BEACH
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BEAN
Is obtained from HeudolotM Africana (Richard and Guillemin, Fl. >!, Senegambie). It is a natural pro- duction of Senegal, and is called by the natives, who ,,, ,k ■ tooth-picks of its spines, niottout. It consists of rounded or oval tears, from one to two inches in diam- et t. of a dull and waxy fracture, which, in the course of time, become opaque, and are covered externally by a white or yellowish dust. It has a feeble but pe- culiar odor, and a bitter taste. Pelletier (Ann. de CAiin.lxxx, 39 i found it to consist of resin, 59.0 ; solu- ble gum, it.-' : bassorin, 30.6 ; volatile oil and loss, 1.2. Resin of bdellium (African bdellium?) consists, ac- cording to Johnstone, of carbon, -10; hydrogen, 31; oxygen, 5. See Penny Cyclopaedia, s. v. — Kitto, s.v.
Beach, Abraham, D.D., a minister of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church, was born at Cheshire, Conn., 1740, graduated at Yale College 1757, passed from the Congregational to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was ordained by the Bishop of London 1767. His first service was as missionary at Piscataqua, N. J., where he served up to the Revolution, when his church was shut up on account of the troubles of the time. In 1784 he was appointed assistant minister at Trinity Church, N. Y. In 1789 ha was made D.D. by Colum- bia ( lollege. In 1813 he resigned his charge and re- tired to his farm on the Raritan, where he died, Sept. 14, 1828. He was a strict Episcopalian, and in 1783 opposed Dr. (afterward Bishop) White's proposal to organize the Church and ordain ministers without a consecrated bishop. — Sprague, Annals, v, 2G5.
Beach, Jolin, a Protestant Episcopal minister, was bom in 1700, and graduated at Yale College in 1721. For several years he served in the Congrega- tional Church at Newtown, Conn., but in 1732 con- formed to the Church of England, and was ordained by the Bishop of London in that year. He served as mis- sionary at Newtown and Reading for 50 years, and died March 8, 1782. He published several tracts in favor of the Church of England, and a number of oc- casional sermons. — Sprague, Annuls, v, 8-1.
Beacon ("pH, to'reri), Isa. xxx, 17, in the margin in that place, and in the text in chap, xxiii, 23, and Ezek. xxvii, 5, rendered "mast." It probably signifies a poU used as a standard or "ensign" (03, nes), which was set up on the tops of mountains as a signal for the
assembling of the ] pie, sometimes on the invasion
of an enemy, and sometimes after a defeat (Isa. v, 26; xi, 12 ; xviii, 3 ; lxii, 10). See Banner.
Beads. Strings of beads are used in the Roman ( ihurch on which to count the number of paters or aves recited. They are generally supposed to have been introduced by Peter the Hermit. The Saxon word b / me ins a prayer; it is the past participle of biddan,
ire, to bid. Bt ad-roll was a list of those to be pray- ed for in the Church, and a beadsman one who prayed for another. From this use beads obtained theirname. — Bergier, s. v. Chapelet. See Rosary.
Beale, Oliver, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Bridgewater, Mass., Oct. 13, 1777, convert- ed 18 (0, and entered the itinerant ministry at Lynn, 1801. After filling several of the most impor- tant stations, he was presiding elder from 1806 to 1 during the nexl ten years, while effective, be was missionan at Piscataquis, and also presiding f''1'1'- He was made "superannuate" in 1833, and
'1'"-'1 •'< Balti " Dec. 30, 1836. lie was a devoted
; minister, "and did more to plant Meth- odism in Maine than any other man" (Rev. T. Mcr- i, during bis long and faithful service, became well known to the < hurch as a wise man and discreet counsellor. He was five times a delegate to the Gen- eral I onfer mi i 1/ nub oft ovferencee, ii, 493.
Beali'ah (Heb. Btalyah', n;'.rn, whose lordisJe- hovah} remarkable as containing the names of both
Baal and Jah ; Sept. BaaXia), one of David's thirty Benjamite heroes of the sling during his sojourn at Ziklag (1 Chron. xii, 5). B.C. 1054.
Be'aloth (Heb. Bealoth' ', PliiSSl, the plur. fern, of Baal, signifying prob. citizens ; Sept. BaaXixiSr v. r. BaXioB and BaXpaivav), the name of two places.
1. A town in the southern part of Judah (i. e. in Simeon), mentioned in connection with Telem and Ha- zor (Josh, xv, 24) ; evidently different from either of the two places called Baalath (ver. 9, 29), but probably the same as the Baalath-beer (q. v.) of chap, xix, 8. Schwarz (Pa'est. p. 100) thinks it is a " Kulat til-Baal situated "i\ English miles S.E. of Telem and N.W. of Zapha;" but no such names appear on any modern map, and the region indicated is entirely south of the bounds of Palestine.
2. A district of Asher, of which Baanah ben-Hushai was Solomon's commissariat (1 Kings iv, 16, where the Auth. Vers, renders incorrectly "in Aloth," Sept. t v Baa\ w.&, Vulg. in Baloth) ; apparently = ' ' adjacent cities," i. e. the sea-coast, where the river Belcus (13/;- Atoc, Joseph. War, ii, x, 2) ma)' be a trace of the name. See Belus. Schwarz (Pa'est. p. 237) unnecessarily identifies it with Baal-gad or Laish.