Rogation Sunday, the Sunday immediately pre- ceding Rogation days (q. v.).
Rogation Week, the next week but one before Whit-Sunday. See Rogation Days.
Rogda, in Slavic mythology, was a Russian hero who slew the serpent's son Tugarin of Bulgaria, in- vincible to anj' person born of a woman. Tugarin in- tended to challenge the prince Vladimir to mortal com- bat because he had married Lepa, daughter of the king of the Bulgarians, against her father's will, and Lepa made known the secret of Tugarin's invulnerability to her husband. Rogda, who had been taken from his mother's womb by means of an incision made after her death, went forth and successfully encountered the gi- ant.—VoUmer, Wurterh. d. Mythol. s. v.
Rogel. See En-rogkl.
Ro'gelim (Heb. Rogelim', Q"'?5'1, treaders, i. e. fulkr.i; Sept. 'PioytWifi), a place in Gilead, the resi- dence of Barzillai (2 Sam. xvii, 27 ; xix, 31). It is pos- sibly the present Ajlihi, the principal village of Jebel Ajlun, on a wady of the same name, between Jerash and ed-Dcir (Jabesh-Gilead).
Roger OF Hexham, See RiciiAun.
Roger OF Hoveden, an English historian and pro- fessor of theology, was born in Yorkshire, and lived be- yond 1204, but the exact periods of his birth and death are not known. He is said to have been employed by Henry II in confidential services, such as visiting mon- asteries. He was by profession a lawyer, but was in the Church, and also a professor of theology at Oxford. After Henry's death he applied himself diligently to the writing of history, and composed annals from 731, where Bede left off, to 1202, the third year of king John. These annals were first published by Saville among the Histo- riciAnr/Uci{lbQ!); reprinted, Frankfort, l(i01,f(il.). Yos- sius says that he wrote also a history of the Northum- brian kings and a life of Thomas a Becket. See Chal- mers, Bioff. Diet. s. V. " Hoveden."
Roger OF WENnovicH, an ancient English historian, of whom little is known, embraced the monastic life in the Abbey of St. Alban's, and died May 6, 1237. He published Ro(jeri de Weudorcr Chronica, xive Floi-es Ilistoriarum (formerly ascribed to Matthew Paris), translated from the Latin by ,1. A. (liles (Lond. 1849, 2 vols. 8vo). See Allibone, ]>ict. of Brit, and A mer. Au- thors, s. V. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bihlioy. s. v.
Roger, Abraham, a Protestant minister, who em- barked for the East Indies about 1640, and was pastor at the Dutch factorv, Palicat, on the Coromandel coast, for ten years. He die<l about 1G70. From the inter- course he had with the Brahmins he has given a valu- al)lc account of their religion and customs — La Vraije Repri'miiiation di- la licliyioii dr.s Jirainiiics (Amherst, 1670, 4to). See Darling, Ci/rlop. Bihliofj. s. v.
Rogereens, so called from John L'ogers, their chief leader. They aiipeared in New England about 1G77.
The principal distinguishing tenet of this denomination was, that worship performed the first day of the week was a species of idolatrj' which they ought to oppose. In consequence of this they used a variety of measures to disturb those who were assembled for public worship on the Lord's day. — Buck, Theol. Diet. s. v.
Rogers, Daniel, a Puritan divine, was born in 1573, and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he was chosen fellow. He became minister of Haversham, Buckinghamshire, and afterwards of Weathersfield, Essex. His death took place in 1652. His publications are : David's Cost (Lond. 1619, 8vo) : — Practical Catechism (ibid. 1633, 4to; 1640): — Baptism and the LorcVs Supper (3d ed. ibid. 1635, 4to; again, 1636): — Matrimonial Honor (ibid. 1642, 4to): — Xaaman the Syrian (lectures on 2 Kings v, 9-15) (ibid. 1642- 50, fol.) : — Prediction concerning King Charles I and A rchbishop Laud (ibid. 1692). See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bihli- og. s. v.
Rogers, Elymas P., a Presbyterian minister, was born in jNIadison, Conn., Feb. 10, 181,5. Though reared in humble life, he had devoted Christian parents; they being poor, however, and unable to support their large family, when nine years of age he was sent to live with strangers, and, being the only colored boy in the neigh- borhood, was looked down upon by those who were prejudiced against his race. His meagre advantages for gaining an education were thereby lessened and his dithculties increased. He returned home in his fifteenth year, and labored with his father until he accepted a situation in the family of major Caldwell, of Hartford, Conn., who wanted a person who would work for his board and have an opportunity of going to school. In 1833 he became a communicant of the Talcott Street congregation in Hartford, Conn. Now he determined to study for the ministry, and in 1836 entered the Oneida Institute in Whitesborough, N.Y., where he remained five years, teaching for his support during the winter, and studying for the ministry during the other portions of the year, until he graduated in 1841. He immediately removed to Trenton, N. J., as principal of the public school for colored children, and there he continued the study of theology under the care of the late Rev. Dr. Eli F. Cooley and the Rev. Dr. John Hall. He was li- censed bj' New Brunswick Presbytery Feb. 7, 1844, and in 1845 was ordained and installed as pastor of the Witherspoon Street Church, Princeton, N. J. In 1846 he became pastor of the Plane Street Church, Newark, N. .J., where he continued to preach until Nov. 5, 1860, when he went to Africa, with the object of travelling in the interests of the African Civilization Society, and while engaged in this work, died at Cape Palmas, Jan. 20, 1861. Mr. Rogers was a man of fine gifts, and re- markable poetic talent. Dr. Maclean, ex-president of the College of New Jersey, says of him, "This truly good man ought to be held in respect by all who have any regard for simple and unaffected pietj*. My esti- mate of his character was a high one." He wrote a large number of temperance hymns and two poems, one. The Re])€al of the Missouri Compromise Considered ; the other, on The Fugitive- Slave Law. He published a ThanLigiving Sermon, and Dangers and Duties of Men of Business (Phila. 1835, 8vo). See AVilson, Presh. Uist. Almanac, 1862, p. 191. (J. L. S.)