Sweet "Wine. See Wine.
Sweetman, Joseph, a Presbyterian minister, was born at F'reehold, ISIonmouth Co., N. J., March 9, 1774. His mother was a granddaughter of Walter Kerr, who was banished from Scotland for his unwavering adher- ence to Covenanter principles and his opposition to prel- acy. When Joseph was about three months old, his parents removed to Charlton, Saratoga Co., N. Y, He graduated at Union College in 1797, being one of the three students that composed the graduating class, and receiving its first honors. He studied theology privately, was ordained by Albany Presbytery, and installed pastor of Salem Church, Washington Co., N. Y., Sept. 17, 1800. On account of failing health, he resigned his pastoral charge Oct. 8, 1817, and was never again installed pastor of a Church, but from that time till his death devoted himself to aiding young men in preparing for the ministry. He was the founder of the "Sweetman Scholarship" in Princeton Theological Sem- inary, N. J. He died Dec. 10. 1S(;3. Jlr. Sweetman was vigorous in intellect and elotpient in tiianner. He was a very benevolent man : that he might have to give, he was industrious, economical, and prudent. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. Almanac. 1863, p. 57; also 1864, p. 198. (J. L. S.)
S^weetser, Seth, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born at Xewburyport, ^lass., March 15, 1807. He was prepared for college in Xewburyport Academy, un- der the tuition of Leonard Withington, D.D., and grad- nated from Harvard College in 18-27. He then taught school for two j'cars (1827-29) in (Jeneseo, N. Y., after which he returned to Harvard College as a tutor, re- maining there until 1831, when he entered Andover Theological Seminary, where, after a full course of three years, he graduated in 1834. He was ordained Nov. 23,
1836, and was called to Gardiner, Me., where, after preaching two years, he was dismissed, Nov. 8, 1838, to the pastorate of the Calvinist Church, Worcester, iNIass., was installed Dec. 19 of the same year, and remained in this olHce initil his death, having had a colleague after 1874. Here the great work of his life was done. He was a trustee of Leicester Academy and of Phillips Academy, Andover, fmm 18,50, and president of the lat- ter board from 1864. He was a trustee of the Worces- ter Free Industrial Institute and of Worcester ^Memorial Hospital. He was also a member of tlie council of the American Anfiiiuarian Society, a corporate mcndjer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- sions from 1854, one of the vice-presidents of the Amer- ican Home Mission Society from 1864, and president of the American iMlucation Society. From 1866 to 1873 he was overseer of Harvard College, during which time he ]iublished various Reports, Sermon.f. and Adilrcsscs ; also several articles in the BibUothrnt Sacra. He died from the effect of a spinal injurv and pulmonary disease combined March 24, 1878. (W. P. S.)
STwen, in music, a set of pipes in an organ with a separate key-board, and forming a separate department, which are capable of being increased or diminished in intensity of sound by the action of a pedal on a series of shades or shutters overlapping each other like Vene- tian window-blinds, within which the pipes in question are enclosed. On a well-constructed swell a practiced performer can imitate not only a gradual crescendo and diminuendo, but also a sforzando, a very small opening sufficing to make an immediate burst upon the ear; while, when the shutters are closed, an imitation of aa echo is produced. — Chumhers's Encyclop. s. v.
S^weHing ("jisa, ^awi, "excellency," "pride," etc.) ov Jordan is a phrase occurring in the A. Y. at Jer. xii, 5; xlix, 19; 1, 44, but which should be rendered "pride of Jordan," as in Zech. xi, 3. It refers to the verdure and thickets along the banks, lined with wil- lows, tamarisks, and cane, in which the lions once made their covert; but has no allusion to overwhelming bil- lows from a rise of the waters (Eeland, Palast. p. 274). See Jordan,
Swert (or S'weerts), Francis, a Flemish his- torian and anti(iuary, was born in Antwerp in 1567. He devoted mucli of his time to stu<ly, and published a great many works which brought him considerable reputation : j\ar>-ationes Historicm in Deorum Dea- rumqiie Cajnta, etc. (Antwerp, 1602, 4to) : — Lacrinue in Funere Ab. Orfeliijcum Ortelii Vita (1601, 8vo) :— J/ct//- tationes J. Cardinalis de Turi'ecrenutta in Vitani Christi, cum Vita Cdrt/.etc. (Cologne, 1607, r2mo): — Selectee Or- bis Christianm Delicire (ibid. 1608, 1625, 8vo). He died in 1629. See Chalmers, Bior/. Diet. s. v.
Swift, Elisha Pope, D.D., an eminent divine of the Presbyterian Chnrcli, was horn at ^\'illiamstown, Mass., Aug. 12, 1792. His paternal grandfather was the Hon. Heman Swift ; his father, the Rev. Seth Swift, pastor at one time of the Congregational Church in Williamstown ; and his mother was a descendant of Rev. John Eliot, well known in the annals of American history as the "Apostle to the Indians." He graduated with h(jnor at Williams College, Sept. 1, 1813, and at the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J. , in 1816; was licensed by New Bnniswick Presbytery at Lawrence- ville, N. j", April 24, 1816, and on Sept." 19 of the same year he met the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Hartford, Conn., and was accepted as a foreign missionary, though he was informed that he could not be sent abroad for some months. On Sept. 3, 1817, he -was ordained by a Congregational council as an evangelist to the heathen, the late Ly- man Beecher, D.D., [ireaching the ordination sermon in Park Street Church, Boston, Mass. The interval between his licensure and his entering a permanent field of labor, a period of some two and a half years,