Hindus, IModerx, a term recently used to desig- nate a class of Hindu reformers, who call themselves Brahmists, and represent a school of thought Avhich originated fifty or sixty ago with Rammohun Roy, who imdertook to reform Hinduism on the basis of the Veda alone, the religion of which he held to be a pure theism. In 1846 they became dissatisfied with the Veda, and adopted Intuitionalism. They have planted societies throughout Bengal, Jladras, the North-west Provinces, the Punjab, and Bombay. They ignore idol worship, caste, metempsychosis, and all Brahminical ceremonies. The Tuttu Bodheney Press, of Calcutta, has issued a great number of their publications (see Dr. Duff, in Christian Work for 1862; Foreifpi Missions, by Dr. Anderson). See Ram.mohux Roy. '(J. T. G.)
Hindustan. See India.
Hinge ("i"'^, tsir, that upon which a door revolves, Prov. xxvi, 14 ; also the jmnffs of childbirth, Isa. xiii, 8, etc.; also a mcssenr/cr, Prov. xiii, 17, etc.; r'^. path, lit, an interstice, put, for jnukiuki muliebra, Isa, iii, 17 ; fig.
female kinr/es, i, e, the eyes or parts with sockets, I Kings vii, 50), " Doors in the East turn rather on piv- ots tlian what we term hinges. They were sometimes of metal, but generally of the same material as the door itself, and worked in sockets above and below in the door-frame. As the weight of the door rests on the lower pivot, it opens with much less ease than one mov- ing on hinges, particularly when the lower socket be- comes worn by the weight and friction," — Pict. Bible, note on Prov, xxvi, 14, '• In Syria, and especially the
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Hauran, there are many ancient doors consisting of stone slabs with pivots carved out of the same piece, in- serted in sockets above and below, and fixed durhig the building of the house. The allusion in Prov. xxvi. 14 is thus clearly explained. The hinges mentioned in 1 Kings vii, 50, were probably of the Egyptian kind, at- tached to the upper and lower sides of the door (Buck- ingham, .1 rab Tribes, p, 177 ; Porter, Damascus, ii, 22, 192; Maundrell, Early Travels, p, 447, 448 fBohnl; Shaw, Traveh,\).2V); Lord Lindsay, Le??e?-*,p, 292; Wil- kinson, Anc. Er/ypt. abridgm, i, 15)." — Smith, s. v. See Door, ^
Hinman, Clark F,, D,D,, a IMcthodist Episcopal minister, >vas born at Kortright, Delaware Co., X, Y., Aug. 3, 1819. He graduated at the Wesleyan University in 1839, and spent several years in teaching, at one time as principal of Newbury Seminary, Yt. In 1849 he was elected principal of the AVesle\-an Seminary at Albion, Michigan, and early in 1853 president of the North- western University. In this position he devoted his whole energy to the work of putting that institution on a proper footing, and his labors in its behalf exhausted his strength and broke his constitution completely. Yet he refused to suspend his exertions until a pending list of engagements Avas fidlilled, and while thus employed he was prostrated at Troy, N, Y,, and died on the 21st of October, 1854, Dr. Hinman distinguished himself in every relation of life, from boyhood to his death, by ca- pacity, energv, and piety. He was a good scholar, an earnest and eloquent preacher, and a verj- successful ed- ucator of youth. His early death was a great loss to the cause of Christian education in America.— Sprague, Annals of the A merican Pulpit, vii, 817.
Hin'nom (Ileb. Ilinnoni', Q:t7, for t.jT\, gracious, or for Cb'^ln, abundant), or, rather, Ben-Hinnom (ri!7""|?, son ofHinnom; Sept, v'loq 'Ev»'()/< ; also in the plur. '-sons of Hinnom"), an unknown person (prob. one of the orig- inal Jebusites), whose name (perh. as resident) was given to the valley ("Yalley of Hinnom," otherwise called •'the valley of the son" or "children of Hinnom," "".3 dbn, or "n-'^^'^h or "n— 'Ja-^J, variously rendered by the Sept. (pdpay^ 'Erro/', or vioij 'Erw//, or Vauvva, Josh, xviii, 16; iv yij Bsvivi^of^t, 2 Chron. xxviii, 3; xxxiii, 6; -6 —oXvdvcoiov v'luJv ruiv TtKvwv avrHiv,
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