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BINDLEY, THOMAS HERBERT: Church of England; b. at Smethwick (3 m. n.w. of Birmingham), Staffordshire, Oct. 21, 1861. He was educated at Brownsgrove College, Worcestershire, and Merton College, Oxford (B.A., 1884), and was ordered deacon in 1889 and ordained priest in the following year. He was assistant curate of Ixworth, Suffolk, in 1889, and since 1S90 has been principal of Codrington College, Barbados, and examining chaplain to the bishop of Barbados. He became canon of Barbados in 1893 and archdeacon in 1904, while in the following year he was made vicar-general of the diocese. In theology he is a liberal High-churchman. In addition to numerous contributions to theological periodicals, he has translated St. Athanasius de incarnatione Yerbi Dei (London, 1887); Tertullian's Apology (London, 1889); Epistle of the (InUican Churches (1900); and St. Cyprian on the Lord's Prayer (1904). He has also edited Tertulliani Apologeticus (Oxford, 1889); Tertulliani De Prccscriptione (1S93); and (Ecumenical Documents of the Faith (London, 1900); and has written The Creeds (1896) and El incarnatus est (New York, 1896).
BINGHAM, HIRAM: Congregational missionary; b. at Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 16, 1831; d. at Baltimore Oct. 25, 1908. He was educated at Yale College (B.A., 1853) and Andover Theological Seminary (1854-55), and, after acting as principal of the Northampton High School in 1853-54, entered the
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ervice of the American Board of Commissioners for 'oreign Missions in 1856. He began his missionary ctivity in the Gilbert Islands in 1S57, and from 1866 o 1868 was in command of the missionary brig Iorning Star. He was corresponding secretary of tie board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association com 1877 to 1880. From 1880-82 he was Hawaiian overnment protector of South Sea immigrants. In tieolo»y he was a conservative. He has written 'tory of the Morning Star (Boston, 1866) ; Gilber'ese Hble (New York, 1893) ; Gilbertese Bible Dictionary Honolulu, 1895); Gilbertese Hymn and Tune Book New York, 1897); Gilbertese Commentary on latthew (1904); and Gilbertese Commentary on the 'our Gospels (1905).
BINGHAM, JOSEPH: Church of England; at Wakefield (9 m. s. of Leeds), Yorkshire, ept., 1668; d. at Havant (6 m. s.e. of Portsmouth), lampshire, Aug. 17, 1723. He studied at Oxford nd was fellow of University College 1689-95, 'hen he resigned and withdrew from the university ecause his controversial sermon on the Trinity reached before the university had led to the harge, wholly unmerited, of heresy. He was nmediately appointed rector of Headbourn- Forthy (2 m. n. of Winchester), which made the ich cathedral library accessible to him. In 1712 e was transferred to the better living of Havant. lis fame rests upon his Origines Ecclesiasticce, r the Antiquities of the Christian Church (8 vols., yondon, 1708-22). This is exhaustive for the field ; covers and can never be superseded, as it is derived rom the sources and interestingly written. It has een a quarry for many books and itself several imes reprinted; the best edition is by the greatreat-grandson of the author, Rev. Richard Bingam (vols, i-viii of Bingham's Works, 10 vols., •xford, 1855). There is a separate edition of the Miquities in the Bonn Library (2 vols.), a Latin ranslation by Johann Heinrich Grischow (Grischoius; 11 vols., Halle, 1724-38), and an abridged ierman translation by an anonymous Roman Catholic author (4 vols., Augsburg, 1788-96). Unfortunately Bingham invested his savings in tie South Sea Bubble and so lost them in 1720.
■ibliography: Bingham's biography by his great-grandson is given in the Oxford ed. of his works. Consult also: J. Darling, Cyclopedia Bibliographica, pp. 312-315, London, 1854; S. S. Allibone, Critical Dictionary of Eng. Literature, i, 189-190, Philadelphia, 1891; DNB, v, 48-50.
BINNEY, THOMAS: English Congregationalist ; at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Apr. 30, 1798; d. at 'lapton, London, Feb. 24, 1874. He was for seven ears a bookseller's clerk at Newcastle, during which ime he learned Greek and Latin and accomplished onsiderable reading. He studied at the theological eminary at Wymondley, Hertfordshire, and was sinister for a year at Bedford; became minister t Newport, Isle of Wight, 1824, of the King's Veigh-House Chapel, Eastcheap, London, 1829, nd remained there forty years. After retiring rom his pastorate he was professor of homiletics •nd pastoral theology at New College, London. Ie was chairman of the Congregational Union in ;°48. He was strongly opposed to an established •-hurch, and in 1833 at the laying of the corner-
stone of a new chapel for the Weigh-House congregation expressed himself on the subject in language which led to a long and bitter controversy. He felt that the sermon occupied too large a place in the service of the non-ritualistic Churches and favored the introduction of responsive readings and similar changes in the form of worship; his Service of Song in the House of the Lord (London, 1848) exercised much influence in the development of a richer and better musical service,, and he enriched the hymnals by the hymn " Eternal light, eternal light." He edited Charles W Baird's Chapter on Liturgies, adding a preface and an appendix, " Are Dissenters to Have a Liturgy? " (1856). His other publications include a Memoir of Stephen Morell (1826); Dissent Xot Schism (1835); a life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849); Is it Possible to Make the Best of Both Worlds? (1853); Lights and Shadows, or Church Life in Australia, observations made during a visit in 1857-59 (1860); Money, a Popular Exposition in Rough ATotes (1864); St. Paul, his Life and Ministry (1866); Micah the Priest Maker, a handbook on ritualism (1867); From Seventeen to Thirty, a book for young men (1868). Two series of his Sermons Preached in the King's Weigh-House Chapel, 1829-69, were published, the second with biographical sketch by the Rev. H. Allon (1869-75).
Bibliography; Besides the sketch in the volume of hissermons, the following may be consulted: A Memorial of the late Rev. Thomas Binney, ed. J. Stoughton, London, 1874; E. P. Hood, Thomas Binney, his Mind, Life and Opinions, ib. 1874; DNB, v, 57-59.
BINTERIM, ANTON JOSEF: German Catholic theologian; b. at Dusseldorf Sept. 19, 1779; d. at Bilk (s. suburb of Dusseldorf) May 17, 1855. After receiving his first education in his native city, he entered the Franciscan order in 1796 and studied philosophy and theology at Diiren and Aachen for five years and a half. Returning to Dusseldorf, he was ordained priest at Cologne (Sept. 19, 1802). The suppression of the monasteries on the right bank of the Rhine in the following year, however, obliged him to become a secular priest, and in 1805, after passing the required examination, he was appointed to the ancient and extensive parish of Bilk, where he remained until his death. Binterim was an enthusiastic propagandist of ultramonta nism, and to this cause he devoted the greater part of his prolific literary activity. He also defended the Jesuits and upheld the authenticity of the Holy Coat of Treves, while with equal consistency he opposed the followers of Georg Hermes (q.v.) and Catholic " rationalism." In 1837, with his elder brother, he had founded and endowed the vicarage of St. Anthony of Padua at Bilk, and in honor of his jubilee the first impulse toward the establishment of the Historischer Verein fur den Niederrhein was given in 1852. In his devotion to the Church he was imprisoned for six months in 1838 for opposing mixed marriages.
(Victor Schultze.)
Bibliography: Among the numerous publications of Binterim special mention may be made of the following: Veber Ehe und Ehescheidung nach Gottesworl und dem Geiste der katholischen Kirche (Dusseldorf, 1819); Calendarium ecclesice Germanicas Coloniensis saculi nom (Co-
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