Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Adams, Seymour Webster, D.D a Baptist minister, was born at Vernon, Oneida County, N.Y., August 1,1815. He was converted at seventeen years of age; graduated from Hamilton College and Theological Seminary; was ordained in 1843, and served as pastor in his native place for two years, and thereafter in Cleveland, Ohio, until his death, September … Continue reading “Adams, Seymour Webster, D.D”

Adams, Samuel W., D.D. a Baptist minister, was born at Vernon, N. Y., in August, 1815. He pursued his collegiate studies at Hamilton College, and studied theology at the Hamilton Theological Seminary. For three years he was pastor of the Church in his native town. Here he remained until called to the pastorate of the … Continue reading “Adams, Samuel W., D.D.”

Adams, Samuel R. a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Campton’, N. H., June 5,1825. He was converted when but fifteen years of age, and always maintained an unblemished Christian. character. He obtained his education by his own exertions; graduated at Wesleyan University in 1851; spent two years’ in teaching in his own state; and … Continue reading “Adams, Samuel R.”

Adams, Samuel M.D., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in 1766, and practiced medicine till mature years, holding infidel opinions in regard to Christianity. After his conversion, in 1813, he entered the Ohio Conference in 1818 as a travelling minister, and devoted himself to the ministry fifteen years. He died at Beaver, … Continue reading “Adams, Samuel”

Adams, Richard, M.A. an English Nonconformist, was educated at Cambridge, where he was admitted A.M. in 1644. He afterwards, .1646, entered Brasenose College, Oxford, and soon after obtained a fellowship. In 1655 he was presented to the living of St. Mildred, Bread Street, London, where .he continued until ejected for. nonconformity in 1662. He afterwards … Continue reading “Adams, Richard, M.A.”

Adams, Phineas a Unitarian minister, was born at Rowley, Mass., in 1741. He graduated at Harvard College in 1762, was ordained pastor. of the Church in West Haverhill in 1770, and, after serving it successfully for nearly thirty years, died Nov. 17,1801. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, viii, 222. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, … Continue reading “Adams, Phineas”

Adam’s Peak Mountain, Ceylon, at summit of which is a depression in the rock, 5 feet long, resembling a human foot-print, attributed by legend to Thomas the Apostle. It is a place of pilgrimage of Indian Christians, Brahmins, Buddhists, Chinese, and Mohammedans; the last claim the foot-print to be that of Adam. Fuente: New Catholic … Continue reading “Adam’s Peak”

Adams, Obadiah an English Wesleyan missionary, was converted in Loombridge, Sussex, where he became a very useful local preacher. He was appointed to labor in Jamaica, W. I., in 1818, and was successfully conducting the mission in Spanish. Town. when he was cut off by fever. April 18.1816, at the age of twenty-nine years. See … Continue reading “Adams, Obadiah”

Adams, Newton, M.D. a Baptist missionary, was born at East Bloomfield, N.Y., in 1804. When he was thirty years of age he decided to enter upon missionary life,. and in that capacity, in 1834, went to South Africa to labor among the Zulus. He was one of six men who with their wives went to … Continue reading “Adams, Newton, M.D.”

Adams, Nehemiah, D.D. an eminent. Congregational minister, was born at Salem, Mass., Feb. 19, 1806. He graduated at the Harvard University in the. class of 1826. He pursued his theological studies at the Andover Seminary, where he graduated in 1828. Dec. 17 of that year he was ordained and installed as colleague pastor with the … Continue reading “Adams, Nehemiah, D.D.”