BOOK of THE (AXON'S (fiifiXoe ko.v6vm>, Co- des ( 'anomm I, a collection of the various canons enact- ed in the councils ,<( Nicrea, Ancyra, Neoercsarea, La- odicea, Gangra, Antioch, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chaloedon, numbering in all one hundred and Beventy-eight canons, It- Hate U uncertain, but it was probably never universally authoritative. It was published by Justellus in 1610 (Codex Canonum Eccles. litis, 8vo), with a Latin version and notes. Tor a fuller account, bee Canons. II.
Boone, William Jones, D.D., bishop of the American Mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Shanghai, China. He was born in South Carolina, July 1, 1811 ; graduated at the university of th it state, and then studied law under chancellor De Saussure. After taking his degree, he entered the Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Alexandria, Va., where he pursued his theological course, and afterward studied medicine, to prepare himself more fully for the mission field. He then offered himself to the Foreign Committee for the work in China. He was appointed January 17, 1837, and sailed from Boston in July. Under his incessant toil in the study of the language, his health gave way, and in 18-10 he went to Macao, in China. He left Macao for Amoy in February, 1842, and settled with his family on the island of Kulangsu ; and in August, 1842, his wife died, and was buried on that island. He returned to this country, and was consecrated missionary bishop to China m October, 1844. In December, 1844, he sailed for Canton. In 1845 the city of Shanghai was selected as the seat of the mission. In 184G the bishop began the translation of the Prayer-book, and engaged in a revision of the N. T. ; and in 1847 was chosen one of the committee of delegates from the several missions to review the translation of the Bible. It was in this work, and in 1 the discussion which grew out of it, that his eminent ability as a scholar was displayed ; so eminent, indeed, ! as to challenge the admiration of those most compe- tent to judge in such matters. He returned to the United States in 1853, and again in 1857, where he re- j mained, prostrated in health, until 1859. He sailed ! from New York July 13, 1859, and died at Shanghai ; on the 17th of July, "l864.— Church Review, 18G5 ; Ste- vens, Memorial Sermon on Bishop Boone, Phila., 1865.
Boos, Martin, an evangelical divine in the Church of Rome, who was the instrument of a religious awak- ening in German}' similar to those of Whitfield and Wesley in England and America, was born at Ilutten- ried, Bavaria, Dec. 25, 1762, and educated for the ser- vice of the Church at the University of Dillingen, where Sailer had already introduced an evangelical movement. He imbibed the doctrine of justification by faith, and found peace in believing. His first charge was Gruenbach, in the province of Kempten, and there he began, as he termed it, "to preach Christ for us and in us." The impression produced by the simple exhibition of this Gospel truth was as life from the dead. Those who had been agitated by doubts had their difficulties dispelled; those who had been har- assed by fear attained peace in believing. The ex- citement spread like an epidemic ; many gross sinners suddenly reformed, and multitudes could speak of the love of Christ and the happiness of his service. The Romish authorities regarded Boos as a fool or a fanatic, and deprived him of his pastoral charge. The day on which he was thrust out of his parsonage he remained a long time on the highway, uncertain what to do or whither to go; and at length spying an uninhabited hut on the roadside, he entered it, and, throwing him- self down on the floor, prayed earnestly for light and guidance from heaven. The calumnies circulated against his character and ministry having been proved groundless, he was recalled from his retirement, and appointed to the curacy of Wiggensbach, ac joining his former parish. As his faith became stronger, his zeal in preaching the Gospel increased, and produced a great and extensive religious awakening. A dis- course which ho preached on New Year's day, 1797, on repentance, was accompanied with such penetrating energy that "forty persons, whose consciences were roused, fainted away and had to bo carried out." While many revered the preacher as a man of God, the opposition of others was violently roused. This latter party secretly influenced the vicar, who was himself disposed to be the friend of the pious curate, but whoso kindly intentions were overborne. The
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simple converts, in admiration of Boos, spread so wide- ly the story of his character and doctrines that the clergy joined in clamors against him as a heretic. From that moment persecution raged, and Boos was obliged to leave Wiggensbaeh. In a friend's house he obtained shelter ; but his retreat having been dis- covered, he was surprised one day by the sudden ap- pearance of an agent from the Inquisition at Augs- burg, who, after rifling his writing-desk, carried away all his sermons and letters. On the 10th of Feb. 1797, he appeared before the Inquisition, where he refuted all the charges brought against him. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to a year's confinement in the cler- ical house of correction ; but the keeper of that prison, like the Philippian jailer, was, with his whole family, converted by the pious conversation of Boos, lie- leased from prison at the end of eight months, Boos, after passing through many vicissitudes, obtained per- mission to enter into the diocese of Lintz in Upper Austria, where the bishop, Joseph A. Gall, welcomed him, and gave him the populous parish of Peyerbach, where for five years "he ceased not to warn every man day and night." In 1806 he removed to the still more populous parish of Gallneukirchen, where, how- ever, he labored for more than four years without any visible fruits of his ministry appearing. Surprised and pained by the deadness of the people, he gave himself to earnest prayer for the influences of the Spirit. His own fervor was kindled, and he dwelt more prominently on the justifying righteousness of Christ. One sermon preached in Gallneukirchen pro- duced an excitement more extraordinary than ever. In that discourse having declared that there were few real Christians in the parish, some, who were offended by the statement, accused him at the tribunal of Coun- cillor Bertgen (1810). That magistrate, having, in the course of private conversation with Boos, been brought to a saving knowledge of the truth, threw his official protection over the pious preacher; and, although he died shortly after, another came to the aid of Boos in the person of professor Sailer (1811). But the excite- ment in the parish was not allayed till Boos preached a sermon on Trinity Sunday from Matt, xxviii, 18-20, in which he brought out such views of the reality and power of religion that multitudes came to him eagerly asking what they must do to be saved. Persecution again followed. He was, in 181G, confined in a con- vent; and, although his parishioners petitioned the emperor for his release, it was secretly determined that he should leave the Austrian dominions. After an exile of seventeen years he was permitted to return to his native Bavaria, prematurely gray with care and hardships. After residing for some time as tutor in a family of rank near Munich, he was appointed by the Prussian government professor at Dusseldorf, which, however, he soon resigned for the vicarage of Sayn, to which he was elected by the magistrates of Coblentz. Boos was engaged in the same work, and brought to it the same lion-like spirit as Luther, though he re- mained in the Church of Rome until his death, Aug. 29, 1825. See Jamieson, Religions Biography, p. 00; Gossner, Life and Persecution of Martin Boos (Loud. 1830, 12mo).