See also:JOHN See also:FLETCHER See also:HURST (1834-1903)
, See also:American Methodist Episcopal See also:bishop, was See also:born , in See also:Salem, See also:Dorchester See also:county, See also:Maryland, on the 17th of See also:August 1834
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He graduated at See also:Dickinson See also:College in 18J4, and in 1856 went to See also:Germany and studied at See also:Halle and See also:Heidelberg
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From 1858 to 1867 he was engaged in See also:pastoral See also:work in See also:America, and from 1867 to 1871 he taught in Methodist See also:mission institutes in Germany
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In 1871-1873 he was See also:professor of See also:historical See also:theology at See also:Drew Theological See also:Seminary, See also:Madison, New See also:Jersey, of which he was See also:president from 1813 till i88o, when he was made a bishop
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He died at See also:Bethesda, Maryland, on the 4th of May 1903
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Bishop See also:Hurst, by his splendid devotion in 1876-1879, recovered the endowment of Drew Theological Seminary, lost by the failure in 1876 of See also:Daniel Drew, its founder; and with See also:McClintock and Crooks he improved the quality of Methodist scholarship
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The American University (Methodist Episcopal) at See also:Washington, D.C., for postgraduate work was the outcome of his projects, and he was its See also:chancellor from 1891 to his See also:death
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He published A See also:History of See also:Rationalism (1866); See also:Hagenbach's See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2 vols., 1869); von See also:Oosterzee's See also:John's See also:Gospel: Apologetical Lectures (1869) ; See also:Lange's Commentary on the See also:Epistle to the See also:Romans (1869); Nlartyss to the See also:Tract Cause: A Contribution to the History of the See also:Reformation (1872), a See also:translation and revision of Thelemann's Martyrer der Traktatsache (1864); Outlines of See also:Bible History (1873); Outlines of Church History (1874); See also:Life and Literature in the Fatherland (1875), brilliant sketches of Germany; a brief pamphlet, Our Theological See also:Century (1877); Bibliotheca Theologica (1883), a compilation by his students, revised by G
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Gillmore in 1895 under the See also:title Literature of Theology; Indika: the See also:Country and See also:People of See also:India and See also:Ceylon (1891), the outgrowth of his travels in 1884—1885 when he held the conferences of India; and several church histories (See also:Chautauqua See also:text-books) published together as A See also:Short History of the See also:Christian Church (1893)
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