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# Notable South Australians/John Mitchell, J.P.

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John Mitchell, J.P.
BORN in Glasgow, June 17, 1832; arrived in Melbourne, W Victoria, in 1852, where he for a time engaged in mining pursuits; came to Adelaide, South Australia, in January, 1853; associated with the town of Gawler from the year 1858, a resident of it for 26 years, and identified with all movements for its benefit. Entered the employ of Messrs. W. Duffield & Co., afterwards became partner in the ​firm, and subsequently a partner with Messrs. Mitchell, Fox, and Co. He was a first-class accountant, a man of strict integrity, and although somewhat irascible in temperament, of such thoroughness of heart and purpose that he possessed a large circle of friends. He was a keen supporter of the Institute, and one of the most active honorary secretaries it has ever had. He exhibited great activity in getting up entertainments on its behalf, helped to place it on a firm basis, and was made a life member. He identified himself with the Corporation, for some years was a councillor, and also occupied the position of Mayor. During his term of office the new post-office was erected, and the foundation-stone laid by him. As a recognition of his services he was made a J.P., and his actions in that capacity gave general satisfaction. Several years ago his health failed, and, in spite of sea voyages, he gradually grew worse, and expired at his residence, Gowan Brae, June 18, 1884, aged 52. Mr. Mitchell was a P.G. of the Oddfellows, a member of the Foresters, and a firm supporter of the Presbyterian Church. He left a widow, two daughters, and a son, who still carries on the business of the firm of Mitchell & Co., at Gawler.
# Notable South Australians/John Nowland

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John Nowland
CAME to South Australia in the "Lysander" in 1839, and took part in the founding of the Total Abstinence Society, in January, 1840. He was the first Rechabite who landed in this colony, and in his house the first Tent was opened. He was elected a City Councillor in 1841, and held a seat in the Council until September, 1843. He died July 19, 1885, aged 79 years.
# Notable South Australians/John Stokes Bagshaw

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# Notable South Australians/John Tuthill Bagot

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John Tuthill Bagot
GAME of a very old family; the Bagot's of Kilcoursey, King's County, Ireland. Was the son of the late Charles Bagot, Esq., J.P. Born Feb. 15, 1819. Studied at Middle Temple, England, and was called to the Irish Bar, Arrived in Adelaide in November 1850, with his brother Ulysses. On the death of his father Mr. Bagot revisited Ireland to take possession of the ancestral estate, and returned to Adelaide after a short stay there. He was for many years ​in partnership with his brother-in-law, Mr. Labatt; was concerned in many important lawsuits, and acted as leading counsel for the claimants in the celebrated Moonta case. After the passing of the Constitution Act of 1855, Mr. Bagot became a Member of the House of Assembly for the district, of Light. He sat in the House during the two succeeding: Parliaments, and was returned as member for the Legislative Council, and had a lengthy experience of political life. He held the position of Solicitor-General in Mr. Baker's Ministry from August 21 to Sept. 1, 1857, of Commissioner of Orowa Lands in the Reynolds' Ministry from May 1860 to May 1861, and of Chief Secretary in Mr. Strangways' Ministry from November 3, 1868 to May 6, 1870. The aggregate number of days for which he held office was 960. He was Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons, Irish Constitution, and through a period of twenty years' residence in South Australia took a prominent part in public affairs. Mr. Bagotwas of a cheerful disposition, urbane in manner, and possessed most of the amiable traits of the Irish character. His death, in his 52nd year, occurred suddenly from pulmonary apoplexy at North Adelaide, on August 6, 1870, and was universally regretted by a wide circle of friends.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 44

Chapter XLIV.—Of their Reception by the Notary Marianus; the Distribution of Money to the Poor; and Offerings to the Church.
The director and chief of these officers was a most useful servant of the emperor, a man eminent for faith and piety, and thoroughly acquainted with the Divine word, who had been honorably conspicuous by his profession of godliness during the time of the tyrants’ power, and therefore was deservedly entrusted with the arrangement of the present proceedings. Accordingly, in faithful obedience to the emperor’s commands, he received the assembly with courteous hospitality, and entertained them with feasts and banquets on a scale of great splendor. He also distributed lavish supplies of money and clothing among the naked and destitute, and the multitudes of both sexes who suffered from want of food and the common necessaries of life. Finally, he enriched and beautified the church itself throughout with offerings of imperial magnificence, and thus fully accomplished the service he had been commissioned to perform.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 45

Chapter XLV.—Various Discourses by the Assembled Bishops; also by Eusebius, the Writer of this History.
Meantime the festival derived additional luster both from the prayers and discourses of the ministers of God, some of whom extolled the pious emperor’s willing devotion to the Saviour of mankind, and dilated on the magnificence of the edifice which he had raised to his memory. Others afforded, as it were, an intellectual feast to the ears of all present, by public disquisitions on the sacred doctrines of our religion. Others interpreted passages of holy Scripture, and unfolded their hidden meaning; while such as were unequal to these efforts presented a bloodless sacrifice and mystical service to God in the prayers which they offered for general peace, for the Church of God, for the emperor himself as the instrumental cause of so many blessings, and for his pious sons. I myself too, unworthy as I was of such a privilege, pronounced various public orations in honor of this solemnity, wherein I partly explained by a written description the details of the imperial edifice, and partly endeavored to gather from the prophetic visions apt illustrations of the symbols it displayed. Thus joyfully was the festival of dedication celebrated in the thirtieth year of our emperor’s reign.

## Footnotes

* ↑ [Eusebius gives us no example of his application of Scripture in this case. His commentator Valesius refers to Zeph. iii. 8 (LXX), Δι€ τοῦτο ὑπόμεινόν με, λέγει Κύριος, εἰς ἡμέραν ἀναστ€σεώς μου εἰς μαρτύριον, and tells us that Cyril of Jerusalem, in his fourth Homily, explains this passage in Zephaniah of the Martyrium, of Basilica, which Constantine built on the spot of the Lord’s resurrection. Let any one examine the whole passage (allowing for the mistake of one Hebrew word for another by the LXX), and say, if this be a fair specimen, what we are to think of the Fathers of the fourth century as interpreters of Scripture. See also Bk. 3, ch. 33, note.—Bag.] “Interpreted pertinent passages from the prophets.”—Str. and Molz.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 47

Chapter XLVII.—That the Council at Nicæa was held in the Twentieth, the Dedication of the Church at Jerusalem in the Thirtieth, Year of Constantine’s Reign.
This second synod the emperor convened at Jerusalem, being the greatest of which we have any knowledge, next to the first which he had summoned at the famous Bithynian city. That indeed was a triumphal assembly, held in the twentieth year of his reign, an occasion of thanksgiving for victory over his enemies in the very city which bears the name of victory. The present meeting added luster to the thirtieth anniversary, during which the emperor dedicated the church at the sepulchre of our Saviour, as a peace-offering to God, the giver of all good.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Nicæa.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 40

Chapter XL.—That having conferred the Dignity of Cæsars on his Three Sons at the Three Decennial Periods of his Reign, he dedicated the Church at Jerusalem.
By this time the thirtieth year of his reign was completed. In the course of this period, his three sons had been admitted at different times as his colleagues in the empire. The first, Constantinus, who bore his father’s name, obtained this distinction about the tenth year of his reign. Constantius, the second son, so called from his grandfather, was proclaimed Cæsar about the twentieth, while Constans, the third, whose name expresses the firmness and stability of his character, was advanced to the same dignity at the thirtieth anniversary of his father’s reign. Having thus reared a threefold offspring, a Trinity, as it were, of pious sons, and having received them severally at each decennial period to a participation in his imperial authority, he judged the festival of his Tricennalia to be a fit occasion for thanksgiving to the Sovereign Lord of all, at the same time believing that the dedication of the church which his zealous magnificence had erected at Jerusalem might advantageously be performed.

## Footnotes

* ↑ These are general dates; “about” the tenth, etc., would have been more exact. Compare Prolegomena, under Life.
* ↑ [Γρι€δος λόγῳ. Well may the old English Translator remark on this, “An odd expression.” We may go further, and denounce it as an instance of the senseless and profane adulation to which our author, perhaps in the spirit of his age, seems to have been but too much inclined.—Bag.]
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 4

Chapter IV.—His Liberality, from His Private Resources, to the Losers in Suits of a Pecuniary Nature.
In cases of judicial arbitration, in order that the loser by his decision might not quit his presence less contented than the victorious litigant, he himself bestowed, and from his own private means, in some cases lands, in other money, on the defeated party. In this manner he took care that the loser, as having appeared in his presence, should be as well satisfied as the gainer of the cause; for he considered that no one ought in any case to retire dejected and sorrowful from an interview with such a prince. Thus it happened that both parties returned from the scene of trial with glad and cheerful countenances, while the emperor’s noble-minded liberality excited universal admiration.

## Footnotes

* ↑ In reality it may have been less childish than Eusebius makes it appear, for it probably refers to cases where it was a matter of just equalization of claims, where each party thought his claim just.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 39

Chapter XXXIX.—That a Place in Phœnicia also was made a City, and in Other Cities Idolatry was abolished, and Churches built.
A similar change was effected in several other cities; for instance, in that town of Phœnicia which received its name from that of the emperor, and the inhabitants of which committed their innumerable idols to the flames, and adopted in their stead the principles of the saving faith. Numbers, too, in the other provinces, both in the cities and the country, became willing inquirers after the saving knowledge of God; destroyed as worthless things the images of every kind which they had heretofore held most sacred; voluntarily demolished the lofty temples and shrines which contained them; and, renouncing their former sentiments, or rather errors, commenced and completed entirely new churches. But since it is not so much my province to give a circumstantial detail of the actions of this pious prince, as it is theirs who have been privileged to enjoy his society at all times, I shall content myself with briefly recording such facts as have come to my own personal knowledge, before I proceed to notice the last days of his life.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 41

Chapter XLI.—That in the meantime he ordered a Council to be convened at Tyre, because of Controversies raised in Egypt.
Meanwhile that spirit of envy which is the enemy of all good, like a dark cloud intercepting the sun’s brightest rays, endeavored to mar the joy of this festivity, by again raising contentions to disturb the tranquillity of the Egyptian churches. Our divinely favored emperor, however, once more convened a synod composed of many bishops, and set them as it were in armed array, like the host of God, against this malignant spirit, having commanded their presence from the whole of Egypt and Libya, from Asia, and from Europe, in order, first, to decide the questions in dispute, and afterwards to perform the dedication of the sacred edifice above mentioned. He enjoined them, by the way, to adjust their differences at the capital city of Phœnicia, reminding them that they had no right, while harboring feelings of mutual animosity, to engage in the service of God, since his law expressly forbids those who are at variance to offer their gift until they have first become reconciled and mutually disposed to peace. Such were the salutary precepts which the emperor continually kept vividly before his own mind, and in accordance with which he admonished them to undertake their present duties in a spirit of perfect unanimity and concord, in a letter to the following purport.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 42

Chapter XLII.—Constantine’s Letter to the Council at Tyre.
“Victor Constantinus, Maximus Augustus, to the holy Council at Tyre.
“Surely it would best consist with and best become the prosperity of these our times, that the Catholic Church should be undivided, and the servants of Christ be at this present moment clear from all reproach. Since, however, there are those who, carried away by a baleful and furious spirit of contention (for I will not charge them with intentionally leading a life unworthy of their profession), are endeavoring to create that general confusion which, in my judgment, is the most pernicious of all evils; I exhort you, forward as you already are, to meet together and form a synod without delay: to defend those who need protection; to administer remedies to your brethren who are in peril; to recall the divided members to unity of judgment; to rectify errors while opportunity is yet allowed: that thus you may restore to so many provinces that due measure of concord which, strange and sad anomaly! the arrogance of a few individuals has destroyed. And I believed that all are alike persuaded that this course is at the same time pleasing to Almighty God (as well as the highest object of my own desires), and will bring no small honor to yourselves, should you be successful in restoring peace. Delay not, then, but hasten with redoubled zeal to terminate the present dissensions in a manner becoming the occasion, by assembling together in that spirit of true sincerity and faith which the Saviour whom we serve especially demands from us, I may almost say with an audible voice, on all occasions. No proof of pious zeal on my part shall be wanting. Already have I done all to which my attention was directed by your letters. I have sent to those bishops whose presence you desired, that they may share your counsels. I have despatched Dionysius, a man of consular rank, who will both remind those prelates of their duty who are bound to attend the Council with you, and will himself be there to superintend the proceedings, but especially to maintain good order. Meantime should any one, though I deem it most improbable, venture on this occasion to violate my command, and refuse his attendance, a messenger shall be despatched forthwith to banish that person in virtue of an imperial edict, and to teach him that it does not become him to resist an emperor’s decrees when issued in defense of truth. For the rest, it will be for your Holinesses, unbiased either by enmity or favor, but consistently with ecclesiastical and apostolic order, to devise a fitting remedy whether it be for positive offenses or for unpremeditated errors; in order that you may at once free the Church from all reproach, relieve my anxiety, and, by restoring the blessings of peace to those who are now divided, procure the highest honor for yourselves. God preserve you, beloved brethren!”

## Footnotes

* ↑ Compare on the Synod of Tyre (held 335 a.d.), Hefele, Hist. of Councils, 2 (1876), 17–26.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 43

Chapter XLIII.—Bishops from all the Provinces attended the Dedication of the Church at Jerusalem.
No sooner had these injunctions been carried into effect, than another emissary arrived with despatches from the emperor, and an urgent admonition to the Council to hasten their journey to Jerusalem without delay. Accordingly they all took their departure from the province of Phœnicia, and proceeded to their destination, availing themselves of the public means of transport. Thus Jerusalem became the gathering point for distinguished prelates from every province, and the whole city was thronged by a vast assemblage of the servants of God. The Macedonians had sent the bishop of their metropolis; the Pannonians and Mœsians the fairest of God’s youthful flock among them. A holy prelate from Persia too was there, deeply versed in the sacred oracles; while Bithynian and Thracian bishops graced the Council with their presence; nor were the most illustrious from Cilicia wanting, nor the chief of the Cappadocians, distinguished above all for learning and eloquence. In short, the whole of Syria and Mesopotamia, Phœnicia and Arabia, Palestine, Egypt, and Libya, with the dwellers in the Thebaid, all contributed to swell the mighty concourse of God’s ministers, followed as they were by vast numbers from every province. They were attended by an imperial escort, and officers of trust had also been sent from the palace itself, with instructions to heighten the splendor of the festival at the emperor’s expense.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Compare Hefele, 2. 26–7.
* ↑ [Alexander, bishop of Thessalonica. By the Pannonian and Mœsian bishops are meant Ursacius and Valens, leaders of the Arian party; by the Bithynian and Thracian, Theogonius of Nicæa, and Theodorus of Perinthus (Valesius).—Bag.]
* ↑ “The emperor showed himself very attentive to them.”—Molz.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume I/Constantine/The Life of Constantine/Book IV/Chapter 46

Chapter XLVI.—That Eusebius afterwards delivered his Description of the Church of the Saviour, and a Tricennial Oration before Constantine himself.
The structure of the church of our Saviour, the form of his sacred cave, the splendor of the work itself, and the numberless offerings in gold, and silver, and precious stones, I have described to the best of my ability, and dedicated to the emperor in a separate treatise, which on a fitting opportunity I shall append to this present work. I shall add to it also that oration on his Tricennalia which shortly afterwards, having traveled to the city which bears his name, I delivered in the emperor’s own presence. This was the second opportunity afforded me of glorifying the Supreme God in the imperial palace itself: and on this occasion my pious hearer evinced the greatest joy, as he afterwards testified, when he entertained the bishops then present, and loaded them with distinctions of every kind.

## Footnotes

* ↑ The Oration is appended to this work.
# Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 14/Events in Life of Harvey W. Scott

EVENTS IN LIFE OF HARVEY W. SCOTT
Born February 1st, 1838, near Peoria, Illinois.
Left Illinois April 1st, 1852, for Oregon. Arrived Oregon City, October 2, 1852.
Went to Puget Sound, Spring of 1854.
Served in Indian Wars at Puget Sound, 1855–56.
Returned to Oregon City, September, 1856.
Attended Pacific University, December, 1856–April, 1857.
Attended Academy, Oregon City, Winter of 1858–59.
Returned to Pacific University, Fall of 1859.
Graduated Pacific University, 1863.
Librarian Portland Library, 1864–5. Admitted to Oregon Bar, September 7th, 1865.
Married Elizabeth A. Nicklin, Salem, October 31, 1865.
Editor Oregonian, April 17, 1865–September 11, 1872; April 1, 1877–August 7, 1910.
Collector of Customs, October 1, 1870–May 31, 1876.
Married Margaret McChesney, Latrobe, Pa., June 28, 1876.
President Oregon Historical Society, 1898–1901.
President Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1903–4.
Death, August 7th, 1910, at Baltimore, Md.
Director Associated Press 1900–1910.
# Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 14/Harvey W. Scott

HARVEY W. SCOTT
By William P. Perkins
Now rests the hand that held the trenchant pen, While from the hearts alike of friend and foe
Spring words of tribute—words that fire the soul
With deep determination so to live
As he has lived, to die as he has died,
In all the glory of his master mind,
Effulgent to the end, without regret,
Serene in faith, that in that upper world
What here seem shadows, there will glow with light, And all life's mysteries will stand revealed.
My brothers, it is good to live—to feel
Within our coursing veins the fire of life— But, better still, to die, if, when we go,
In farmhouse, miner's hut, and city street,
Men speak our names in praise, because we strove
Not for ourselves, but for our fellow man.
And he who lived, think not of him as gone,
But rather that his spirit lives and moves
Among us yet, still urging us to strive
For high achievement, for the pregnant life
That comes to him who toils. In years to come,
More lasting than the deeply graven stone
Upreared above the portals of the pile
That, rising heavenward, his labor marks,
Will be the influence of his strong life
That strove for right, that yielded not to wrong. And oft at night, amid the flaring lights
And swiftly-moving presses' mighty roar,
When eager, sweating men shall proudly toil
To give the world his living monument,
All spent with mighty task, someone will say: "The Master would have had it thus"; and so
Shall labor on in love, with high desire
To render his full mead of tribute sure.
We cannot choose the page; for life's brief span
Marks not the end. The glowing pen may rust
And echo only answer to our call;
But still his soul lives on, and all the good He did on earth shall multiply for aye.
Step up, bold spirit, you have heard the Voice That stirred your soul as with a martial strain;
Well done, brave Patriot, rest you here a while.
Salem, Oregon, August 12, 1910.