HORN, EDWARD TRAILL: Lutheran; b. at Easton, Pa., June 10, 1850. He was graduated at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa., in 1869, and the theological seminary of his denomination at Philadelphia in 1872. In the latter year he was ordained to the ministry, and has held successive pastorates at Christ's Church, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (1872-76), St. John's, Charleston, S. C. (1876-97), and Trinity, Reading, Pa., since 1897. He was president of the Board of Missions of the Southern Lutheran Church from 1888 to 1896, and is a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Council, and vice-president of the American Tract Society. Theologically he holds that the formulas of the ancient creeds are capable of restatement in terms of present-day thought, and that all conclusions of the Church demand continual and repeated revision. He has written The Christian Year (Philadelphia, 1876); Old MGtin and Vesper Services of the Lutheran Church (Gettysburg, Pa., 1882); The Evangelical Pastor (1887); Outlines of Liturgics (Philadelphia, 1890); Sources of the Common Service (Gettysburg, Pa., 1890); Annotations on St. Paul's Epistles to the Philippians, Colossians, Thessaloniam, and to Phile»wn (New York, 1896; in collaboration with A. G. Voigt); Terms of Communion in a Christian Church (Gettysburg, Pa.,

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1899); The Application of Lutheran P'r`inciples to Church Architecture (Pittsburg, Pa., 1905); and Summer Sermons (Reading, Pa., 1908). He has likewise contributed numerous liturgical articles to Lutheran periodicals, and has translated J. K. W. Loehe's Fragen and Antworten zu den aechs Hauptstiicken D. Martin Luthers (Columbia, S. C., 1893).

HORN, WILLIAM: Evangelical Association bishop; b. at Oberfischbach, Prussia, May 7, 1839. He was self-educated, and after occupying a number of pastorates in his denomination from 1861 to 1871, became, in 1872, editor of the German Sundayschool literature of the Evangelical Association, a position which be held for seven years (1872-79). He was then editor of the Christlicher Botschafter from 1879 to 1891, and since 1891 has been a bishop of his denomination. In theology Horn lays special stress on the love of God and on the redeeming work of Christ. He has written Prdsident James A. Garfells Lebena- and Leidenageschichte (Cleveland, O., 1881); Life of Bishop John Seybert (Stuttgart, 1894); Life of Bishop John J. Escher (Cleveland, O., 1907); and Wegeblvzhen (poems, 1907).