Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Bruce, Samuel a Lutheran minister, was first connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his nineteenth year he began to exhort, and subsequently became a local preacher. In 1863 he was ordained as a Lutheran minister by the Franckean Synod, and for nearly twenty years he served the congregation at South Worcester, N.Y. During the … Continue reading “Bruce, Samuel”

Bruce, Robert (1), D.D an Associate minister, was born in the parish of Scone, Perth County, Scotland, in 1776. He graduated at the university of Edinburgh in 1798, and in 1801 was admitted as a student of divinity by the Associate Presbytery of Perth, and for five years prosecuted his studies under the venerable professor … Continue reading “Bruce, Robert (1), D.D”

Bruce, Robert an eminent Scotch preacher, was born 1559, and educated at St. Andrews. In 1587 he became one of the ministers of Edinburgh, where his eloquence, boldness, and piety gave him great popularity and influence. He died 1631. A collection of his sermons was printed in 1790, and has recently been reprinted for the … Continue reading “Bruce, Robert (2)”

Bruce, Philip a native of North Carolina, of Huguenot descent, a soldier of the Revolution, entered the Methodist ministry in 1781, and traveled extensively, filling the most important stations until he became superannuated in 1817. He closed his useful life in Tennessee, May 10, 1826, the oldest travelling preacher in his connection in the United … Continue reading “Bruce, Philip (2)”

Bruce, Nathaniel F., M.D a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was for many years chaplain of the state prison, Clinton, N. Y. He died in Dexter, Mich., Aug, 1,1857. See Proft. Episc. Almanac, 1858, p. 96. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bruce, Michael an Irish Presbyterian minister, was a descendant of Robert Bruce.. He was ordained as one of the ministers of Edinburgh in 1657, and settled at Killinchy in October of the year following. A person “‘singularly gifted; truly zealous and faithful, but also peaceable and orderly in his temper and conversation with his brethren,… … Continue reading “Bruce, Michael”

Bruce, Joseph a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in Springfield, Vermont, in 1821. He was converted when about seventeen years of age, and united with the Methodist Protestant Church. For seventeen years (1840-57) he was a Methodist preacher. He then joined the Free-willBaptists, and was ordained a minister in that denomination in June 1858. It … Continue reading “Bruce, Joseph”

Bruce, John Helvey a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Montgomery County, Virginia, February 2, 1817. He emigrated with his parents to Miami County, Ohio, in early life; received a careful religious training; experienced conversion at the age of fifteen; soon after received license to exhort; was licensed to preach in 1835; and in 1836 … Continue reading “Bruce, John Helvey”

Bruce, John an English Congregational minister was born at Great Grimsby, July 7, 1782. At thirteen years of age he was apprenticed to a linen draper at Pontefract; when sixteen years old he wrote A Meditation on Death, published in the Evangelical Magazine; and when about eighteen he entered Homerton College. On leaving college he … Continue reading “Bruce, John”

Bruce, James (1) a Scottish prelate, was the son of Sir Robert Bruce of Clackmannan, and was first rector of Kilreiny, in Fife, about 1438. He was promoted to the see of Dunkeld, and consecrated in 1441. In 1444 he was made chancellor of the kingdom. He was translated to the see of Glasgow in … Continue reading “Bruce, James (2)”