Storrs, John, a Congregational minister, was bom at Mansfield, Conn., in 1735. He graduated at Yale
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College in 1756, and was tutor in 1761-62; was in- ♦ stalled at Southold, L. I., in 1763; was absent from his
parish from 1776 to 1782 on account of the war, hcins^ chaplain to the Revolutionary army for a part of the time. He was dismissed in 1787, and settled on the paternal estate at ]\Iansfield, at the same time acting as pastor of the Church in North Windham, Conn. He died Oct. 9, 1799. His grandson is Kev. K. S. Storrs, D.U., of Braintree, Mass., and his great-grandson is the eloquent divine of the same name in Brooklyn, N. Y. See Con;/. Quarterly, 1861, p. 265.
Storrs, Richard Salter, a Congregational min- ister, was born at Manstield, Conn., Aug. 30, 171)3, and at the age of thirteen went to live with Kev. Dr. Salter, who took charge of his education. He entered Yale College in 1779 and graduated in 1783. After studying theology two j-ears under Dr. Salter, he was licensed to preach, and on Dec. 7, 1785, was ordained pastor of the Church in Longmeadow, Conn. Here he continued his pastorate until his death, Oct. 3, 1819. He was the fa- ther of Kevs. Richard and Charles Backus Storrs. He published a Sermon at the Installation of Rev. Stephen Williams (1800). See Sprague, ^h«u^s of the Amer. Pulpit, ii, 257.
Story appears in the A. V. at 2 Chron. xiii, 22 ; xxiv, 27, as a rendering of Tlj~i"l'3, viidrush (q. v.), a commentary, or historical statement (comp. "Caisar's commentaries"^. See History; Tale. In Amos ix, 6 it is the translation of i^^S'p, maaldh, a step, as often rendered. See Degree; Stair. InGen. vi, 16; Ezek. xli, 16 ; xlii, 3, the word has been supplied by the trans- lators in the sense of the successive floors of a building. See Ark; Temple.
STORY (or Storey), one of the divisions of a build- ing in the vertical direction ; the space between two con- tiguous floors, or between two contiguous entablatures or other architectural dividing-lines that indicate floors or separations of the building. In English mediaeval documents it is often Latinized into historia. In do- mestic and palatial architecture the stories are thus enu- merated from the lowest upwards : basement, or under- ground story; ground-storj% or ground-floor, at about the level of the ground; first story, usually the principal floor or story. Then follow second, third, and so on, the upper being the garrets. Entresols, or mezzanini, are considered as intermediate stories not interfering with the enumeration of the principal ones. The word is applied also to a window where the lights appear one above the other, as a "storied window." — Parker, Gloss, of Architect, s. v.
Story, Cyrus, a minister of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, was born at Ipswich, Mass., Nov. 4, 1773, and removed to New Hampshire, and subsequently to Middlebury, Wyoming Co., N. Y. In 1818 he was re- ceived into the Genesee Conference, but located about 1835. He settled at Liberty, Steuben Co., N. Y., and after a residence of seventeen years he removed to Thurston in the same county, where he lived until his death, Dec. 15, 1864. Mr. fe"tory was an able preacher, and a man of great integrity and uniform devotion. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1865, p. 240.
Stossel, JoHANN, a German theologian who was largely implicated in the disputes of the second half of the 16th century, was born June 23, 1524, at Kitzing- en, in Franconia, educated in philosophy and theology at Wittenberg, and became master iu 1549. During the ensuing interimistic disputes, and in other connect- ed controversies, he came to hold views in opposition to those of Wittenberg, and was, on that account, called to be court preacher at Weimar. In that capacity he assisted in the reformation of Durlach in 155(!, and made himself conspicuous as the advocate of an ex- treme orthodoxy, and in the following year he attended the colloquy at Worms, wliere became into antagonism with Melaiicthun. Somewhat later he was made su-
perintendent at Ileldburg, and in 1558 he took part in the preparation of the noted Confutation, defending it against the objections of Strigel (q. v.) in a manner wiiich characterizes an unqualified adherent of Flacian- ism. In 1560 lie accompanied his prince to the Heidel- berg disputation. His next disjiute was witli the Fla- cianists of Jena, his former friends, wlio began to sus- pect him when, in IStil, the consistory of Weimar was erected and Stiisscl became one of its assessors; and when he soon afterwards was made su])erintendent at Jena and professor of theology, and when, acting in obedience to superior authority, he closed tlie pulpits against the Flacianists and jieaceably consorted with their opponents, the rupture became complete. The quarrel ended in a victory for Stossel and in the utter overthrow of his antagonists. In 1562 he received the difficult appointment of mediator between the Flaclan clergy and Strigel, and in that capacity issued a Super- declaratio in response to Strigel's Derlaratio. The re- sidt was not favorable, however; lunnerous depositions followed and Strigel resigned from tlie miiversity, leav- ing Stossel alone in the theological faculty until Sel- necker and others came to reinforce him. An interval of peace now followed, during which he was made a doctor of divinity, being the first theologian of Jena to receive that degree (Jidy 13, 1564). In 1567, however, a new sovereign recalled tlie Flacianists, and the latter at once issued a confutation of Stiissel's Superdeclai-u- tio; all ministers who had subscribed to the latter were compelled to resign their pulpits. Stossel was called by Charles Augustus, the elector of Saxony, to be su- perintendent at Pirna, and ultimately became the con- fessor of that prince. He used his influence in that position to win the elector to the support of the Crypto- Calvinists, with whom he had established friendly rela- tions, but became involved in their misfortunes, and was imprisoned at Senftenberg, where he died on Reminis- cere Sunday, 1576. His wife died at the same time, and a single grave received the remains of both. See Loscher, JJist. Mot. iii, 167 sq. ; Planck, Gesch. d. prot. Lehrbeyriffs, v, 613 sq. ; Salig, Gesch. d. Auysb. Conf. iii, 14 sq. ; Acta Disputaf. Vimar. 15()l, p. 251 sq. ; Hos- pinian, /list. Sacratn. ii, 266 sq. ; Miiller, Staats-Cabinet, i, 153 sq. ; Schweizer, Central-Boymen, i, 467 sq. — Her- zog, Retd-Kncyklop. s. v.