Stinson, Edward, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Cliurch, South, was born in Fayette County, Tenn., July 18, 1837. He united with the Church in 1845, was licensed to preach in 1852, and the same year join- ed the Memphis Conference. He died at his father's residence in Tippah County, Miss., Sept. 18, 1855. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1855, p. 600.
Stipend [stipendiuni) is settled pay for services, whether daily, monthly, or annual. Salary (q. v.), as the name implies, was originally money given for salt, and then money for general purposes. Stipend was the pay given to the Koman soldier, while emolument, as the word denotes, was the tithe of grist paid to him who owned tlie mola, or mill. In a state church, the stipend is secured by law; in non-establislied churches it de- pends on the equity and generosity of the Christian people. See Tithes ; Teini>.
Stipendiary, one who performs services for a set- tled compensation, whether by the day, month, or year.
Stipendiary Priest is (1) a priest who officiates for a determined compensation, whether in a church, chapel, or chantry ; (2) a priest who is appointed in certain foreign cathedrals to make arrangements for the saying of masses for deceased persons.
Stiphelus was the name of a Centaur who was slain at the wedding of Pirithous by the handsome Ca;- neus (Ovid. Metani. xii, 459).
Stiritis, in Greek mythology, was a surname of Ceres, derived from the town of Stiris, in Phocis.
Stirm, Cakl H., a (Jerman doctor of theology and member of consistory, was born Sept. 22, 1799, at Schorn- dorf. His first ministerial duties he discharged at Un- terensingen, but from 183G he was court chaplain and member of consistory at Stuttgart, where he died, April 21, 1873. Stirm is best known as the author of Apo- loyie des Christenthums in Briefen fiir yebildcte f.eser (Stuttgart, 2d ed. 18.56), which has been widely circu- lated. He also published SeruKms and Essays, contained in the Studien der evanrieHschen Geistlichkeit iViirtem- berr/s. See Winer, Handhiich der theol. lAteratur, ii, 103, 319 ; Zuchold, liibl. Theolog. ii, 1278. (li. P.)
Stjernhjelm, Jokoe, a Swedish scholar and poet, ■was born in April, 1598. In his youth he assumcil the name of tlOran Li/je, and after studying in Upsala, he visited (iermany, Italy, France, Holland, and England. In 1625 he was appointed instructor in the gymnasium i
of Westeras, from which he went to Stockholm, and occupied a similar position. Here he remained till 1630, when he became assessor of the Superior Court of Dorpat. The next year he was elevated to the nobility, taking the name of Stjernhjelm. In 1612 he was re- called to Stockholm as a member of the commission to revise the laws of Sweden, and in 1648 became vice- president of the Superior Court of Dorpat. The inva- sion of Livonia by the Russians in 1656 caused him to Hy, and cost hiui the loss of his estates. In 1667 he was apjiointed (irst director of the College of Antiquities, wiiich oftice he retained until his death. April 22, 1672. Stjcrulijelm was a very prolific writer, ijroducing from fifty to sixty distinct works in poetry, philology, philos- ophy, etc. In the freshness and independence of his religious thiidiing he was in advance of his age, and was therefore persecuted by his contemporaries. See Melh. Qua?: Review, 1875, p. 563-579.
Stoa (Sroa), a (Ireek term for a portico or cloister around the court {ainum) of an ancient church.
StOC, a brazen tube, formed like a cow's horn, used in the Middle Ages as a S[)eaking-trumpet on the tops of church-towers to assemble the faitliful to worship, and to proclaim new moons, quarters, and ecclesiastical festivals. The manpiis of Drogheda possesses a re- markable Irish specimen of the stoc. — Lee, Gloss, of Litur(j. Terms, s. v.
Stock (in the sing.) is the rendering, in the A. Y., of the following- Heb. and Gr. words: 1. ^^12, bid, lit. produce ("food," Job xl, 20); hence the trunk of a tree (" stock," Isa. xliv, 19) ; 2. "T.5, <jeza, the stump ("stock," Job xiv, 8) or trunk ("stem," Isa. xi, 1; " stock," xl, 24) of a tree ; 3. yV, its (Jer. ii, 27 ; x, 8), a tree, or piece of wood, as elsewhere rendered ; 4. '^p?, iker, a plant rooted up and then transplanted in a foreign soil (Lev. XXV, 47) ; h. ykvoQ (Acts xiii, 26; Phil, iii, 5), race, or kindred (as elsewhere rendered). A fjazing- stock (Nail, iii, 6) is "'X'}, rOi, a siyht (variously render- ed elsewhere).
STOCK, in ecclesiastical technology, is (1) a vessel containing a store or supply ; (2) a vessel containing oils blessed for use in the Christian sacraments. See Oil-stock.
Stock, Christian, a celebrated scholar and Orien- talist, was born at Hamburg, (iermany, in 1672. became a professor at Jena in 1717, and died in 1733, with a very high reputation, especially for Oriental literature. The chief of his works are, Disputationes de Pa-nis llebrce- orum Capitalibus: — Claris Linguee Sunctxe Veteris Tes- tamenti: — Claris lAni/uee Sanct(e Xori Testamenti. The last two, which are a Hebrew and a Greek lexicon, have been much approved, have gone througli several edi- tions, and have received improvements and additions. See Chalmers, liioij. Diet. s. v.