opened the door to them (Acts, xii, 18 ; comp. libs, xiv, 614). (See Stuck, Aniiq^ commv. p. 249 ; Sapdr Dejanuis vett. Jen. 1694, ch. 16 ; also Eisner, OlieiT. : 411 sq., in Graevii T^csatrr. vi.) Princes, hownr had guards at the palace gates (1 Kings xiv, 27)l TV windows 0*^^?)» ^^ account of the street dnst, gvK- ally face the court-yard (Schubert, iii, 291X al^^ anciently this rule does not appear to have so cxsea- sively prevailed (Judg. v, 28 ; Prov. vii, 6); thervee closed by a lattice (Judg. v, 28). The moat interiK, « back rooms of all, were devoted to the apedal ocn- pancy of the female memben of the hooMhold, » k still universally the case in the East, under the ue '* harem,** and no male dares intrude within tbdi pr^ cincts (Chardin, vi, 6 sq. ; Hartmann, Htbr. ii, 399 fq. : Hoffmann in the HaU. Encydop. ii, 1, p. 896 sq.). TIk more distinguished Hebrews early had separate fins- mer and winter residences (^^^^Sn T'^a and r*I Cl'nhil, Amos iii, 16 ; Jer. xxxvi, 22 ; comp. Jodg. E 20; see Harmer, i, 200; Prosp. Alp. Med. .£gg^ l^ Niebuhr, TVav. ii, 894). The latter were wanDcd {d which they had the more need, as glass window? nt unknown in the East) by means of a fire-pot (HX, Jer. xxxvi, 82), which is merely a vessel €»f burnt drr (Niebuhr, Buolr. p. 66) placed in a round hole ia tb< middle of the room, over which, when the fire is bsn( down, the inmates place a four-cornered ftaaw, aac next a carpet over this, and then gather aroond to «• joy the warmth (Tavemier, i, 276 ; Niebuhr, Tnm, i 164 ; ii, 894). The furniture of the rooms (3 Kings ir. 10) consisted of a sofk or couch (H^p, compare £zet xxiii,41; ^"^^fAmos vi,4; compare Josephus, J vf. XV, 9, 8), which luxury was often adorned gorgeoolj (Amos vi, 4 ; Cant, vii, 16), and furnished with piQovi (Ezek. xiii, 10) ; and besides this, only chairs (Xe2),i table Onbd), and lanterns or lamp-stands (^ Kiap iv, 10). See all the above parts and articles in their alphabetical order. Compare House. The hou9e4qnroty described in Lev. xir, 88-67 wis
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corrosion of the saltpetre fband in the lime used as ortar and the limestone nsed for building (see Mi- laelis, Mo9. Btckt^ iv, 264 sq. ; Mishna, Negam, xii), id is still common in walls in Egypt (7olney, Tnw. 55). — ^Winer, i, 466. See Lbpbost.
D'wight, Holden, a minister of the Methodist piscopal Church, was bom in Thompson, Conn., ng. 28, 1810, was converted in 1828, studied in Dud- y Academy, Mass., in the Wesleyan Academy at 'ilbraham, and graduated in the Wesleyan Universi- at Middletown in 1885. After this he taught in ■ademies of the South and in Louisiana College, and as some time agent for Macon Female College, Ga., itil 1841, when he removed to Korwalk, O,, and was ■incipal of the seminary there, and of the Baldwin istitnte at Berea till his death in 1847. Mr. Dwight as a man of strong mind and generous feeling, a lorough classical and general scholar, and an emi- mtly snccessftil teacher. As a preacher he was dig- ified, forcible, and convincing. — Minutes of Confer- uxs, iv, 169.
"Dvrigbt, "Lovda, a Congregational minister, was >m at Stockbridge, Mass., March 25, 1798, and grad- ated at Yale College in 1818. He studied theology t Andover, bnt, fearing that his feeble health would nfit him for the pastorate, he accepted in 1819 an gency of the American Tract Society. In 1828 he ecame agent of the American Education Society. In 324, his health failing seriously, he undertook a long oumey on horseback, and combined with this pursuit f health a mission of mercy in supplying Bibles to tritonen in the various jails. He visited for this urpose the prisons of New; York, Philadelphia, Balti- lore, Washington, and as far south as South Carolina, hi his return to Boston in 1825, his reports of his mis- ton gave rise to the American Prison Discipline So- iety, of which he was the first secretary, in which ervice he remained for thirty years. For years he reached the Gospel to the insane poor at South Bos- 9n. He died July 12, 1854 ; and the epitaph on his omb snms up his labors in the phrases **a bene£eu^r f man ; a fHend to the prisoner ; a reformer of pris- ns ; a preacher of the GrospeL" — Sprague, Arm, ii, 17.
Dwight, Sereno Edwards, D.D., an eminent Congregational minister, was bom at Greenfield, Conn., lay 18, 1786. He graduated at Yale College in 1808, nd in 1806 was chosen tutor, in which post he con- inued until 1810, when, having completed his law tudies, he entered upon practice at the bar. He en- ered the ministry in October, 1816, and was elected haplain of the United States Senate. On Sept. 8, 817, he was installed pastor of Park-street Church, Boston, where he remained until his resignation, April 0, 1826. In 1833 he was elected to the presidency f Hamilton College, and entered upon the office in VuguBt, and resigned hi 1835. In 1838 he moved to !^ew York. He died in Philadelphia, Nov. 80, 1860. i>r. Dwight published Memoirt of David Brcdnard 1822) :— ^» Addrest on the Greek RevciuHon (1824) :— Vhf Death of Christ : the Sitbgtcnce of several Sermons kKvered at Park-street Church (1826) i—The Life of President Edwards, accompanying a new edition of Edwards's works (1880): — 7%e Hebrew Wife (1886); ind a few occasional sermons. His discourses were ;>ublished in a volume with memoir in 1851 by W. T. [>wight— Sprague, Annals, ii, 629.