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JOHN FLETCHER HURST (1834-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 960 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN FLETCHER HURST (1834-1903)  ,
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American Methodist Episcopal bishop, was born , in
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Salem, Dorchester county,
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Maryland, on the 17th of August 1834 . He graduated at Dickinson College in 18J4, and in 1856 went to Germany and studied at Halle and
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Heidelberg . From 1858 to 1867 he was engaged in pastoral
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work in
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America, and from 1867 to 1871 he taught in Methodist
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mission institutes in Germany . In 1871-1873 he was professor of
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historical
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theology at Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, of which he was president from 1813 till i88o, when he was made a bishop . He died at Bethesda, Maryland, on the 4th of May 1903 . Bishop Hurst, by his splendid devotion in 1876-1879, recovered the endowment of Drew Theological Seminary, lost by the failure in 1876 of Daniel Drew, its founder; and with McClintock and Crooks he improved the quality of Methodist scholarship . The American University (Methodist Episcopal) at Washington, D.C., for postgraduate work was the outcome of his projects, and he was its chancellor from 1891 to his
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death . He published A
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History of Rationalism (1866); Hagenbach's Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2 vols., 1869); von Oosterzee's John's Gospel: Apologetical Lectures (1869) ; Lange's Commentary on the
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Epistle to the Romans (1869); Nlartyss to the Tract Cause: A Contribution to the History of the Reformation (1872), a
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translation and revision of Thelemann's Martyrer der Traktatsache (1864); Outlines of Bible History (1873); Outlines of Church History (1874);
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Life and Literature in the Fatherland (1875), brilliant sketches of Germany; a brief pamphlet, Our Theological Century (1877); Bibliotheca Theologica (1883), a compilation by his students, revised by G . W . Gillmore in 1895 under the title Literature of Theology; Indika: the Country and
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People of India and
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Ceylon (1891), the outgrowth of his travels in 1884—1885 when he held the conferences of India; and several church histories (
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Chautauqua text-books) published together as A Short History of the Christian Church (1893) .

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