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lution were soon raging throughout the coun- 

 try, and in 1560 the Protestant faith was form- 

 ally adopted as the state religion. The Con- 

 fession of Faith and First Book of Discipline, 

 issued at that time, were primarily the work of 

 Knox. 



A new crisis was reached, however, when, in 

 1561, Mary Queen of Scots (see MARY STUART) 

 returned to Scotland. She was devoted to 

 the Roman Catholic Church, and there was 

 not one bond of sympathy between her and the 

 stern and unyielding reformer, who preached 

 against her with a bitterness that alienated the 

 more moderate leaders of his own party. .Knox 

 was indeed forced into comparative privacy 

 between 1563 and 1565, but Mary, by her reck- 

 less marriage with Lord Darnley, and her 

 unfortunate one with the Earl of Both well, 

 brought upon herself her own undoing, and 

 after her abdication in 1567, Knox regained his 

 former power and influence. During the civil 

 war that broke out in Scotland in 1570 the 

 aged reformer retired to Saint Andrews to 

 escape threatened assassination, and there, in 

 the church where he had begun his work as a 

 minister, he preached his last sermons. In 1572, 

 "weary of the world," he returned to Edinburgh 

 to die. His work, however, was accomplished, 

 for Scotland had been won permanently for 

 Protestantism. 



In his History of the Reformation of Re- 

 ligion in Scotland, Knox wrote his own biog- 

 raphy. The latter part of this was compiled 

 from notes found after his death. Famous 

 among his other works is his First Blast of the 

 Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of 

 Women, directed against Mary of England, 

 Mary of Guise, and -her daughter, Mary Queen 

 of Scots. G.W.M. 



Consult Lang's J. Knox and the Reformation; 

 Crooks' John Knox. 



KNOX, PHIL- 

 ANDER CHASE 

 (1853- ), an 

 American politi- 

 cal leader and 

 lawyer, born in 

 Brownsville, Pa., 

 and educated in 

 Ohio. After de- 

 veloping a large 

 practice in Pitts- 

 burgh as a cor- 

 poration lawyer and serving as assistant United 

 States district attorney, he became Attorney- 

 General of the United States in President Me- 





PHILANDER C. KNOX 



Kinley's Cabinet, in April, 1901. In this posi- 

 tion he was retained by President Roosevelt. 

 In 1904 Knox was appointed to~the United 

 States Senate by Governor Pennybacker of 

 Pennsylvania, to fill the unexpired term of 

 Matthew S. Quay, and in 1905 was reflected to 

 the Senate. He became Secretary of State in 

 March, 1909, and retired to the practice of law 

 at the end of the Taft administration. 



KNOX COLLEGE, a coeducational school, 

 one of the pioneer institutions of learning in 

 the Middle West, founded in 1837 at Gales- 

 burg, 111. Although its policies have been dis- 

 tinctly religious, the institution is undenomi- 

 national. Besides the department of liberal 

 arts the college has an excellent conservatory of 

 music. Degrees of A. B. and B. S. and Mus. B. 

 are granted. In 1858 one of the famous Lin- 

 coln-Douglas debates was held on the campus 

 of Knox College. 



The original funds for the founding of the 

 school were secured by a subscription of $40,000, 

 with which it was planned to buy Mississippi 

 Valley land at government price of $1.25 per 

 acre, later to sell it to the colonists at $5 per 

 acre. Those who subscribed an amount suffi- 

 cient to buy eight acres were given one free 

 tuition for a period of twenty-five years. The 

 endowment funds now exceeed $500,000. On 

 June 8, 1916, a campaign for an additional 

 $500,000 of endowment was successfully com- 

 pleted with subscriptions totaling over $535,000. 

 When paid in this will make the total endow- 

 ment of the college approximately $1,000,000. 

 Tuition and fees, except in the conservatory of 

 music, are $75 a year. There are about forty 

 instructors and over 650 students, including 

 those of the conservatory. The library contains 

 about 14,000 volumes, supplemented by the city 

 library on the same grounds with the college 

 buildings, which has 40,000 volumes. The col- 

 lege confines itself strictly to the four years 

 of undergraduate work, thus allowing it to 

 concentrate its full energies on these important 

 and formative years. K.D.MC c. 



KNOXVILLE, TENN., the county seat of 

 Knox County, is an educational and commer- 

 cial city in the east-central part of the state. 

 It is on the right bank of the Tennessee River, 

 four miles below the junction of the French 

 Broad and Holston rivers, and is centrally 

 located in a picturesque hilly valley at an alti- 

 tude of 1,000 feet, between the Smoky Moun- 

 tains on the east and the Cumberland Moun- 

 tains on the west. A delightful climate is the 

 result of the elevation and the protection 



