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bg Theodosia (2 vols., London, 1760) were reprinted, to which was added A Third Volume Consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose (Bristol, 1780), with a biographical preface by Dr. Caleb Evans; the profits in each case being devoted to benevolent uses. The whole were reissued at Boston, Mass., in two volumes, 1808, and again as Hymns, Psalms, and Poems. By A. Steele. With Memoir by J. Sheppard (London, 1863). Her hymns, to the number of sixty-five, were included in Ash and Evans's Collection, 1769, and were accordant with the best taste of that period, and remarkably adapted to public worship. Dr. Rippon (1787) used fifty-six of them, and Dobell (1806), forty-five. To probably a majority of the hymn-books published in England and America she is the largest contributor after Watts, Doddridge, and Charles Wesley. Although few of her hymns can be placed in the first rank of lyrical composition, they are full of genuine Christian feeling and are natural and pleasing. She had more elegance than force, and was less adapted to stand the test of time than her masculine rivals, though a fragment of her hymn, " Father, whate'er of earthly bliss," may last as long as anything of Watts or Doddridge.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Besides the prefatorial memoirs noted in the text, consult the treatises on English Hymns given under HYMNOLOQY, particularly S. W. Duffield, pp. 536538 et passim, and Julian, Dictionary, pp. 1089-90; also DNB, liv. 128-129.

STEELE, DANIEL: Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Windham, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1824. He was educated at Wesleyan University (A.B., 1848), where he was a tutor from 1848 to 1850. He then held pastorates of his denomination in various cities in Massachusetts until 1362, when he was appointed professor in Genesee College, Lima, N. Y., a position which he occupied until 1871. In 1872 he was elected first president of Syracuse University, while from 1884 to 1393, when he retired from active life, he was professor in the School of Theology of Boston University. He has written a Commentary on Joshua (New York, 1873); Binney's Theological Compend Improved (1874); Love Enthroned (1875); Milestone Papers (1878); Commentary on Leviticus and Numbers (1891); Half Hours with St. Paul (1895); Defense of Christian Perfection (1896); Gospel of the Comforter (Chicago, 1897); Jesus Exultant (1899); A Substitute for Holiness, or Antinomianism Revived (1899); and Half Hours With St. John's Epistles (1901).

STEELE, DAVID: Reformed Presbyterian; b. near Londonderry, Ireland, Oct. 20, 1827; d. at Philadelphia June 15, 1906. He was educated at Miami University, Miami, O. (A.B., 1357), where he was professor of Greek in 1858-59. He was licensed to preach in 1360 and ordained the following year (1861), after which he was pastor of the Fourth Reformed Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, until his death. From 1863 to 1875 he was professor of Greek, Hebrew, and pastoral theology in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and after 1875 was professor of doctrinal theology in the same institution, thus filling a pastorate of forty-five years in one church and occupying chairs in a single institution for forty-

three years. From 1867 to 1877 he edited The Reformed Presbyterian Advocate, and published several sermons and addresses, and a History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America (in the Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, 1898).

STEENSTRA,'sten'strd, PETER HENRY: Protestant Episcopalian; b. near Franeker, Friesland, Holland, Jan. 24, 1833; d. at Robbinston, Me., Apr. 27, 1911. He was educated at Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill. (A.B., 1858), and entered the Baptist ministry, but became a Protestant Episcopalian in 1864 and was rector of Grace Church, Newton, Mass. In 1868 he was appointed professor of Hebrew and Old- and New-Testament exegesis in the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., and was professor of Hebrew literature and interpretation of the Old Testament in the same institution, 1883-1907, when he became emeritus. Besides translating and editing Judges and Ruth in the American edition of Lange's Commentary (New York, 1872), he wrote The Being of God as Unity and Trinity (Boston, 1891).

STEIGER, stai'ger, WILHELM: Swiss theologian; b. at Flawil (15 m. w. of St. Gall), Switzerland, Feb. 9, 1809; d. at Geneva Jan. 9, 1836. He studied theology at Tiibingen and Halle, *here he opposed the rationalistic tendency. Returning to Switzerland in 1828, he was ordained at Aarau, and corresponded for the church periodical of E. W. Hengstenberg at Berlin, whither he repaired, 1829, as collaborator. In its columns appeared, anonymously, the noted brochure, Bemerkungen caber die hallesche Streitsache and die Frage ob die evangelischr en Regierungen gegen den Rationalismus einzuschreiten haben (Leipsic,1830). This was followed by his first book, Kritik des Rationalismus in Wegscheiders Dogmatik (Berlin, 1830). In Biblical work he wrote an excellent commentary on I Peter (1832), and at the same time was called as professor of NewTestament exegesis to Geneva. There he began to publish with H. A. C.. Haeverniek (q.v.) a journal,

STEIN, stain, FRANZ JOSEPH VON: German Roman Catholic; b. at Amorbach (33 m. ,s.e. of Darmstadt), Bavaria, Apr. 4, 1832. He was educated at the University of Wiirzburg (D.D.: 1859), and was ordained to the priesthood in 1855. After being a curate at Hilders, Heidingsfeld, and Schweinfurt, he was instructor in religion at the gymnasium in W iirzburg 1860-65, and was then appointed associate professor of moral theology at the university of the same city, where he was full professor of moral and pastoral theology in 18711878 and rector magnificus in 1875-76. In 1878 he was consecrated bishop of W iirzburg, and in 1897 was enthroned archbishop of Munich and Freising.. He has written Historisch-kritische Darstellung den pathologischen Moralprinzipien (Vienna, 1871) and Studien fiber die Hesychasten des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts (1874).