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rabbiniache Strafgesetz and atraJrechtliche Gerichta-Verlahren, Gross-Kanizsa. 1870; P. B. Benny, Criminal Code of the Jews according to the Talmud Masaecheth Synhedrin, London, 1880; S. Mendelsohn, The Criminal Jurisprudence of the Ancient Hebrews, Baltimore, 1891; S. Mandl, Der Bann, pp. 22-23, Brunn, 1898; R. Hirzel, Die Strafe der Steinigung, in the Abhandlungen of the Royal Saxon Academy, Philosophical-historical class, xavii. 7 (1909); Benzinger, Archaolog%e, p. 277; DB, i. 527; EB, iii. 2722; JE, iii. 554-558; and the commentaries on the passages cited in the teat.

STORR, GOTTLOB CHRISTIAN: See TtIBINGEN SCHOOL, THE OLDER.

STORRS, RICHARD SALTER: Congregationalist; b. at Braintree, Mass., Aug. 21, 1821; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 5, 1900. He was the grandson of Rev. Richard Salter Storrs (1763-1819) of Longmeadow, Mass., and the son of the Rev. Richard Salter Storrs (1787-1873) who was for sixtythree years the eminent pastor of the Congregational church of Braintree, Mass. He was prepared for college at Monson Academy and graduated at Amherst College in 1839. After two years spent partly in teaching and partly in the study of law in the office of Rufus Choate in Boston, he entered the Andover Theological Seminary from which he was graduated in 1845. He was immediately called to the Harvard Congregational Church at Brookline, Mass., but after a year of service there he accepted an urgent invitation to become the pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N. Y., which had been organized two years before. He was installed Nov. 19, 1846. In spite of numerous calls to important churches in New York, Boston, and elsewhere, he remained in this position till his death, performing all its duties until 1899, when he was made pastor emeritus. In 1896 the fiftieth anniversary of his installation was celebrated not only by the church but by various organizations throughout the city and by a notable meeting of citizens in the Academy of Music. He was a preacher of great eloquence and power, an orator who was much in demand on important occasions, a recognized leader in the church, an eminent and influential citizen. He was one of the founders of The Independent and one of its editors, 1848-61; was for several years prominent as a lyceum lecturer; was president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions i887-98, a critical period in its history; was for many years a trustee of Amherst College and of various benevolent and missionary societies; was one of the founders and for a long time president of the Long Island Historical Society and an incorporator and officer of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, rendering important services to both these institutions, besides serving for a time as park commissioner and as commissioner of the civil service; and was the orator of the day when the statue of Lincoln was unveiled, when the city of New York celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1876, when the first Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public, at the semi-millennial celebration of the birth of John Wyclif in 1880, and on many other occasions. Two of his most remarkable orations, delivered several times in 1875 and 1876, on " The

STORY, ROBERT HERBERT: Church of Scotland; b. at Roseneath (22 m. n.w. of Glasgow), Dunbartonshire, Jan. 28, 1835; d. at Glasgow Jan. 13, 1907. He was educated at the universities of Edinburgh (M.A., 1853) and. Heidelberg (1853), and received his theological training at Edinburgh (1853--56) and St. Andrews (1856-57). He was minister at Roseneath (1860-87); professor of church history in Glasgow University (1887-98); from 1898 until his death he was principal and vicechancellor of the university. Ip theology he belonged to the liberal school. Besides editing the Scot Magazine, he wrote Memoir of the Life of Robert Story (Cambridge, 1862); Christ the Consoler (Edinburgh, 1865); Life and Remains of Robert Lee (2 vols., London, 1870); William Carstares: a Character and Career of the Revolutionary Epoch (1874); Creed and Conduct (Glasgow, 1878); and The Apostolic Ministry in the Scottish Church (London, 1897). He likewise edited The Church of Scotland, Past and Present (5 vols., London, 1890-91). BIBLIOGRAPHY: Memoir of R. H. Stars, by his Daughters,