Tennent, William (3), a Presbyterian minister, and son of the Kev. Williain Tennent (2), was born in Freehold, N. J., in 1740. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1758, was licensed to preach by the presbytery of New Brunswick in 1762, ordained by the same presbytery in 1763. and installed as junior pastor of the Church in Norwalk, Conn., in 1765. In 1772 he became pa.stor of an Independent Church in Charles- ton, S. C. He died Aug. 11, 1777. Mr. Tennent was an eloquent preacher. Elegance of style, majesty of thought, and clearness of judgment characterized all his discourses. Sec Sprague, Annuls of the Amer. Pulpit, iii, 242; Hall, I/ist. of Koricalk; Ramsey, Uist. of South Carolina, \o\. ii; Hist, of the Church of Charles- ton ; Alison, Funeral Sermon. (J. L. S.)
Teniiey, Asa Peaslee, a Congregational minis- ter, was born iti Corinth, Vt., Feb. 14, 1801. He worked at an anvil in Haverhill, N. H.: studied theology with Rev. Grant Powers and President Tyler of Dartmouth College; preached his first sermon in father Goddani'.s meeting-house in Norwich, Yt.; and when twenty-sev- en vears old took a five vears' commission under the
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New Hampshire Missionary Society, laboring in He- bron and Groton. In March, l^ioS, he became first pas- tor of the Congregational Church in Concord (West), N. H., where he died, March 1, ISiu. Mr. Tcnney was original, eloquent, and a mighty revivalist. He had wonderful knowledge of the J5ible and human nature, and was a prodigious worker, his sermons for over thir- ty-four years averaging more than four a week. See A Blacksmith in the Pulpit and in the Parish, in the Conr/regaliomil Qiiartciiy, 1867, p. 3.59 sq., 380.
Tenney, Caleb Je'wett, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born at Hollis, N. 11., jVlay 3, 1780. He graduated at Dartmouth College in I.SOI, entered the ministry Aug. 20, 1802. and was ordained Sept. 12, 1804, pastor at Newport, H. I., where he remained until May, 1814, when he resigned and became co-pastor in Wethers- field, March 27, 1810, but, on account of his voice fail- ing, was dismissed in 1840, and removed to Northamp- ton, Mass., where he died, Sept. 28, 1847. He acted as agent for both tlie American and the TMassachusetts Colonization Societj'. His publications were Two Dis- courses on Baptism (1816) and a few Occasional Ser- mons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, ii, 472.
Tenney, Ephraini, a Presbyterian minister, was bom in Dummerston, Vt., Nov. 12. 1813. He grad- uated at Wheaton College, 111., in 1841, and entered the Union Theological Seminary the same year, and in the vear following he died in Brooklvn, N. Y., March 8. (W. P. S.)
Tenney, Ros'well, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Hanover, N. H., in 1790. He was educated at Dartmouth College, studied theology in the Union Theological Seminary, Prince Edward Co., Ya., was li- censed by the Hanover Presbyterj- April 26, 1828, and ordained by the same Nov. 28, 1829. His first preach- ing was as a home missionary ; after that he preached successively at Salem, Unity, Somerset, and New Lex- ington, Va.; three points in Perrj' County, O. — Logan, Belpre, and Warren; two points in Washington Coun- ty, O. ; Dover, Mass.; Hanover Centre, N. H. ; again in Salem and Fearing, O. ; and finally at Amesville, in Athens County. He died Aug. 6, 18G6. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. Almanac, 1867, p. 321. (J. L. S.)
Tenney, Samuel Gilman, a Congregational minister, was born at Rowley, Mass., April 12, 1793. He sought an education with a view of entering the ministry, being impressed that it was his duty to preach. He was fitted for college at Meriden, N. H., after which he entered Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1823. He studied theology under the Kev. Dr. Chapin at Woodstock, Vt. He was or- dained June 29, 1825, and installed pastor of the Lyndon Church. Vt. Here he labored for six years with suc- cess. He was subsecjuenth^ pastor in the following places : Bakersville, Vt., four years ; Waitsfield, Vt., two years; Hillsborough, N. H., five years; Wordsborough, Vt., seven years; and Alstead, N. H., seven years, when he retired, after an unbroken ministry of forty -nine years, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. His labors were blessed in many places by special and powerful revivals. He died in Springfield, Vt., Dec. 5, 1874. (W. P. S.)
Tent (usually and propcrh' ?nk, ohel, so called from fjlittering [Gesenius] or being round [Fiirst], (SKr)vi); both occasionally " tabernacle ;" elsewhere '(Z'^'!2,mish- kan, a dwelling [Cant, i, 8], the regular term for " taber- nacle ;" T\1i'0, sukkuh [2 Sam. xi, 11], a "booth;" or nap, kuhbdh, a dome-like pavilion, only in Numb, ii, 8), a movable habitation, made of curtains extended upon poles. See Tabernacle.
Among the leading characteristics of the nomad races, those two have always been numbered whose origin has been ascribed to Jabal the son of Lamech
(Gen. iv, 20), viz. to be tent-dwellers (-HX Sllj"^, comp. XXV, 27 ; uKi]viTi]c, Pliny, vi, 32, 35 ) and keepers of cattle. Accordingly the patriarchal fathers of the Is- raelites were dwellers in tents, and their descendants proceeded at once from tents to houses. We therefore read but little of huts among them, and never as the fixed habitations of any people with whom thej' were conversant. I3y huts we understand small dwellings, made of the green or dry branches of trees interwined, and sotnetimes plastered with mud. In Scripture they are called booths. Such were made by Jacob to shelter his cattle during the first winter of his return from Mesopotamia ( Gen. xxxiii, 17 ). In after-times we more fre(iuently read of them as being erected in vine- yards and orchards to shelter the man who guarded the ripened produce (Job xxvii, 18; Isa. i, 8; xxiv, 20). It was one of the Mosaical institutions that during the Feast of Tabernacles the people should live for a week in huts made of green boughs (Lev. xxiii, 42). In ob- serving the directions of the law respecting the Feast of Tabernacles, the Kabbinical writers laid down as a distinction between the ordinary tent and the booth, sukkah, that the latter must in no case be covered by a cloth, but be restricted to boughs of trees as its shelter {Sukkah, i, 3). In hot weather the Arabs of Mesopota- mia often strike their tents and betake themselves to sheds of reeds and grass on the bank of the river (Lay- ard, Nineveh, ii, 215; Burckhardt, Notes on Bed. i, 37, 46 ; Volney, Trarels, i, 398).