Conversations on the Divine Government, showing that everything is from God and for good to all. He died on the 3d of November, 1808. Besides copious bio- graphical notices of Lindsey, which were published in the Monthly Repository and Monthly Magazine of Dec, 1808, the Kev. Thomas Belsham published, in 1812, a thick octavo volume of Memoirs, in which he gives a full analysis of Lindsey's works and extracts from his correspondence, together with a complete list of his pub- lications. Two volumes of his sermons were printed shortly after his death. See Engl. Cyclop, s. v. ; Robert Hall, in his Works (Uth ed. 1853), iv, 188 sq.; London Quarterly Revieiv, viii, 422 sq.
Lindsley, James Harvey, a Baptist preacher, was born in North Branford, Connecticut, May 5, 1787. Brought to consider his spiritual condition through a severe illness, he sought and found pardon in December, 1810. Shortly after he began a course of study with, the view of entering the ministry, and graduated at Yale College in 1817. For a number of years his health was so poor as to forbid his preaching, and he was en- gaged in teaching. He introduced into the Baptist de- nomination the religious meetings styled "Conference of the Churches," and was chairman of the first two. His first regular preaching was in Stratford, in a store hired by himself in 1831, and in the same year he re- ceived a regular license to preach. For five jxars he ' had charge of the churches in Milford and Strat field. In 1836 his health became impaired. He ceased preach- ing, and for a part of the j^ear assisted in the C(jmpila- tion of the Baptist Select Hymns. He died Dec. 29, 1843. Mr. Lindsley was a ready writer, and a large contribu- tor to several of the periodicals of the day. His articles took a wide range, including politics, religion, moral re- form, literature, and especially natural science. — Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, vol. yi.
Lindsley, Philip, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was bom near Morristown, N. J., Dec. 21, 1780, and grad- uated in the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1804. After teaching for some time, and completing his tlieo- logical coiu-se, he was licensed in 1810, and went to Newtown, L. I., where he preached as a stated supply. In 1812 he became senior tutor in Princeton College, and in 1813 was appointed to the professorship of lan- guages, and chosen secretary of the board of trustees. To these offices were added those of librarian and inspect- or of the college, and in 1817, when he was ordained, that of vice-president. In 1824 he agreed to go to Nashville, solely induced thereto by the new and wide field of ex- ertion which lay before him there. He continued more than a quarter of a century at Nashville, and his repu- tation as a teacher was so high in the South and AVest that it was said that everj' university in those regions had solicited him to accept its headship. He was twice invited to preside over Dickinson College, in Pennsyl- vania, and was actually elected provost of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1834. From this period he was successively nioilerator of the General Assemblj^ of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, member of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries at Copenha- gen, professor of ecclesiastical polity and Biblical archae- ology in the New Albany Seminary (Indiana), 1850. He removed from New Albany in April, 1853. and returned to Nashville, where he died in May, 1855. Dr. Linds- ley's works have been published entire, with an intro- ductorj' notice of his life and labors by Leroy J. Halsey (Philadel. 1865, 3 vols. 8vo). Their contents are as fol- lows: vol. i. Educational Discourses ; vol. ii. Sermons and Religious Discourses; vol. iii. Miscellaneous Dis- courses and Essays. — Sprague, Annals, iv, 465.
Liudwood. See Lindewood.
Line (rejiresented by the following terms in the original: ^Sn, che'bel, a measuring-lint, 2 Sam. viii, 2; Amos vii, 17; hence & jwrtion as divided out by a line, Psa. xvi, 6; elsewhere "cord," "portion," etc. Ip or 1 P, kav, a measuring-line, Isa. xxxiv, 17 ; Ezek. xlvii.
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3 ; either for construction, Job xxxviii, 5 ; Isa. xliv, 13 ; Jcr. xxxi, 39 ; Zecli. i, 16, or for destruction, 2 Kings xxi, 13; Lam. ii, 8; Isa. xxxiv^, 11; metaph., a rule or norm, Isa. xxviii, 17, 10, 13 ; like the Gr. Kaviov, 2 Cor. X, 13, 15, 16 ; Gal. vi, 16 ; Phil, iii, 16 ; also the rim, e. g. of a layer, 1 Kings vii, 23 ; 2 Chron. iv, 2 ; or string of a musical instrument, put for sound, q. d. accord, Psa. xix, 4; where Sept. 6 (pSruyyog, and so Rom. x, 18,Vulg. so- VHX ; once, strength, Isa. xviii, 2, where " a nation meted out" should be rendered a most mvjhtii nation : in three of the above passages, 1 Kings vii, 23 ; Jer. xxxi, 39 ; Zcch. i, 16, the text reads t\'\^_, Ice'veh, of the same im- port; and in Josh, ii, 18, 21, occurs WpO, tikvah', a cord, from the same root. Other terms less proper are : kJW, chut, a thread, for measuring a circumference, 1 Kings vii, 15; "fillets," Jer. Iii, 21 ; elsewhere generally a " thread." bitnQ, pathil', a cord, for measuring length, Ezek. xl,3; elsewhere a "thread," "lace," etc., especially the string for suspending the signet-ring in the bosom, rendered "bracelets" in Gen. xxxviii, 18, 25. ^')V., se'red, the awl or stylus with which an artist graves the sketch of a figure in outline, to be afterwards sculptured in full, Isa. xliv, 13). There can be little doubt that the Hebrews acquired the art of measuring land from the ancient Egyptians, with whom it was early preva- lent ("Wilkinson's Anc. Egypt, ii, 256). In Josh, xviii, 9 we read, " And the men went out and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh." These circumstances clearly indicate that a survey of the whole country was made, and the results entered carefully in a book (see Kitto's Dailg Bible Illust. ad loc). This appears to be the earliest example of a top- ographical srn-vey on record, and it proves that there must have been some knowledge of mensuration among the Hebrews, as is moreover evinced by the other topo- graphical details in the book of Joshua.