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See also:HENDERSON, EBENEZER (1784-1858) , a Scottish divine, was See also:born at the Linn near See also:Dunfermline on the 17th of See also:November 1784, and died at See also:Mortlake on the 17th of May 1858. He was the youngest son of an agricultural labourer, and after three years'schooling spent some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time at watchmaking and as a shoemaker's apprentice. In 1803 he joined See also:Robert See also:Haldane's theological See also:seminary, and in 18o5 was selected to accompany the Rev. See also:John See also:Paterson to See also:India; but as the See also:East India See also:Company would not allow See also:British vessels to convey missionaries to India, Henderson and his colleague went to See also:Denmark to await the See also:chance of a passage to See also:Serampur, then a Danish See also:port. Being unexpectedly delayed, and having begun to preach in See also:Copenhagen, they ultimately decided to See also:settle in Denmark, and in 18o6 Henderson became pastor at See also:Elsinore. From this time till about 1817 he was engaged in encouraging the See also:distribution of Bibles in the Scandinavian countries, and in the course of his labours he visited See also:Sweden and See also:Lapland (1807-1808), See also:Iceland (1814—1815) and the mainland of Denmark and See also:part of See also:Germany (1816). During most of this time he was an See also:agent of the British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society. On the 6th of See also:October 1811 he formed the first Congregational 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 in Sweden. In 1818, after a visit to See also:England, he travelled in company with Paterson through See also:Russia as far See also:south as See also:Tiflis, but, instead of settling as was proposed at See also:Astrakhan, he retraced his steps, having resigned his connexion with the Bible Society owing to his disapproval of a See also:translation of the Scriptures, which had been made in See also:Turkish. In 1822 he was invited by See also:Prince See also:Alexander (Galitzin) to assist the See also:Russian Bible Society in translating the Scriptures into various See also:languages spoken in the Russian See also:empire. After twenty years of foreign labour Henderson returned to England, and in 582 5 was appointed See also:tutor of the See also:Mission See also:College, See also:Gosport. In 183o he succeeded Dr See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Harrison as theological lecturer and See also:professor of See also:Oriental languages in Highbury Congregational College. In 185o, on the amalgamation of the colleges of Homerton, See also:Coward andHighbury, he retired on a See also:pension. In 1852-1853 he was pastor of Sheen Vale See also:chapel at Mortlake. His last See also:work was a translation of the See also:book of See also:Ezekiel. Henderson was a See also:man of See also:great linguistic attainment. He made himself more or less acquainted, not only with the See also:ordinary languages of scholarly accomplishment and the various members of the Scandinavian See also:group, but also with See also:Hebrew, See also:Syriac, Ethiopic, Russian, Arabic, Tatar, See also:Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Manchu, Mongolian and Coptic. He organized the first Bible Society in Denmark (1814), and paved the way for several others. In 1817 he was nominated by the Scandinavian See also:Literary Society a corresponding member; and in 1840 he was made D.D. by the university of Copenhagen. He was honorary secretary for See also:life of the Religious See also:Tract Society, and one of the first promoters of the British Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel among the See also:Jews. The records of his travels in Iceland (1818) were valuable contributions to our knowledge of that See also:island. His other See also:principal See also:works are: Iceland, or the See also:Journal of a See also:Residence in that Island (2 vol_s., 1818); Biblical Researches and Travels in Russia'(1826); Elements of Biblical See also:Criticism and See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
Interpretation (1830); The Vaudois, a Tour Of the Valleys of See also:Piedmont (1845).
See See also:Memoirs of Ebenezer Henderson, by Thulia S. Henderson (his daughter) (See also:London, 1859) Congregational See also:Year Book (1859).
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