NEWMAN, JOHN PHILIP An American clergyman. Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born in New York City, and educated at Cazenovia (N. Y.) Semi nary, whir: he quitted in 1545 to enter the min istry. He followed the itinerant life of a Met ho. dist clergyman until 18fi0. when lie went abroad for travel and study, visiting Egypt and Pales tine. subsequently embodying the results of this trip in From Dan to Beersheba, or the Land of Promise as It Now Appears (1864). After New Orleans was taken by the Federal army in 1862, he was sent there to organize the Alothodist Episcopal Church, and remained until 1869, meanwhile editing, in addition to his other labors, the New Orleans Advocate. Leaving New Orleans, he became pastor of the Netropoli• tan Church at Washington, D. C. His per sonality was a combination of clergyman and man of the world; his pulpit eloquence, which in clined rather to the grandiose, nevertheless won for him a large popularity both within and out side his denomination. At the end of Ids first pastorate in Washington in 1S72, President Grant appointed him inspector of consulates in Asia, and in this capacity he made a tour of the world, which resulted in another work of travel, The Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean (1876). In 1878 he assumed a pastorate in New
York City, and in ISS1 was a delegate to the first Ecumenical Nethodist Conference in London, where he read the invited essay on Scriptural Holiness, said to mark his highest achievement as a writer. From 1832 to I834 he was acting pastor at the Madison Avenue Congregational Church, New York. In 1885 he returned to the pastorate of the Metropolitan Church, Washing ton, and in 1888 was elected bishop of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, with his official residence at Omaha, Neb. In addition to the works men tioned, he published: Christianity Triumphant (18S4) ; Evenings with the Prophets on the Lost Empires (1SS7); The Supremary of Lou' (1800) ; Conversations with Christ ( 1901 ) .