MAYER, KARL JULIUS: German Roman Catholic; b. at Bahl (26 m. s.w. of Carlsruhe), Baden, Mar. 12, 1857. After completing his education at the University of Freiburg, he was parish priest in Rastatt, Mannheim, and Bruchsal until 1896, when he became director of the archiepiscopal theological seminary at Freiburg, a position which he retained three years. Since 1899 he has been professor of moral theology in the University of Freiburg. Besides editing the new series of the Fretburger Didzesav-Archiv (Freiburg, 1900-04), he has written Geschichte der Benediktiner-Abtei St. Peter auf dam Schwarzwald (Freiburg, 1893); Leben des heiligen Ulrichs (1893); Die christliche Askew, ihr Wesen und ihre Entfaltung (1894); and Der heilige Konrad, Bischof eon Konstanz and Patron der Erzdidzese Freiburg (1898).

MAYHEW, EXPERIENCE: Missionary to the Indians; b. in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Jan. 27, 1673; d. there Nov. 29, 1758. He came of parentage which for three generations had done missionary work among the Indians, and he himself began to preach to them in 1694, devoting his life to the service. In 1709 he finished a version of the Psalms and of John for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England (Boston, 1709, cf. C. Evans, American Bibliography, i. 198-199, Chicago, 1903). He also published a work upon Indian Converts (1727), giving an account of thirty Indian ministers and some eighty other pious Indians (reprinted 1729). In connection with a Discourse Sheering that God Dealeth with Men as Reasonable Creatures (Boston, 1720) he gave A Brief Account of the State of the Indians on Martha's Vineyard . . . 1694-1720.

Bibliography: W. B. 'Sprague, Annals of the Amwiaan Pulpit, i. 133, New York, 1859.

MAYHEW, JONATHAN: New England minister; b. in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Oct. 8, 1720; d. in Boston July 9, 1766. He was graduated at Harvard College 1744; entered the ministry, and in 1747 he was called to the West Church, Boston, maintaining the connection throughout his life.

He was an earnest preacher and an accomplished controversialist. He was especially noted as a vigorous opponent of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, because he, m common with intelligent New-Englanders generally, regarded it as a mere disguise for introducing prelacy. He was also an ardent patriot and did much to hasten the Revolution. In this connection he issued a Discourse concerning unlimited submission and no&-resistance to the higher powers: with some reflections on the resistance mode to King Charles 1., and on the anniversary of his death: in which the mysterious doctrine of that Prince's saintship arid martyrdom is unriddled (Boston, 1750, reprinted there 1818, 1867, 1876, and in Thornton's Pulpit of the American Revolution, Boston, 1860). He also published Observations on the charter and conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1763). Other works by him are cited by full titles in C. Evans, American Bibliography, consult index, iii. 424, Boston, 1905.

Bibliography: A. Bradford, Memoir of the Life and Writings of Jonathan Mayheto, Boston, 1838; W. Walker, Ten New England Leaders, pp. 293, 298, 333, 339, New York, 1901; F. H. Foster, Hist. of New England Theology, pp. 131-133, Chicago, 1907.