Burus, REV. JABEZ, D.D., a Baptist minister, and one of the most prolific religious writers of the 19th century, was born at Oldham, near Manchester, 18th December 1805, and was educated at
Chester, and afterwards at Oldham grammar-school. He joined the Methodist New Connection, and removed at the age of twenty-one to London. In 1828 and 1829 he published his first two works, The Christian Sketch-book and The Spiritual Cabinet, which gained him much popularity. After having exercised the functions of the ministry at Perth (1830-35), he returned to London to become minister of a General Baptist congregation in Marylebone. He lectured in all parts of the United Kingdom on temperance, peace, abolition of capital punishment, &c. He received the degrees of D.D. (1846) and LL.D. (1872) from American colleges. He visited America in 1847 and 1872, and Egypt and Palestine in 1869. Meantime his pen had not been idle, the number of his separate works being upwards of thirty. One of them, Sketches and Skeletons of Sermons (15 vols.), reached a 14th edition; another was the Pulpit Cyclopædia (4 vols. 1846-60). Dr Burns died at his residence in Paddington, 31st January 1876.