Mcglynn
EDWARD, an American Roman Catholic clergyman; born in New York City, Sept. 27, 1837. For 28 years he was pastor of St. Stephen's Church in New York City, and greatly endeared himself to his flock. In the mayoralty campaign of 1886 he took sides with Henry George, and worked for him with tongue and pen. For this he was condemned by his ecclesiastical superiors, and, on being summoned to Rome by the Propaganda, he refused to submit, whereupon he was deposed from his pastorate by Archbishop Corrigan, in died in Newburgh, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1900. the Union Theological Seminary. Charges January, 1887, and, still refusing to go of heresy having been preferred against to Rome, was excommunicated by the having been been preferred against to Rome, was excommunicated by the him, on which, however, he was never Pope. He afterward made submission brought to trial, though he had posi- and was readmitted to the Church. He tively refused to change his views, he withdrew from the Presbyterian Church in March, 1900. He was the author of *Dialogue Between a Christian and a Jew" (1888); "A History of Christianity in the Apostolic Age" (1897); "Martin Luther, the Man and His Work" (1911); "The Rise of Modern Religious Ideas" (1915).