2. The Sharon of 1 Chron. v, 16 is distinguished from the western plain by not having the article attached to its name. It is also apparent from the passage itself that it was some district on the east of Jordan in the neighborhood of Gilead and Bashan (see Bachicne, II, iii, 233). Reland objects to this {Palxcsf. p. 371), but on in- sufficient grounds. The expression "suburbs" Clip'ip) is in itself remarkable. 'I'he name has not been met with in that direction, and the only approach to an ex- planation of it is that of Prof. Stanley {Sinai and Pal. App. § 7), that Sharon may here be a synonym for the Mishor — a word, probably, derived from the same root, describing a region with some of the same characteris- tics and attached to the pastoral plains east of the Jor- dan.
3. Another Sharon is pointed out by Eusebius {iit sxp.') in North Palestine, between Tabor and the Sea of Tiberias ; and Diipke would understand this to be meant in Cant, ii, 1, because this book so often refers to the northern region of the Jordan. But this is very doubt- ful.
Sha'ronite (Heb. Sharoni', "^STnTT, a Gentile adj. from Sharon; Sept. ^apiortTi^g), the designation (1 Chron. xxvii, 29) of Shitrai, David's chief herdsman in the plain of Sharon, where he of course resided.
Sharp, Daniel, D.D., a Baptist preacher, was born at Iludderstield, Yorkshire, England, Dec. 25, 1783. He was the son of a Baptist preacher and received early re- ligious training. He originally joined an Independent Church , but subsequently, as the result of inquiry and conviction, became a Baptist. Engaged in a large com- mercial house in Yorkshire, he came to the United States as their agent, arriving in New York Oct. 4, 1805. He soon decided to enter the ministry, and be- gan his theological studies under Rev. Dr. Stoughton of Philadelphia. He was set apart as pastor of the Baptist Church at Newark, N. J., May 17, 1809; and was publicly recognised as pastor of the Third Church, Boston, April 20, 1812. He became an active member of the jMassachusetts Baptist Missionary Society; was for several years associate editor of the A merican Bap- tist Magazine ; and upon tlie formation of the " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in India," he, as its secretary, conducted the correspondence. For many years he was president of the acting board of the Gen- eral Convention of the Baptist denomination ; and in 1814 was one of the originators of an association which resulted in the Nortlicru Baptist Education Society. He was closely idcniilied with the origin of the Newton Theological Seminary, and was for eighteen years presi- dent of its board of trustees. In 1828 he was chosen a fellow of Brown University, and held the office till the close of his life. He received his degree of D.D. from Harvard l^niversity in 1828, of whose board of offi cers lie was appointed a memlier in ISlC. He died in Baltimore, June 23, 1852. j\Ir. Sharp published seven teen Sermons and Discourses (1824-52): — also Recof/ni- tion of Friends in Heaven (4 editions) : — and a Tribute of Respect to Mr. Ensign Lincoln (1832). See Sprague, Annals of the Artier. Pulpit, vi, 5G5.
Sharp, David, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was born in Ncav Jersey Sept. 5, 1787, and removed with his parents to Virginia, and in 1800 to
Logan County, O. Of Quaker parentage, he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1807, and in 1810 he was licensed to preach. He entered the Ohio Confer- ence in September, 1813, and in 1819 was transferred to the Missouri Conference, where he served five years as presiding elder. In 1825 he was transferred to the new- ly organized Pittsburgh Conference, in which he labored twenty-four years; and was then (1849) transferred back to the Ohio Conference. Upon its division (1852) he fell into the Cincinnati Conference, and in 1860 re- ceived a superannuated relation. He died April 21, 1865. Mr. Sharp was an efficient, acceptable, and suc- cessful minister. See Minutes of Annual Conferencts, 1865, p. 162.
Sharp, Elias C, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Willington, Conn., March 18, 1814. He was left an orphan in early years, but by patient effort was able to attend Amherst College, where he graduated; studied divinity in the Western Reserve Theological Seminary, Hudson, O. ; was licensed by Cleveland Presbytery Sept. 1, 1840; and ordained by Portage Presbytery, .June 1, 1842, as pastor of the First Congregational Church of Atwater, Portage Co., O. This M'as his only charge. Here he labored for a quarter of a century, and died Jan. 5, 1867. Mr. Sharp possessed ability, both natural and acquired. As a minister he was eminently successful; and while pastor of his only charge, nearly two hundred connected themselves with the Church of God. .See \Yilson, Presh. Hist. Almanac, 1868, p. 226, (J. L. S.)
Sharp, Granville, a Christian philanthropist and writer, was born in 1734. He was educated for the bar, but, leaving the legal profession, he obtained a place in the Ordnance Office, which he resigned at the com- mencement of the American war, the principles of which he did not approve. He then took chambers in the Temple, and devoted himself to a life of study. He first became known to the public by his interest in a poor and friendless negro brought from the West In- dies, and turned out in tlie streets of London to beg or die. Sharj) befriended the negro, not only feeding him and securing him a situation, but also defending him against his master, who wished to reclaim him as a run- away slave. But the decision of the full bench was with Sharp, that the negro was under the protection of PInglish law and no longer the property of his for- mer owner. Thus Sharp emancipated forever the blacks from slavery wliile on British soil, and, in fact, banish- ed slavery from Great Britain. He now collected a number of other negroes found wandering about the streets of London and sent them back to the West In- dies, where they formed the colony of Sierra Leone. He was also the institutor of the "Society for the Aboli- tion of the Slave-trade." Sharp was led to oppose the practice of marine impressment; and on one occasion ob- tained a writ of habeas corjius from the Court of King's Bench to bring back an impres.sed citizen from a vessel at the Norc, and by his arguments obliged the court to liberate him. He became the warm advocate of "par- liamentary reform," arguing the people's natural right to a share in the legislature. AYarmly attached to the Established Church, he was led to recommend an Epis- copal Church in America, and introduced the first bish- ops from this country to the archbishop of Canterbury for consecration. Sharp died July 6, 1813. He was an able linguist, deqily read in theology, pious and devout. He published sixty- one works, principally pamidilets upon theological and political subjects and the evils of slaverj'. The following are the most im- portant : Rcmaiks on a Printed Paper entitled a Cata- logue of the Sacred Vessels restored by Cyrus, etc. (Loud. 1765, 1775, 8vo): — Remarks on Several very Important Prophecies (1768, 1775, 8vo, 5 parts) : — Slavery in Eng- land (1769, 8vo; with appendix, 1772, 8vo) : — Declara- tion of the People's Natural Rights, etc. (1774, 1775, 8vo) : — Remarks on the Uses of the Definite A rticle in the Greek Text of the New Testament (Durham, 1798,