Dr Samuel Henry Kellogg (6 September 1839 - 3 May 1899) was an American Presbyterian missionary in India who played the major role in revising and retranslating the Hindi Bible. His colleagues in the translation were William Hooper and Joseph Arthur Lambert.
Kellogg was one of the leading advocates of the change in American Evangelical theology from postmillennialism to premillennialism between 1870 and 1910.
Life
Kellogg was born in Long Island, the son of the Rev. Samuel Kellogg, a Presbyterian minister and Mary P. Henry Kellogg.
Kellogg graduated from Princeton College in 1861; after graduation, he heard Rev. Henry Martyn Scudder talking about his missionary experience in India and the need for missionaries there. He decided to become a missionary and in 1864, he and his wife, Antoinette Hartwell, sailed for India where they lived and worked at Farrukhabad Mission, Calcutta.
After Antoinette's death in 1876, he returned to North America with his four children and worked for the Presbyterian Church of Canada and the Theological Seminary in Allegheny. In 1879, he married Sara Constance Macrum.
During this time, his book of Hindi grammar was published and the Council of the British Government's Secretary of State for India prescribed the book as an authority to be studied by all candidates for the India Civil Service as were required to pass examinations in the Hindi language.
In 1892 he, Sara and their children travelled to Ahmedabad to retranslate the Hindi Bible.
He died in Uttarakhand, India.
Publications
Kellogg wrote a number of books including;
- The Jews: or, Prediction and Fulfilment: An Argument for the Times (London: J. Nisbet and Co., c. 1883)
- The Light of Asia and the Light of the World (1885)
- The Book of Leviticus (Hodder and Stoughton., 1891)
- Genesis and Growth of Religion (1892)
- A Grammar of the Hindi Language (London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., 1893., 1893)
- A Handbook of Comparative Religion (Philadelphia : The Westminister press, (1899)
- The Genesis and Growth of Religion
- The Past a Prophecy of the Future: And Other Sermons
References
- ^ Brill website, Samuel Henry Kellogg
- Dictionary of Premillennial Theology p 228 Mal Couch - 1997 "Kellogg's final task in India was to head a triad of translators of the Old Testament into Hindi. "So highly did his colleagues regard his knowledge of the Bible and Indie philology that after his death they asked for no successor,"
- Mal Couch Dictionary of Premillennial Theology 1997 Page 228 "KELLOGG, SAMUEL H. Samuel Kellogg (1839-1899) is indicative of those who helped turn the tide among evangelicals from postmillennialism to premillennialism between the Civil War and World War I. Kellogg was a Presbyterian scholar, ..."
- ^ SquareSpace website, Men of Might in India Missions: The Leaders and Their Epochs, 1706-1899, by Helen H. Holcomb, Chapter XIII
- ^ One Way The Only Way website, Samuel Henry Kellogg, article by Tyson Paul dated August 26, 2021
- Google Books, The Jews: or, Prediction and Fulfilment
- Barnes and Noble website, The Light of Asia and the Light of the World
- The Gutenberg Project, The Expositor's Bible; The Book of Leviticus
- Log College Press website, Samuel Henry Kellogg
- ABE Books website, A Grammar of the Hindi Language In Which Are Treated the Standard Hind, Braj, and the Eastern Hind of the Rmyan of Tuls Ds, Also the Colloquial Etc With Copious Philological Notes
- University of Pennsylvania website, Online Books by S. H. Kellogg
- Readings website, The Genesis and Growth of Religion by Samuel Henry Kellogg
- Readings website, The Past a Prophecy of the Future: And Other Sermons (1904)