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Annales he continued to 1622, and was there ordained priest on Mar. 7, 1606. Spondanus remained at Rome until 1626, when Louis XIII. nominated him bishop of Pamiers, in which capacity he manifested the utmost diligence in tile extirpation of heresy. In 1639 failing health obliged him to resign his see, and, after devoting himself to literary labors at Paris, he finally retired to Toulouse. His writings were as follows: Defence de la declaration du sieur de Sponde par Henry de Sponde son fr&e eontre les cavillatiores des ministres Bonnet et Souis (Bordeaux, 1597); Les Cimitieres saerez (1598; Lat. ed., much enlarged, Paris, 1638) ; A nnales ecdesiastici Cardirtalis Baronii in. epitomen redacts (Paris, 1612); Annales sacri a mundi creatione ad ejusdem redemptionem (1637); and Annalium Baronii continuatio ab anno 1127 ad annum 1622 (1639).

(EUGEN LACHENMANN.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY: There is a biography by P. Frizon prefixed to the .4nn.alium Baronii continuatio, ut sup. Consult also: E. and t. Haag, La France protestante, ix. 318, Paris, 1859; Lichtenberger, ESR, xi. 693-694.

SPORTS, BOOK OF: A royal proclamation drawn up by Bishop Morton for James L, issued by that king in 1618; republished by Charles L, under the direction of Laud, in the ninth year of his reign. Its object was to encourage those people who had attended divine service to spend the remainder of Sunday after evening prayers in such " lawful recreation " as dancing, archery, leaping, vaulting, May games, Whitsun ales, Morris dances, and setting of May-poles. The proclamation was aimed at the Puritans, and Charles required it to be read in every parish church. The majority of the Puritan ministers refused to obey, and some were in consequence suspended. See PURITANS, PURITANISM, § 13 .

BIBLIOGRAPHY: D. Wilkins, Concilia Mapnm Britannia=, iv. 453, London, 1737; W. Benham, Dictionary of Religion, pp. 989-990, ib. 1887; W. H. Hutton, The English Church (16f6-171Q), pp. 107-108, ib. 1903.

SPOTTISWOOD, spet'is-wud (,SPOTTISWOODE, SPOTISWOOD, SPOTSWOOD), JOHN: Archbishop of Glasgow; b. at Mid-Calder (12 m. s.w. of Edinburgh) 1565; d. in London Nov. 26, 1639. He studied at Glasgow University (M.A., 1581); succeeded his father as pastor at Calder, in 1583, when only eighteen; in 1601 accompanied the duke of Lennox as chaplain in his embassy to France, and in 1603 went with James VI. to England; in 1603 was made archbishop of Glasgow, and in 1605 privy-councilor for Scotland; was transferred to St. Andrews in 1615, so that he became primate and metropolitan; on June 18, 1633, crowned Charles I. at Holyrood; and in 1635 was made chancellor of Scotland. He was at first opposed to the introduction of the liturgy into the Church of Scotland, but, seeing that it was inevitable, he resolved to further the royal wishes, and personally led the movement. Owing to the opposition offered he tried to modify the policy of the king, but in 1638 the covenant was signed, and he was forced to remove to Newcastle for his safety, and in 1639 went to London, where he died. He wrote The History of the Church of Scotland (803-1626) (London, 1655; best ed., 3 vole., with life of the author, Edinburgh, 1847-51).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: A life of the author was prefixed to the original ed. of The History, and another (by M. Russell) to the Edinburgh ed., ut sup. Consult further: J. F. S. Ciordon, Scotichronicon i. 360-816, Glasgow, 1867 DNB Vii. 412--415; and the literature on the Church of Scotland given under PRESBYTERIANS.

SPRAGUE, spreg, WILLIAM BUELL: American Presbyterian, pulpit orator, and biographer; b. in Andover, Conn., Oct. 16, 1795; d. at Flushing, N. Y., May 7, 1876. He was graduated from Yale College in 1815 (A.M., 1819); was private tutor for about a year; was graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1819; and was immediately ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in West Springfield, Mass., as a colleague of Joseph Lathrop; on the death of Lathrop, Sprague was left sole pastor, 1820-29; was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Albany, 1829-69; he then removed to Flushing, N. Y., where he died.

Sprague attained very high eminence as a preaches and speaker, and was besides a voluminous author. More than 150 of his sermons and occasional discourses were published by request. He published more than a dozen other separate works, among which may be mentioned Letters from Europe in 1828 (New York, 1828); Lectures on Revivals of Religion; with an introductory Essay by L. Woods (1832); Life of Rev. Dr. E. D. Griffin (1838); The Life of Timothy Dwight (1844); Aids to Early Religion (1847); Words to a Young Man's Conscience (1848); Visits to European Celebrities (1855); Memoirs of . . . J. McDowell, D.D., and . . . W. McDowell (1864); Life of Jedidiah Morse, D.D. (1874).

The great literary work of his life was the Annals of the American, Pulpit: Notices of American Clergymen to 1855 (vols. L -ii., Trinitarian Congregationalists, iii. iv., Presbyterians, v., Episcopalians, vi., Baptists, vii., Methodists, viii., Unitarians, ix., Lutherans, Reformed, Associate, Associate Reformed, and Reformed Presbyterians; 9 vole., 1858-61). The manuscript of the tenth and concluding volume was completed for publication before his death; it included Quakers, German Reformed, Moravians, Cumberland Presbyterians, Freewill Baptists, Swedenborgians, and Universalists.

SPRECHER, sprek'er, SAMUEL: Lutheran (General Synod); b. near Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 28, 1810; d. at San Diego, Cal., Jan. 10, 1896. He studied at Pennsylvania College and Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa., 1830-36; was pastor at Harrisburg, Pa., Martinsburg, Va., and Chambersburg, Pa., 1836-49; president of Wittenberg College, Springfield, O., 1849-74; and from 1874 was professor of systematic theology there. He was the author of Groundwork of a System of Evangelical Lutheran Theology (Philadelphia, 1879).

SPRENG, SAMUEL PETER: Evangelical Association; b. in Clinton Township, O., Feb. 11, 1853. He was educated at Northwestern College, Naperville, Ill. (A.B. 1875), and, after holding various pastorates in his denomination and being presiding elder from 1875 to 1887, was elected, in the latter year, editor of The Evangelical Messenger, the offi-