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# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Davidge, William Pleater

Edition of 1900.
​DAVIDGE, William Pleater, actor, b. near Ludgate Hill, London, England, 17 April, 1814; d. in Cheyenne, W. T., 7 Aug., 1888. He joined an amateur dramatic society, and appeared first at Drury Lane theatre, in the part of James in “The Miller's Maid.” He appeared at Nottingham in 1836, and acted in London, on 26 Sept. of that year, in the “Haunted Tower.” After acting in Great Britain, he settled in Manchester, and in 1850 came to the United States, where he made his first appearance in the old Broadway theatre, New York, as the blacksmith in “Used Up.” He supported the popular stars of the day — Edwin Forrest, Gustavus V. Brooke, Julia Dean, Lola Montez, and others — and, after leaving the old Broadway theatre in 1855, made a tour through the country. He was a member of F. B. Conway's “star combination,” and in 1863 was one of Mrs. John Wood's company at the Olympic theatre, where he remained two seasons. He afterward took part in the Shakespearean revivals at Winter Garden theatre, and, in August, 1867, appeared as Eccles, in “Caste,” at the new Broadway theatre near Broome street. He was at Daly's Fifth avenue theatre from 1869 till 1877, then travelled with Miss Fanny Davenport's company, and in 1879 was the original Dick Deadeye, in “Pinafore,” at the Standard theatre. In 1885 he became a member of the Madison square theatre company. Mr. Davidge played over one thousand parts during his career, and played them all with zeal, intelligence, and humor. Among his best parts, besides those already mentioned, were Bishopriggs in “Man and Wife,” Old Hardy in the “Belle's Stratagem,” Hardcastle in “She Stoops to Conquer,” and Croaker in “The Good-Natured Man.” In Shakespeare's comedies he was successful as Caliban, Touchstone, Dogberry, Nick Bottom, and Old Gobbo. — His son, William, comedian, b. in Manchester, England, 11 March, 1847, made his first appearance in the French theatre, New York, in the burlesque of “The Lady of the Lions.”
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/Origen on Matthew/Origen's Commentary on Matthew/Book XIV/Chapter 8

8.  The Principle of the Reckoning.
But you will here inquire whether all men can be called servants of the king, or some are servants whom he foreknew and fore-ordained, while there are others who transact business with the servants, and are called bankers. And in like manner you will inquire if there are those outside the number of the slaves from whom the householder declares that he will exact his own with usury, not only men alien from piety, but also some of the believers. Now the servants alone are the stewards of the Word, but the king, making a reckoning with the servants, demands from those who have borrowed from the servants, whether a hundred measures of wheat or a hundred measures of oil, or whatever in point of fact those who are outside of the household of the king have received; for he who owed the hundred measures of wheat or the hundred measures of oil is not found to be, according to the parable, a fellow-servant of the unjust steward, as is evident from the question—how much owest thou to my lord? But mark with me that each deed which is good or seemly is like a gain and an increment, but a wicked deed is like a loss; and as there is a certain gain when the money is greater and another when it is less, and as there are differences of more or less, so according to the good deeds, there is as it were a valuing of gains more or less. To reckon what work is a great gain, and what a less gain, and what a least, is the prerogative of him who alone knows to investigate such things, looking at them in the light of the disposition, and the word, and the deed, and from consideration of the things which are not in our power cooperating with those that are; and so also in the case of things opposite, it is his to say what sin, when a reckoning is made with the servants, is found to be a great loss, and what is less, and what, if we may so call it, is the loss of the very last mite, or the last farthing. The account, therefore, of the entire and whole life is exacted by that which is called the kingdom of heaven which is likened to a king, when “we must all stand before the judgment-sent of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he hath done, whether good or bad;” and then when the reckoning is being made, shall there be brought into the reckoning that is made also every idle word that men shall speak, and any cup of cold water only which one has given to drink in the name of a disciple.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Matt. xxv. 27.
* ↑ Luke xvi. 6, 7.
* ↑ Luke xvi. 5.
* ↑ Luke xii. 59.
* ↑ Matt. v. 26.
* ↑ 2 Cor. v. 10.
* ↑ Matt. xii. 36.
* ↑ Matt. x. 42.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/Origen on Matthew/Origen's Commentary on Matthew/From Book I

From the First Book of the Commentary on Matthew.
Concerning the four Gospels which alone are uncontroverted in the Church of God under heaven, I have learned by tradition that the Gospel according to Matthew, who was at one time a publican and afterwards an Apostle of Jesus Christ, was written first; and that he composed it in the Hebrew tongue and published it for the converts from Judaism. The second written was that according to Mark, who wrote it according to the instruction of Peter, who, in his General Epistle, acknowledged him as a son, saying, “The church that is in Babylon, elect together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Mark my son.” And third, was that according to Luke, the Gospel commended by Paul, which he composed for the converts from the Gentiles. Last of all, that according to John.

## Footnotes

* ↑ This fragment is found in Eusebius, H.E. vi. 25.
* ↑ 1 Pet. v. 13.
* ↑ Or, who is commended by Paul.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena/Introduction

The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena.
Introduction.
The original Greek text of this work is edited for the first time in Text and Studies, Vol. II., No. 3 (1893), by Montague Rhodes James, M.A., from the only ms. known to him, a Paris one of the eleventh century. References to these Acts are not common in works dealing with the saints of the early church, and few writers seem to have known the work itself.
In substance the Acts are a religious novel, similar in form, and to some extent in matter, to the Greek romances by Achilles Tatius, Heliodorus, and others, and based upon the belief that St. Paul actually did visit Spain, according to the intention expressed by him in Romans xv. 24. The editor of the Greek text is inclined to assign its composition to about the middle of the third century, reasoning from its relations to the Acts of Paul, and those of other apostles, which its author apparently knew and made use of.  Thus a knowledge of the Acts of Paul and Thecla may be inferred from c. xxvi., of the Acts of Peter from c. xxiv., and of those of Andrew from cc. xxviii.–xxxi.
The first and longest part of the story (from c. i. to xxi.) gives an account of the conversion of Xanthippe, wife of Probus, a man of rank in Spain. In this part the narrative is less prominent than the speeches and prayers, which are numerous, and of considerable length. With c. xxii. a new section of the story begins, of which no previous warning has been given except in the title, containing the adventures of Polyxena, the sister of Xanthippe, who is carried off in the latter’s absence. The rest of the story is much more diversified than the early part, being full of incident and introducing a great variety of persons—the apostles Peter, Philip, and Andrew, an ass-driver, the Jewess Rebecca, a wicked prefect and his kind-hearted son, and finally Onesimus, who brings Polyxena back to Spain.
This difference in the character of the narrative in the two parts causes also some difference in the language, which in the earlier section is more diffuse and more difficult of exact translation than in the later one. The meaning of some words is also doubtful: those translated “lamp-stand” and “destroyer,” towards the end of c. xxi., are so rendered in accordance with suggestions by his Exc. M. Gennadius, who also characterises the language of the text as full of errors.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Apocalypse of Peter

THE APOCALYPSE OF PETER
VISIO PAULI
APOCALYPSE OF MARIA VIRGO
APOCALYPSE SEDRACH
by
Andrew Rutherfurd, B.D.

## Contents

* Introduction
* The Apocalypse of Peter
* Fragments of the Apocalypse of Peter
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Apocalypse of Peter/Fragments of the Apocalypse of Peter

Fragments of the Apocalypse of Peter.
1. Clemens Alexandrinus, Eclog. 48. For instance, Peter in the Apocalypse says that the children who are born out of due time shall be of the better part: and that these are delivered over to a care-taking angel that they may attain a share of knowledge and gain the better abode [after suffering what they would have suffered if they had been in the body: but the others shall merely obtain salvation as injured beings to whom mercy is shown, and remain without punishment, receiving this as a reward].
2. Clem. Alex. Eclog. 49. But the milk of the women running down from their breasts and congealing shall engender small flesh-eating beasts: and these run up upon them and devour them.
3. Macarius Magnes, Apocritica iv., 6 cf. 16. The earth, it (sc. the Apoc. of Peter) says, “shall present all men before God at the day of judgment, being itself also to be judged, with the heaven also which encompasses it.”
4. Clem. Alex. Eclog. 41. The scripture says that infants that have been exposed are delivered to a care-taking angel, by whom they are educated and so grow up, and they will be, it says, as the faithful of a hundred years old are here.
5. Methodius, Conviv. ii., 6. Whence also we have received in divinely-inspired scriptures that untimely births are delivered to care-taking angels, even if they are the offspring of adultery.

## Footnotes

* ↑ The part of the quotation between square brackets is assigned by Harnack to Clement himself and not to the Apocalypse.
* ↑ Cf. Esdras, Ante-Nicene Lib., vol. xvi., p. 473.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena
## Contents

* Introduction
* Life and Conduct of the Holy Women, Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Helm, John Larue

Edition of 1892.
​HELM, John Larue, governor of Kentucky, b. in Hardin county, Ky., 4 July, 1802; d. in Elizabethtown, Ky., 8 Sept., 1867. He was descended from Maj. Benjamin and Capt. Leonard Helm, of Fauquier county, Va., early pioneers of Kentucky, who were distinguished in Indian warfare. At an early age he was employed in the office of the circuit clerk, afterward studied law, was admitted to the bar, and appointed county attorney. He was in the state house of representatives in 1826-'37, and state senator from 1844 till 1848 and again from 1865 till 1867. when he resigned. He presided in the legislature seven years, was elected lieutenant-governor in 1848, and in 1850 became governor, which office he held till 1852. In 1854 he was made president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. He was again chosen governor of Kentucky after the civil war, and was inaugurated at his residence in Elizabethtown on 3 Sept., 1867, five days before his death. — His son, Ben Hardin, soldier, b. in Elizabethtown, Ky., in 1830; d. in Georgia, 21 Sept., 1863, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1851, assigned to the 2d dragoons, and served in the cavalry-school for practice at Carlisle, Pa., and on frontier duty at Fort Lincoln, Texas. He resigned his commission on 9 Oct., 1852. From 1854 till 1858 he practised law in Elizabethtown. and from 1858 till 1861 in Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1855-'6, and commonwealth attorney for the 3d district of Kentucky from 1856 till 1858. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army as colonel of the 1st Kentucky cavalry, served at Shiloh, and was made brigadier-general in March, 1862. He took part in the battles of Perryville and Stone River, where he commanded a division, led a Kentucky brigade at Vicksburg in the summer of 1862, and commanded a division at Chickamauga, where he was fatally wounded.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Hempel, Charles Julius

Edition of 1892.
​HEMPEL, Charles Julius, physician, b. in Solingen, Prussia, 5 Sept., 1811; d. in Grand Rapids, Mich., 25 Sept., 1879. After completing his collegiate course at Solingen, he attended lectures at the “Université de France,” in Paris, and assisted Michelet, who succeeded Guizot in the chair of history, in the publication of his “History of France.” He came to the United States in 1835, and for ten years resided in the family of Signor Maroncelli, the intimate friend of the revolutionist Silvio Pellico, where he imbibed an ardent love for music and Italian literature. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he was graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homœopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homœopathy. He was appointed to the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann medical college of Philadelphia in 1857, and afterward removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he engaged in a large practice. His health failing, he went abroad; but the change was not beneficial, and he returned to Grand Rapids, where he died. Dr. Hempel was one of the earliest honorary members of the British homœopathic society, and was the recipient of diplomas and certificates of membership from many medical colleges and associations. He wrote a work on the “Life of Christ” in the German language, another on “The True Organization of the New Church,” also a “New Grammar of the German Language.” He published numerous translations, including Hahnemann's “Chronic Diseases” (5 vols., Philadelphia, 1846); Hartmann's “Acute and Chronic Diseases” (4 vols., 1849); Jahr's “Mental Diseases and their Homœopathic Treatment” (1853); and “Diseases of Women and Children” (1853); and was the author of “Christendom and Civilization” (1840); a “System of Materia Medica and Therapeutics,” his chief work (1859); “Homœopathic Theory and Practice in Surgical Disease,” with Mr. J. Beakly (1865); and “The Science of Homœopathy” (1874).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Helm, Israel

Edition of 1892.
​HELM, Israel, colonist, b. in Sweden; d. after 1693. He was one of the early emigrants from Sweden to the Delaware. In 1659 he resided at Passyunk, now in Philadelphia, and was employed there as collector of customs. In 1668 he, with others, obtained from Gov. Nicolls a grant of land embracing nearly the whole of Calken Hook, and in the same year was appointed a member of Capt. Carr's council. In 1674 he was commissioned as one of the justices “for the river,” and doubtless assisted in holding a court at Upland some years before the “Upland court,” of which the records have been preserved, and of which he was also one of the justices. Having learned the language of the Indians, he was frequently employed as an interpreter, and acted as such in 1675 at the conference between Gov. Andros, the magistrates of New Castle, Del., and the Indian sachem of New Jersey, when the treaty of peace was renewed. He had acquired the title of captain, and, as the Swedish government sent a considerable number of Swedish soldiers to the colony, it may reasonably be supposed that he first came in a military capacity. During his residence on the Delaware he made a visit to his native country.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Helmuth, Justus Christian Henry

Edition of 1892.
​HELMUTH, Justus Christian Henry, clergyman, b. in Helmstadt, Brunswick, Germany, 16 May, 1745; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 5 Feb., 1825. His father died when the son was a mere boy, but a nobleman sent him to the orphan house in Halle, and afterward to the university there, where he received a thorough education in the classics and theology. He was ordained to the ministry at Wernigerode in 1769, and in the same year came to this country in response to an urgent call from Lutheran congregations in Pennsylvania. On his arrival, he was at once elected pastor of the congregation at Lancaster, Pa., for ten years, and in 1779 he removed to Philadelphia in answer to a unanimous call from St. Michael's, the first Lutheran congregation in the city. Here he spent the remainder of his life, serving as pastor until 1820. The University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M. in 1780, and that of D. D. in 1785. In the same institution he held for eighteen years the chair of German and Oriental languages, and was regarded as one of the best linguistic scholars of his time. In 1785, with his colleague and intimate friend, Dr. Schmidt, he established a private seminary at Philadelphia, for the education of young men for the ministry, which continued for twenty years, until age and pressure of other labors prevented them from attending properly to the work. In this private institution many of the early Lutheran pastors received their theological training. Dr. Helmuth was frequently elected to ecclesiastical offices of honor and trust, and was identified with many of the public institutions of Philadelphia. Though he was partial to the German language, it did not prevent him from taking an interest in the various activities, educational and religious, of his adopted country. His published works include “Taufe und heilige Schrift” (1793); “Unterhaltungen mit Gott”; books for children, and a volume of German hymns. For several years he edited the “Evangelical Magazine,” a German periodical of Philadelphia.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Henck, John Benjamin

Edition of 1892.
​HENCK, John Benjamin, civil engineer, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in October, 1816. He was graduated at Harvard in 1840, and became professor of Latin and Greek in Baltimore college. In 1842 he was called to a similar chair in the Germantown academy, Philadelphia, where he remained until 1847. He then turned his attention to civil ​engineering, studying in the office of Felton and Parker, Charlestown, Mass., and in 1848-'9 had charge of the building of a railroad from Charlestown, N. H., to Windsor, Vt. In 1849 he was in charge of the construction of the Harvard branch railroad near Boston, after which he established an office in Boston, and was frequently called upon as an expert to decide on the work of others. Later he had charge of the laying out and filling up of new lands of the state of Massachusetts and Boston water-power company, now known as the Back-bay district in Boston. In 1865 he became professor of civil engineering in the Massachusetts institute of technology, where he remained until 1881. But meanwhile he continued his oversight of the laying out of streets and lots in the back bay. He wrote numerous poems, mathematical papers, and a “Field-Book for Railway Engineers” (New York, 1860).
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Hellmuth, Isaac

Edition of 1892.
​HELLMUTH, Isaac, Canadian Anglican bishop, b. in Warsaw, Poland, 14 Dec., 1819. He is of Jewish descent, was educated at Breslau, and, having been converted to Christianity and ordained in the Anglican church, settled in Canada about 1856. He was appointed successively archdeacon and dean of the diocese of Huron, and on 24 Aug., 1870, was consecrated coadjutor-bishop, with the title of bishop of Norfolk. In 1871, on the death of Bishop Cronyn, Dr. Hellmuth succeeded him as bishop of Huron, but resigned this office in 1883 on being appointed assistant bishop in the diocese of Ripon. Since 1885 he has been rector of Bridlington, Yorkshire. While in Canada he established Huron college for the education of the future clergy of the diocese, and was principal and divinity professor in it in 1863. A few months afterward the London collegiate school, since named Hellmuth college, was erected, and he also established a ladies' college, which was opened in 1869.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Hendee, Mrs.

Edition of 1892.
​HENDEE, Mrs., heroine, b. in 1754. When the Indians burned Royalton, Vt., in 1776, her husband, Joshua Hendee, was absent in a Vermont regiment, and she was at work in an adjacent field. The Indians entered her house, seized her children, and carried them across White river, where it was a hundred yards wide and too deep for fording. Mrs. Hendee dashed into the river, swam and waded through, and, entering the camp, regardless of the tomahawks that were flourished about her head, demanded her children's release, and persevered until her request was granted. She carried them across the stream, landed them in safety on the other bank, and, returning three times in succession, procured the release of fifteen children belonging to her neighbors. On her final return to the camp the Indians were so struck with her courage that one of them declared that so brave a squaw deserved to be carried across the stream, and taking her on his back swam with her to the place where the rescued children were awaiting her return. She was twenty-two years old when she performed this feat, and in 1818 she was living in Sharon, Vt., with her third husband, whose name was Mosher. It is thought that she removed to one of the western states about 1820.
# Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Hendel, William

Edition of 1892.
​HENDEL, William, clergyman, b. in the Palatinate, Germany, about 1730; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 29 Sept., 1798. After completing his theological studies, he removed to the United States in 1764 and became one of the pioneers of the German Reformed church in this country. Between 1769 and 1782 he was pastor of nine congregations at one time in the neighborhood of Lancaster, Pa., besides making several missionary tours. In 1794 he removed to Philadelphia, and during the yellow-fever epidemic of 1798 died of that disease. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1788.