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Ash, John, LL. D an Independent minister, was born in Dorsetshire in 1724, and died in 1779. At first he pursued mathematics, but afterward studied theology, and entered the ministry. le was associated with Dr. Caleb Evans in founding the “Bristol Education Society.” He settled as pastor at Pershore, Worcestershire, and devoted a large part … Continue reading “Ash, John, LL. D”

Ash, James (1) an English Wesleyan minister, was born, probably, in 1789. He was received into the work in 1813; preached on the Brixham, Axminster, Dunster Hungerford, Tavistock, etc., circuits; became a supernumerary in 1828; was reduced by disease to great weakness, both of body and mind; and died, probably at Axminster, May 14,1840. See … Continue reading “Ash, James (2)”

Ash, Edward a minister of the denomination of Friends, was born at Bristol, England, in 1797. He was converted when only ten years old, while attending a boarding-school at Melksham, Wiltshire. In his twenty-fourth year he entered on a course of medical study in London and Edinburgh, taking the degree of M.D. in. 1825. In … Continue reading “Ash, Edward”

ash color, vestments of Occasionally used in France . Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Ash-Cake (, ugah’, or , uggah’, ” cake,” “cake baked on the hearth,” Gen 18:6; Gen 19:3; 1Ki 17:13; Eze 4:12, etc.; Sept. ), a thin round pancake baked over hot sand or a slab of stone by means of ashes or coals put over them, or between two layers of hot embers of the … Continue reading “Ash-Cake”

Ash, Benjamin an English Congregational minister, was born at Malmesbury, Wilts, Sept. 26, 1797, of pious Moravian parents. He received his early education at the Fulneck Moravian Seminary. He entered the ministry in 1820 as pastor of several country districts, supporting himself by teaching school and farming. About 1836 he removed to Laxton, Nottinghamshire, where … Continue reading “Ash, Benjamin”

Ash (Tree) Isa 44:14 (b) This tree represents the established works of men which become their idols. It may be a great, solid, substantial business, in which a man’s money, fame and fortune leave him no time for GOD. He makes a god out of that enterprise which he has built up by his ingenuity, … Continue reading “Ash (Tree)”

Ash (, o’ren, probably tremulous, from the motion of the leaves) occurs only once in Scripture as the name of a tree, in connection with other trees, of whose timber idols were made, Isa 44:14 : “He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the … Continue reading “Ash”

Asgill, John member of the Irish Parliament, and author of an eccentric book entitled An Argument proving that, according to the Covenant of eternal Life revealed in the Scriptures, Man may be translated hence into that eternal Life without passing through Death, although the humane Nature of Christ himself could not thus be translated till … Continue reading “Asgill, John”

Asgard in Norse mythology, is sometimes called the capital city of the fabulous country Asaheim; sometimes, again, the residence of the Asa deities. As the latter, it is a city, or a beautiful extended palace, which the Asas built in the centre of the earth. Around this palace are the loveliest evergreen woods, in which, … Continue reading “Asgard”