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of John Puleston at Emral and preacher at Worthenbury Chapel, in the parish of Bangor-Iscoed. He was ordained in 1657 and presented with the donative of Worthenbury in 1658. For refusing to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity (see Uniformity, Acts of) he was ejected from his living in 1662; and in 1665 he was driven from his home by the Five Mile Act (q.v.) and forced to seek safety in concealment. He did not resume liis regular ministry till the indulgence of 1672. For keeping conventicles he was fined in 1681; and during the Monmouth rebellion he was imprisoned in Chester Castle for three weeks. After the proclamation of liberty of conscience by James II. in 16.S7, he preached daily at Broad Oak, Flintshire, the country estate of his wife, and at various places in the neighborhood. Nothing was published by Henry himself, but from his manuscripts several volumes have been edited which throw light on the inner life of early non-conformity. These are: Eighteen Sermons (London, 1816); Skeletons of Sermons (1N34); Exposition upon Genesis (1S39); Remains (1848); and Diaries and Letters, ed. M. H. Lee (1882). He was the father of Matthew Henry (q.v.), the commentator.
Bibliography: The best source apart from the Diaries and Letters, ut sup., is the Memoirs, by his son Matthew Henry, London, 1696, corrected and enlarged by J. B. Williams, ib. 1825; DNB, xxvi. 124-126.
HENSCHEN, GOTTFRIED: The first pupil and collaborator of Bolland in the great work of his Acta Sanctorum (see Bolland, Jan, Bollandists); b. at Venray (22 m. n. of Roermond), Holland, Jan. 21, 1600; d. at Antwerp Sept. 11, 1681. He entered the Jesuit order at Mechlin in 1619, taught Latin and Greek in various Flemish schools, and was preparing to go as a missionary to the North when, in 1635, Bolland asked for help in Ms task. Henschen was chosen as the most suitable man, and so far justified the choice that he may almost be called the creator of the Acta Sanctorum Bollandistarum in its present shape; Bolland's plan contemplated little more than an expansion of the collection of Surius, but Henschen's scholarly influence induced him to add the learned critical dissertations which constitute the special value of the work. Bibliography: See the literature under Acta Martyrum,
Acta Sanctorum, and consult KL, v. 1780-81.
HENSON, HERBERT HENSLEY: Church of England; b. at London Nov. 8, 1863. He studied at Oxford (B.A., 1884; fellow of All Souls, 1884-91 ; reelected in 1896). He was ordained priest in 1888, and was head of the Oxford House, Bethnal Green (1887-88), vicar of Barking, Essex (1888-95), and incumbent of St. Mary's Hospital, Ilford (1895- 1900). Since 1900 he has been canon of Westminster and rector of St. Margaret's. He was also select preacher at Oxford in 1895-96 and Cambridge in 1901, as well as chaplain to the bishop of St. Alban's from 1897 to 1900. Since 1903 he has been proctor in convocation and almoner of Christ's Hospital. In addition to editing Church Problems (London, 1900), he has written Light and Leaven (London, 1897); Apostolic Christianity (1898); Discipline, Law (1898); Cui Bono? An Open Letter to
Lord Halifax (1899); Ad Rem: Thoughts on the Crisis in the Church (1900); Godly Unity and Concord (1902); Cross Bench Views of Current Church Questions (1902); Preaching to the Times (1903)- English Religion in the Seventeenth Century (1903V The Value of the Bible and Other Sermons (1904V Thoughts on Popular Rationalism (1904); Moral Discipline in the Christian Church (1905); Religion in Schools (1906); Christian Marriage (1907)- and The National Church: Essays on its Hist, and Constitution (1908).
HENSON, POINDEXTER SMITH: Baptist; b. at Fork Union, Va., Dec. 7, 1831. He was graduated from Richmond College, Richmond, Va., in 1849, and from the University of Virginia two years later. He was principal of the Classical Institute at Milton, N. C. (1851-53), and professor of natural science at Chowan Female College, Murfreesborough, N. C. (1853-55). After being pastor of the Baptist Church at Fluvanna, Va. (1855-60), he was pastor of Broad Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia (1860-67), of Memorial Church in the same city (1867-82), of the First Baptist Church, Chicago (1882-1901), of the Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn (1901-03), and of Tremont Temple, Boston, since 1903. Since 1870 he has been editor of The Baptist Teacher.
HEPBURN, JAMES CURTIS: Presbyterian; b. at Milton, Pa., Mar. 13, 1815. He was educated at Princeton (B.A., 1832) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1836), and in 1840 went to China as a medical missionary, being at Singapore from 1841 to 1843, and at Amoy from 1843 to 1846. He then resided in New York until 1859, when he went to Japan, residing at Yokohama until 1892. In 1893 he returned to the United States, and retired from active life. He became a member of the American Geographical Society in 1859, and of the American Bible Society in 1881, and in 1905 received the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, third class, from the Emperor of Japan. He has written Japanese and English Dictionary (Shanghai, 1867; abridged ed., 1873), and a Bible dictionary in Japanese (Yokohama, 1889), besides preparing Japanese translations of the Westminster Confession, the Shorter Catechism, the Decalogue, the Lord's Prayer, and the Creed. He also contributed to the translation of the Bible into Japanese, having taken up the study of Hebrew in order to qualify himself for the work.
HEPPE, HEINRICH LUD WIG JULIUS : German Reformed; b. in Cassel Mar. 30, 1820; d. at Marburg July 25, 1879. He studied at Marburg 1839- 1843, became privat-docent there 1844, extraordinary professor of theology 1850, and ordinary professor 1864. He is known chiefly as a church historian, and his productive activity in this field began with studies in local history. While serving as pastor at Cassel (1845-48), he was moved by the wealth of electoral Hesse's private and public archives to work over the ecclesiastical past of his more immediate neighborhood, and published Die Gcschichte der hessischen Generalsynoden von 1568-1582 (2 vols., Cassel, 1847). In 1849 appeared Die Einfuhrung der Verbesserungspunkte in Hessen von 1604-1610.