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Hurst, John Fletcher

clergyman, college president, bishop, author, was born Aug. 17, 1834, near Salem, Md. has been president of the Drew Theological seminary; a bishop of the methodist episcopal church; and is now chancellor of the American university of Washington, D. C. He is the author of Literature of Theology; History of Rationalism; Martyrs to the Tract Cause; Life and Literature in the Fatherland; Outline of Church History; Our Theological Century; Bibliotheca Theologica; Short Histories of the Church; Short History of the Christian Church; Indica, the Country and People of India and Ceylon, include the greater part of his original works.

He is also the translator of Hagenbach's History of the Church in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; of Van Oosterzee's Lectures on John's Gospel; and of Lange's Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, with additions.