HOGE, MOSES DRURY: Presbyterian; b. at Hampden Sidney, Va., Sept. 17, 1818; d. at Richmond, Va., Jan. 9, 1899. He was educated at Hampden Sidney College (B.A., 1839) and at Union Theological Seminary, Va. (then also at Hampden Sidney), from which he was graduated in 1843. He was a tutor in Hampden Sidney College (1839-13), and after being assistant pastor to W. S. Plumer at the First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va. (1843-45), founded the Second Presbyterian Church in the same city in 1845, of which he was pastor until his death. He rendered important service as a member of a committee to prepare a hymnal long used in his denomination and to revise its Directory of Worship, and in 1888 was chairman of a committee appointed by his Assembly to confer with a similar committee of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America regarding cooperation. In theology he held to the inerrancy of the Scriptures and to strict Calvinism as set forth in the Westminster standards. From 1854 to 1859 he was one of the proprietors and editors of The Central PreSbyterian (Richmond). A volume of his sermons was edited by his daughter under the title The Perfection of Beauty (Richmond, 1903).

Bibliography: ; P. H. Hogs, Moves Drury Hoge: Life and Letters, Richmond, 1899.

HOHENALTHEIM, höh"en-ält'heim, SYNOD OF:

An assembly of Sept. 20, 916, in the Church of St. John spud Altheim in pogo Retia, i.e., the present Hohenaltheim, south of Nördlingen, in Bavaria. The names of the bishops who were present are not preserved; the Saxon bishops kept aloof, but as those present considered themselves as a generalis synodue, it is probable that the bishops of the three remaining tribes appeared in full number. King Conrad did not take part, but the pope was represented by Bishop Peter von Orte. The purpose of the synod was to a certain extent political since the bishops in the interest of the kindgom united themselves against the rebellious leaders of the tribes in South Germany. Another aim was to strengthen the episcopate, which was menaced on many sides. Measures were adopted to protect church property, and to safeguard clerics and bishops against accusations of laymen and against unlawful insults by rebellious leaders. A set of resolutions aimed at the reform of the Church. In the political sphere the synod did not attain its purpose, as the attitude of King Conrad was as unfavorable afterward as before, but a great part of its resolutions entered into the collections of canon law.

(A. Hauck.)

Bibliography: The acts of the synod are preserved in a manuscript from Freieing now at Munich, and printed in MGH, Leg., ii. 1 (837), 554-661. Consult Refele, Conaifisageschichte, iv. 578-587; Hauck KD, iii. 13 sqq.