RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Harnack Harris
Education (1905); and A Critical and Exegetical
Commentary on Amos and Hosea (New York,
1905).
Bibliography: A sketch of his life is given in Old Testament and Semitic Studies. In Memory of William Rainey Harper, ed. Robert Francis Harper, Francis Brown, and George Foot Moore, 2 vols., Chicago, 1907.
HARRACH, har'raH, COUNT KARL PHILIPP VON: German philanthropist; b. at Prague Nov. 16, 1795; d. at Breslau Nov. 25, 1878. Destined for a military career by his father, a Roman Catholic, after completing his education at the academy of engineering in Vienna, he entered the Austrian army in 1813. He took part in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814, but, finding no satisfaction in the service, he resigned in the early twenties and bought the estate of Rosnochau, near Oberglogau, in Prussian Silesia. There he devoted himself to agriculture until the later years of his life. He gradually became a convert to the Evangelical Church, which he formally joined in 1852, determining, in his zeal, to spend a considerable portion of his wealth for religious purposes. In this he was encouraged by Johann Heinrich Wichern (q.v.), the father of home missions in Germany. During a temporary residence at Berlin, Harrach spent large sums for the advancement of home missions, and he was equally generous at Breslau. He was a member of the board of directors of the Silesian provincial society for home missions, which came into existence in the beginning of the sixties, and bequeathed to it a capital of 60,000 marks, in addition to 30,000 marks for the purpose of educating young men as teachers of Evangelical schools in the province of Silesia.
Harrach also conceived the plan of aiding theological students by giving them an opportunity for a strictly scientific education on the basis of the Gospel. This idea took more definite shape under the guidance of Tholuck, who had long been animated by the same desire. In accordance with their plan, a Konvikt for nine theological students from Silesia and three from other provinces was founded at Halle in 1865, Tholuck being its first president. All the expenses of the students are paid, and those from Silesia are required to devote their services to the Evangelical Church in their native province. Harrach also manifested his interest in the advancement of Christian life by supplying funds for the continuance of the parochial visitations in Silesia, which had been instituted by Frederick William IV., but which had ceased in the early sixties for financial reasons.
(David Erdmann-)".)
HARRIS, GEORGE: Congregationalist; b. at East Machias, Me., Apr. 1, 1844. He was educated at Amherst (B.A., 1866) and Andover Theological Seminary (1869). He was then pastor of High Street Congregational Church, Auburn, Me. (1869- 1872), and of Central Congregational Church, Providence, R. I. (1872-83). He was professor of Christian theology in Andover Theological Seminary (1883-99), being also president of the faculty (1869-99). In 1884 he began, with four colleagues, to edit The Andover Review, which he conducted until 1893, and, in consequence of certain articles
published in it, was tried, together with the other editors, for heresy in 1886, being acquitted, however, in 1892. Since 1899 he has been president of Amherst College. Besides editing Hymns of the Faith in collaboration with W J. Tucker and E. K. Glezen (Boston, 1888), he has written Moral Evolution (Boston, 1896) and Inequality and Progress (1897).
HARRIS, HOWEL: Welsh revivalist, one of the founders of Methodism in Wales; b. at Trevecca, in the parish of Talgarth, Breconshire, Jan. 31, 1714; d. there July 21, 1773. He entered St. Mary Hall, Oxford, on Nov. 25, 1735, but returned to South Wales at the close of his first term and began his evangelistic labors, traveling through the country and preaching as often as five times a day. He was the first lay preacher in the great Methodist movement, and was even a year or more ahead of Whitefield and Wesley. By 1739 he had founded thirty societies in South Wales, and in 1741 the number had grown to 300. In 1751, as a result of a disagreement with Daniel Rowlands (q.v.), his great coadjutor in the establishment of Methodism in Wales, he retired to his home at Trevecca, and founded there, in 1752, a sort of Protestant monastery. This institution, which has long been extinct, had 120 inmates in 1755, not counting a number of families from North Wales, which had settled in the neighborhood. In 1759, when a French invasion was imminent, Harris accepted an ensigncy in the Breconshire militia, and during his three years' service preached in his regimental dress in various parts of England. He had the hearty support of Whitefield and the Wesleys. Toward the close of his life he preached in Whitefield's tabernacle in London, and also before aristocratic assemblies in private houses there. He was repeatedly assaulted by mobs, continually persecuted by the magistrates and the clergy, and denied ordination on account of the irregularity of his methods.
Bibliography: A Brief Account of the Life of Howel Harris . . . from Papers Written by Himself, ed. B. T., Trevecca, 1791; T. Jackson, The Life of Howel Harris, vol. xii. of A Library of Christian Biography, London, 1837 sqq.; H. J. Hughes, Life of Howel Harris, ib. 1892.
HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL: English Friend; b. at Plymouth, Devonshire, Jan. 27, 1852. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge (B.A., 1874, graduated third wrangler), where he was fellow in 1875-78, 1892, 1898, and 1902-04. He was professor of New Testament Greek at Johns Hopkins University (1882-85), and at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. (1886-92). He was then university lecturer in paleography at Cambridge, and, after being professor of theology at the University of Leyden in 1903-04, was appointed to his present position of director of studies at the Friends' Settlement for Social and Religious Study at Woodbrooke, near Birmingham. He has written or edited:
The Teaching of the Apostles and the Sibylline Books (Cambridge, 1885); Fragments of Philo Judceus (1886); The Origin of the Leicester Codex (1887); The Teaching of the Apostles (Baltimore, Md., 1887); The Rest of the Words of Baruch (Haverford, Pa., 1889); Biblical Fragments from Mount Sinai, (Cambridge, 1890); The Diatessaron (1890); The Acts of Perpetua (1890); A Study of Codex Bezoz (1890);
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