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Testament and of practical theology and preacher to the university. Steinmeyer is important in the history of preaching. He is the representative of a strictly synthetic method which stands in closest connection with his ritualistic ideal. Starting from the idea of Schleiermacher, he regarded the sermon as that part of the divine service the function of which is to elevate the devotion of the worshiping congregation to adoration. Of his works may be mentioned: Beitrage zum Schriftverstandnis in Predigtert (4 vole., 23 ed., Berlin 1859-66); APologetische Beitrage (4 vole., 1866-73); Beitrkge zrtr praktisehen Theologie (5 vole., 1874-79); Beitrage xur Christologie (3 parts, 1&g0-82); Die Wundertatert des Hewn (1884); Die Parabeln des Flerrn (1884); Die Rede des Hewn auf dem Berge (1885); Dus hohepriesterliche Gebet (1886); Beitrage zunt Yerstkndnis des Johanneisehen Evangeliums (8 parts, 1886-93); Studien fiber dent Brief des Paulus an die Romer (2 parts, 1894-95). After his death several collections of sermons and his lectures on homiletics appeared, ed. Reylander (Leipsic, 1901).

(G. KAWERAU.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY: E. Haupt, in Halts was du host, Vol. zaiii.; L. Schultze, in Evangeliache Kirchenzeitung, 1901, pp. 97 aqq., and in Biopraphiachea Jahrbuch, v (1903), 345 eqq.; J. Bauer, in MouataachrdJt fvr die kirehliche Proofs, 1903, pp. 405 aqq., 444 sqq.

STEITZ, staits, GEORG EDUARD: German theologian; b. at Frankfort-on-the-Main July 25, 1810; d. there Jan. 19, 1879. He studied at Tiibingen, 1829-31, and at Bonn, 1831-33; taught in his native city, 1833-42; was pastor at Sachsenhausen and Frankfort, 1842-79, and member of the consistory from 1873. He wrote Das rdmische Busssakrament (Frankfort, 1854); and Die Privatbeichte and Privatabsolution der lutherischen Kirche Gus den Quellert des XVl. Jahrhundertsaus Lathers Schriften and den alter Kirchenordnungen dargestellt (1854).

(H. DECHENT.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jung and Dechent, Zur Erinnerunyan . . . Eduard Sleitz. Zwei Reden, Frankfort, 1879.

STELLHORN, FREDERICK WILLIAM: Luther an; b. at Briininghorstedt, Hanover, Germany, Oct. 2, 1841. He was educated at Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind. (A.B., 1862), and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo. (1865); was pastor at St. Louis, Mo. (1865-67), and in DeKalb County, Ind., until 1869. He has held professorships in North western University, Watertown, Wis. (1869-74), and Concordia College (1874-81), and has been professor of theology and German in Capital Uni versity since 1881. In 1894 he was appointed president of the university and served until 1900, and since 1903 he has been dean of the theological seminary attached to the same institution. In theology he is a very, conservative Lutheran. He was editor of the Lutherische Kirchen; eitung (Co lumbus, O.), from 1881 to 1898, except for a very brief intermission, and has edited the Theologische Zeitbldtter since 1882. He is the author of Xurzge fasstes Worterbuch zum grieehischen Neuen Testa ment (Leipsic, 1886); A Brief Commentary on the Four Gospels for Study and Devotion (Columbus, O., 1891); Annotations on the Acts of the Apostles

(New York, 1896); The Error of Modern Missouri (Columbus, 1897); Die Pastoralbriefe Pauli iibersetzt and erkltirt (Giitersloh, 1899); and a commentary on Romans (1899).

STELZLE, atels'le, CHARLES: Presbyterian; b. in New York City June 4, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of his r-tive city and at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago (1894-95), after having been for many years a machinist. He was then pastor of Hope Chapel, Minneapolis, Minn. (18951897), Hope Chapel, New York City (1897-99), and Markham Memorial Church, St. Louis, Mo. (18991903). Since 1903 he has been superintendent of the Presbyterian Department of Church and Labor, a division of the Home Mission Board. He organized the Labor Temple in New York City in 1910. He is also director of the department of Christian sociology in the Bible Teachers' Training School, New York City. He is widely known as a lecturer and has written The Workingman and Social Problems (New York, 1903); Boys of the Street: How to Win Them (1904); Messages to Workingmen (1906); Christianity's Storm Centre: Study of the Modern City (190?); Letters from a Workingman (1908); Principles of Successful Church Advertising (1909); and The Church and Labor (1910).

STENNETT, JOSEPH: English hymn-writer; b. at Abingdon (6 m. s. of Oxford), England, 1663; d. at Knaphill, near Hughenden (16 m. n.e. of Reading), July 11, 1713. He received an excellent education at the grammar-school of Wallingford; settled in London as a schoolmaster in 1685; and in 1690 he was ordained pastor of a Baptist congregation in Devonshire Square, London, which he served till his death. He was the author of Advice to the Young: or, the Reasonableness and Advantages of an early Conversion to God Demonstrated (London, 1695); Hymns in Commemoration of the Sufferings of . . Jesus Christ. Composed for the Celebration of His Holy Supper (1697; 3rd ed., with thirteen more hymns, 1709); A Version of Solomon's Song of Songs, together with the X LVth Psalm (1700); An Answer to Mr. D. Russen's Book F,ntitul'd, " Fundamentals without a Foundation, or, a true Picture of the Anabaptists" . . (1704 ); Hymns Composed for the Celebration of the Holy Ordinance of Baptism (1712); also there was published The Works of Joseph Stennett . . . .To which is prefixed some Account of his Life (4 vole., 1731-32). Stennett was the author of the hymn " Another six days' work is done," which in the original had fourteen stanzas.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Besides the account in the Works, ut sup., consult: Walter Wilson, Hist. arid Antiquities of Dissenting Churches in London, ii. 592 eqq., 4 vole., London, 1808-14; $. W. Duffield, English Hymns, pp. 35-38, New York, 1888; DNB, liv. 150; Julian, Hymnology, p. 1091.

STENNETT, SAMUEL: English hymnist; b. in Exeter, England, 172?; d. in London Aug. 24, 1795. In 1748 he became assistant to his father as pastor of the Baptist Church in Little Wild Street, London, and in 1758 his successor, remaining with the church till his death. He was a fine scholar, held a very prominent position among the dissenting ministers of London, enjoyed the confidence of George III.,