MATHEWS, Shailer, American educator: b. Portland, Me., 26 May 1863. He was grad uated from Newton Theological Institution in 1887 and studied in Berlin. In 1887 he was ap pointed assistant professor of rhetoric at Colby University and in 1889 accepted the chair of history and political economy, which he oc cupied until 1894, when he was made associate professor of New Testament history in the University of Chicago. In 1897 he was made professor, in 1899 junior dean, in 1905 profes sor of systematic theology, in 1906 professor of history and comparative theology and in 1908 dean of the Divinity School. In 1911 he was elected president of the Western Economic Society, in 1908 president of the Co-operative Council of City Missions, in 1910 president of the Chicago Baptist Executive Council, in 1912 president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and in 1915 president of the Northern Baptist Convention. He is director of religious work in Chautauqua Institution, New York, and one of the trustees of the Church Peace Union founded by Andrew Carriegie. In 1915 he visited Japan as a rep resentative of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. He gave the Haverford Library Foundation Lectures in 1907, the Earle Lectures, Berkeley. Cal., in 1913, and
the Merriam Lectures, Worcester, Mass., in 1914. He was editor of the World Today from 1903 to 1911 and has been editor of The Biblical World since 1913. He is also editor of New Testament handbooks, 'The Bible for Home and School,' 'Social Betterment) handbooks of ethics and religion, Women Citizen's Li brary and associate editor of the 'Dictionary of the Bible,' American Journal of Theology, Constructive Quarterly. He is the author of 'Select Mediaeval Documents' (1891; 1900); 'The Social Teaching of Jesus) (1897); 'A History of New Testament Times in Palestine' (1899); 'Constructive Studies in the Life of Christ,' with E. D. Burton (1901) ; 'The French Revolution — A Sketch' (1901) ; 'Prin ciples and Ideals for the Sunday School,' with E D. Burton (1903); 'The Messianic Hope in the New Testament' (1905) ; 'The Church and the Changing Order' (1907); 'The Social Gospel' (1909) ; 'The Gospel and the Modern Man) (1909); 'Scientific Management in the Churches' (1911); 'The Making of To morrow' (1913); 'The Individual and the So cial Gospel) (1915); 'The Spiritual Interpreta tion of Modern History' (1916).