Biblical LiteratU)-e, s. v. ; Griitz, Gesch. der Jnden, xi, 131 sq.
Lowell, Charles, D.D., a Unitarian Congregation- al minister of note, son of judge John Lowell, to whom Massachusetts is indebted for the clause in her Consti- tution which abolished slavery, was born in Boston Aug. 15, 1782, and was educated first at Andover Academy, and later at Harvard College, class of 1800. After grad- uation he went abroad, and travelled extensively in the Old World. At Edinburgh he entered the divinity school of the university, and spent there three semes- ters. On his return home he studied theology with Rev. Dr. Zedekiah Sanger, of South Bridgewater, and Rev. David Tappan, professor of divinitj' at Cambridge, and was ordained pastor over the West Church, in Bos- ton, Jan. 1, 1806. In 1837 his feeble health demanded relief, and the Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol was ordained as his colleague. Dr. Lowell continued his pastoral con- nection until his death (at Cambridge, January 20, 1861), although he officiated but occasionally. He was remarkable for kindness, integrity, directness and sim- plicity of character, and was a most zealous and con- sistent opponent of slavery. As a preacher his popu- larity was eminent, and he was almost adored by his parishioners. Graceful as an orator, with a voice of un- common sweetness, he preached with such an ardor and sincerity that he seemed to his hearers to be almost di- vinely inspired. He published some twenty different discourses, a volume of Occasional Sermons (Bost. 1856, 12mo), and a volume of Practiced Sermons (1856) : — Meditations for the Afflicted, Side, and Dying; and De- votional Exercises for Communicants. He also contrib- uted largely to the periodical literature of his day. Among his surviving children are Prof. Lowell, the poet ; the Rev. Robert Lowell, author of " The New Priest in Conception Bay," a novel of Newfoundland life ; and Mrs. Putnam, the well-known writer on Hungarian his- tory. See Christian Examiner, 1870, p. 389 ; Thomas, Diet, of Biog. and Mythol. s. v. ; Drake, Diet. Am. Biog. s. V. ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A m. A uthois, s. v.
Lowell, John, an American philanthropist, de- serves our notice as the founder (in 1839) of "the Low- ell Institute," at an expense of §250.000, to maintain forever in Boston, his native place, annual courses of free lectures on natural and revealed religion, the natu- ral sciences, pliilology, belles-lettres, and art. INIr. Low- ell was born iMay 11, 1799, and was entered student at Harvard in 1813; but was compelled already, in 1815, by poor health, to seek relief by residence in tlic East. He died at Bombay March 4, 1836. He was a suiierior scholar, and possessed one of the best private liljraries in America. See Kew A merican Cyclop, s. v.
Lovrer Parts of the Earth ("/"iX nTinpi), properly ralhys (Isa. xhv, 23); hence, by extension, Sheol, or the under-world, as the place of departed spir- its (Psa. Ixiii, 9 ; Eph. iv, 9), and by meton. any hidden place, as the womb (Psa. cxxxix, 15). In the original of Ezek. xxvi, 20; xxxii, 18, 24, the words are trans- posed, and used in the second sense.
Low^isohii, Sai-omox, a Jewish writer of note, and reall}' the first Jew who chronicled the liistory of his people in the German tongue, was born at iSioor, Hun- gary, in 1789, and was truly a self-made man. Amid the greatest difficulties he acquired an education, and particularly a thorough knowledge of the Hebrew. Possessed of great poetical talent, he wrote rj:"^B:a "I'nVir'', a sort of .4 rs Poeticn (Vienna, 1816). The first work in which a Jew applied Clio's pencil to the historj' of the chosen people of God, in a German version, was Lowisohn's Voiiesungen iiber die neuere Geschichte der .Fuden (Vienna, 1820. 8vo). which starts with their dis- persion, and dwells at length on the Talmud and its au- thors. Unt'ortunatoly, however, the young man so well endowed to do this work, so auspiciously began, was brought to an early grave by disappointment in love.
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He died of broken heart, in his native place, in 1822. See Griitz, Gesck. d. Jiiden, xi, 453 sq. ; Oriental. Lihi-a- tuM. 1840, col. 10 ; Bdh El. 185G, p. 72 sq. (J. H. W.)
Lowman, Abraham, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Indiana County, Pa., in 1835; made an early profession of faith, and joined the Associate Re- formed Congregation at Jacksonville, Pa. ; entered the Theological Seminary of the First Associate Reformed Synod (class of 1857) ; was licensed by the Presbytery of Westmoreland, and in 1858 received and accepted a call from the Associate Reformed congregation at Brook- ville, Pa., but while preparing to enter upon the active duties of this charge he suddenly died, Nov. 27, 1858. See \\'ilson, Pnsb. Hist. A Im. 1800, p. 159. (J. L. S.)
Lowman, Moses, a learned English dissenting divine, was born in London in 1G80, and was educated at INIiddle Temple, and subsequently at Leyden and Utrecht. In 1710 he became minister of a Presbyte- rian congregation at Claphara, Surrey, where he labored until his death in 1752. He was eminently skilled in Jewish antiquities, and is the author of a learned work on the Civil Government of the Ilebretvs (London, 1740, 1745, 1816, 8vo) ; of a Paraphrase and Notes of Revela- tion (1737,1745, 4to; 1791, 1807, 8vo), of which work Doddridge remarked that he had "received more satis- faction from it, in regard to many difficulties in that book, than he ever found elsewhere, or expected to have found at all:" — Arcjument from Prophecy in proof that Jesus is the Messiah (London, 1733, 8vo), which Dr. Leland calls "a valuable book;" and Rationale of the Ritual of Hebrew Worship (1748, 181G, 8vo). See Prof. Diss. Mag. vol. i and ii ; Allibone, Diet, of British and American Authors, s. v.