Needles
THE, a cluster of insulated chalk rocks in the English Channel, off the W. extremity of the Isle of Wight.
They owe their name to their pyramidal and pointed shape. The Needles Lighthouse, on the most W. of the group, has an occulting light 80 feet above highwater, visible for 14 miles .
NEELY, THOMAS BENJAMIN, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church; born in 1841 at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia .
Entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1865 in the Philadelphia Conference. In 1900 he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the Sunday School Union and Tract Society and in 1904 was elected bishop. His episcopal home for the years 1904-1908 was in Buenos Aires where he had charge of the work of the Methodist Church in South America .
He was retired from active service in May, 1912. Author of numerous works on Methodist law and doctrine.