Another argument is deduced from Rev. xx, 14, which describes "death and Hades" as "cast into the lake of fire" at the close of the general judgment — meaning, according to the advocates of the doctrine in question, that Hades should then cease as an intermediate place. But this is also true if understood of the grave, or of the general intermediate condition of the dead, or even of hell, as once more and forever reclaiming what it had temporarily yielded up for judgment — just as we every day see criminals brought from prison to judg- ment, and, after judgment, returned to the prison from which they came.
It is further urged, in proof of Hades being an inter- mediate place other than the grave, that the Scriptures represent the hapijiness of the righteous as incomplete till after the resurrection. This must be admitted ; but it does not thence fcjllow that their souls are previous- ly imprisoned in the earth, or in any other place or re- gion corresponding to the Tartarus of the heathen. Al- though at the moment of death the disembodied spir- its of the redeemed ascend to heaven and continue there till the resurrection, it is very possible that their hap- piness shall be incomplete until they have received
their glorified bodies from the tomb and entered upon the full rewards of eternity.
On this subject, see Dr. Enoch Pond, On the Interme- diate Place, in American Biblical Repository for April, 1811, whom we have here chiefly followed; comp. Knapi), Christian Theoloijy, § 104; Meyer, I)e Notions Orci ap. IhbriEOS (Lub. 1793) ; liahrens, Freimiithige Unters. iiber d. Orkus d. Uebrder (Halle, 1786); Wit- ter, De Purgatorio Judworum (Helms. 1704); Journ. Sac. Lit. Oct. 185G.
Shepard, David A., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Augusta, Oneida Co., N. Y., June 2, 1802. He professed conversion in his sixteenth year, and received license as a local preacher when twenty. In 1824 he was admitted on trial in the Genesee Conference. During his active ministry he served as presiding elder on the Chenango, Cayuga, Susquehanna, and Wyoming districts; and also live years as chaplain to Auburn state-prison. In 1873 he took a superannuated relation, which he held until his death, at Washington, D. C, Oct. 8, 1876. He was for some time previous a member of the Wyoming Confer- ence. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1877, p. 59.
Shepard, Hiram, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Turin, Lewis Co., N. Y., .Fuly 8, 1804, and at the age of eighteen he made a pro- fession of religion. In 1830 he was licensed to preach, and was admitted into the Black River Conference. He continued to be actively engaged in preaching un- til his death, which occurred at Malone, N. Y., May 25, 1863. He was an able defender of the truth and an impressive minister. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ences, 1863, p. 115.
Shepard, Le-wis Morris, a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., in 1810. He was converted at the age of sixteen ; was edu- cated at the Oneida Institute at Whitesborough, N. Y. ; studied theology privately ; was licensed to preach by Watertown Presbytery, Aug. 29, 1838, and ordained and installed by the same body at Theresa, Jeiferson Co., N. Y., in February. 1839. In that vicinity he preached for twelve years, occupying different localities, at The- resa and Plesis, then at Champion, Smithville, and North Adams. In 1850 he united with the Albany Presbytery and supplied the Church at Tribe's Hill un- til 1852, when he removed to Jlonroe, Fairfield Co., Conn., where he labored until 1858, when he became pastor of the Church in Huron, Wayne Co., N. Y. In everj' place where he labored he had more or less ev- idence that his work was owned by the blaster of the vineyard. He died Oct. 16, 1863. Mr. Shepard was an earnest, diligent, and self-denying minister of Christ. See ^V'ilso^, Presb. /list. A Inianac, 1865, p. 170. (J. L. S.)
Shepard, Mase, a Congregational minister, was born May 28, 1759. When about twenty-one years of age he was led to Christ, and immediately his thoughts were turned towards the ministry. He prepared for college under the direction of the Rev. William Conant, of Lyme, N. H., entered Dartmouth College in 1781, and graduated in 1785. He then studie<l theology with Rev. Ephraim Judson, of Taunton, and on Sept. 19, 1787, was settled at Little Compton, R. I. He died in perfect calmness after a short illness, Feb. 14, 1821. See Sprague, .1 nnals of the Amer. Puljdt, ii, 265.
Shepard, Samuel (1), M.D., a Baptist minister, was born in Salisbury, j\Iass., June 22, 1739. He studied medicine, settled as a practicing physician at Brent- wood, N. H., and soon became distinguished in his pro- fession. He then turned his attention to preaching, and in 1771 became [lastor of three churches, at Strath- am, Brentwood, and Nottingham, which he had form- ed. He was one of the most active and honored min- isters of his denomination, and continued his labors un- til his death, Nov. 4, 1815. He published a number of tracts and pamphlets. See Sprague, Annuls of the A mer. Pulpit, vi, 135,
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Shepaid, Samuel (2), D.D., a Con<;rcsati()nal minister, was Imrii in rortlaiui, Coim., Novfiuber, 1772. He graduated at Yale College in 1793. and was ordain- ed, .\pril oO. 171io. pastor in Lenox, Jlass., where he re- mained until the close of his life, lie was a memiier of the corporations of Jliddlebury and Williams col- leges and vice-president of the latter until his death, Jan. 5, lS4("i. He published a few occasional sermons. See .Spragiie, AiiiiaU of the Amer. Pulpit, ii, 364,