Harbaugh, Hexry, a prominent minister and writer of the German Keformed Church in the United States, was bom Oct. 28, 1817, near Waynesborough, Pa. He was descended from a German family, whose name was Her- bach, and which had come to this coimtry in 173G from Switzerland. His father was an elder in the German Reformed Church at Waynesborough. In early youth he manifested a desire to study for the ministrj', but his father was miwilluig to allow him to do so. He there- fore found employment first with a carjDenter, and sub- sequently with a mill-owner. After a time he became teacher in a primary school. The money saved in these positions enabled him to enter in 1840 JIarshaU College, i\Iercersbiu-g, which was at that time imder the direc- tion of Dr.Nevin. Both the students' societies of Sler- cersburg College desired to have him a member. " We have many praying members," the Goetheans represent- ed to him ; " the others have no religion." For Har- baugh this was a reason to join the other society, that they might have one to do the praying for them. His financial means did not allow him to finish his course in the college and the Theological Seminary. He spent two years in the former and one in the latter, and, hay- ing passed his examination, became in 1843 pastor of the congregation in Lewisburg. In 1850 he accepted a call from the congregation in Lancaster, which he left again in 18G0 for Lebanon. In 1863 he was elected by the Sjniod professor of theology in the Seminary of INIer- cersburg, in the place of Prof. B. C. Wolff. In this posi- tion he remained until his death, which occurred Dec. 28, 1867. Harbaugh was an indefatigable worker, and it was overexertion that brought on the disease of the brain by which he was carried off. The loss of his wife and a child in 1847 directed his thoughts to a special consideration of the state after death, and thus called for his works on Heaven, or the Sainted Bead:— The Heavenly Home:— The Heavenly Recognition: — Future Life (3 vols.). Besides these, he WTOte The Golden Cen- ser, a collection of "hymns and chants" for Sabbath- schools:—^ ChihVs Catechism:— The Glory of Woman: —a volume of Poems :— Union xcith the Church : — Youth in Earnest— Life of Th. D. Fischer :— and a Life of Mi- chael Schlatter, one of the founders of the German Re- formed Church in America in the last century. His most important work is the one on The Fathers oj the (•erman Reformed Church in America (2 vols.). At the time of his death he was editor of the Mercershurg Re- view, and also a regular contributor to the columns of the Reformed Church Messenger, which latter relation he sustained diu-ing the last six years. He was like- wise the originator of the Guardian, and its editor for seventeen years, to the close of 1866, during four of which it was published under the direction of the Board of Pubhcation of the (ierman Reformed Church. In addition to this, he furnished the reading matter for the several almanacs published by this board, and edited the Child's Treasury for the first year and a half after it came under the direct control of the Church Board. Dr. Harbaugh also contributed a number of biograph- ical articles to this Cyclopaedia. AVhile, for the works thus far mentioned, he used the Enghsh language, he is also the author of several excellent poems in the Ger- man-Pennsylvanian dialect. In fact, the poems of Har- liauijjh belong among the best that have ever been writ- ten iu this dialect. In liis theological views Harbaugh
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was one of tlie foremost represcntati\Ts of the school ■which cmiihasizes the efficiency of the .sacraments, and the ])riestly character of the ministry. In tlie Order of Worship of tlie Cierman Kefonned Church, which was puhlislied in 18GG, the hiirial service was from the pen ofHarbaugh. (A.J.S.)
Harbo'na (lleb. Charbona', N3i3"i)l, prob. Pers. for ass-driver ; Sept, 'Oapt/Swd v. r. Qappd), one of the seven eunuchs of king Ahasuerus or Xerxes, command- ed by him to exhibit the beauty of Vashti (Esth. i, 10). He was probably the same with tlie one called IIarbo- NAU (Heb. Charbona/i,' il313'iri, id.; Sept. changes to Bovyo^a')'), who suggested to the king the idea of hang- ing llaraau on his own gallows (chap, vii, 9). B.C. 483- 473.
Harbo'nah (Esth. vii, 9). See Harbona.
Hardenberg, Albrecht, an eminent divine, was born at Hardenberg, in Overvssel, 1510. While study- ing- thciilogy at Louvain, he imbibed the rcl'ormed the- oliigy, and became a friend and ft)llower of Melancthon, who sent him to Cologne. The disturbances there tlrovc him to Oklenburg, where, and in Knyphausen, he la- bored mitil his death in 1574. He is noted in Church History for his attempt, in 165G, to introduce into the re- public of Bremen Calvin's doctrine respecting the Lord's Supper. For the controversy to which this gave rise, see Ilerzog, Beal-Enq/klopddie, s. v. ; also Mosheim, C/i. Hist. cent, xvi, sec. iii, pt. ii, ch. ii ; Planck, Hist. Prot. Theol. vol. V.
Hardenberg, Jacobus R., D.D., an eminent min- ister of the IJefonned (Dutch) Church in America, was born at Rosendale, N. Y., in 1737. His early opportu- nities of education M-ere limited, but by persevering in- dustry he became a very creditable scholar. He was ordained by the "Coetus" in 1757. and in the long strife between that party and the '• Conferenties"' in the Dutch Church, he sided with the former. His talents and rep- utation gave him great influence in the final settlement of these disjuites. In 1758 he became pastor of the church at Earitan, N. J. Queen's College (now Eut- gers') obtained its charter in 1770. It languished during the Revolution, but was resuscitated, with Dr. Harden- berg at its head as president, in 178G. He died Oct. 30, 1790. — Sprague, Annals, ix, 28. See Rei-ormed (Dutch) Church.