OWEN, Joseph

[s. 584] : Born at Bedford, New York, •667 June 14, 1814; graduated at Princeton College, 1835, and theological seminary 1839; ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of West chester October 2, 1839; sailed as a mi ionary of the PN for India, August 5, 1840. Most of his life was spent at Allah a bad (1840-68). His labors, like those of most mi ionaries in India, were various form a community under a superior, altho its members would not be bound by any vows for hfe, but would be allowed to withdraw at pleasure. The rules of the community were tested by two years’ work in Calcutta, after which ihe bishop incorporated the first members of “The Oxford Brotherhood of the Epiphany.” The mi ion consists of 8 ordained and 2 unordained members, all Oxford University men, who carry on work in Calcutta and Patna, in three — preaching, teaching, translating, and revising former translations of the Scriptures, and preparing commentaries on different books of the Bible. He was president of the Allah a bad Mi ionary College, and profe or in the Allah a bad Theolog After 28 years of continuous ical Seminary. labor he left in ill health for America via Scotland, intending, after spending a few days in Edinburgh, to visit his native land, and then return to India, but died in Edinburgh December 4, 1870. He took high rank as a scholar. When he left India completed a second revision and he had just edition of the Old Testament in Hindi and a commentary on Isaiah in Hindu stan i for the American Tract Society. He wrote a new translation of the Psalms in Hindu stan i and several commentaries in the same language. 585