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lion (Shaw, TVov. 152 sq.)* Compare the description in Job xviU, 8 sq. Tliey do not appear to have had hunting dogs (yet comp. Joeeph. Ant. iv, 8, 9), and it is doubtful if in hunting birds they used trained fal- cons or other species of birds (iElian, Anim, viii, 24), although hawlLS (Hannar, iii, 79), like hounds (Odgsi, xix, 438 ; Strabo, v, 216 ; Philostr. Icon, i, 28 ; Polyb. xxxi, 22 ; Curt ix, 1, 81 ; Plin. viii, 61 ; Becker, Char- icks, i, 889) were anciently, and still are universally common in the East (Shaw, Travels, p. 300 ; Kampfer, Amaen, p. 131). On the £g3rptian monuments hunting scenes are frequently represented (Wilkinson, i, 212 sq.). Hunting became an aristocratic sport (Meurs. ad Lycopkr, 499) at least in later periods of Jewish history (Josephus, AnJt. xv, 7, 7 ; xvi, 10, 8 ; see also Philo, ii, 856; comp. Heindorf on Horace, Sat. ii, 2, 9). Instances occur in which men of strength overcame wild animals even without weapons (Judg. xiv, 6 ; 1 Sam. xvii, 86). (See J«hn*s BM. Archaol. § 52.)- Winer, i, 580. See Nimbod.
The instruments and modes of the chase are some- times used figuratively, to indicate the wiles of an ad- versary, great danger, or impending destruction (Psa. ix, 16 ; Ivii, 6 ; xci, 8 ; xciv, 13 ; cxix, 86 ; Prov. xxvi, 27; Isa. xxiv, 17; xlii, 22; Jer. v, 26; vi, 21; xvi, 16 ; xviii, 22 ; xlviii, 44 ; Amos iii, 5 ; Hos. xiii, 14 ; Luke xxi, 86 ; Bom. xi, 9 ; 1 Cor. xv, 65). See Hukt- mo.
Chase, Abner, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was bom in Stonington, Conn., Dec. 11, 1784, and died in Penn Yan, N. Y., April 27, 1864. At the age of 19 he was converted, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. When 22 years of age he was licensed to exhort, and soon after received li- cense to preach. He continued as an exhorter and local preacher about six years, laboring very success- fully in winning souls to Christ. In 1810 he was ad- mitted on trial in the N. Y. Conference, and appointed to the Delaware (^rcuit. The next year, at Ms own request, he was transferred to the Genesee Conference, in whose ranks he remained, part of the time as super- annuated, until his death. Very few men have served the Church more fkithfully, acceptably, and usefully. —Minutes qfCo^f, v, 419 ; Sprague, Annals, vii, 497.
Chafle, Hexuy, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was bom in Hoosick, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1790. His father being unable to send him to a clas- sical school, he began, unaided, in youth a course of study whicli ended only with his life, and which in- cluded Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and German, besides general literature and theology. In 1809 he entered the Methodist ministry, and served in several laborious circuits until 1820, when he removed to New York, and became a teacher in the Wesleyan Seminary. In 1828 he devoted himself to the service of the sea- men of New York, and contmued, with short interrap- tions, to be pastor of '^The Mariners* Church*' until his death, July 8, 1858. He was greatly beloved and esteemed both by his own flock and by the general public— Sprague, Annals, vii, 478.
Chase, Philander, D.D., a bishop of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church, was bom at Cornish, N. H., Dec. 14th, 1776, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1796. After ordination, he was occupied for about a year and a half as a missionary in the State of New York, extending his services to Utica, Auburn, Canan- daigua, and other places. In 1799 he accepted the charge of the Protestant Episcopal churches at Pough- keepsie and Fishkill. He was next appointed to Christ Church, New Orleans, but retumeid to New England in 1811 to become rector of Christ Church, Hartford, "where he labored with great assiduity, ac- ceptance, and success.*' His thoughts, however, were directed to the " Great West," and in 1817 he journey- ed thither, preaching as he advanced. In May, 1817, he presided at the first meeting of the parishioners of
Christ Church, Qndnnati, and became rector at Worth- ington, Columbns, and Delaware, and accepted also the charge of an academy. In 1819 he was elected I bishop of Ohio; in 1821 he became President of (S&- cinnati College. Desiring to supply the West with an efficient ministxy, he visited England, and received large contributions for education. Aboot 1826 be en- gaged in the foundation of Kenyon College and the Theological Seminary of Ohio. This assiduity and energy were, however, ill rewarded, for "a stand was taken by the professors of Kenyon College as to the extent of his powers over the institution of which he was the originator; and on the same day, in Scptaia- ber, 1881, with his usual magnanhnity, he resigned his offices of president and bishop of Ohio." Being now in search of temporary repose, he selected as his resi- dence a place in Illinois, which he named **The Val- ley of Peace ;" engaged here, and on the St. Joseph, Michigan, in missionary labors, and planning for hhn- self a wide circle of visitation, which '* invaded no man's diocese, parish, or labors." In 1836 he was elected bishop of Hlinois, and used similar expedient* for the interests of his diocese as those which he had before adopted for Ohio. He again visited England, and collected nearly $10,000 for this purpose. In 18S8 he laid the foundation of Jubilee CoUege, and shortly after visited Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina, where he received liberal contributions. His colleges were subsequently better endowed, and his own circumstances rendered easy, if not comfortaUe; and thus, towards his latter end, *<tbe smiles of Providence beamed on his broad philanthropy and in- domitable perseverance." He died Sept. 20th, 1852. His published works are : A Plea for the West (1826) ; The Star in the West, <^ Kengon CoUege (1828); De- fence of Kenton CoUege, Ohio (1881); JReminueemees : An A utchiograpkg, comprising a History of the principal Events in the Author's Ltfe to 1847 (1848, 2 vols. 8vo). —Sprague, Annals, v, 468 ; Bp. Chase's Ramimscemcet, an Autobiography to A,D. 1847 (2 vols. 8vo, Boston, 1848).