Names.
1 Chron. vi.
1 Chrou. vi.
Bom, cir. B.C.
Levi
1
20 20 10
20 21
21
21
10 43
IT 43 42 42
42 41
41 41
40 40 4) 33 39 33
11117
Gershom
18G0?
1750?
10P5?
164'J?
Joali
or Ethan
15S5?
or Iddo
1530? 1475?
or Jeaterai . .
Malchiah
Baa^eiah
1420? 1365? 1310?
1255?
1200?
Berachiah
Aaaph
1146? 1090?
2. The "father" of Joah, which latter was "record- er" in the time of Hezekiah (2 Kings xviii, 18, 37 ; Isa. xxxvi, 3, 22). B.C. ante 726. Perhaps i. q. No. 1.
3. A "keeper of the king's forests" (prob. in Leba- non), to whom Nehemiah requested of Artaxerxes Longimanus an order for timber to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem (Neh. ii, 8). B.C. 446.
Asapll's, St., a bishop's see in Flintshire, Wales, founded in the 6th century. The chapter consists of a dean, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, three canons, two archdeacons, seven cursal canons, and two minor canons. The present incumbent is Thomas Vowler Short, D.D., transferred from Sodor and Man in 1846.
Asar'eel (Heb. AsareV, b>0;rx, bound by God, sc. under a vow; Sept. 'EaepaijX v. r. 'Ecrepi)X), the last named of the four sons of Jehaleleel, of the tribe of Judah (1 Chron. iv, 16). B.C. prob. post 1618.
Asare'lah (Heb. Asharelah' ', nbx-OX, upright before God; Sept. TrW/\ v. r. 'Eoa»';X, 'AairfKa, 'Aati- pjjXo), the last named of the four sons of the Levite Asaph, who were appointed by David in charge of the
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Temple music in connection with ethers (1 Chron. xxv, I mained comparatively secluded for ten months. Al-
2): elsewhere (ver. 14) called by the equivalent name , though his movements were now circumscribed, yet
JESHARELAH (q. v.). he was bj' no means idle, and remarks that it was "a
-, .„ . , ... e ., ,r ,. rJ season of the most active, the most useful, and the
Asburv. Daniel, a minister of the Methodist . «. . . , . . ' ... ,, , . . '
Asuiuy i/cii^ci, „„„„«.„ vn ' most suffering part of his life." indeed, two vears
Fn -emu < huivh, was born in iairfax countv, \ a., . i ■ ,• , , . , , .
" ' Revolu claPsed 'jeiora he presumed to leave his retreat, and
to travel extensively in the performance of his du-
Feb. 18, 1762. He served in the war of the
lion and soon after its close was converted. In 1786 ..
' , ... . .. . „„ , ,„„f-„^ • ;f ties as superintendent; when, the authorities becom-
lie entered the itinerant . mmistrv, and continued in it, . . r , ,, . ., ' ' . ^y"
wltn an interval of nine years, up to 1824, and during ^ZT!^^^ 12 "1 lo!" *» *fr
this long service his fidelity and diligence were signal
odist preachers, but that their scruples were of a relk
,.,7 _ ymutes 0f 10USi not of a political nature, and that they we „::"l97 ' merely intent upon preaching the gospel of peace
>!', 1_(. 1 1.1. l!_i_ .1 ... i ,
ly manifest. He died suddenly in 185
i 'mfi r, nces, i, 506 ; Sprague, Armals
humble evangelists, they were permitted to exercise Asbury, Francis, the first bishop of the Method- their functions unmolested. At the close of the war ist Episcopal Church ordained in America, was born in 1783 there were 83 Methodist ministers in the work,
at Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, Aug. 20, 1745. ; with nearly 14,000 members.
1784 the Methodist
His parents were pious Methodists, and trained him1 societies were organized into an Episcopal Church,
with religious care, so that it is no wonder that he was converted at thirteen. In his youth he sat under the mini-try of Ryland, Hawes, and Venn, as well as of the Methodist preachers. He obtained the rudiments of education at the village school of Barrc, and in his fourteenth year was apprenticed to a maker of '' buckle- chapes." At sixteen he became a local preacher; at twenty-two he was received into the itinerant ministry by Mr. Wesley. In 1771 he was appointed missionary to America, and landed at Philadelphia, with the Rev
four years before the organization of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and Mr. Asbury was elected bish- op, and consecrated by Dr. Coke, who had been or- dained in England by Wesley. From this time to the day of his death his whole life was devoted to the preaching of the Gospel and to the superintendence of the churches. His personal history is almost the his- tory of the growth of Methodism in his time. His Journals (3 vols. 8vo) contain a wonderful record of postolic zeal and fidelity, of a spirit of self-sacrifice