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would consider him a false prophet. Accord- 

 ingly, he left the city in a state of utter dejec- 

 tion, and it was only after much suffering of 

 mind and body that he came to see the beauty 

 of God's mercy to a misguided people. The 

 historical accuracy of the Book oj Jonah has 

 long been a subject of controversy, but nearly 

 all modern critics regard the story as an alle- 

 gory or parable. 



JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906), a Cana- 

 dian statesman, once a leading member of the 

 Liberal party, a man whose fame has been 

 obscured by that of his greater contemporaries. 

 Jones was a native of Nova Scotia, whose en- 

 trance into the Confederation he strongly 

 opposed. Just after the passage of the British 

 North America Act, when the British govern- 

 ment refused to repeal it, Jones made a fiery 

 speech which won for him the name of Haul- 

 down-the-Flag Jones and caused his loyalty to 

 be questioned by his political opponents. After 

 1867 Jones was for many years a member of 

 the House of Commons, and it was largely 

 owing to his influence that the Liberal party 

 refused in 1878 to abandon its policy of free 

 trade, a position which led to its defeat. From 

 1900 until his death he was lieutenant-governor 

 of his native province. G.H.L. 



JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- ), an Eng- 

 lish playwright and essayist. He was born, a 

 farmer's son, at Grandborough, Buckingham- 

 shire, and was forced to leave school when 

 barely thirteen years old. By his own efforts 

 he obtained an education, and in 1879, when 

 only twenty-eight, he. attracted the attention 

 of London with his first play, The Clerical 

 Error. He has a gift for writing social dramas, 

 usually comedies, and his plays move by bright, 

 clever dialogue. His works have been remark- 

 ably popular both in England and America, 

 and several of them have been translated and 

 played on the Continent. Some of the best- 

 known plays are Saints and Sinners, The Liars, 

 Mrs. Dane's Defense', Whitewashing Julia, The 

 Hypocrites, Mary Goes First and The Lie. He 

 also published a collection of essays and lec- 

 tures entitled The Renascence of the English 

 Drama. 



JONES, JENKIN LLOYD (1843- ), an 

 American clergyman of the Unitarian faith, 

 general secretary of the World's Parliament of 

 Religions of 1893, and leader in educational and 

 philanthropic enterprises. He was born at 

 Llandyssil, Cardiganshire, South Wales, and 

 came to America with his parents in childhood. 

 In 1870 he was graduated from the Meadville 



(Pa.) Theological Seminary. During the 

 American War of Secession he served in a 

 Wisconsin regiment for threJTyears, and from 

 1874 to 1883 was pastor of All Souls' Unitarian 

 Church in Jonesville, Wis. For nine years he 

 was secretary of the Western Unitarian Confer- 

 ence, and in 1883 became pastor of All Souls' 

 Church, Chicago, which was later merged with 

 other religious and educational enterprises into 

 Abraham Lincoln Center, an institutional 

 church of the broadest type. Over this he pre- 

 sides. 



Since 1879 Dr. Jones has edited Unity, an 

 organ of the Congress of Religions. In 1893 

 he was general secretary of the Congress of Re- 

 ligions, held in Chicago in connection with the 

 World's Fair. He is president of the Tower 

 Hill Summer School of Literature and Religion, 

 a lecturer in English in the University of 

 Chicago, and was a founder and first presi- 

 dent of the Chicago Browning Society. He is 

 a powerful lecturer, and has exerted much 

 influence upon American educational, social, 

 political and religious life by his addresses and 

 sermons. His published works include Practi- 

 cal Piety, The Faith that Makes Faithful, Bits 

 of Wayside Gospel and On the Firing Line in 

 the Battle for Sobriety, the latter published in 

 1910. During the War of the Nations he ac- 

 companied the Ford peace mission to Europe 

 (see FORD, HENRY). 



JONES, JOHN PAUL (1747-1792), a dauntless 

 sea rover, who offered his services to the United 

 States in the Revolutionary War. He was ap- 

 pointed commander of the flagship Alfred in 

 1775, was the first 

 to raise the Stars 

 and Stripes on a 

 United States 

 ship-of-war, and 

 in 1777, when he 

 sailed to Europe 

 on the Ranger, 

 he received the 

 first salute ever 

 given by a man- 

 o f-wa r to the 



newly' - adopted ^iWInHPwIl 

 American flag. 



He was born in JOHN PAUL JONES 

 Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. His name origi- 

 nally was JOHN PAUL, but out of gratitude to 

 Willie Jones of North Carolina for friendship 

 and support, he assumed the latter's name. 

 He followed the sea, speedily 'became a mer- 

 chant captain, but was accused of killing one 



