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modem town is locked up at night (Lane,i,'Jo; Uiisstll.i/JD.aiid liencea l>ers(iii lamiiit pass wiilumt being ob- served by ilie watchman. The same custom ajjpears t<> liave prevailed in ancient limes (^Cant. iii. o). — Smith. .See Thomson, Lmnl uiul Book, i, 38 ; Van Lennep, Bible Lmuls, p. 454; llackett, Jllust. of Scnp/ure, p. 61. .See Ku.vi>.
Street, Thomas. D.D.,a Presby- terian minister, was born in 1823. Af- ter passing througli the usual course of.stuily, literary and theological, 'he was admitted ti> the ministry. In 1X54 he accepted a call to tlic pas- torate of the Tresbyterian Church of (Jreen Hill. I'iiiladelpliia, where he remained six years, preaching with great acce|)tance and success. In isoo he accepted a call to the pas- torate of the I'resl)yteriaii Church at York, I'a., wliere lie continueil four vears. an<l resigned to accept a call from tlie Norlh I'resliyterian Church i«f New York city, lie remained in this position until 1873, when he was called to the pastorate of the Church in Cortland, X. Y., and con- tinued until released by death, sud- denly, in the cars, on his way from Ci>rtland to Svracuse, Oct. 16, 1878. (W. P. S.)
Streit, Christian, a Lutheran minister, was Ixirii in New Jersey .lune 7. 174'.». and graduated at the ('"illege of I'einisylvania in 1768. He pursued his theological course under iJr. H. M. Muhlenberg, and was licensed to preach by the .Synod of I'einisylvania in 170'J, in the same year taking charge of the Church in Easton, Pa., where he ciintinucd fur ten years. He served as chaplain of the 3d Virginia Regiment in the Revolutionary war, and was subsequently settled over a Church in Charles- ton, S. C. Ill .July, 1782, he took charge of New Han- over, Pa., but in July, 1785, assumed the pastorate of a Church in Winchester, Va., his field of operations ex- tending for more than fifty miles. He died March 10, 18I2, honiired and reverenced by the whole community. .See Sprague, ,1 nnn/s of the A iMr. Pulpit, i.\, 48.
Streit, Lawrence, a Presbyterian minister, was tji>rn in Washingtun County, Pa., in 1820. He received careful parental and religious training; graduated at JeflTi-rson College, Pa., in 1834; studied theology pri- vately under the Rev. Nathaniel West, D.U. ; was li- ceiiwd by the Presbytery of Krie June 28, 1838, and ordained by the same presbytery in June, 18.39, as pas- tor (if Wattsburgh (,'hurcli, Pa. He subse(|uently be-
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gia Conference Jan. 10, 1850. In the civil war he was chaplain to the 40th Georgia Regiment, and on his way home contracted the illness of which he died. See Min- utes of Annual Conferefiices of the M. E. Church, South, 1863, p. 453.
Strife. In the early Church it was considered a privilege to make oblations to the Church, and a sort of lesser excommunication to be debarred from doing so. The officers would not receive the offerings of persons that were at enmity or variance with their brethren, neither at the altar nor into the treasury. This cus- tom was grounded upon the rule of our Lord (i\Iatt. v, 23). Furilier, ,t11 ()[)en enmity and (piarrelling, strife, • envy, and contention, were punished with excommuni- cation, as tendencies towanls, and lower degrees of, mur- der. Sec Bingham, Christ. Antiq. bk. xvi, ch. x, § 17.
Strigel, VicToijiN, a Melancthonian Lutheran and professor at Jena, was born Dec. 26, 1514. He studied
came pa.'^ior of Sunville and Fairtiehl churches, and died
Auir. h, I8.J8. Mr. Streit was a faithful and devoted I>»"l"Sophy and theology at Freiburg and Wittenberg
Hervant <.f Christ. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, JJ,'|"* [" 1 •'■*!_ l>ega" t" lecture in those departments
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Strickland, Isaac L. (J., a Methodist Episcopal minister, wan iMirn in l«n'.t, .-idniitted on trial into the Teinies.see Conference in 1831. and into full connection in l«;ti;. He was transferred to the Texas Mission, .MisHi^ipiii Conference, in October, 1H3«, and appointed to .Montgomery Circiut ; and in .March, 183!>, to Mrazo- ria Circuit, where he died, July 2, 1H3'.). He was an excellent preacher, animated by a spirit, of unwavering ami wlf-saerifieing devotion to the cause of the Re- deemer. .See Minutis <f Annual Conferences, iii, .")8.
Strickland, John, a minister of the Methodist Epi-scopal Church, South, was admitted into tlie Geor-
The .Smalcald war interrupted his career at Wittenberg, and he drifted about in coiise()uence to IMagdcburg, to Kiinigsberg, and to Erfurt, where he renewed his pro- fessorial lal)ors, though not regularly appointed to a chair. A settlement for him was obtained when the ICrnestine gymnasium at Jena was founded and INIelanc- thon refused to connect himself with its. faculty, upon which Strigel was invited to take the vacant position. He arrived at Jena March 9, 1548, with twenty stu- dents, and gave himself earnestly to the work of pro- moting the growtli and prosjierity of the institution, whose tirst rector he became. In this work he was aid- ed l)y Stigel. Schnepf, .Justus Jonas ((j. v.), and others, with whom he labored in entire harmony; but when
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