Redemptorist.
Redenbacher, Wu.mki.m. an evangelical German minister and senior of the chapter of Gunzenhausen, was horn in 1800, and died duly 11. 1876, at Doruliau- seu. lie was a popular < Ihristian writer, and published, Christlichet I Nuremb. 1855, 3 vols.): Einfach
Betrachtungen, das Gan i der HeUslehn umfassend (2d ed. ibid. Is, .i i Gt 'ncktlicki Zeugnisse fur den Glau- I Iresden, 1850, 1858, 2 vols. | : Kurze Reformations- GeschickU (Stuttgart, 185G). See Zuchold, BibL Theol. ii, 1039; Schneider, Theol. Jahrb. 1877, p. 227. (B. P.)
Redford, Okorge, D.D., an English Congrega- tional minister, was born in London Sept. -27. 1785, and was educated at Boston College and the University of Glasgow. IlisiirM settlement a- a minister was al lx- bridge, where he remained fourteen years. In 1825 be became pastor of the Congregational church at Worces- ter. in 1855 he was thrown from his carriage, and -ut- tered a nervous shock from which he never recovered. lie retired to Edgebaston, near Birmingham, and his congregation al Worcester allowed him £H"i per an- num, lie died May 20, I860. He was a man of great industry and talent. Faithful in his pastoral work to a remarkable degree, he gave himself largely to litera- ture, lie was for some years editor of the Congrega- tional Magazine, and was a frequent contributor to the Eclectic and to the British Quarterly Review, lie published, besides a number of minor writings, the Pasto}-'8 Sketch-book (12mo): Holy Scriptun Veri- fied, the Congregational lecture lor 1837 (8vo); Faith Triumphant (1841, 12mo): Tht Great Change, a trea- tise on conversion (1843, l8mo): Body and Soul Con- ,/./, red (1847, 8vo): I if of (In » v. II'. Jay: — Life of th Htr.j. A.James (1860, 12mo). lie was made D.D. by Amherst College, and LL.D. by the Univer- sity of Glasgow in L834. English Congregational Year- book, 1861.
Redman (Redmayne l, John, l>.I>.. an English divine, flourished in the lirst half of the Kith century. He was a native of Yorkshire, and was horn probably in 1 !!>'.>. lie was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and at l'aris. He became public orator of the university, master of King's Hall, first master of Trinity College, archdeacon of Taunton, prebend of Wells and of Westminster, and died in 1551. lie was one oi i In- most learned men of his age, according to bishop Bur- net. Dodd says that "he divided himself between both religions;" hut on his death-bed he certainly pro- fessed to embrace the cardinal doctrines of the Reform- ers. He published nothing; hut after his death ap- peared, Ojiu.-i de Justifications (Antw. 1555, tto): — Ilymnus in quo Peceator Justificationem quaerens Rudt Imagine describitur: — The Complaint of Grace (1556, 8vo) : — Resolutions conct rning th Sacrarm nL etc.
Reece, Richard, a preacher of Methodism in Eng- land, who travelled without interruption tor a longer period than any other .Methodist preacher -no less than fifty-nine years— and thus figured at one time as the oldest, effective Methodist preacher in the world, was born about the year 1765. In 1823 he visited this coun- try with John Hannah as a delegate of the Wesleyans to the Methodist Episcopal Church ; and he spent some time here visiting the societies, from Lynn, Mass., to Winchester, Va., and by his and Hannah's profound interest attested the general unity of all Methodists. In is hi he was obliged to take a supernumerary rela- tion, and he died in 1850. " He was a good, if not a great, preacher," says Stevens, "and a most amiable man. He is still generally remembered, by both Eng- lish and American Methodists, lor his perfect courtesy and his venerable appearance. His person was tall, his complexion ruddy, his bead silvered w ith age. his voice commanding, his language flowing and pertinent, his piety tranquil, and his wisdom in counsel always relia- ble. He lived to share ill the centenary eel, bratlOD of
Methodism, and by proposing thai ii should he signal- ized in England by the contribution of a million dol- lars for its public charities, excited the suspicion that his usual good judgment had Buffered from the effect of age; but the people justified his calculation by giving seventy-five thousand dollars more. He was honored with an election to the presidency of the Conference." Sec Stevens, //is/, if M , ihuili.im'. ii. 315, 316; iii. 236, 308; West, Sketches of Weslcyan Preachers (N.Y.1848); Wesleyan Maguzim ,1850, p. 652. (J. II. \\ . |
Reed. I. This is the rendering in the A. Y. of the following words in the original. (In the following ac-
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count wo make use, in part, of the articles on the subject in the dictionaries of Smith and Winer.)
1. Usually kaneh (!"T3p; Sept. /caXa/toc, /cnXfr/iicncoc;, KaKafiivog, tt;/yoc, ajKwv, £uyoc, TrvSrpljv; Vulg. culnnis, calamus, amnio, fistula, stateru), the generic name of a reed of any kind. It occurs in numerous passages of the Old Test., and sometimes denotes the " stalk" of wheat (Gen. xli, 5, 22). or the " branches" of the candlestick (Exod. xxv and xxxvii) ; in Job xxxi, 22, kaneh de- notes the bone of the arm between the elbow and the shoulder (os humeri) ; it was also the name of a measure of length equal to six cubits (Ezek. xli, 8 ; xl, 5). The word is variously rendered in the A. V. by " stalk," " branch," " bone," " calamus," " reed."