HURST, JOHN FLETCHER (1834-1903)

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HURST, JOHN FLETCHER (1834-1903) , American Methodist Episcopal bishop, was born , in Salem, Dorchester county,

Maryland

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

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

. From 1858 to 1867 he was engaged in

pastoral

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

work

WORK

in America, and from 1867 to 1871 he taught in Methodist mission institutes in Germany. In 1871-1873 he was professor of historical theology at Drew Theological

Seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

, Madison, New

Jersey

JERSEY
JERSEY, EARLS OF

, of which he was president from 1813 till i88o, when he was made a bishop. He died at Bethesda,

Maryland

MARYLAND

, on the 4th of May 1903. Bishop Hurst, by his splendid devotion in 1876-1879, recovered the endowment of Drew Theological

Seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

, 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

WORK

was the outcome of his projects, and he was its chancellor from 1891 to his death.
He published A 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 Epistle to the Romans (1869); Nlartyss to the

Tract

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

Cause: A Contribution to the History of the Reformation (1872), a

translation

TRANSLATION

and revision of Thelemann's Martyrer der Traktatsache (1864); Outlines of Bible History (1873); Outlines of Church History (1874); 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 People of India and Ceylon (1891), the outgrowth of his travels in 18841885 when he held the conferences of India; and several church histories (Chautauqua text-books) published together as A Short History of the Christian Church (1893).

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