Lejbowicz. See Frank.
Lejuive, Paul, a French Jesuit missionary, was horn in 1592, entered the Jesuitical order, and labored in Canada for seventeen vears. He returned to France in
1 G.02, and died Aug. 7. 1GG4. He published a descriptive work on Canada and its native tribes (7 vols., 1640). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. xxx, 518.
Leland, Aaron, a Baptist minister, sixth in de- scent from Henry Leland, the Puritan ancestor of all the Lelands in America, but in a different line from his more noted contemporary, Kev. John Leland, was bom in Hol- liston, Mass., Jlay 28, 1761. Of a naturally vigorous and inquisitive mind, he grew up with a larger measure of intelligence than his limited means of early culture would have indicated as jirobable. He united in 1785 with the Baptist Cliurch in BelUngham, by which Church he was Ucensed to preach, and subsequently or" dained. He soon after removed to Chester, Vt., where he gathered a small Church, which in thirteen years had become five— in Chester, Andover, Grafton, Weth- ersfield, and Cavendish. From Chester he visited Ja- maica, in the same county, guided through the wilder- ness by marked trees : these visits resulted in the for- mation of several churches in that vicinity. He was ♦ not only an active and successful minister, but had im- portant civil trusts committed to him by the suffrages of his fellow-citizens. He sat in the state Legislature several years; three years he was speaker of the House; four years a member of the council; five years succes- sively lieutenant governor; and nothing Ijut his own conviction of its incompatibilitj- with the duties of his higher calling prevented his election to the governor- ship of the state. He refused to permit any civil en- gagements to hinder his usefulness and success as a Christian minister, and he continued to fidfil his calUng with great energj', zeal, and success, until worn out with toD. He died August 25, 1833. He was a popular and effective preacher. His commanding form and counte- nance; his musical and sonorous voice; his ready and fervid, often impassioned utterance; his vigorous intel- lect and great tenderness of spirit, gave him unusual power over congregations. He was often sought as an orator on public occasions, and called to give counsel in ecclesiastical questions. His zeal was enlisted in the temperance cause, insisting on total abstinence from in- toxicating beverages, and in promoting ministerial edu- cation and all liberal culture. He was in the board of fellows of Middlebury College from the year 1800 till his death. (L. E. S.)
Leland, John (1), a celebrated English divine, was born at Wigan, Lancashire, Oct. 18, 1691, and was educated at the University in Dublin. In 1716 he be- came pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Dublin. He afterwards distinguished himself in a series of works in which he defended with great eloquence the Christian religion against the attacks of Atheists and Deists. As an acknowledgment of his services, the University of Aberdeen gave him the title of D.D. He died Jan. 16, 1766. His important works are. Defence of Christianity (Dublin, 1733, 2 vols. 8vo, and often; intended as an an- swer to Tindal's Christianity .as old as the Creation, Dub- lin, 1773, 2 vols. 8vo) : — The divine Authority of the Old and New Testament asserted, tcith a particular Indication of the Characters of Moses and the Prophets, and Jesus Christ and his Apostles, against the unjust Aspeisions and false Reasoning of a Book entitled " The Moral Phi- losopher" (Lond. 1739, 8vo) : — View of the principal De- istical Writei-s in England in the last and present Century (ibid. 17.54, 2 vols. 8vo), and two supplements. A new edition, with Appendix, by W. L. Brown, D.D., was pub- lished in 1798 (2 vols. 8vo). The best edition is the fifth, which has a valuable Introduction, comprising a succinct view of the subsequent history of the contro- versy, by Cyrus E. Edmonds (London, 1837, 8vo ). He who can read this work and yet remain an unbeliever in Christianity must be hopelessly obtuse or perversely prejudiced : — Advantage and Necessity of Christian Rev- elation (London, 1764, 2 vols. 4to). After his death, his Sermons ^\•ere published in 4 volumes 8vo by Dr. Isaac Weld, with the Life of Dr. Leland. See the last work,
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aiul Brit ink Biog. vol. x ; Alliboue, Diet, of British and A iiiericdii A iitJiora, vol. ii, s. v.