ENGLISH, JOHN MAHAN: Baptist; b. at Tullytown, Pa., Oct. 20, 1845. He was graduated at Brown University in 1870 and Newton Theological Institution in 1875. He was teacher of Latin in the Connecticut Literary Institute, Suffield, Conn., 1870-72, and of Greek in Denison University, Granville, O., 1874. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church, Gloucester, Mass, 1875-82, and of the Dudley Street Baptist Church, Boston, 1882. Since 1882 he has been professor of homiletics and pastoral theology in Newton Theological Institution, and was also a lecturer in Andover Theological Seminary in 1895-96. Since 1903 he has been president of the Northern Baptist Education Society. He has written The Christian Academy and the Education of To-Day (Hartford, Conn., 1892) and The Present State of the Christian Ministry (Boston, 1899).