THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
The Apology of Aristides (1891); Codex Sangallensis (1891); Some Interesting Syrian and Palestinian Inscriptions (1891); Memoranda Sacra (London, 1892); Popular Account of the Newly Recovered Gospel of St. Peter (1892); Origin of the Ferrar Group (Cambridge, 1893); Stichometry (1893); Lectures on the Western Text of the New Testament (1894); Fragments of the Commentary of Ephrem Syrus upon the Diatessaron (1895); Union with God (London, 1895); Hernias in Arcadia and Other Essays (Cambridge, 1S96); Letters from Armenia (in collaboration with his wife, Helen B. Harris; London, 1897); The Homeric Centones and the Acts of Pilate (Cambridge, 1898); Life of Francis William Crossley (London, 1899); The Gospel of the Twelve Apostles (Cambridge, 1900); Further Researches into the History of the Ferrar Group (Cambridge, 1900); Annotators of the Codm Bezos (1901); The Dioscuroi in Christian Legend (1903); The Guiding Hand of God (London, 1905); and Cult of the Heavenly Twins (Cambridge, 1906). He like- Tvise collaborated with R. L. Bensly and F. C. Burkitt in editing The Four Gospels in Syriac Transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest (Cambridge, 1894), and with F.C. Conybeare and Agnes Smith Lewis in editing The Story of Ahikar from the Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek, and Slavonic Versions (London, 1898).
HARRIS, JOHN: English Congregationalist; b. at Ugborough (12 m. e. of Plymouth), Devonshire, Mar. 8, 1802; d. at St. John's Wood, London, Dec. 21, 1856. As a boy he began preaching in the villages around Bristol, whither his parents had moved about 1815, and quickly won local fame as " the boy preacher." He entered the independent college at Hoxton in 1823, and in 1825 became pastor of the Congregational Church at Epsom, where he established his reputation as a preacher. In 1837 he was appointed to the chair of theology at Cheshunt College. When the independent colleges of Highbury, Homerton, and Coward were amalgamated into New College (London) in 1850, he became principal of this institution, and in 1851 professor of theology. In 1852 he was chosen chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. He was also one of the editors of the Biblical Review, a regular contributor to Congregational and Evangelical periodicals, and the author of a number of meritorious works that have had a large circulation, particularly in America. The more important are: The Great Teacher (London, 1835), which is considered his best book; Mammon (1836), a prize essay of which more than 100,000 copies were sold; The Great Commission (1842), a prize essay on Christian missions; The Pre- Adamite Earth (1846); and Man Primeval (1849). His Posthumous Works, composed of sermons only, were edited by P.. Smith (2 vols., 1857).
Bibliography: Eclectic Review, 4th ser., iv. 303-319, xxi. 137-154, xxvi. 612-625; DNB, xxv. 15-16.
HARRIS, SAMUEL: Name of two American clergymen.
1. Baptist, called the "Apostle of Virginia"; b. in Hanover County, Va., Jan. 12, 1724; d. there probably in 1794. In his early and middle life he held many public offices, including those of sheriff, burgess for the county, and colonel of militia. In 1758 he was converted under the preaching of two itinerant Baptist preachers, and became a distinguished exhorter among the poor white settlers. He was ordained in 1769, and in 1774 was invested by the General Association of Separate Baptists with the office of " apostle." He devoted his fortune to religious and charitable work, lived with
extreme frugality, and suffered much persecution from the Established Church.
2. Congregationalist; b. at East Machias, Me., June 14, 1814; d. at Litchfield, Conn., June 25, 1899. He was graduated at Bowdoin College (1833), and after being principal of Limerick Academy,,. Me. (1833-34), and of Washington Academy, East Machias, Me. (1834-35), entered Andover Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1838. He then returned for three years to his principalship at East Machias, after which he held successive pastorates at Conway, Mass. (1841-51) and Pittsfield, Mass. (1851-55). From 1855 to 1867 he was professor of systematic theology in Bangor Theological Seminary, holding this position jointly with George Shephard, acting pastor of the Central Church, Bangor, from 1855 to 1863. In 1867 he was chosen president of Bowdoin College, but resigned in 1871 to accept the Dwight professorship of systematic theology in the Yale Divinity School. In 1896 he retired as professor emeritus. In addition to numerous sermons, pamphlets, and contributions to periodicals, he wrote: Zaccheus : or, The Scriptural Plan of Beneficence (Boston, 1844); Christ's Prayer for the Death of His Redeemed (1863); The Kingdom of Christ on Earth (Andover, 1874); The Philosophical Basis of Theism (New York, 1883); The Self-Revelation of God (1887); and God the Creator and Lord of All (2 vols., 1896).
HARRISON, FREDERIC: English Positivist; b. at London Oct. 18, 1831. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford (B.A., 1853; M.A., 1858), where he was fellow and tutor in 1854-56, and became honorary fellow in 1899. He was admitted to practise at Lincoln's Inn, London, as a barrister at law in 1858. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Trades-Unions in 1867-69 and secretary to the Royal Commission for Digesting the Law in 1869-70. He was also professor of jurisprudence in the Inns of Court from 1877 to 1889, and was examiner in the same subject in the Inns of Court in 1875, in London University in 1873-76, and in Oxford University in 1877 and 1881. He was an alderman of the London County Council from 1889 to 1893. Originally a member of the Church of England, and with a thorough theological training at Wadham College, he followed, while at the bar, the sermons of F. D. Maurice, Stopford Brooke, and Benjamin Jowett. He gradually came, however, under the influence of Auguste Comte, and finally adopted Positivism, the " Religion of Humanity," in 1870. Since that time he has come to be the leading exponent of Positivist doctrines in England, and from 1879 to 1904 was president of the English Positivist Committee, as well as a member of the Occidental Positivist Committee of Paris. In addition to numerous contributions to various periodicals, his works include Meaning of History (London, 1862); Order and Progress (1875); The Choke of Books (1886); Studies in Early Victorian Literature (2 vols., 1895-97); Byzantine History in the Early Middle Ages (1900); George Washington and Other American Addresses (1901); Theophano (1904); Herbert Spencer (Oxford, 1905); Memoirs and Thoughts (London, 1906); Philosophy of Common Sense