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An unusual supply was required for the sacrificial fire. See BuKNT-oi'FKUiNG. Charcoal was also used. See Coal. That the advantage of forests was a common property does not follow from Lam. iv, 4, and is of itself very improbable in a land where a strict system of pro- prietorship was in vogue. For the various fabrics of this material, sec Handicraft. The chief trades con- cerned were carpenters (Exod. xxxv, 30 sq.), cabinet- makers (xxv, 10 sq. ; xxxvii, 1, 10, 15, 25, etc.), wheel- wrights (Judg. iv, 13; 1 Sam. vi,7; 1 Kings vii, 33; ix, 19; Hos. X, 11, etc.), basket-weavers (Numb, vi, 15 scj. ; Deut. xxvi, 2, 4 ; Jiulg. vi, 19), and (unlawfully) image- carvers. See Idol. On the other hand, we find no trace of cooperage (not even in Jer. xlviii, 12, where WO'2 denotes not casks, but vessels generally). An- ciently, as still, the Orientals used leather bottles, horns, and jars, instead of barrels; but pails (wooden buckets) were probably unknown (Lev. xv, 12 V), The tools of wood-workers were the axe or hatchet (D1"l|5 or "flS), the saw ("iVi5"?), the plane (n::'ti:iSpri ?), and the auger (Talra. mp'2, Mishna, Chel. xiii, 4). See, generally, Bel- lerman, Ihindh. i, 232 sq. — Winer. As ships were not built by the Hebrews, and stone was the ready material for building, architecture had little use for wood. See Housic.
Wood, James (1), D.D., an eminent Presbyterian divine, was born at Greenfield, N. Y., July 12, 1799. He graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1 822 ; studied theology in the Seminary at Princeton, N. J.; was licensed by Albany Presbytery, and ordained and installed in 182G as pastor of the Church at Amster- dam, N. Y., and retained this connection until 1833, when he became agent for the Presbyterian Board of Education, laboring in the states of Louisiana, Mis- sissippi, and Alabama with marked success; became professor of Biblical literature in the Theological Sem- inary at New Albany, Ind., in 1839; associate secretary of the Board of Education in 1854 ; president of Han- over College, Hanover, Ind., from 1859 to 1866 ; presi- dent of Van Kensselaer Institute, Hightstown, N. J., from 1866 until his death, April 7, 1867. Dr. Wood was a man of mark in his da}', and occujned many prominent places of usefidness. In the controversies which re- sulted in the division of the Presbyterian Church, he was a very able and successful writer. His work en- titled Old and New Theology is the most comprehensive, and the fullest exhibition of the reasons which led to the disruption that has ever been published. Its temper, tact, and conclusiveness are admirable. Dr. Ilodge, late professor in the Theological Seminar)^, Princeton, N. J., wrote as follows: '-In common with all his brethren, I ever regarded him as one of our best, wisest, and most useful ministers. The important positions which he was called upon to fill are proofs of the high estimation in which he was held. His sound judgment, dignified man- ners, amiable temper, combined with his learning and energy, secured for him a wide and happy influence in the Church." Dr. Wood was the author of a Treatise on Baptism (1850, 12mo): — Call to the Sacred Office: — The Best Lesson and Best Time : — The Gospel Fountain {l8vao):—Old and New Theology (1855, 12rao) : — Girtce and Glory (1860, 18mo). He published also four edu- cational pamphlets, and contributed a Jifemoir of the A ulhor to Rev. James IMatthews's Influence of the Bible, etc. (Phila.). See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1868. p. 154 ; AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v. (J. L. S.)
Wood, James (2), D.D., an English clergyman, was born about 1760; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; became dean of Ely in 1820; and died at Cambridge in April, 1839. He was co-author of a val- uable series of mathematical works known as the Cam- bridge Course of Mathematics.
Wood, Jeremiah, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in (ireenfield, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Nov. 1 1 , 1 S(i I .
After graduation at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1824, he entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and remained there over two years, but without completing the course. He was licensed by the Albany Presbytery in August, 1826, and began preaching at IMayfield, N. Y., within the bounds of the presbytery, in November of that year. He was ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of Albany, Jan. 10, 1828, and continued his work as a stated supply at IMayfield until Sept. 2, 1840, and after twelve years was installed as pastor. He con- tinued in this field through a period of nearly half a century. Dr. Wood was a man of clear intellect, and possessed unusual power as a debater and pulpit orator. He was a wise counsellor, and his opinions always com- manded respect among his brethren. His deep pietj', consistent life, and faithful labors made him an uncom- monly successfid pastor, and he was deeply beloved by his people. During his long ministry he was permitted to witness many powerful and glorious revivals among the people of his charge. In one of these in 1873 the membership of his Church was almost doubled. He died stuldenly, June 0, 1876. (W. P. S.)
Wood, Nathaniel Milton, D.D., a Baptist min- ister, was born at Camden, Me., May 24, 1822, and was a graduate of Waterville College in the class of 1844. For a year after leaving college he was private tutor in the family of Gen. Browning, of Columbus, Miss. He pursued his theological studies at Covington, Ky., and was ordained as pastor of the Baptist Church in Bloom- field, Me., May 13, 1848, where he remained four years. The following eight years he was pastor of the Baptist Church in Waterville, Me. His next pastorates were at Lewiston and Thomaston, Me., and LTpper Alton, III., until March, 1872, when he was elected professor of systematic theology in Shurtleff College. The state of his health compelled him to resign his office in June, 1874. He returned east, and lived a little over two years, dving at Camden, his native place, Aug. 2, 1876. (J. C. S.)