FAUNCE, WILLIAM HERBERT PERRY: Bap tist; b. at Worcester, Mass., Jan. 15, 1859. He was graduated at Brown University in 1880 and Newton Theological Institution in 1884. He was instructor in mathematics in Brown University 1881-82, and was pastor of the State Street Baptist Church, Springfield, Mass., 1884-89 and of tile Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York City, 1889-99. Since 1899 he has been president of Brown University. He was elected president of the Religious Education Association in 1906. He lectured before the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 1898-99 and has been a resident preacher at Har vard University. He has written Roger Williams and his Doctrine of Soul Liberty (Boston, 1902).
FAUSSET, ANDREW ROBERT: Church of Eng land; b. near Enniskillen (75 m. w.s.w. of Belfast), county Fermanagh, Ireland, Oct. 13, 1821. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1843), was ordered deacon in 1847, and oidained priest in 1848, and was curate of Bishop Middleham, Dur ham, 1847-59. Since 1859 he has been rector of St. Cuthbert's, York, and has been canon of York Munster since 1885. He was chaplain at Bex, Switzerland, in 1870 and at St. Goar on the Rhine in 1873. In theology he belongs to the Evangelical school of the Church of England. He has written Scripture and the Prayer Book in Harmony (London, 1854); Horse Psalmiece (1877); The Englishman's Critical and Exposittmy Cyclopadia (London; 1878); The Church and World (1878); The Millennium (1880); The Signs of the Times (1881); Prophecy a Sure Light (1882); The Latter Rain (1883); True Science Confirming Genesis (1884); The Personal Antichrist (1884); Spiritualism (1885); Critical and Expository Commentary on the Book of Judges (1885); and Guide to the Study , of the Book of Com mon Prayer (1894). He has edited various classical authors as well as the English translation of J. A. Bengel's Gnomon Novi Testamenti (5 vols., Edin burgh, 1857-58), and A. R. Vinet's Homiletique (London, 1858), and wrote the second and fourth volumes of The Critical and Explanatory Pocket Bible (4 vols. Glasgow, 1862), and the third, fourth and sixth volumes of the Critical, Experimental, and Practical Commentary (6 vols., London, 1871).
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