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Modem Egyptian Wood-Sawyers.
the saw received in ancient times approximates it very ' nearly to the state in which we continue to use it. In the Antiquites d' Herculanum, i, pi. 100, there is an en- graving, after an ancient painting, which shows this in a very interesting manner. Beekmann {Inveniions, i, 366) has very accurately described it (see the cut): "Two genii (or winged Cupids) are represented at the end of a bench, which consists of a long table that rests upon two legs, like a stool." Montfaucon gives, from Gruter, representations of two kinds of saws: one of them is without a frame, but has a handle of a round form ; and tlie other has that high frame of wood which we see in the saws of our stone-sawyers. This reminds us to ol)serve that Beekmann, following Pliny, cannot tind an instance of cutting stone with saws earlier than the 4th century B.C.; overlooking the text 1 Kings vii, 9, where it is said that some parts of Solomon's palace were constructed with "costly stones, according to the measure of hewed stones, sawed with a saw." — Kitto, Picl. Did. ad loc. See Mechanic.
Sawa, in Arabic mythology, is a female deity, said to have been worshipped by the Arabs prior to the del- uge— a statement not to be reconciled with the fact that those people are descended from Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar. — Yollmer, Wdrterh.d. Mythol. s. v.
SaTwaku, in Caribbean mythology, is the man who first caused tire and lightnings. lie was very power- ful; but, in order to prevent pursuit, he transformed himself first into a bird, and then into a star. The lightnings are still occasioned by his blowing the celes- tial tire through a reed, so that it darts about to great distances. — Vollmer, WOrterh. d. Mythol. s. v.
SaTwamangala, in Hindu mythology (the highest hkssednesg'), is a surname of Purvati, the consort of Siva.
Sa'wryer. Cyrus, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Lower Canada Dec. 22, 1811, but the next year his parents removed to Western New York. He was converted in 1822, licensed to preach in 1837, and received into the Michigan Conference, which then em- braced Knox County, O., where he resided. The range of his itinerant labors was within the limits of the North Ohio Conference. He died at Delaware, <)., in January, 1848, Mr. Sawyer's life was one of great excellence
and moral beauty, and his ministry was emi- nentlv useful. See Miimtes of Conferences, iv, 266. " (J. L. S.)
Sa'wyer, Isaac, a Baptist minister, was born in Hoosick, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1770. He was left an orphan at the age of fourteen, and two years after bound himself out to a man who soon after removed to INIonkton, Vt., where there was little or no religious influence. He was con- verted in 1793, and became a Baptist, serving in the capacity of deacon until he began to preach. In 1797 the Church called upon him to "exercise his gift," but he delayed a long time, because of a sense of his own unfitness. On June 29, 1799, a council was called, and Jlr. Sawyer was or- dained. He tilled the following churches : Monk- ton, Vt., 1799-1812; Fairtield,"'Vt., March, 1812- 13; Orwell, Vt., 1813-17; Brandon, Vt., 1818-25; Bethel, Vt., 1825-28; Westport, N.Y., 1828-34; Knowlesville, N. Y., 1834; and was for a short time at Stockton, N. Y'., and Lewiston, N. Y. He died Sejjt. 30, 1847. He baptized during his ministry upwards of 1100 persons. He was the first president of the Vermont Baptist Conven- tion, and a friend of education and temperance. See Sprague, Annuls of the A mer. Pulpit, vi, 369.
Sawyer, James "W., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Pal- myra, Me., Sept. 16, 1838. He removed when a child to Portland, where he was converted at the age of fifteen years. He was licensed to preach April 19, 1862, and was received on trial in the Maine Conference in April, 1864. His ministerial life w!>.s short, terminating with death Dec. 23, 1869. Mr. Saw- yer was a deeply pious man, and a good preacher. — Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1870, p. 147.
Sa'wyer, John, D.D., an eminent Congregational minister, was born at Hebron, Conn., Oct. 9, 1755. In 1777 he entered the Revolutionary army, and, after serving for some years, entered Dartmouth College in 1781. He graduated in 1786, then devoted himself to theology, and commenced preaching within one year after leaving college. In October, 1787, he accepted a call to become pastor of the Church at Oxford, Coos County, N. H., on the condition of that Cluirch relin- quishing the practice of baptizing children on what was termed the half-way covenant (q. v.). He afterwards became successively pastor of a Church in Boothbay, Me., in 1796; of New Castle in 1806, in which latter place he commenced travelling in all directions as a home missionarj' ; of Bangor in 1812, where he acted both as preacher and as schoolmaster; and finally of Garland, where he remained until his death, Oct. 14,
1858. Religion was the supreme governing principle of his life, and for nearly eighty years he labored faith- fully in bringing souls to God. — Anier. Cong. Yeur-hook,
1859, p. 131.
Sa'wyer, Seymour B., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in North Carolina Dec. 8, 1808. He was converted Oct. 1, 1821, inider the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterians, to which body he attached himself. In 1827 he was licensed to preach among them; but, dissenting from some of their doctrines, he returned his license, and removed to Mississippi, where he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1830 was licensed as a local preaclicr. In 1832 he was ad- mitted on trial in the travelling connection, and sta- tioned in Montgomery. He filled with great accep- tability and usefulness many of the most important charges, until his death, which occurred Sept. 23, 1843. Mr. Sawyer was a man of mild and gentle disposition. As a pastor, he was specially diligent and afiectionate. His sermons were remarkable for their simplicity and spirituality. See Minutes of Coufei-eiKes, iii, 593.