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SCOTT, LEVI. 



SERVIA. 



the Stundists has sprung up there, and is said 

 to be increasing rapidly, owing chiefly to the 

 excellent moral effects wrought on its adher- 

 ents by its teachings and example. According 

 to the law, as it now stands, all these ought to 

 be compelled to return to the bosom of the es- 

 tablished Church ; but expostulation produces 

 no result, and it is doubtful if persecution by 

 force will be any more effective. The Stun- 

 dists are well organized, and claim for them- 

 selves the same rights as are possessed by the 

 Baptists and other Protestant denominations 

 in Russia. 



Some think then, that, in view of all these 

 difficulties and perplexities, the best thing to 

 be done is to establish universal liberty of con- 

 science and freedom in religious matters. Not 

 only is this best in principle, but as a matter 

 of policy, and, for the good of the " Orthodox" 



Church itself, it ought to be done. Give the 

 Church its fair field, say the advocates of this 

 view, and rouse up its clergy and members to 

 a just sense of their true position and privi- 

 leges ; let the truth which the Church teaches 

 have its rightful opportunity to appeal to the 

 people on the one ground of truth and right, 

 freed from the trammels of state interference 

 and state control, which are odious to the 

 masses, and the Church will not only be able 

 to hold her own, but will commend the sound- 

 ness of her doctrine, as set forth in the old 

 Catholic creeds, to the minds and hearts of 

 multitudes throughout the empire. Whether 

 the Government, under the manifold evils and 

 dangers to which Russia is now exposed, will 

 have wisdom and discretion sufficient to meet 

 the present emergency, is not at all certain, and 

 yet remains to be seen. 



S 



SALVADOR. (See "Annual Cyclopaedia," 

 1881.) 



SCOTT, Rev. LEVI, A. M., D. D., senior 

 Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church of 

 the United States, died July 13, 1882, on the 

 farm near Odessa, Del., where he was born 

 in 1802. His early life was without educa- 

 tional advantages, and he was brought up on 

 the farm and only attended school during the 

 winter. He undertook to learn the trade of 

 tanner when sixteen, but after four months' 

 work he abandoned this, and then took up 

 carpentering at Georgetown, D. C. His health, 

 however, gave way after a short time, and he 

 returned to the farm and followed the pursuit 

 of a cabinet-maker until he was twenty-one. 

 At this time he was converted, and thereafter 

 devoted himself to preparation for the ministry. 

 In 1826 he was appointed by the Philadelphia 

 Conference to Talbot Circuit, Maryland, and 

 in the next year was transferred to the Dover 

 Circuit, Delaware. The following year he was 

 ordained deacon, and appointed to the St. 

 George's charge, Philadelphia, which he re- 

 tained until 1830. In this latter year he mar- 

 ried Miss Sarah H. Smith, of Westchester. His 

 health breaking down from excessive labor, he 

 was compelled to ask for a supernumerary posi- 

 tion. He was placed on Kent Circuit, Mary- 

 land, in 1833, where he remained but one year, 

 being made presiding elder of the Delaware 

 district in 1834. From this time on he occu- 

 pied various positions in the Church, always 

 with great credit. In 1840 he became princi- 

 pal of Dickinson College Grammar School, in 

 1 which position he continued three years. In 

 1840 the Wesley an University conferred on 

 him the degree of A. M., and six years later 

 the college of his native State conferred upon 

 him the honor of D. D. In 1848 he became 

 assistant book agent of the Methodist Book 

 Concern of New York. In 1852 he was elect- 



ed a bishop, in the official work of which office 

 he was actively engaged until 1872. A few 

 years before his death he was stricken with 

 paralysis and deprived of his faculties, which 

 he never recovered. 



SERVIA, a kingdom in Eastern Europe, 

 formerly a province of the Turkish Empire, 

 which became self- constituted in 1829, and was 

 acknowledged to be complely independent in 

 the Treaty of Berlin. The executive power 

 resides in the King, assisted by seven ministers. 

 The legislative authority is vested in the King 

 and the Skuptchina, or National Assembly, 

 which consisted in 1882 of 160 members. The 

 King appoints 40 members, and the rest are 

 elected by the citizens paying direct taxes, at 

 the rate of one member to 2,000 electors. The 

 Senate, w y hich existed formerly, was trans- 

 formed by the Constitution of 1869 into a Coun- 

 cil of State, charged with the elaboration of 

 laws, but without legislative functions. 



The members of the ministry are as follows : 

 President of the Council and Minister of For- 

 eign Affairs, M. Pirotchanatz ; Minister of Jus- 

 tice, D. Radovitch ; Minister of Finance, T. 

 Miyatovitch ; Minister of Public Works ad in- 

 terim, M. Garashanin; Minister of War, Gen- 

 eral T. Nikolitch; Minister of Public Instruc- 

 tion and Worship, S. Novakovitch. Garasha- 

 nin was Minister of the Interior until his un- 

 popularity, due to repressive regulations, led to 

 his retirement in the latter part of 1882. There 

 is no nominal occupant of the Ministry of the 

 Interior since his resignation. 



Prince Milan Obrenovitch, who was born in 

 1855, and succeeded to the throne after the as- 

 sassination of his uncle, Prince Michael, was 

 proclaimed King by an act of the Skuptchina 

 of March 6, 1882. General Tchernaieff pro- 

 claimed Milan King of the Servians in 1876, 

 during the Servian war with Turkey, but the 

 act was disavowed by the Government, of 



