he introduced to his denomination the scholarly methods of the new german theology of the day—not only by his translation (with charles e. blumenthal) of neander's "life of christ" (1847), and of félix bungener's "history of the council of trent" (1855), but by his great project, mcclintock and strong's "cyclopaedia of biblical, theological and ecclesiastical literature" (10 vols., 1867–1881; "supplement", 2 vols., 1885–1887), in the editing of which he was associated with dr james strong (1822–1894), professor of exegetical theology in the drew theological seminary from 1868 to 1893, and the sole supervising editor of the last six volumes of the "cyclopaedia" and of the supplement.