Reese, Levi R., a minister of the Methodist Prot- estant Church, was born in Harford County, Md.. Feb. 8, 1806, enjoyed a good preparatory training, and taught school for a while after he was seventeen. When about twenty years of age he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, but shortly after the agitation opened which resulted in the formation of the Methodist Protestant Church, he was, it is said, the first preacher appointed by the new body. The first three years of his ministe- rial life were spent at Philadelphia and New York. In 1833 he was appointed by the Maryland Annual Con- ference to labor in Alexandria. Va., and there succeeded so well that he was successively given "every impor- tant position and every official position within the gift of the body with which he was connected." He was for two years president of the Church, and repeatedly a representative in their General Conference. In 1837 and 1838 he was chaplain to the United States Congress. He died in Philadelphia Sept. 21, 1851. He was highly esteemed as a preacher, and the seals of his ministry are all through Maryland. See Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, vii, 751-754.
Reese, Thomas, D.D.. a Presbyterian minister, was born in 1742. was educated at the College of New Jersey, class of 1768, and became the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Salem, S. C, and subsequently
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of two churches in Pendleton District, S. C. Be died in 1796. He published, Essay on the Tnftuena of Re- /■;,-;/ Society 1788 : Farewell Sermon: - Two Sermons (in the - 1 tin rican Preach r, vol. i and ii ). See Sprague, Annalt of tin Amer. Pulpit, iii. 331.
Reeve, Thomas, D.D.. an Anglican divine of the 17i!i century, flourished as preacher of Waltham Abbey, I He published, Sermons (Lond. L632, Ito):
: Public D< votions 1 1651, l2mo) : i, ifor Nineveh, or London's Precedent for Mer-
cy, delivered in certain Bermons, etc. (1657, fol.); "An extraordinary work, very severe in lashing and expos- ing the vices of the age; the .sermons are a very lively picture of London manners now unknown; . . . this is
one of the scarcesl l ka in English theology" (Beloe,
A iff. iii. 80-84):— an abridgment, entitled Lot R -
membrancer,Yias published soon afterwards: (1660, Ito): — England's Backioardness, etc., a sermon (1661,8vo): -Discourses (1661, 4to): Sermon (1661, Ito): England's Restitution, etc.: Sermons (1661, ito). See Allil e, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. A uth. s. v.
Reeves, William, an Anglican divine, was born in 1668, and was educated at King's College, Cambridge, of which he was made a fellow. He took holy orders, and in 1694 became rector of Cranford, Middlesex, and in 1711 vicar of St. .Mary. Reading. He died in 1726. lie published, Sermons (1704, 4to) : — Sermon (1706, 4to): — The Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minucius Felix in Defence of the Christian Religion, with ■ \nitory of Vineentius Lirinensis concerning the Primitive /.'<</• of Faith (transL, with notes and a pre- liminary discourse upon each author, Lond. 1709-16, 2 vols. 8vo). ••The translation is generally perspicuous and faithful. The notes contain a good deal of learn- ing, and frequently illustrate the meaning where it is obscure. The preliminary dissertation may be consid- ered an answer to the valuable work of Daille on the same subject" (Orme). See Allibone, Diet. ofJBrit. "»</
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Refectory, the dining -hall of a monastery, col- The internal arrangement- and fittings were very similar to those of the ordinary domestic balls, except that it was usually provided with a raised desk or pulpit, from which on some occasions one of the in- mates of the establishment read to the others during meal -time. There are remains of old English refec- tories at Chester and Worcester now used as a -. hool- house, at Carlisle and Durham as a library, and a! Beau- lieu as a church. Portions of the beautiful arcaded walls of one remain at Peterborough. It was usually, as at Lanercosl and Rievalle, raised upon cellarage, which at Clugny contained the bath-rooms; and in Benedic- tine friars' .and regular canons' houses it lay parallel to the minster, in order that the noise and fumes of dinner might not reach i he sanctuary; but inmost Cistercian bouses, as Beaulieu, Byland, Ford, Netley, Tintern, Rie- valle, Fumess. anil Kirkham. Maulbrnun. (Tairvaux. Braisne, Savigny, and ISnupMn.it stood at right angles to the cloister, as it did in the Dominican convents of
Toulouse .and Paris. A few foreign monastic refectories were ol two alleys, as Tours, Alcobaca, the Benedic- tines', and St. Martin des Champs at Paris. ,\i St. Al- ban's an abbot, on hi- resignation, went to reside in a chamber which he had fitted up under the refectory. i dinner-hour was three p. M. The small bell rang and the monks came out from the parlor and washed at the lax atory, an I then entered t he ball, i wo and two, taking their appointed places at the side-tables. At I he high-table on the dais the superior sat. in the centre of the east wall, undi c a cross, a picture of the Doom, or • Supper, having the squilla-bell on bis right hand, which he ran- at the beginning and end ofdin- i jually the number of each mess varied between i hree aid ten persons. Each monk drew down his cow I and ate in silence. While the hebdomadaries or servers ol the week laid the dishes, the readi r of the week be-