Hovey, Alvah

D.D. (Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1856), LL.D. (Denison University, Granville, O., and Richmond (Va.) College, 1876), Baptist; b. at Greene, Chenango County, N.Y., March 5, 1820; graduated from Dart mouth College, Hanover, N.IL, 1844, and from Newton Theological Institution, Newton Centre, Ma ., 1848; with the latter has been connected since 1849, as a istant teacher of Hebrew (1849-55), and as profe or, first of church history (1853-55), and then of theology and Christian ethics since 1855, president since 1868. For one year (1848- 49) he preached at New Gloucester, Me.; for a year (1861-62) was in Europe. From 1868 to 1883, was member of the executive committee of the American Baptist Mi ionary Union. With Rev. D. B. Ford, he translated F. M. Perthes' Life of Chrysostom, Boston, 1854. He is author of Life of Rev. Isaac Back us, Boston, 1858; The State of the Impenitent Dead, 1859; The Miracles of Christ as attested by the Evangelists, 1864; The Scriptural Law of Divorce, 1866; God with us, or the Person and Work of Christ, 1872; Normal Cla Manual, Part I., What to Teach, 1878; Religion and the State, 1874; The Doctrine of the Higher Christian Life compared with the Teachings of the Holy Scriptures, 1876; Manual of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics, 1877, re-i ued, Philadelphia, 1880. He is general editor of The Complete Commentary on the New Testament, Philadelphia, 1881 sqq., in which series he contributed the commentary on The Gospel of John, 1885.