Strange as must ever ajipear the fanatical excesses of Ann Lee, and her willingness to lead men to acts of depravity, to blasphemous religious pretensions, it must be conceded that she was certainly a wonderful woman. Deprived of all the advantages of education, she never- theless, by the power of a will wholly unyielding and a mind of no commfin order, succeeded in establishing a religious sect, liy which, at present consisting of more than four thousand people, some of them of marked in- telligence and superior talents, possessing, in the aggre- gate, wealth to the amount of more than ten millions of dollars, she is considered as the very Christ — standing in the Church as God himself, and at whose triijunal the world is to be judged. Over this society her influ- ence is spoken of as complete. Her word was a law from which there was no appeal. Obedience then, as now, was the one lesson that a Shaker was retpiired to learn perfectly — an obedience unquestioned and entire; and all this when the very foundation upon which they rested their faith, namely, her dii-ine mission, was no- toriously antagonized by a life accused, and nut without some show of truthfidncss, as openly and shamefully impure. See II. P. Andrews in the Ladies' Repository, 18,58, p. 046 scj. ; ]Marsdcn (Rev. J. B.), Hist, of Christian Churches and Sects, ii, 320 sq. ; Galaxy, 1872 (Jan. and April), See Shakkus.
Lee, Charles, a Presbyterian minister, w.as born near Flemingsburg, Ky,, May 12, 1818; was converted when about twenty years of age, and, though hitherto a farmer by employment, he decided at once upon the ministry-, entered the college at Hanover, Ind., and, after graduating in 1853, studied theology with the president
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of his alma mater. Ho was licensed by the Presbytery of Madison in 1855, and became pastor at Graham, Ind. He died May 27, 18(53. "With fair talents, and yet amid many discouragements both in himself and from without, he was still not only a faithfid, but a successful pastor of the chiu-ches committed to his care. God gave him the witness of approval in the conversion of many under his ministry." — Wilson, Presb. Hist, Alniu- Kfff,"l8G4,p. IGO.
Lee, Cliauncey, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born at Salisbur}', Conn., 1763 ; graduated at Yale College in 1784; entered the ministry June 3, 1789; and was ordained pastor in Sunderland, Vt., Blarch 18, 1790, where he remained a few years, and in Jan., 1800, be- came pastor in Colebrook, Conn. This connection he dissolved in 1827, to become pastor at Marlborough, Conn., Nov. 18, 1828, which place he held untQ Jan. 11. 1837. He died in Hartwick, N. Y., Dec, 1842. Lee published the A merican A ccomptant : an A rithmetic (1797) : — The Trial of Virtue : a metrical Version of the Book of Job (1807) : — Se7-mons especiull// desir/nedfor Tlevivals (12mo, 1824): — Letters f-om Aristarchus to Philemon (1833); and two or three occasional sermons. — Sprague, A nnals, ii, 288.
Lee, Edward, an English prelate, was born in Kent in 1482; was educated at Oxford and Cambridge; be- came chaplain of Henry VHI, and was finally employed by him in several diplomatic missions. In 1529 he was sent to PJome to negotiate for the divorce of the king, and in 1531 was appointed archbishop of York. He opposed the Eeform doctrines of Luther, but favored the innovations which Henry VIII made in the Church. Lee died in 1544. He wrote, Apologia adversus qiio- runidam calumnias (Louvain, 1520) : — Epistola nuncu- jmtoria ad Des. Erasmiun (Louvain, 1520): — Annota- tionum Libri duo in annotationes Novi Testamenti Erasmi (Biile, 1520): — Ej)istola apologetica qua respondet D. Erasmi Epistolis. — AUibone, Diet, ef Biit. and A m. A u- thors, vol. ii, s. v.
Lee, Jason, a Methodist Episcopal minister, pioneer missionary to Oregon, was born at Stanstead, Lower Can- ada, in 1803 ; labored with the Wcsleyan missionaries there until 1833 ; joined the New England Conference in that year, and was ordained missionary to Oregon. Here he labored nobly, buried two wives, and in 1844 returned to New York to raise funds for the Oregon In- stitute, for which he was made agent bj' the New Eng- land Conference, but he died at his birthplace, March 12, 1845. His loss was a blow to the mission, but it is his glorious monument for two worlds. — Minutes of Con- ferences, iii, 617. (G. L. T.)
Lee, Jesse, one of the most eminent preachers in the early history of the American Methodist Church, and recognised as the founder of IMethodism in New England, was born in Prince (ieorge's County, Virginia, March 12, 1758. He received a fair education, was dil- igently instructed in the Prayer-book and Catechism, and early acquired skill in vocal music, which served him in all his subsequent labors. His early life was moral. " I believe I never did anything in my youth that the people generally call wicked," is the record in his journal. His father was led to a more serious mode of life than prevailed generally in that community chictly by the intluence of Mr. Jarratt, an Episcopal clergyman. Jesse's parents, however, finally, in 1773, joined the Methodist Society then formed under Rob- ert Williams, one of Wesley's preachers, the promoter of Methodism in those parts. In this very year Jesse ex- perienced in a marked manner the sense of pardoned sin, and continued to benefit by the powerful revival influ- ences which for some years prevailed in the neighbor- hood. In 1776 he experienced a state of grace which he calletl "perfect love." "At length I could say, 'I have nothing but the love of Christ in my heart,'" is his record. In 1777 he removed from his home into the bounds of Roanoke Circuit, North Carolina, where the v.— X