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BLAINS Exo 9:8-10, burning ulcerous eruptions, miraculously caused by the ashes which Moses threw up among the Egyptians. If these ashes came from the brick-kilns where the Hebrews had toiled, the pains which the Egyptians suffered would naturally remind them of those which they had inflicted. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Blains (, ababuoth’; … Continue reading “Blains”

Blain, Wilson a Presbyterian minister, was born in Ross County, O., March 2, 1813. He graduated at Miami University, Oxford, in 1831, attended the full course of study at the Associate Reformed Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pa., and was licensed by the First Presbytery of Ohio in 1838. He was at first pastor at Hebron, … Continue reading “Blain, Wilson”

Blain, John D a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Kingston, N.J., Feb. 24, 1819. He experienced conversion in 1835, began preaching in 1841, and in 1842 entered the New Jersey Conference. In 1852 he was sent to California to assist in planting Methodism on the Pacific coast. In impaired health in 1865, he returned … Continue reading “Blain, John D”

Blain, George W., A.M a Methodist Episcopal minister, and professor in Randolph Macon College, Va., was born in Albemarle county, Va., 1815. converted at a camp- meeting in 1832, graduated at Randolph Macon College in 1837, entered the ministry in the Virginia Conference 1838, was elected professor of mathematics in Randolph Macon College in 1840, … Continue reading “Blain, George W., A.M (2)”

Blain, John a Baptist minister, was born at Fishkill, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Feb. 14, 1795. He was converted at the age of fifteen, and at twenty-three united with the only Baptist Church then existing in Albany. When engaged as a travelling trader, he felt impressed that it was his duty to preach. After some: … Continue reading “Blain, John”

Blain, George W a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Albemarle County, Va., in 1815. He was converted at Salem when seventeen years of age, graduated at Randolph Macon College in 1837, and was admitted into the Virginia Conference in 1838. He was elected professor of mathematics in the Collegiate Institute of Buckingham County in … Continue reading “Blain, George W”

Blain, Daniel a Presbyterian minister, was born in South Carolina in 1773, of the Scotch- Irish race. When about twenty years of age, Mr. Blain entered Liberty Hail, near Lexington, to complete his education, and afterwards took a theological course in Washington College. He was licensed by the Lexington Preslvtery about 1796. He taught in … Continue reading “Blain, Daniel”

Blain BLAIN.A blain is an inflammatory swelling on the body. In one of the plagues of Egypt the dust became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast (Exo 9:9-10). See Botch, Medicine, and cf. Wyclifs tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Job 2:7 He smot Iob with the werste stinkende bleyne … Continue reading “Blain”

Blaikling, John a minister of the Society of Friends, was born in Yorkshire, England, in September, 1625. He was convinced of the truth in 1652, under the ministry of George Fox, and about the beginning of 1655 received a dispensation of the Gospel to publish to the world. He exercised his ministry in the counties … Continue reading “Blaikling, John”

Blagborne, William an English Wesleyan minister, was born in 1754. He joined the Methodists at an early age, and was received by Wesley into the ministry in 1785, and travelled therein for twenty-five years. Owing to singular opinions on the uncertainty of things, arising from the French Revolution, he retired from the ministry, but still … Continue reading “Blagborne, William”