Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Story, John, Blessed Martyr , born 1504, died Tyburn, England , 1571. He was president of Broadgates Hall, now Pembroke College. Entering Parliament in 1547 he was imprisoned for opposing the Bill of Uniformity. He went to Louvain, but returned in 1553, and became chancellor to Bishop Bonner. Once more in Parliament, he was again … Continue reading “Story, John, Blessed”

Story, Cyrus a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at Ipswich, Mass., Nov. 4, 1773, and removed to New Hampshire, and subsequently to Middlebury, Wyoming Co., N.Y. In 1818 he was received into the Genesee Conference, but located about 1835. He settled at Liberty, Steuben Co., N. Y., and after a residence of … Continue reading “Story, Cyrus”

Story, Blessed John (Or Storey.) Martyr; born 1504; died at Tyburn, 1 June, 1571. He was educated at Oxford, and was president of Broadgates Hall, now Pembroke College, from 1537 to 1539. He entered Parliament as member for Hindon, Wilts, in 1547, and was imprisoned for opposing the Bill of Uniformity, 24 Jan.-2 March, 1548-9. … Continue reading “Story, Blessed John”

Story (Or Storey) one of the divisions of a building in the vertical direction; the space between two contiguous floors, or between two contiguous entablatures or other architectural dividing lines that indicate floors or separations of the building. In English mediaeval documents it is often Latinized into historia. In domestic and palatial architecture the stories … Continue reading “Story (Or Storey)”

Story appears in the A.V. at 2Ch 13:22; 2Ch 24:27, as a rendering of , midrash (q.v.), a commentary, or historical statement (comp. Caesar’s commentaries). SEE HISTORY; SEE TALE. In Amo 9:6 it is the translation of , maalah, a step, as often rendered. SEE DEGREE; SEE STAIR. In Genesis 6:46; Eze 41:16; Eze 42:3, … Continue reading “Story”

Storrs, Richard Salter a Congregational minister, was born at Mansfield, Conn., Aug. 30, 1763, and at the age of thirteen went to live with Rev. Dr. Salter, who took charge of his education. He entered Yale College in 1779 and graduated in 1783. After studying theology two years under Dr. Salter, he was licensed to … Continue reading “Storrs, Richard Salter”

Storrs, John a Congregational minister, was born at Mansfield, Conn., in 1735. He graduated, at Yale College in 1756, and was tutor in 1761-62; was installed at Southold, L.I., in 1763; was absent from his parish from 1776 to 1782 on account of the war, being chaplain to the Revolutionary army for a part of … Continue reading “Storrs, John”

Storrs, Charles Bakus an eminent Presbyterian minister, was born at Longmeadow, Mass.; May 15, 1794. He pursued his preparatory studies privately, and at Munson Academy; was a member of Princeton College, but did not graduate, owing to ill health; was licensed to preach by the Long Island Presbytery in 1813; graduated at Andover Theological Seminary … Continue reading “Storrs, Charles Bakus”

Storr Junkare in Lapp mythology, is the god of hunting and fishing, who was highly venerated because those pursuits afforded the principal means of livelihood to the peoples of the frozen North. Storr was probably the only divinity whose worship was in any degree general; that of other gods being restricted, in each case, to … Continue reading “Storr Junkare”

Storr, Gottlob Christian doctor of theology, professor of divinity at Tbingen, consistorial counsellor, and first minister to the court at Stuttgart; was born at Stuttgart in 1746, and died at the same place in 1805. The labors of Storr contributed more, perhaps, than those of almost any other man to stem the tide of neology, … Continue reading “Storr, Gottlob Christian”