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(Gen. xxxi, 52). Presents were also sent by the par- ty soliciting the alliance (1 Kings xv, 18 ; Isa. xxx, C ; 1 Mace, xv, 18). The event was celebrated by a feast (Exod. xxiv, 11 ; 2 Sam. iii, 12, 20).
The fidelity of the Jews to their engagements was conspicuous at all periods of their history. The case of the Gibeonites affords an instance scarcely equalled in the annals of any nation. The Israelites had been absolutely cheated into the alliance ; but, having been confirmed by oaths, it was deemed to be inviolable (Josh, ix, 19). Long afterward, the treaty having been violated by Saul, the whole nation was punished for the crime by a horrible famine in the time of Da- vid (2 Sam. xxi, 1 sq.). The prophet Ezekiel (xvii, 13-1(5) pours terrible denunciations upon King Zede- kiah for acting contrary to his sworn covenant with the king of Babylon. From numerous intimations in Josephus, it appears that the Jewish character for the observance of treaties was so generally recognised after the captivity, as often to procure for them con- sideration from the rulers of Western Asia and of Egypt. — Kitto, s. v. ; Smith, s. v.
ALLIANCE, EVANGELICAL. See Evangeli- cal Alliance.
ALLIANCE, HOLY, a league entered into by the Emperor Alexander of Russia, the Emperor Francis of Austria, and Frederic William, king of Prussia, after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, consisting of a declaration signed by them personally, that, in ac- cordance with the precepts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the principles of justice, charity, and peace should be the basis of the internal administration of their empires and of their international relations; and that the happiness and religious welfare of their subjects should be the great objects they should ever keep in view. It originated with Alexander, who, it is said, imagined that it would introduce a new era of Christian government ; but whatever may have been the original intention, it soon became, in the hands of the wily Metternich, an instrument for the support of tyranny and oppression, and laid the foundation of the Congressional system of politics, which, while it professes to have for its object the support of legitima- cy, is a horrid conspiracy against the rights and priv- ileges of the people. See Holy Alliance.
Allison, Burgess, D.D., a Baptist minister and successful teacher, was born at Bordentown, N. J., Aug. 17, 1753, and died at Washington Feb. 20, 1827. At the age of sixteen he was baptized, and immediate- ly began to preach. Desirous of classical and theo- logical education, he placed himself, in 1774, under the instruction of Dr. Samuel Jones, of Lower Dublin, near Philadelphia. In 1777 he studied a short time at Ilhode Island College, and on his return became pastor of the feeble congregation at Bordentown. Re- ceiving but little compensation, he opened a classical boarding-school, which attained great reputation. Mr. Allison retired from this post in 179G for a few years, which time he devoted to various inventions, and especially to the improvement of the steam-engine and its application to navigation. Resuming his school in 1801, he afterward reaccepted the pastorship, but was soon compelled by ill health to relinquish his la- bors. In 1816 he was elected chaplain to the House of Representatives, and was afterward appointed chap- lain at the Nav}' Yard in Washington, in which office he died. Dr. Allison was offered, at different times, the presidency of three colleges, all of which he declined. He was a man of great mechanical and artistic genius, and was for a long time one of the secretaries of the American Philosophical Society. He kept up a large foreign correspondence, and wrote mucli for the pe- riodicals of the day.— Sprague, Annals, vi, 121.
Allison, Francis, D.D., an eminent Presbyte- rian minister, was born in Donegal County, Ireland, in 1705, educated at the University of Glasgow, and
came to America in 1735. He became ppstor at New London, Chester Co., Pa., in 1737, where he opened an academy in 1743. He removed to Philadelphia in 1752, and took charge of an academy there. In 1755 he was appointed vice-provost and Professor of Moral Philosophy in the newly-established University of Pennsylvania. He died in 1779. Dr. Allison was very active in the events which led to the " Groat Schism" in 1744. His reputation as a classical scholar was very great. — Sprague, Annals, iii, 73.
Allison, Patrick, D.D., an eminent Presbyterian minister, born in Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1740, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 17C0. He was licensed to preach in 17G3, and became pastor of a church in Baltimore in 17C5, and continued in its service till within two years of his death in 1802. He was a man of great influence, and especially distin- guished as a deliberative speaker. — Sprague, Annals, iii, 257.
Allix, Peter, a learned French Protestant divine, born in 1G41 at Alencon, educated at Saumur and at Sedan. So highly was he esteemed by those of his own opinions that, in 1670, he was invited to Charen- ton to succeed the learned Daille. Here he engaged with Claude in the French translation of the Bible. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes drove him into England, where he founded a church, in which the services were carried on in French, but according to the English ritual, and in 1G90 Burnet, bishop of Salis- bury, gave him a canonry and the treasure rship of his cathedral. He died in 1717. He was a man of great learning, well acquainted with Greek, Hebrew, Sj'riac, and Chaldee, and a voluminous writer. His most valuable productions are, 1. lie/legions critiques et the- ologiques sur la controverse de, VEglise: — 2. Reflexions sur tons les livres de V A ncicn et du Nouveau Testament (Amst. 1689, 2 vols. 8vo) :— 3. The Judgment of the an- cient Jewish Church against the Unitarians (Oxford, new ed. 1821, 8vo) : — 4. Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Churches of Piedmont (1690, new ed. Ox- ford, 1821, 8vo). In this treatise he seeks to show, in opposition to Bossuet, that these churches were not in- fected with Manichajism, and had from the apostles' time maintained the pure faith. 5. History of the Al- bigenses (new ed. Oxf. 1821, 8vo). He also published a translation of the book of Ratramnus, " On the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ," with an essay, in which he attempts to show that the views of this au- thor are contrary to the doctrines of the Roman Cath- olic Church. To the same end, Allix published (Lond. 1686), from a manuscript of the library of St. Victor, a work by the Dominican John of Paris, entitled De Modo existendi corporis Chrisii in sacramento altaris; and a little book of Roman Catholic origin (the au- thorship of which was attributed to the Abbe de Lon- guerue), intended to prove that transubstantiation was not a Catholic doctrine. He wrote several works in favor of the revolution in England to allay the scru- ples of those who hesitated to take the oath of alle- giance. A full list of his works is given by Haag, La France Protestante, i, 61. — Jones, Christian Biog. p. 8.