HENSON, HERBERT HENSLEY: Church of England; b. at London Nov. 8, 1863. He studied at Oxford (B.A., 1884; fellow of All Souls, 1884-91; reelected in 1896). He was ordained priest in 1888, and was head of the Oxford House, Bethnal Green (1887,88), vicar of Barking, Essex (1888-95), and incumbent of St. Mary's Hospital, Ilford (1895 1900). Since 1900 he has been canon of West minster and rector of St. Margaret's. He was also select preacher at Oxford in 1896-96 and Cam bridge in 1901, as well as chaplain to the bishop of St. Albans from 1897 to 1900. Since 1903 he has been proctor in convocation and almoner of Christ's Hospital. In addition to editing Church Problems (London, 1900), he has written Light and Leaven (London, 1897); Apostolic Christianity (1898); Dis cipline, law (1898); Cui Bono? An Open Letter to
Lord Halifax (1899); Ad Rem: Thoughts on the Crisis in the Church (1900); Godly Unity and Concord (1902); Cross Bench Views of Current Church Questions (1902); Preaching to the Times (1903); English Religion in the Seventeenth Century (1903); The Value of the Bible and Other Sermons (1904); Thoughts on Popular Rationalism (1904); Moral Discipline in the Christian Church (1905); Religion in Schools (1906); Christian Marriage (1907); and The National Church: Essays on its Hist. and Constitution (1908).
HENSON, POINDEXTER SMITH: Baptist; b. at Fork Union, Va., Dec. 7, 1831. He was graduated from Richmond College, Richmond, Va., in 1849, and from the University of Virginia two years later. He was principal of the Classical Institute at Milton, N. C. (1851-53), and professor of natural science at Chowan Female College, Murfreesborough, N. C. (1853-55). After being pastor of the Baptist Church at Fluvanna, Va. (1855-60), he was pastor of Broad Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia (1860-67), of Memorial Church in the same city (1867-82), of the First Baptist Church, Chicago (1882-1901), of the Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn (1901-03), and of Tremont Temple, Boston, since 1903. Since 1870 he has been editor of The Baptist Teacher.
HEPBURN, JAMES CURTIS: Presbyterian; b. at Milton, Pa., Mar. 13, 1815. He was educated at Princeton (B.A., 1832) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1836), and in 1840 went to China as a medical missionary, being at Singapore from 1841 to 1843, and at Amoy from 1843 to 1846. He then resided in New York until 1859, when he went to Japan, residing at Yokohama until 1892. In 1893 he returned to the United States, and retired from active life. He became a member of the American Geographical Society in 1859, and of the American Bible Society in 1881, and in 1905 received the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, third class, from the Emperor of Japan. He has written Japanese and English Dictionary (Shanghai, 1867; abridged ed., 1873), and a Bible dictionary in Japanese (Yokohama, 1889), besides preparing Japanese translations of the Westminster Confession, the Shorter Catechism, the Decalogue, the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed. He also contributed to the translation of the Bible into Japanese, having taken up the study of Hebrew in order to qualify himself for the work.
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