IT. HmsTEBiAij Call is an invitation on the part of a congregation to a preacher to become their settled pastor. See Installation.
Callenbere;, JoHANN Hbinbioh, was bom Jan- aaiy 12, 1694, in Saxe-Gotha. He studied at Halle, giving special attention to the Oriental languages, to which he was originally led by becoming a member of the CUkgkm Orieniak Thttiogicumy which was es- UUiahed at Halle in 1702. He had for special tuibr Sohmon Iffegri, a learned Orientalist horn Damascus. He was appdnted proftssor (eadraordJ) of philosophy in 1727, and profiMsor (ordrn.) of theolo^^ in 1789. He became deeply interested in Protestant misdons to the East, especially among the Jews and Mohanune- dans. In 1728 he organized a school for the education of misBionariee; and he afterward established, at his own expense, a printing-ofice for the pubUcation of works in German, Arabic, and Hebrew for the fkir- theraaoe of the missionary cause. His students went oat over Europe as miasionaries to the Jews, and some oftbemevento Ada and Afirica. He printed in Ara- bic portions of the O. T., the whole of the N. T., Lu- ther's Shorter CatedkieMy the ImUaium ofJetiu Ckriet (wmewhat curtaUed); portions of Grotius on the Truth «f^ CkritHam Bel^Um, the RfOmmUe of the Arable l^nauage^ and other works for the use of misdonaries in & East With a view to the conversion of the Jewi, he wrote a Kurae AnleUwiffmarJilduck-TeuUdkem Spnieke (Short Introduction to the Speech of the Ger- man Jews, 8vo, 1788X to which he added in 1786 a abort dictionary of the corrupt Hebrew spoken among themadves by the Jews of Germany. In 1728-^ he ^hlUbbd BeridUe vom ememVernKh doi JQditekeVolk vtrErkemtmndea CkriaOieken anaJeiten (8 vols. 8vo) ; ia 1738, De Oomoermtme Mukammedanonm ad Ckndum ^fttka imUaiaque (12mo). He continued writing, tnnlating, and printing a variety of works useftd for the idsHoiiAries tni his death, which occurred at Halle, ^18,1760. The mere list of his puUioatfens would fiQ a colunm, but they are not of sufident scientific ^dae to retjidre enameration here. But the name of II.— C
Callenberg deserves always to be cherished in the Christian Church as Ihat of one of the founders of Protestant misdons, and of a devoted and self-sacri- ficing laborer in that cause. — Doering, Die Gelehrtem Tkeologen DeuUekUmdi, i, 221 sq. ; Hoefsr, NouveauBi- ogrc^Me GMrale^vil, 202; Ersch und Gruber, AVpe- meine Emcjfdopddie^ s. v.
Callender, Elisha, minister of the first Baptist church in Boston, was the son of Ellis CaUender, who ofldated as pastor of the First Baptist church in Bos- ton for many years, dying about 1726, at about eighty years of age. The son, Elisha, was bom in Boston, and graduated as bachelor of arts at Harvard CoUege in 1710. He was baptized and admitted to churdi membership August 10, 1718, and was ordained as a Baptist mixdster May 21, 1718, and Drs. Increase and Cotton Mather and Mr. Webb, though of a different denomination, g^ve thefar assistance. It is said that Thomas HoUis (a Baptist) was so impressed by this catholic procedure when he heard of it in England, that he made his weU-known benefactions to Harvard College in consequence. Mr. CaUender abounded in labors not Only hi Boston, but throughout the com- monwealth, till his death, March 81, 1788. He was the first American Baptist minister who had recdved a college education.— -Sprague, Afmah, vi, 84 ; Allen, Biographical Diet, s. v.
CaUender, John, an eminent Baptist minister, nephew of Elisba Callender, was bom about 1706, and graduated at Harvard College in 1728. He was or- dained colleague with Mr. Peckham as pastor of the church at Newport, Oct. 18, 1781. Here he labored usefully for seventeen years, and died Jan. 26, 1748. He collected many« papers relating to the history of the Baptists in this country, which were used by Back- us. He published a Historical Discourse on Bhode Isl- and and Providence PlantcUions (1789) ; also a Sermon at the Ordination of Jeremiah C<mdy (1789) ; and a Ser- mon on the Death qf Mr, Clap, of Newport (1746).— — Sprague, 'iiimd^, vi, 87 ; Allen, BUograpkioaJL Diction- ary, s. V.
Calling (Kkffoic, vocatio\ a term used in theology to designate the divine invitation to man to share in the gift of salvation. See Calu
CallirrhdS (KoXXifS^, beautifid streamy, the name given to certain warm springs on the eastern side of the Jordan, not far from, and flowing into, the Dead Sea, to which Herod the Great res(Hrted during his last illness, by the advice of his physicians (Josephns, Ant, xvii, 6, 6). The same are probably meant by the jfe- mim' (■*f»!?, Antii. Vers. ** mules'*) of Gen. xviii, 24. See Ahah. Pliny (v, 16) also describes them (" caU- dns fons medic« tduMtatis*') as possessing medichul properties (Rdand, Pakest, p. 802, 678). In May, 1818, these springs were visited by Irby and Mangles. Of the valley of CaUirrhod they sxy (Traeels, p. 467-469) : "The whole bottom is fiUed, and in a manner choked up, with a crowded thicket of canes and aspens of dif- ferent species, intermixed with the palm, which is also seen cidng in tufts in the recesses of the mountain's side in every place whence the springs issue. In one place a condderable stream of hot water is seen precip- itating itself tnm a high and perpendicular shelf of rock, which is strongly tinted with the brilliant yellow of sulphur deposited up<Mi it. On reaching the bottom, we found oursdves at what may be termed a hot river, so copious and rapid is it, and its heat so Uttie abated. For some way the temperature is kept up by the con- stant supplies ci water that flow into tiie river. In or- der to visit these sources in succession, we crossed over to the right bank, and, ascending by the mountain dde, we passed four abundant springs, aU within the dis- tance of half a mile, discharging themselves into the stream at ri^t angles with its course. We judged the distance from the Dead Sea, by the ravine, to be about one hour and a half. Maclean says there was a city