{"id":28653,"date":"2022-09-28T10:20:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/bower-jacob\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T15:20:49","slug":"bower-jacob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/bower-jacob\/","title":{"rendered":"Bower, Jacob"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bower, Jacob<\/h2>\n<p>a Baptist minister, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., Sept. 26, 1786. He was converted in 1812; licensed in October, 1816; and ordained in Logan County, Ky., Feb. 27, 1819 the only books he then had being a German Testament, the English Bible, and a hymn-book. For nearly ten years he served churches in Kentucky, and enjoyed many revivals. In 1828 he removed to Scott County, Ill., and became pastor of the Church at Winchester  a strong anti-missionary Church from which he was dismissed on account of his interest in mission-work, and was sent by the Home Mission Society to preach in several counties in Illinois. He was a great sufferer for many years from a disease resembling elephantiasis, and died April 26, 1874. See: Min. of Ill. Anniv., 1874, p. 15, 16. (J. C. S.)<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bower, Jacob a Baptist minister, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., Sept. 26, 1786. He was converted in 1812; licensed in October, 1816; and ordained in Logan County, Ky., Feb. 27, 1819 the only books he then had being a German Testament, the English Bible, and a hymn-book. For nearly ten years he served churches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/bower-jacob\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bower, Jacob&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}