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luxuries of the females alluded to. See Ahmhole. In 1 Sam. xix, 13, 16, the Heb. word is ^^-2, kebir, some- thing braided or plaited, hence usually thought to be a quilt or mattress. See Bolster.
What kind of pillows the Hebrews used we have no means of knowing, but the ancient Egyptians had pil- lows of wood formed to receive the head when resting on their couches, and these no doubt had a cushion stuffed with feathers, or other soft material. Specimens of these wooden pillows maybe seen in the British Mu- seum (Wilkinson, .1 in: Egyptians, i, 71). " Hardy t rav- ellers, like Jacob (Gen. xxviii, 11, 18) and Elijah (1 Kings xix, 6), sleeping on the bare ground, would make use of a stone for this purpose ; and soldiers on the march had probably no softer resting-place (1 Sam. xxvi, 7, 11, 12, 16). Possibly both Saul and Elijah may have used the water-bottle which they carried as a bolster, and if this were the case, David's midnight adventure becomes more conspicuously daring. The ' pillow' of goats' hair which Michal's cunning put in the place of the bolster in her husband's bed (xix, 13, 16) was probably, as Ewald suggests, a net or curtain of goats' hair, to protect the sleeper from the mosquitoes (Gesch. iii, 101, note), like the 'canopy' of Holofernes" (Smith). See Sleep.
Ancient Egyptian Wooden Pillow.
Pillsbury, Ithamar, an American Presbyterian evangelist and missionary, was born in Dracutt, Mass., Aug. 22, 1794. His parents being both very pious, his early discipline and religious training were very strict and thorough. He prosecuted his academic course under many difficulties and discouragements, being obliged to interrupt his studies from time to time and to engage in teaching, in order to raise funds. He en- tered Union Academy, in Plainfield, N. H., in 1815; graduated at Yale College in October, 1822; studied theology in New York under the direction of Rev. Drs. Gardiner Spring and E.W.Baldwin; was licensed in October, 1824, and on June 19, 1825, was at his own re- quest and by the unanimous vote of the Presbytery ordained as an evangelist. For several months after he labored as city missionary in and around the cities of New York and Boston. The character and results of his labors in those two cities laid the foundation for that extensive system of religious effort which aims at the spiritual good of the poor and destitute, known as City Missions. Desirous of a pastoral charge, in Sep- tember, 1827, he accepted an invitation to supply the Church at Smithtown, Long Island, for one year, but continued to labor in that capacity until April. 1830, when he was installed their regular pastor. At his own request, in 18S3 this relation was dissolved, and until May, 1834, he spent the time in travelling as an agent of the American Sunday-School Union. In 1835 he was appointed a commissioner to the General Assembly at Pittsburgh, Pa., after which he started on a tour of exploration to the state of Illinois, with a view to the founding of a colony. In September of the same year he returned to New York, and succeeded in organizing a company with a capital of some $40,000, to be in- vested "in the purchase of land, and the establishment of a colony for promoting the cause of education and piety in the state of Illinois." From this time onward
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to tlio end of hia life he was identified with the West, especially in all thai pertained to the growth and pros- perity of the Presbyterian Church. To the scheme of Christian colonization he gave much thought, time, la- bor, and prayer. From the Bpring of 1836 bis labors as a missionary #nd an evangelisl fairlj set in; and with untiring energy and devotion he addressed him- self to his work. He organized fourteen churches, and assisted at the organization of several others. In 1837 oized the Church at Andover, in the Andover colonj . and iu 1841 he was installed its pastor, and con- minister unto it until September, 1849. In May. L850, he was installed pastor al Princeton, Bureau Co., where he had previously organized a Church; in was chosen president ofMcDonough College, al Mar,, mil : in L855 he began to labor as stated supply in the Presbyterian Church at Macomb; in I860 he returned to Andover, and took charge of tin' Church which In- founded there. He died April 20, 1862. Mr. Pillsbury was a prudent ami wise counsellor, a sincere and constant friend, ami an able and faithful minister of the Gospel. See Wilson. I'n sb.llist.. I Imanac, 1863, p. 195. (J.L.S.)
Pilot (5rn, chobel, Ezek. xxvii, 8, 27-29), literally a steersman, a mariner, is also rendered in our version (Jonah i. 6) "ship-master;" but in the passage in Eze- kiel it is used in a figurative sense for the chief riders or counsellors of the Tyriana See Ship.
Pilsbury, Phineas, Elder, a famous early Amer- ican Baptist minister, flourished in Maine in 1804. He was uneducated, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, but was called "a son of thunder" on account of his boldness and ability, lie was extremely eccentric, and many curious incidents in his personal history are told, but nothing can be related here of any interest to the general inquirer.