(ill. viilthe eulogy which he might be thought to have
carelessly thrown out in the pages of a review : "Bun- yan is as decidedly the first of allegorists a- Demi --
thenes is the first of orators, or Shak.-peare the firsl of dramatists. Other allegorists have shown great inge- nuity, but no other allegorist has ever been able mi to
touch the heart, ami to make abstractions objects of terror, of pity, and of love." There are many lives of Bunyan. Besides Southey's. see Philip's If and
Tin/is <>f Bunyan I Lond. 1839, 8vo); Eng. Cyclcpcedia; Cheever, Lectures on Pilgrim's Progress; North Amer. Rev. xxxvi, 449; Christian Renew, iv, 594 ; dfeth. Qu. Review, ix, 466; Lond. Quart. Review, xliii,469; Pres- !»,/ rimi Quarterly, Jan. 1862, art. ■}.
Burch, Robert, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Tyrone county, Ireland, about 1777. and emigrated t < • America with his brother Thomas while very young. lb' entered the itinerant ministry in the Baltimore Conference in 1804; from 1811 to 1815 he was presiding elder on Carlisle District, and in 1816 was transferred t'i the Philadelphia Conference, and stationed in Philadelphia, While in the Baltimore Conference he was repeatedly stationed in that city.
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nnd was for some time the travelling companion of Bishop Asbury. After filling the most important ap- pointments in the Philadelphia Conference, he was set off with the new Genesee Conference, where he filled the principal districts and stations until 1837, when he took the superannuated relation. He died at Canan- daigua, X. Y. , duly. 1855. He Mas a man of command- ing powers and devoted piety, and one of the most la- borious and efficient pioneers of American Methodism. —Minutes of Conferences, v, 594.
Burch, Thomas, one of the earlier Methodist preachers in America, was lorn in Tyrone county, Ire- land, August 30, 1778. In 1801 he was awakened and converted under the preaching of Gideon Ouseley, the great Irish missionary. In 1803 lie emigrated to the United States, and about a year after was licensed to preach, and in 1805 was admitted en trial in the Phil- adelphia Conference. He regularly graduated in the office of deacon and elder, and soon became eminent as a preacher. lie was elected a member of the first del- egated Ceneral Conference of 1812, held in New York, lie was afterward stationed in Montreal, Lower Cana- da, and continued there, occasionally visiting Quebec, during the war with Great Britain. At the close of the war he returned to the United States, and contin- ued in the itinerant ranks, filling some of the most im- portant appointments, until disease prevented him from laboring efficiently, when, in 1835, he took a supernu- merary relation in the New York Conference. In this relation he continued until 1840, when he resumed his efficient service, but was able to continue in it only four vears, when he was again returned supernumerary. Mr. Burch died suddenly Aug. 22, 1849.— Minutes of Conferences, iv, 444 ; Sprague, Annals, vii, 421.
Burchard (Burchardus), St., first bishop of Wi'irtzburg (Hcrbipulis), in Franconia, was born in England, and about 732, together with Lullus, went over from England to assist Bonifacius, archbishop of Mayence, upon his invitation to labor for the conver- sion of the Germans. He was sent to Borne by Pepin, king of France, to plead his cause before the pope ; and, in consequence of his success, Pepin gave him the new see of Wiirtzburg, in Franconia, where St. Kilian had preached about fifty 3rears previously. Having at the expiration of ten years entirely exhausted his strength by his labors, he resigned his see in 752, and retired to Hoy m burg, on the Mayne, where he died shortly after. He was afterward canonized, and is celebrated in the Romish Church on the 14th of Octo- ber.— Butler, Lives of Saints, Oct. 14 ; Baillet, Vies dis s lints, < )ct. 10.
Burckhardt, John Lewis, an enterprising Afri- can traveller, is mentioned here because of the value of his travels to Biblical geography. The following account is taken from Chambers s F.ncyrlopwdia. He was horn at Lausanne, in Switzerland, Nov. 24,1784. In 180G he eame to London, and was introduced by- Sir Joseph Banks to the African Association, which accepted bis services to explore the route of Horne- ni ami into the interior of Africa, and he embarked for Malta, Feb. 11, 1*09. He had previously qualified himself for tic undertaking by a study of Arabic, and also by inuring himself to hunger, thirst, and expos- are. From Malta he proceeded, under the disguise of an Oriental dross and name, to Aleppo, where he studied about two years, at the end of which time he had become so proficient in the vulgar Arabic that he could safely travel in the disguise of an Oriental mer- chant. He visited Palmyra, Damascus, Lebanon, and other remarkable places, and then went to Cairo, his object being io proceed from thence to Fezzan, and
then across the Sahara to Sudan. No Opportunity of- fering itself at the time for that journey, lie went into Nubia. No European traveller had before passed the l>err. In 1814 he travelled through the Nubian des- ert to the shore of the lied Sea and to Jcddah, whence
he proceeded to Mecca, to study Islamism at its source. After staying four months in Mecca, he departed on a pilgrimage to Mount Arafat. So completely had he acquired the language and ideas of his fellow-pilgrims that, when some doubt arose respecting his Moham- medan orthodox}', he was thoroughly examined in the Koran, and was not only accepted as a true believer, but also highly commended as a great Moslem scholar. In 1815 he returned to Cairo, and in the following year ascended Mount Sinai. The Fezzan caravan, for which he had waited so long, was at last about to depart, and Burckhardt had made all his preparations for accom- panying it, when he was seized with dysentery at Cai- ro, which terminated his life in a few days, Oct. 15, 1817, at the early age of 33. As a holy sheik, he was interred with all funereal honors by the Turks in the Moslem burial-ground. His collection of Oriental MSS., in 350 volumes, was left to the University of Cambridge. His journals of travel, remarkable alike for their interest and evident truthfulness, were pub- lished by the African Association. Burckhardt was a man born to be a traveller and discoverer ; his inher- ent love of adventure was accompanied by an observ- ant power of the highest order. His personal charac- ter recommended him to all with whom he came in contact, and his loss was greatly deplored, not only in England, but in Europe. His works are : Travels in Nubia, 1819 : — Travels in Syria and the Holy Land, 1822 : — Travels in Arabia, 1829 : — Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabis, 1830 : — and Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, 1830.