6. Orders that ignorant priests shall be deposed.
10. Enacts a penalty for not calling in the piiest in time of dangerous sickness; in case of death, the penalty to be enforced against the wife or relations of the deceased ; or, if he have none, agninsl his aKent and two of the old persons of the place iu which he lived.
11. Forbids to raise to the episcopate a married man, unless with the wife's consent.
15. Forbids bishops and priests to keep slaves.
17. Forbids to consecrate a church wliich is not endowed.
18. Forbids to ordain a clerk without a title.
27. Directs that the bishop shall reirulate the nonrish- meni and manner of life to be observed by cauuus, ac- cording to their rule.
2S. Declares that the children of persons who have vol- untarily embraced a canonical life may not lay claim to their property without their consent.
32. Forbids deacons and priests to marry after ordination.
37. Directs that abbots shall be seldom absent from their houses, and then only for a short lime, and after notice given to the bishop.
38. Forbids abbots to use the episcopal ornaments, and denies to them the power of preaching, hearing confes- sions, and baptizing.
39. Forbids to confer holy orders upon monks.
4»>. Directs that nothing be said or sung in church but what has been ordered iu synod. 47 and 4S. Relate to drunkenness among ecclesiastics.
49. Kelates to the same vice amoiiir the laity.
50. Directs that in every city the bishop shall have two houses for the incarceration of penitents.
!53. Directs that a woman thrice deserting her hashand shall, if nolile, be put to penance, without any hope of ever being rest(ned to him ; if a woman of low degree, he sold as a slave. Also orders that a husband slandering his wife, by accnsingher of adultery, shall sufl'er the same
Ennishnieiit. Orders the same penalties against a hus- and deserting his wife from motives of hatred and aver- sion, and gives liberty to the wife iu such case to marry another.
.54. Deposes any clerk marryhig a second time, or mar- rying a widow or divorced wi'unan. '6.5. Aj)i)ear8 to allow of priests who have married twice exercising their office, if their wives cousent to separate from them.
60. Forbids clerks to keep taverns, or to practice usury ; deposes those who drhik at taverns without sufUcieut cause. 01. Forbids Jews to keep any Chrisliau servants.
See Mansi, Siipp. vol. ii, Coll. 283, etc. — Landon, ^fan- nal of Coiincil.i, s. v.
Striug (or String-course), a projecting horizon-
Lincoln Cathedral, cir. 1220.
STRINGED IXSTRUMENT 1064
STRONG
tal band or line of mouldings in a building. Round the exterior of a building the string is carried round the buttresses, and sometimes over the windows, forming the drip-stone.— I'arkir. (Hoss. of A rcfiitect. s. v.
Stringed Instrument is the rendering, in the A. v., of two Heb. words: I. nS"^!:, neyinuh (Uab. iii, I'JX which likewise denotes the music of such an in- strument (and so rendered in Lam. v, 14), or a '^ somf ailapted to such an accompaniment (and so rendered in the titles of many psalms), or in derision (Job xxx, 9; Lam. iii, 14). See Nkginah. 2. ^IXi, viinni (only found in the plur., Psa. cl, 4 ; " whereby," xlv, 8 [9]),
Oriental Stringed Instnimeuts.
which is of uncertain derivation and signification, but probably denotes the chord of some musical instruinent. The nel)rews had various stringed instruments, chiefly or exclusively of the harp or guitar form ; and similar ones have always prevailed in the East, if we may judge from the specimens exhibited on the Egyptian and As- syrian monuments. See Musical Instruments.
Stringfield, James King, a minister of the McthiMlisi I^pi.scoi)al (,'liiircti, South, was born in Nash- ville, 'I'enn., March 27, 1839. After receiving a liberal education, he was licensed to preach in June. 1858, and admitted on trial into the Ilolston Conference in Octo- IxT, IW.'iS. lu 18ti2 he b(!came chaplain in the Confed- erate army, and in 18()9 was appointed professor at Asheville, N. C. His labors there were very brief, as he died suddenly of inflammation of the brain, June 2, 1870. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences of the M, E. Church, South, 1870, p. 410.
Stringfield, Thomas, a minister of the Method- iMt Kpisco|)al Church, Sduih, was born in Kentucky in 17'.(t>. lie etnl)ra(x-<i religion when only eight j'cars of atce, and in his twelfth year removed to Alabama. In the War of 1812 he became a soldier tnider (ien. Jack- son, and mainlained his Christian character through- out. He joined the Tennessee Conference Nov. 10, 1810, and when the Ilolston Conference was set off he b«came a member of it. In 1825-2G the Gallagher con- troversy waM at its zenith, and Mr. Stringtield felt called uiM.n to dcfcnil Methodism against the caricatures and slanders of its enemies, which he did at the ex[)ensc of great laU.r and of thousands of dollars. In 1828 he ob- tained leave to be without an appciintment, owing to feeble health. From 1829 to 18;i2 he was agent for the lioUton Conference Seminary, and in 183G was elected
editor of the South -western Christian Advocnfe, and filled that office until 1841, He was agent of the Amer- ican Bible Society from 1844 to 1849. In 1852 he was agent for the Strawberry Plains College. He was made supernumerarj' in 1853, effective in 1854, superannuated again in 1856, and thus continued until his death, July 12, 1858. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1858, p. 25.