HOYLE, JOSHUA: B. at Sorby, near Halifax, Yorkshire, Eng.; d. Dec. 6, 1654. He was educated in Magdalen Hall, Oxford, but became fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and took his degrees of divinity and became professor of divinity m that university. He devoted himself to Biblical studies and the Roman Catholic controversy, and was a friend and warm admirer of Archbishop Ussher. He fled from the Irish massacre and returned to England, and became vicar of Stepney, near London. In 1643 he was appointed a member of the West minster Assembly of Divines. He labored on the committee on the Confession of Faith. In 1648 he was appointed master of University College, Oxford, and king's professor of divinity in the university. His two published works are A Rejoinder to Mr. Malone, Jesuit, his Reply Concerning Real Presence (4to, pp. 662, Dublin, 1641) and Jehoiadah's Justice against Mattan, Baal's Priest, a sermon (London, 1645).

C. A. Briggs.

Bibliography: A. a Wood, Athena: Oxonienees, ed. P. Bliss, iii. 382, 507, 1148, iv. 398, 4 vols., London, 1813-20; DNB, xxviii. 134-135.

HOYT, WAYLAND: Baptist; b. at Clevelaud, O., Feb. 18, 1838. He was educated at Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., Brown University (B.A., 1860), and Rochester Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1863. He has held pastorates in Ninth Street Baptist Church, Cincinnati (1864-67), Strong Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn (1868-81), Memorial and Epiphany Baptist churches, Philadelphia (1882-59, 1896-1905), and First Baptist Church, Minneapolis (1890-96). He now fills the chair of science and religion in the Theological Seminary of the Temple College, Philadelphia. In theology he is Evangelical and orthodox. For twenty years he has edited the prayermeeting department in the Homiletic Review, and has been a constant contributor to the religious press. He has likewise written Hints aged Helps for the Christian LVe (New York, 1880); Present Lessons from Distant Days (1882); Gleams from Paul's Prison. (1883); Along the Pilgrimage (Philadelphia, 1885); The Brook in the Way (New York, 1888); Saturday Afternoon (Philadelphia, 1889); Light for Life's Highway (1889); At His Feet (New York, 1892); Walks and Talks with Mr. Spurgeon (Philadelphia, 1892); For Shine and Shade (1898); Home Ideals (1904); and Teaching of Jesus Concerning his Own Person (1907).