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Kendal, Samuel, a Congregational minister, was born at Sherburne, Mass., July 11, 17r>3, of humble par- entage. Young Kendal labored hard to secure for him- self the advantages of a thorough education, with a view to entering the ministry. When about ready to go to college the Kevolution broke out, and he entered the army. He finally went to Cambridge University when 25 years old, and graduated in 1782; studied theology under the sliadow of the same institution, and settled over the Congregational Church at Weston, IMass., as an ordained pastor, Nov. 5, 1783. In 180(5 Yale College conferred the degree of D.D. on Mr. Kendal. He died Feb. 15, 1814. He published many of his Sei-mons (from 17n3-1813). Dr. Kendal "stood high among the clergy of his day, and was ... an acceptable preacher." Of his religious opinions, Dr. James Kendal says (in Sprague, AmuiLijViih 180), '• he was classed with those who are denominated ' liberal,' and was probably an Arian, though I think he was little disposed either to converse or to preach on controversial subjects."
Kendal], George (1),D.D., an English Calvinis- tic divine, who flourished abou't the middle of the 17th century, was prebend of Exeter and rector of Blisland, Cornwall, at the Kestoration, whgn, on account of non- conformity, he was ejected. He died in 1(563. He is noted as tlie author of an able treatise on the Calvinistic faith, entitled Vindication of (he Doctrine of Pi-edestina- tion (Lond. 1653, fol.). Another noted work is his reply to John Goodwin, Defence of the Doctrine of the Perse- verance of the Saints (1054, fol.). See Allibone, i^iW. of A mcr. and Enf. A utluns, ii, s. v.
Kendall, George (2), a Methodist minister, was born about the year 1815, was converted at the age of 16, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1845 he joined the Southern Church. He was licensed to preach about 1858, and upon the reorganization of the IMcthod- ist Episcopal Church in Georgia after the war, he was amoiig the first to return to the Northern Church. He was ordained deacon by bishop Clark at jMurfreesbor- ongh, Tenn., and continued to labor as a missionary among his people until the organization of this Confer- ence, when he was received on trial and appointed to Clayton Circuit. In 1808 he was ajipointed to Clark Chapel, Atlanta, and in 1860 and 1870 to White Water Circuit. He died there April 12, 1871. His dying words, " The gates are open and I must go," give assurance that he passed away as one of the fathers, after a useful and happy life, to the rest that remaineth to the people of God. — Minnies of Conferences, 1871, p. 278.
Kendall, John, a prominent Quaker, was born in Colchester, England, in 1726; entered the ministrj' when 21 years old, and in 1750 accompanied Daniel Stanton on a religious visit through the northern parts of Eng- land. He was active in the work for over sixty years, and encouraged many " to the exercise both of civil and religious duties." He died Jan. 27, 1815. — Janney, Hist, of the Friends, iv, 44 sq.
Kendrick, Bennett, an early Methodist Episco- pal minister, was a native of Mecklenburg Co.,Va. ; en- tered the itinerancy in 1789; was stationed at Wilming- ton in 1802; at Charleston in 1803-4; at Columbia in 1805 ; presiding elder on Camden District in 1807, and died April 5 of that year. The date of his birth is nqt given, but he died j^oung. He was a man of much gravity, piety, and intelligence, and was a studious and skilful preacher of the AVord. His ministry was very useful, and his early death was a loss to his Conference and tlie Church. — Min. of Conferences, i, 150. ((i. L.T.)
Kendrick, Clark, a Baptist minister, was born in Hanover, N. 11., Oct. 6, 1775. After teaching school for a time, he finally turned his attention to preaching, and became pastor of the Baptist Church at Poultney, Vt., where he was ordained, May 20, 1802. He had in 1810 been appointed a delegate to the Vermont Association, of which he remained a member all his life. He also made several missionary tours, aside from his regular
pastoral duties. Mr. Kendrick had early interested him- self in the subject of foreign missions, and when, in 1813. the Baptist General Convention for the Promotion of Missions was established, he immediately advocated an auxiliary in his own state, and it was forpied. He was elected first vice-president, and in 1817 became its corresponding secretary, which office he held until his death. In 1819 he received the honorary degree of M.A. from tlie Middlebury College. He was chiefly in- strumental in forming the Baptist Education Society of the State of Vermont, of which he was chosen presi- dent, and afterwards appointed agent. In this connec- tion he co-operated witli tlie Baptists of Central and Western New York for the benefit of IMadison Univers- ity, Hamilton. He died Feb. 29, 1824. Mr. Kendrick published a pamphlet entitled Plain Dealinrj with the Pc- do-Bu]3tists, etc., and some occasional Sennons. — Sprague, Annals, vi, 379.
Kendrick, Nathaniel, D.D., a Baptist minister of note, was born in Hanover, N. II., April 22, 1777. His early education was limited, and he was at first en- gaged in agricidtural pursuits. Having joined the Bap- tist Church in 1798, he felt called to preach, and, after studying with that view, was licensed in the fpring of 1803. He supplied for about a year the Baptist socictj- in Bellingham,Mass. ; was ordained pastor of the church at Lansingburgh, N. Y., in Aug., 1805; and from thence removed in 1810 to Middlebury, Vt. In 1817 he became pastor of the churches of Eaton, N. Y., and in 1822 he was elected professor of theology and moral ]ihiIosophy in Madison University, N. Y., with which institution he remained connected until his death, Sept. 11. 1848. In 1823 he was made D.D. by Brown University, and in 1825 one of the overseers of Hamilton College. Dr. Kendrick published two or three occasional Sermons. See Sprague, yl ?i«a&, vi, 482 ; A.^\Ae.tan, American Cy- clopcedia, x, 185.