Searle, Jeremiah, a (Dutch) Reformed minister, was born at Atkinson, N. II., in 179.5. He Avas educated in part at Bowdoin College, Me., and graduated at Union College, N. Y., in 1820. He studied theology with Dr. Andrew Yates, and was licensed by the Congregational Association of Vermont in 1823. His ministerial life was si)ent in the following Reformed churches: Rotter- dam, N. Y.. 1823-2.5; Coxsackie, 1825-51; Keyport, N. J., 1851-53; Fallsburgh, N. Y., 18,53-61. He was a man of great sweetness of spirit, amiable and beloved ; a minister and a workman who needed not to be ashamed ; studious, careful in preparation, practical and experi- mental in preaching; solemn, and yet cheerful, in man- ner; catholic in his sentiments, yet tirm in the faith. He was president of the General Synod in 1850. He died in 1861. His ministry was marked by truly missionary lal)ors, and crowned with two notable revivals of religion. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church. (W. J. R. T.)
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Searle, Moses C, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Bytield, Mass., Sept. 17, 1797. He grailuated at the C'llk-ye of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1821, and at the Theoloj^ical Seminary in that place in 1824; was licensed by the New Brunswick Presbytery, and, going East, began his labors in (iraf'ton, Mass., being ordained by New bury port Presbytery in 1826 as pastor of the Con- gregational Church, (irafton. He subsequently labored in New Hartford, N. Y.; Dorset, Yt.; Haverhill, N. H. ; Bradford, and Bytield, Mass., where he died, Dec. 10,
1865. Mr. Searle was a man of deep piety and affec- tionate disposition, an excellent pastor and good preach- er. See Wilson, Presb. Bisf. Almanac, 1868, p. 226. (J. L. S.)
Searles, Isaac, a minister of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, was born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 30, 1816, removed to Ohio at an early age, and professed conver- sion in his seventeenth year. He was received on trial into the Kock Kiver Conference, Aug. 25, 18-11 ; ordained deacon in 1843, and elder in 1845. In 1848 the Wiscon- sin Conference was formed, and Mr. Searles became one of its members. He was superannuated for a short time, but became effective in 1852; superannuated in
1866, and active in 1867. His last appointment was Brandon, Wis., where he died, Dec. 8, 1870. See Min- ules (if A null al Conferences, 1871, p. 273.
Sears, Allen, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in New York State in 1806, received on trial in the Kentucky Conference in 1838, appointed to Tay- lorsville Circuit as junior preacher, and continued to travel within the bounds of that conference for seven years successively. In 1845 he was transferred to the Indiana Conference, and appointed to Vincennes Station ; in 1846, to Spencer Circuit. He died Dec. 4, 1846. He was a man of very strong faith, deep piety, a truly evangelical preacher, and a good pastor. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, iv, 185.
Sears, Clinton W., a minister of the IMethodist Episcopal Church, was born in Chautauqua County, N. 1'.. April 27, 1819. He was educated al Yale College and Middletown Wesleyan Universit}'. He was a mem- ber of the Cincinnati Conference, and had occupied sev- eral responsible stations, when, in 1862, he was appointed chaplain of the Ninety-lifthKegimentofOhio Volunteers. He was seized while in service with the camp dysentery, and returned to his home, Jidy 15, 1863, and died Aug. 25, 1863. iMr. Sears was a good scholar, an able preach- er, and a faithful pastor. See Minutes of Annual Con- ferences, 1863, p. 148.
Season (properly r?, a fixed time; KaipoQ, often rendered " time" in general, and not specific of a portion of the year). The general division of the year bv the Hebrews was into two seasons, "Summer and Winter" (Psa. Ixiv, 17; Zech. xiv, 8); but they appear also to have conveniently divided the year into six special sea- sons: "seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter" ((Jen. i, 14; viii, 22). The same division olitains among many Oriental nations, as the Hindus and Arabians, at this day. According to this division of the seasons in Palestine, they would seem to have been ilistributed in the following order: Summer, from the middle of August to the middle of October; Seed-time, from the middle of October to the middle of December; Winter, from the middle of December to the middle of February; Cold, from the middle of February to the middle of April; Heat, (mm the midille of April to the middle of August. See Aghicui.tuke.
Seasons, Canonical. See Festivals.
Seat (usually some form of SUJ'^, yashdb, to sit; Kci^fCpa). Tiiere is no mention made of chairs in the Old Test., but seats of various kinds are named. (1.) X33, kissih (from rtOS kasuh, to cover, also oc- curring twice. Job xxvi, 9^1 Kings x, 19, in the form nS3), is a throne, a royal throne, as in Deut. xvii, 18;
2 Sam. viii, 13, or the elevated seat of the high -priest, 1 Sam. i, 9 ; iv, 13, but is sometimes applied to a seat in general, though usuallj' with some honorary distinction, as 1 Sam. ii, 8; Isa. xxii, 23. See Throne. (2.) 2'JT3, moshdb (from S'^J^, yashdh, to sit), means any seat, as
1 Sam. XX, 18, 25; Job xxix, 7, hence the site of a city,