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 MASSILIA MASSINGER 263 MASSILIA. See MAESEILLES. MASSILLON, a city of Stark co., Ohio, on the Tuscarawas river and the Ohio canal, at the intersection of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago, the Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley, and the Massillon and Cleveland rail- roads, 95 m. N". E. of Columbus, and 50 m. S. of Cleveland; pop. in I860, 3,819; in 1870, 5,185 ; in 1874, estimated by local authorities at 7,000. It is regularly laid out, is substan- tially and compactly built, and contains many handsome residences, and an opera house cost- ing $100,000. It is surrounded by one of the most productive coal fields of the state, and the coal obtained here has a wide reputation. The Massillon white sandstone, which is large- ly quarried, is shipped to all parts of the coun- try. Large shipments of iron ore, wool, flour, grain, &c., are also made. There are two blast furnaces, a rolling mill, founderies and machine shops, and manufactories of agricul- tural implements, iron bridges, and boilers. The city contains three banking houses, two large union school houses, a primary school building, a charity school, two weekly news- papers, a library belonging to the young men's Christian association, and nine churches. It was laid out in 1826. MASSILLON, Jean Baptiste, a French prelate, born at Hydres, Provence, June 24, 1663, died Sept. 18, 1742. He studied with brilliant suc- cess under the Oratorians in his native city, and entered their congregation in 1681. In the monastery of Sept-Fonts he was appointed to reply to the charge of the cardinal de Noailles, which office he fulfilled with remark- able brilliancy and unction ; and from that time his talents and culture were directed to- ward the pulpit. He had been a professor successively at Pe'ze'nas, Montbrison, and Vi- enne, and had gained distinction by several fu- neral orations, especially by that on Henri de Villars, when in 1696 he was called to Paris to take charge of the seminary of St. Magloire. His sermons soon made him the rival of Bour- daloue, whom in 1698 he succeeded in a mis- sion to Montpellier. In 1699 he preached du- ring Lent in the church of the Oratory at Paris, where Bourdaloue was one of his listen- ers ; and he delivered before the court at Ver- sailles an Advent sermon which caused Louis XIV. to say to him : " I have heard many great orators, and been satisfied with them ; but when you spoke, I was very dissatisfied with myself." His sermon on the small number of the elect was delivered for the first time at St. Eustache, and with so great effect that the en- tire audience rose during the peroration, "as if looking for the archangel to sound." In 1704 he preached a second time at court. He preached the funeral sermon of the prince of Conti in 1709, of the dauphin in 1711, and of the king in 1715. In 1717 he was appointed bishop of Clermont, and was invited to preach during Lent before the young king. The ten sermons, entitled Petit careme, which he com- posed for this occasion, are among his master- pieces, and are esteemed models of French prose and eloquence. From this time the ora- tor gave place to the bishop, and he rarely left his diocese. In 1719 he was received into the French academy, and in 1723 he preached at St. Denis the funeral sermon of the duchess of Orleans. He was noted for zeal, charity, and liberality. As the tendencies of the 18th cen- tury began to manifest themselves, his elo- quence, without ceasing to be that ,of a divine, became more and more that of a moralist and philosopher. His complete works were pub- lished by his nephew (14 vols., 1745-'6). Sub- sequent editions were substantially reprints of this, and differed in many respects from the original manuscripts. A better edition, con- formable to the manuscripts and containing many unpublished writings and new biographi- cal researches, was published by the abbe 1 E. A. Blampignon, with a portrait (3 vols. 4to, Bar-le-Duc, 1865-'7). His eloge before the academy was written by D'Alembert. MASSINGBERD, Francis Charles, an English clergyman, born in Lincolnshire in 1800, died at South Ormsby, in that county, in Decem- ber, 1872. He graduated at Magdalen college, Oxford, in 1822, took orders, and became rec- tor of South Ormsby in 1825. In 1847 he became a prebendary of Lincoln, and in 1862 was appointed chancellor of the cathedral. For many years he was zealously occupied in the effort to revive the active powers of the convocation in the church of England. His principal publications are: "History of the English Reformation " (3d ed., 1857); "Law of the Church and State" (1857); and "Lec- tures on the Prayer Book " (1864). He also published several letters and pamphlets. MASSINGER, Philip, an English dramatist, born in Salisbury in 1584, died in London, March 1 7, 1 640. His father was a retainer of the earl of Pembroke. In 1602 Philip was entered at St. Alban's hall, Oxford. According to An- thony a Wood, he occupied himself with po- etry and romances instead of logic and philos- ophy, left the university without receiving a degree, and went to London in 1606. Little is known of his life till the publication of his ear- liest drama, "The Virgin Martyr," in 1622. His name occurs in Henslowe's diary in 1614, in connection with two actors and dramatic authors, and from 1613 he was engaged as joint author with Fletcher, Field, and others. Most of his 18 extant plays were produced in the 10 years following 1622; "The Bashful Lover," the latest of them, was written in 1636. His health seems to have suffered from his laborious career, and his obscurity and lonely death appear from the register of his interment : "March 20, 1639-'40, buried Phil- ip Massinger, a stranger." Five of his extant plays are tragedies ; the remainder may be termed tragi-comedies. His most striking ex- cellences are in the conception of character, in dignity of sentiment, and in grace and mel-