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is the equivalent for ~ii£Il, an inclosed or fortified space (Gesenius, Thesuur. p. 512), in many places in the O. T. where the Vulg. and A. Vers, have respectively villa or viculus, "village," or atrium, "court," chiefly of the tab- emacle or Temple. Sec Coiirr. The hall or court of a house or palace would probabh' be an inclosed but lui- covered space, impluvium, on a lower level than the apartments of the lowest floor Avhich looked into it. — Smith, s. V. See House.
Hall, Charles, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born at Williamsport, Pa., June 23, 1799, and graduated at Hamilton College in 1824 with great distinction. He passed his theological studies at Princeton, was li- censed in 1827, and ajipointed soon after assistant sec- retarj- to the Home Missionary Society. In 1852 he went to Europe for his health, visited most of that con- tinent, and returned after a short absence to his accus- tomed duties. He died Oct. 31, 1853. He edited for several years The I.'oine Missionary ; and published .1 Tract on Plans and Mativi s for the E.rtension of Sub- bath Schools (1828) -.— The Daili/ Verse Expositor (1832) : — ^4 Plan for systematic Benevolence ; and .4 Sermon on the Woi-ld's Conversion (1841). — Sprague, .1 nneds, iv, 730.
Hall, Gordon, a Congregational minister and missionary to India. He -was bom in Granville (now Tolland), Mass., April 8, 1781, and graduated from \\'il- liams College in 1808 with the first honors of his class. At college he had formed the acquaintance of Samuel J. Mills and James Richards, afterwards missionaries. He commenced the study of theology mider Ebenezer Porter, afterwards president of Andover Theological Seminary, was licensed to preach in 1809, and supplied for a time a church at Woodl>ury. But from the time of his acquaintance with ISIills it seems he had purposed to become a missionarj-. In 1810 he went to Andover, was ordained at Salem Feb. G, 1812, and sailed on the 18th from Philadelphia with Xott and Rice, arriving in Calcutta on the 17th of June. The East India Com- pany refused them the jirivilf ge of laboring or remain- ing in its territory, and Messrs. Hall and Nott embarked for Bombay, where they arrived Feb. 1 1, 1813. Orders from the governor general followed, commanding them to be sent to England ; but by the courage and ^visdom of jNlr. Hall's memorials, the governor was influenced to repeal his order, and Mr. Hall remained. He laliored zealously and with great success until March 20, 1«2G, when he was suddenly cut off by cholera. i\lr. Hall possessed fine abilities, ardent piety, great courage and self-sacrifice. His indomitable spirit, and the ability of his ajipeals to the governor general, did much to open the way for the success of Christianity in hulia.— A mer^ ican Missionary Memorial, p. 41. (G. L. T.)
Hall, Joseph, D.D., bishop of Norwich, was bom at Ashby-de-la-Zouch July 1, 1574, and educated at Emanuei College, Cambridge. While rector of Halstcd,
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In Suffolk, he composed his " Contemplations,''' which pro- ciiml him the patroiiajrc of prince Henry and the rec- tory of Wahham. In IGIG lie went to Paris as chap- lain to the En-,'lish ambassador. On his return he was appointed by kini; James to the deanery of Worcester (1G17), and'in the followinj,' year he accompanied his royal master into Scotland, when that monarch made a pr"oi,'ress into the northern part of his kingdom to prose- cute his imprudent scheme of erecting Episcopacy on the ruins of Presbyterianism. None of the unpopular- ity, however, of that measure fell upon Hall, whose char- acter ^nd principles secured him the esteem and respect of the most eminent Scotclimen of the day. He was commanded to go over into Holland to attend the Synod of Dort in IGIS; but tiie protracted meetings of that convocation made sad inroads on his health, and alter two months he rcturneil with an impaired constitution to England. In 1G27 he was raised to the see of Exe- ter, and afterwards, without any solicitation, to that of Norwich in 1G41. Amid all the ecclesiastical tyranny of Laud, bishop Hall preserved his moderation. The bisliop, however, had his season of trial. When the popular outcry "No bishops" was raised, and an armed mol) marched against the House of Lords, Hall, with eleven of the lords spiritual, joined in protesting against the measiures which were passed in their absence ; and this document having been made a ground of impeach- ment, he, with his protesting brethren, were consigned to the Tower. He was released in June following on giving bail for £5000. He continued for a year to ex- ercise his episcopal functions in Norwich ; but the pop- ular tide again set in, his house was attacked, his prop- erty sequestrated, himself insulted, aJid in meek resigna- tion he retired into a small place called Higham, in Norfolk, where he sjient the remaind:r of his days in acts of piety and charity, and at length died Sept. 8, ]G5G, in the eighty-second year of his age. Bishop Hall was a "man of very devotional habits, to fortify v.iiich h3 mide a most rigid distribution of his time, lia\ing sol hours for prayer, for reading divinity, for general literature and composition; and so intense was his ardor In the pursuit of intellectual and spiritual i ",- provcment, that for a time he observed the strictest ab- stemiousness, taking for a while only one meal a day." For his depth of thought and elegance of language he has been called "the Christian Seneca." His writings consist, besides the "Contemplations," of sermons, po- lemical and i)ractical tliecilogy, and correspondence; the best edition is W'orh, villi sinm account of his life and vrilimjg (edited by Peter llall,( (xford, is?,?, 12 vols.fivo). Jlany editions of the CoiiidiipliiHiii,^ have appeared. See Hughes. /,;/;' of Jii.<lwp 1 1 nil; Hook, /safe. Bioq- raph'i, V, .')14 ; Hicii, Cyclop, of Bioyraphii, s. v. ; Jamie- son, U,4i!/ions Bio;pap/ii/, y,. 2-15; Wordsworth, A'cc/es, Jiidf/niplii/, iv, 255.