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THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY REFERENCE CYCLOPEDIA of BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL and ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE Andrew, Asbury - Bagnati, Simeone by James Strong & John McClintock To the Students of the Words, Works and Ways of God: Welcome to the AGES Digital Library. We trust your experience with this and other volumes in the Library fulfills our motto and vision which is our commitment to you: MAKING THE WORDS OF THE WISE AVAILABLE TO ALL — INEXPENSIVELY. AGES Software Rio, WI USA Version 1.0 © 2000 2 Andrew, Asbury, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Caroline County, Md., in 1825. He removed to the vicinity of Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1833; experienced conversion in 1840; and in 1845 entered the Indiana Conference, in which he filled acceptably the appointments assigned him until his superannuation, which took place six years previous to his death. He died July 19, 1870. Mr. Andrew was a man of deep piety and respectable preaching ability. See Minutes of Annual Conf., 1871, p. 114. Andrew, James Osgood, D.D., a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Wilkes County, Ga., May 3, 1794. His father, the Rev. John Andrew, was one of the early itinerant Methodist preachers. His mother’s maiden name was Crosby. She was possessed of a strong intellect, fine taste, and deep piety elements that strongly marked the bishop’s character. He was an extensive reader from his childhood, joined the Church at the age of thirteen, soon became class-leader, and when eighteen was licensed to preach. His first pulpit efforts were among the negroes, and were crowned with success. His first attempt before his friends was considered a failure, and he concluded to never attempt again to preach; but his presiding elder secured his entrance into the South Carolina Conference in 1812, and he began his regular ministry as assistant on the Saltketcher Circuit. In three years he began to fill the best appointments in the Conference, and thus continued, with growing popularity, until 1832, when he was elected bishop. He entered upon his work as bishop with great reluctance, fear, and trembling, saying, “The Conference has laid upon me a work for which I am not prepared, and have had no experience whatever.” In 1866 he superannuated, but continued to preach as health would permit until his death, March 2, 1871. Bishop Andrew through his third wife became an owner of slaves, although he had no pecuniary interest in them. His ownership was so arranged that he could not liberate them had he wished. However, because of such ownership, the Northern majority of the General Conference suspended him from his office. This action caused a division in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He would gladly have resigned to preserve the union, had it not been sanctioning, as he considered, a false, fanatical, and unconstitutional principle, and had it not been for the earnest protests of 3 the Southern delegates. The plan of separation was therefore agreed upon, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was organized, with bishop Andrew at its head. In the meridian of life bishop Andrew was a noble- looking man, somewhat under six feet in height, well proportioned, and sallow of countenance — the prevailing type of his region. His features were chiselled with marked outlines of strong expression. His voice was strong and melodious. He was warm and devoted in his friendships, liberal in his benefactions, sympathizing in spirit, and a special friend of the colored people. He wrote much for the Church papers, and published a valuable work on Family Government, and a volume of Miscellanies. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1871, p. 643; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v. Andrew, Samuel a Congregational minister, was born at Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 29, 1656. He graduated at Harvard College in 1675; for a few years was tutor there, and while thus engaged, preached in Milford, being ordained pastor there Nov. 18, 1685. Mr. Andrew was one of the original projectors, founders, and trustees of Yale College; and when Rev. Mr. Pierson, the first rector, died, he became rector pro tem. He held his trusteeship from the establishment of the college in 1700 until his death. In the convention from which emanated the Saybrook Platform, assembled at Saybrook, Conn., in 1708, he was a prominent member. He died Jan. 24, 1738. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 269. Andrewes, Gerard, D.D., an English divine, was born at Leicester, April 3, 1750. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1772 he returned to Westminster as an assistant master, where he remained till 1784. One of his first clerical duties was that of an occasional assistant preacher at St. Bride’s, Fleet Street; afterwards he was engaged at St. James’s Chapel, in the Hampstead Road. In 1780 he served as chaplain to the high sheriff of Leicestershire; in 1788 was presented to the rectory of Zeal Monachorum, Devonshire; in 1791 was chosen alternate evening preacher at the Magdalen, and in 1799 at the Foundling Hospital. In 1800 he was presented to the rectory of Mickleham, Surrey; and collated to St. James’s Aug. 10, 1802. His rectory of Mickleham having become vacant on his preferment, he was again presented to it, and instituted Sept. 7, 1802. In 4 1809 he was elected dean of Canterbury, and he thereupon finally left Mickleham. In 1812, on the translation of bishop Sparke, he was offered the bishopric of Chester, but declined it on the plea of his advancing years. He died June 2, 1825. Dean Andrewes in the pulpit was argumentative, but not impassioned; conclusive, but not eloquent; a good rather than a great preacher. He published several special sermons. See (Lond.) Annual Register, 1825, p. 254. Andrews, Abraham, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in England about 1744, and emigrated to the United States in 1796. He had been a reputable member of the Methodist Society about forty years, and in the land of his adoption maintained great strictness of life as a Christian and minister until his death in August, 1800. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1801, p. 97. Andrews, Benjamin Ll.D., an English Wesleyan minister, was born in London, Nov. 1, 1785. His ancestors were among the Huguenot refugees in England, and some of them were received by Wesley into his first class in the Foundery. Andrews united with the Church in early life, made high attainments as a scholar, and received his degree from the University of Aberdeen. He entered the ministry in 1814, became a supernumerary in 1855, and died at Richmond, Surrey, May 3, 1868. His entire course was marked by sterling integrity of character and unswerving devotedness to Methodism. His ministry was an awakening and earnest one. See Minutes of British Conference, 1868, p. 29. Andrews, Charles W. D.D., a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of the diocese of Virginia, was rector of Trinity Church, Shepherdstown, Va. (afterwards West Virginia), during the greater part of his ministerial life. He died May 24, 1875, aged sixty-seven years. See Prot. Episc. Almanac, 1876, p. 149. Andrews, David O. a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born June 4, 1819. He experienced religion in 1839, and in 1844 received license to preach and was-admitted into the Memphis Conference, in which for nine 5 years he continued a model of diligence, fidelity, and zeal. He died in 1853. See Minutes of Annual Conf. of the M. E. Church, South, 1853, p. 462. Andrews, Ebenezer B., Ll.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Pennsylvania. He was of a ministerial family, the sacred calling being the profession of his father and five sons, of whom he was the youngest and the first to depart this life. He received his education at Williams and Marietta colleges, and pursued his theological studies at Princeton Seminary. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Housatonic, Mass., and subsequently became pastor of the New Britain Church, Conn., where he remained until he was elected professor of geology at Marietta College in 1851. He filled this appointment with great ability and success until 1861, when he was appointed on the Geological Survey of the State of Ohio. He was earnest and consistent, and ready to make any sacrifice for the public good. He felt it his duty during the war of the Rebellion to accept the office of major in the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, which had been tendered him unsolicited by the governor of Ohio, and served two years as major and colonel. He was recently appointed one of the members of the Board of Inspection of the United States Mint, Philadelphia, He published several valuable papers, and a work on geology for the use of colleges and schools. He died at Lancaster, O., Aug. 14, 1880. See N. Y. Evangelist, Aug. 26, 1880. (W. P. S.) Andrews, Edward D.D, a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, became rector of Christ Church, Binghamton, N. Y., in August, 1836, which position he held for seven years, when he resigned. After an interval of eighteen months, he became rector of the same Church, and retained the office for a second period of seven years. He died at Binghamton, March 5, 1867, of which place he had been a resident for thirty years. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. July, 1867, p. 335. Andrews, Elisha a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Queensbury, N. Y. in 1802. He was converted when about eighteen, and in 1824 entered the New York Conference.