HALL, FRANCIS JOSEPH: Protestant Episco palian; b. at Ashtabula, O., Dec. 24, 1857. He was educated at Racine College (A.B., 1882), General Theological Seminary (1883-85), and Western Theological Seminary (1886). He was ordained priest in 1886 and since that time has been professor of dogmatic theology in Western Theological Semi nary, Chicago; he was also president of the Western Theological Seminary in 1898-99. In theology he is Anglo-Catholie. He has written Theological Outlines (3 vols., Milwaukee, 1892-95); Historical Position of the Episcopal Church (1896); The Ke notic Theory (New York, 1898); The Episcopate of Bishop Chase (Chicago, 1902); Theology (vols. i: ii., New York, 1907-08).

HALL, GORDON: Congregationalist, the first American missionary to Bombay; b. at Tolland, Hampden County, Mass., Apr. 8, 1784; d. at Durlidhapur, Bombay, Mar. 20, 1826. He received his academic training at Williams, College (B.A., 1808), began the study of theology under Ebenezer Porter, and in 1810 entered the Andover Theological Seminary. After taking a course in medicine at Philadelphia he received ordination in 1812 and went to India as a missionary of the American Board. He first attempted to establish a mission at Calcutta, but met with opposition from the East India Company, which peremptorily ordered him to leave the country. In 1813 he removed to Bombay, where, in spite of the petty persecution of the governorgeneral, he prosecuted his labors with diligence and success till his death by cholera while ministering to the stricken natives. In 1817 he was joined at Bombay by Samuel Newell (q.v.). Hall was an eloquent preacher in the Marathi language, and was greatly esteemed among the Brahmans for his discussions and addresses. Besides a few pamphlets he wrote, in collaboration with Newell, The Conversion of the World, or the Claims of Six Hundred Millions (Andover, 1818), which was widely circulated in England and America. He also translated the New Testament into Marathi (Bombay, 1826).

BramOGBAmy: H. Bardwell, Gordon Hail, Andover 1834; National Cydopaedia of American Biography, z. 248-247, New York, 1900.

HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER: Presbyterian layman; b. at Norwalk, Conn., Dec. 12, 1837; d. at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., July 2, 1896. He was educated at Hamilton College (A.B., 1859), and after being a tutor there for two years (1861-63), entered the law school of Columbia College, from which he was graduated in 1865. He then practised law in New

York City until 1875, when he went to Beirut, Syria, as professor in the Protestant college there. Returning to the United States two years later, he was associate editor of The Sunday School Times, Philadelphia (1877-84). From 1884 until his death he was a curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, as well as lecturer on New Testament Greek in Johns Hopkins University. He was one of the original decipherers of the Cypriote inscriptions, and likewise discovered, while at Beirut, an important Syriac Biblical manuscript. He was a pioneer of Syriac scholarship in the United States, and was a member of numerous learned societies in his own country and abroad. Besides many contributions to Oriental periodicals, he wrote American Greek Testaments: A Critical Bibliography of the Greek New Testament as Published in America (Philadelphia, 1883).