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 110 PARKER he had the boldness to preach to the rebels in their camp, exhorting them to submission. Having married in 1547, he was deprived upon the accession of Queen Mary of his offices, and during her reign was obliged to remain in ob- scurity. Part of this time he spent in trans- lating the Psalms into English verse, and wri- ting a treatise entitled "A Defence of Priests' Marriages." On the accession- of Queen Eliz- abeth he was chosen archbishop of Canterbury, and on Dec. IV, 1559, consecrated in Lambeth chapel. He successfully combated the queen's lingering affection for the use of images, filled all the vacant sees with men of decided Protes- tant opinions, and strove to render the rites and ceremonies of the church as uniform as pos- sible. He founded several schools, and made many valuable presents to the colleges at Cam- bridge, besides establishing scholarships and fellowships. He was one of the first chosen to review the " Book of Common Prayer," and the revision called the "Bishop's Bible" was made in great part under his inspection, and pub- lished at his expense in 1568. He published a Saxon homily on the sacraments, and caused to be printed the chronicles of Matthew of West- minster, Matthew Paris, and Thomas Walsing- ham, and Asser's " Life of King Alfred." The work entitled De Antiquitate Britannicce Ec- clesm (1572) is commonly attributed to him, and without doubt he had much to do with its preparation. PARKER, Nathan, an American clergyman, born in Reading, Mass., June 5, 1782, died in Portsmouth, K H., Nov. 8, 1833. He grad- uated at Harvard college in 1803, became a tutor in Bowdoin college in 1805, and was or- dained pastor of the South church in Ports- mouth Sept. 14, 1808, which office he retained through life. When the division of the Con- gregational body in New England into two parties was recognized, he took his stand as a professed Unitarian. After his death a vol- ume of his sermons was published, with a memoir by the Rev. Henry Ware, jr. PARKER, Peter, an American missionary, born in Framingham, Mass., June 18, 1804. He graduated at Yale college in 1831, studied theology and medicine there, and was ordained and went to China in 1834. He established a hospital at Canton, intended particularly for the treatment of eye diseases ; but it was soon found impracticable to exclude patients suffer- ing from other maladies. Over 2,000 patients were admitted the first year. In surgery Dr. Parker manifested remarkable skill and wrought wonderful cures, and the fame of the hospital spread rapidly. He often preached to its inmates, and trained several Chinese students in the arts of medicine and surgery, some of whom attained considerable skill. In 1840, on the occurrence of hostilities between England and China, the hospital was closed, and Dr. Parker revisited his native land. Re- turning to China in 1842, he reopened the hos- pital, and it was thronged as before. In 1845 he resigned his connection with the American board, and became a secretary and interpreter to the new embassy from the United States, still keeping the hospital in operation. In the absence of the minister Dr. Parker acted as charge" d'affaires. In 1855, finding his health seriously impaired, he again visited this coun- try, but by special desire of the government returned the same year to China as commis- sioner, with full power to revise the treaty of 1844. He acted in this capacity until a change of administration in 1857; and his health again failing, he has since resided in the United States. He has published " A Statement re- specting Hospitals in China" (London, 1841), and an account of his visit to the Loo Choo islands and Japan in 1837. PARKER, Theodore, an American clergyman, born in Lexington, Mass., Aug. 24, 1810, died in Florence, Italy, May 10, 1860. He worked on the farm which had been in his family for 150 years, and in the tool shop, and at the age of 17 began to teach school in the winter months. In 1830 he entered Harvard college, but studied at home, only attending the exam- inations. In 1831 he was teaching a private class in Boston. Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Ger- man, French, Spanish, and metaphysics filled his leisure. In 1832 he opened a private school in Watertown with two scholars, one of whom was on charity; but he soon had more than 50. For their benefit, and for his class in the Sunday school, he wrote a history of the Jews, which is still in manuscript. He entered the divinity school in Cambridge in 1834. Syriac, Arabic, Danish, and Swedish were here added to his list of languages ; and Anglo-Saxon and modern Greek were commenced. He was one of the editors of the "Scriptural Interpret- er," a magazine conducted by members of the school. During the autumn and winter of 1836 he preached in various pulpits of Massa- chusetts, and was settled as pastor of the Uni- tarian church at West Roxbury in June, 1837. Here he formed views upon the authority and inspiration of the Bible which were not in harmony with those of his Unitarian brethren. At the ordination of Mr. Shackford in South Boston, May 19, 1841, Mr. Parker preached a discourse on the " Transient and Permanent in Christianity," which, assuming the humanity and natural inspiration of .Christ, gave rise to a controversy, during which Mr. Parker de- veloped his anti-supernaturalism in various writings and sermons. In the autumn of 1841 he delivered in Boston five lectures, which were published under the title of "A Dis- course of Matters pertaining to Religion " (1842). During the autumn and winter of 1842 he delivered six " Sermons for the Times " in Boston and elsewhere. He travelled in England, France, Italy, and Germany in 1843 -'4 ; and after his return the controversy was renewed on occasion of his exchanging pul- pits with some of the more liberal Unitarian preachers. He began to preach at the Melo-