie pub- 

 lished, among other works, the following : 

 " Christian Doctrines;" "Design and Mode of 

 Baptism ; " " Natural Science and Revelation ; " 

 "Appropriate Sphere of Woman;" "Aids to 

 Self-Examination;" "Christianity Applied to 

 our Social and Civil Duties;" "Educational 

 Addresses," etc. 



In 1844 Dr. Winslow's iealth failing, he 

 resigned pulpit labors, and for nine years con- 

 ducted the Mount Vernon Institute for young 

 ladies, Boston, succeeding Jacob Abbott and 

 E. A. Andrews, LL.D. During this period he 

 delivered numerous addresses on educational 

 topics, contributed to the Educational Journal 

 under Horace Mann, edited the Religious Maga- 

 zine, and furnished articles to various reviews. 

 For many years he was a prominent member 

 of the Boston School Committee, was associated 

 with the Board of Examiners of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and acted as trustee in various colleges 

 and seminaries. The "Intellectual Philosophy " 

 appeared in 1851, and received the encomiums 

 of thinkers, and favor from the public. In 1853 

 he again visited Europe, spending ten months 

 i;i examining the various institutions of learning. 

 Returning, he delivered various lectures on Eu- 

 rope and the matters of State and religion. The 

 "Moral Philosophy" (published by Apple- 

 ton) appeared in 1856, and soon became a 

 standard text-book in our colleges and high 

 schools. Fourteen editions of his philosophies 

 have already appeared. In 1857 he assumed 

 the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church, Gen- 

 eva, 1ST. Y. During two years, nearly two hun- 

 dred additions were made to his parish. He 

 wrote the " History of the Geneva Presbyterian 

 Church." His health failing, he removed, in 

 1850, to Now York, where he resided at the 

 time of his death. He became a constant con- 

 tributor to the leading journals, and wrote a 

 number of the prominent articles in our reviews 

 on philosophical subjects. " The Hidden Life," 

 appeared in 1862, and was at once classed 

 among devotional volumes of a high order. 



The mind of Dr. Winslow was vigorous and 

 comprehensive, discriminating and evenly bal- 

 anced, very active and penetrative. His attain- 

 ments were quite universal in their character, 

 but he excelled in the domain of philosophy and 

 theology. His pulpit gifts were of thepersua- 

 sive and didactic as well as the argumentative 

 order ; and a deep, earnest spirituality, pervad- 

 ed all his utterances. He led a life of singular 

 purity and simplicity of character ; and he pos- 

 sessed pleasing gifts of a social nature. 



WINSLOW MIRON, D.D., LL.D. An Amer- 

 ican Missionary and Oriental scholar. Was 

 born at Williston, Vt., Dec. 11, 1789, and died 

 at Cape of Good Hope, October 22, 1864, while 

 returning home from India. He graduated with 

 tho valedictory at Middlebury College (Vt.) in 

 1815, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 

 1818. In 1819 he sailed as a missionary of the 

 A. B. C. F. M., to Ceylon, where he established 

 a mission at Oodooville, founded a Seminary, 



and after seventeen years of toil removed tc 

 Madras, where he established the chief mission 

 of the Madras Presidency, containing a popu- 

 lation of 30,000,000. Dr. Winslow acted as 

 General Secretary of that and other missions, 

 and fmancia 1 agent of the American Board. 

 He also supervised and superintended the print- 

 ing and editing of various educational and re- 

 ligious works in the Tamil tongue. Among 

 his chief labors was the translation of the Bible 

 into Tamil. He also wrote the " History of 

 Missions," "Memoir of Mrs. Harriet L. Wins- 

 low," "Hints on Missions," and carried on a 

 large correspondence with European and Amer- 

 ican journals. The " Missionary Herald " and 

 other religious periodicals contain a continuous 

 correspondence from him of over forty years. 

 Dr. Winslow interested himself largely in edu- 

 cating the natives of his mission. To this end 

 he founded the Madras College and was Presi- 

 dent of it. It has a course of study similar to 

 the first-class English and American colleges, 

 and numbers between three hundred and four 

 hundred students. But the chief work of Dr. 

 Window was his great Tamil-English Lexicon, 

 which he recently completed, and is published 

 in the finest style of typography at Madras. 

 This work has received the encomiums of native, 

 English, and American scholars, and ranks sec- 

 ond to no other philological achievement of tho 

 age. Not merely for the profound scholarship 

 and extensive learning displayed in its pages, 

 but for the vast influence it exerts in civilizing 

 and christianizing India, has it called forth the 

 thanks of the religious world. In the prepara- 

 tion and completion of this work, Dr. Wiuslow 

 spent upwards of twenty years of continuous 

 toil. It is a quarto of one thousand pages, three 

 columns to a page, and contains sixty-eight thou- 

 sand words and definitions. Of these, nearly half 

 owe their lexicographic birth and position to 

 the author. Not merely are definitions given, 

 but shades of meaning and expressions unknown 

 to our language. The dictionary contains the 

 mythological, scientific, and poetic terms of the 

 Tamil; names of heroes, gods, authors, poets, 

 &c. ; geographical and historical information. 

 The work is a complete and comprehensive 

 dictionary, admitting the learner into a careful 

 and discriminating knowledge of the Tamil. 

 Dr. Winslow adopted an entirely original method 

 and arrangement in regard to the verb, the 

 most difficult part of speech in all lexicography. 

 He gives the root of the verb, as of other parts 

 of speech, for the leading word. He says that 

 this is the imperative singular, and that all the 

 parts of the verb flow naturally from that. He 

 informs us that " this arrangement, though the 

 mooi simple as well as most philosophical, has 

 not been adopted in any dictionary." This 

 work is most truly a thesaurus of oriental learn- 

 ing. Dr. Winslow devoted more study to the 

 Eastern languages than any other American. 

 The Reformed Dutch Church Mission, in their 

 resolutions of thanks, said: "We Regard tl.ia 

 work as a noble contribution to oriental litora- 



