HARRIS, HOWEL: Welsh revivalist, one of the founders of Methodism in Wales; b. at Trevecca, in the parish of Talgarth, Breconshire, Jan. 31,1714; d. there July 21, 1773. He entered St. Mary Hall, Oxford, on Nov. 25, 1735, but returned to South Wales at the close of his first term and began his evangelistic labors, traveling through the country and preaching as often as five times a day. He was the first lay preacher in the great Methodist movement, and was even a year or more ahead of Whitefield and Wesley. By 1739 he had founded thirty societies in South Wales, and in 1741 the number had grown to 300. In 1751, as a result of a disagreement with Daniel Rowlands (q.v.), his great coadjutor in the establishment of Methodism in Wales, he retired to his home at Trevecca, and founded there, in 1752, a sort of Protestant monastery. This institution, which has long been extinct, had 120 inmates in 1755, not counting a number of families from North Wales, which had settled in the neighborhood. In 1759, when a French invasion was imminent, Harris accepted an ensigncy in the Breconshire militia, and during his three years' service preached in his regimental dress in various parts of England. He had the hearty support of Whitefield and the Wesleys. Toward the close of his life he preached in Whitefield's tabernacle in London, and also before aristocratic assemblies in private houses there. He was repeatedly assaulted by mobs, continually persecuted by the magistrates and the clergy, and denied ordination on account of the irregularity of his methods.

Bibliography: A Brief Account of the Life of Howl Harris . from Papers Written by Himself, ed. B. T., Trevecca, 1791; T. Jackson, The Life of Howsl Harris, vol. si. of A Library of Christian Biography, London, 1837 sqq.; H. J. Hughes, Life of Howel Harris, ib. 1892.

HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL: English Friend; b. at Plymouth, Devonshire, Jan. 27, 1852. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge (B.A., 1874, graduated third wrangler), where he was fellow in 1875-78,1892, 1898, and 1902-04. He was professor of New Testament Greek at Johns Hopkins University (1882-85), and at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. (1886-92). He was then university lecturer in paleography at Cambridge, and, after being professor of theology at the University of Leyden in 1903-04, was appointed to his present position of director of studies at the Friends' Settlement for Social and Religious Study at Woodbrooke, near Birmingham. He has written or edited:

The Teaching of the Apostles and the Sibylline Books (Cambridge, 1885); Frapmanta of Philo Judeew (1888); The Origin of the Leicester Codex (1887); The Teaching of the Apostles (Baltimore, Md., 1887); The Rest of the Words of Baruch (Haverford, Pa., 1889); Biblical Fragments from Mount Sinai, (Cambridge, 1890); The Diatessaron (1890); The Acts of Perpetua (1890); A Study of Codex Beza (1890);

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The Apology of Aristides (1891); Codex Sanpallenaia (1891); Some Interesting Syrian and Palestinian Inscriptions (1891); Memoranda Sacra (London, 1892); Pope tar Account of the Newly Recovered Gospel of St. Peter (1892); Origin of As Perrar Group (Cambridge, 1893); Stichomatry (1893); Lectures on the Western Text of the New Testament (1894); Fragments of the Commentary of Ephrem Syrus upon the Diatessaron (1$95); Union with God (London, 1895); Herman in Arcadia and Other Essays (Cambridge, 1896); Letters from Armenia (in collaboration with his wife, Helen B. Harris; London, 1897); The Homeric Centones and the Acts of Pirate (Cambridge, 1898); Life of Prancis William Crossley (London, 1899); The Gospel of the Twelve Apostles (Cambridge, 1900); Purther Researches into the History of the Perrar Group (Cambridge, 1900); Annotators of the Code Basin (1901); The Dioscuroi in Christian Legend (1908); The Guiding Hand of God (London, 1905); and Cult q/ the Heavenly Twins (Cambridge, 1906). He like wise collaborated with R. L. Benely and F. C. Burkitt in editing The Pour Gospels in Syriac Transcribed from the Sinaitie Palimpsest (Cambridge, 1894), and with F. C. Cony beare and Agree Smith Lewis in editing The Story of A,hilsar from the Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek, and Slavonic Versions (London, 1898).