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 326 CHARYBDIS AND SOYLLA CHASE the Greek church, the word ehartophylax is used to designate an officer of the same class, but more comprehensive functions. CHARYBDIS AM) SCYLLA, in Grecian my- thology, two voracious monsters which dwelt opposite to each other, the former on the Sicil- ian and the latter on the Italian coast. Cha- rybdis abode in a rock off the shore of Sicily, and thrice every day gulped down the waters of the surrounding sea, and thrice cast them up again. Scylla, whose den was in another rock on the Italian shore, was still more loath- 'some, having twelve feet and six long necks and mouths, each of which took a victim from every ship which passed within their reach. In geography, Charybdis was a whirlpool on tbe coast of Sicily, and Scylla a rock on the coast of Italy, whose proximity rendered the navigation of the Messinian strait peculiarly dangerous to the sailors of antiquity. The rock of Scylla is still to be identified, near the town of the same name (Scilla) ; but the site of Charybdis has been by modern geographers transferred to the whirlpool of Galoforo, 10 m. 8. of Scilla, instead of being directly opposite. There are numerous counter-currents in the strait of Messina which produce whirlpools, but none of them are now dangerous. CHASE, an E. central county of Kansas, wa- tered by the Neosho river and its affluents; area, 757 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,975. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F6 railroad trav- erses it. The chief productions in 1870 were 47,261 bushels of wheat, 104,626 of Indian corn, 26,748 of oats, and 8,605 tons of hay. There were 1,189 horses, 1,201 milch cows, 4,730 other cattle, 1,255 sheep, and 585 swine. Capital, Cottonwood Falls. CHASE, I rah. I >. I >., an American clergyman, born at Stratton, Vt., Oct. 5, 1793, died at Newtonville, Mass., in November, 1864. He was educated at Middlebury college and An- dover theological seminary, and was ordained in 1817. After laboring as a Baptist mission- ary in the western part of Virginia, he became in 1818 professor in the theological school at Philadelphia, which was soon after transferred to Washington. In this office he remained seven years, one of which he spent in Europe, and in 1825 he was prominent in establishing the theological school at Newton Centre, Mass., with which he was connected as professor till 1845, when he resigned, in order to devote himself to theological and literary studies. During a visit to Europe in 1830 he aided in founding the Baptist mission in France. He published " The Life of John Bunyan," " The Design of Baptism," " The Work claiming to be the Constitution of the Holy Apostles, re- vised from the Greek," "Infant Baptism an Invention of Man," and many sermons, essays, and contributions to reviews on questions of church history and doctrine. CHASE, Philander, an American clergyman, born in Cornish, N. H., Dec. 14, 1775, died at Jubilee college, Illinois, Sept. 20, 1852. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1795. His religious views at this time were those usually beld by the Congregationalists, but having met with a prayer book of the Episcopal church and carefully examined its contents, he studied for the ministry in that church, and was ordained in New York in May, 1798. For several years he was occupied in missionary labors in various parts of the state of New York. In 1805, on account of his wife's health, he went to New Orleans, where he labored zealously in behalf of the Episcopal church. Returning to the north in 1811, he became rector of Christ's church, Hartford, Conn. Deeply interested in the religious condition and prospects of the great west, he went in 1817 to Ohio, and en- tered into the work of planting and building up the church in that state. He became bishop of Ohio Feb. 11, 1819, and prosecuted his labors amid many severe trials; but feeling the ne- cessity of educational influence and power, he visited England in 1823 to ask for pecuniary aid toward founding a college and theological seminary in Ohio. He^collected about $30,000, and on his return purchased 8,000 acres of land and laid the foundations of Kenyon college and Gambier theological seminary. Disputes having arisen between the bishop and some of his clergy in regard to the proper use of the funds obtained from England, he resigned in September, 1831, his jurisdiction in Ohio and the headship of the college. Intent upon mis- sionary labor, he removed further west, and in 1835 was chosen bishop of Illinois. He again, visited England, and collected about $10,000 for the same purpose as before. His labors culmi- nated in the founding in 1838 of Jubilee college at Robin's Nest, Illinois, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a man of more than average ability, of indomitable perse- verance, and great strength of will, and was the most energetic and successful pioneer of the Episcopal church in the west. His publi- cations are: "A Plea for the West" (1826); " The Star in the West, or Kenyon College ' r (1828) ; " Defence of Kenyon College " (1831) ; and " Reminiscences," an autobiography, con- taining the principal events in the author's life to 1847 (2 vols. 8vo, 1848). CHASE, Salmon Portland, an American states- man and jurist, born in Cornish, N. H., Jan. 13, 1808, died in New York, May 7, 1873. In 1815 his father removed to Keene, and died two years later. When 12 years old he went to Worth- ington, Ohio, where his tuition was superin- tended by his uncle, Philander Chase, then bishop of Ohio. He then entered Cincinnati college, and after about a year's residence there returned to his mother's home in New Hamp- shire, and in 1824 entered the junior class of Dartmouth college, where he graduated in 1826. In the succeeding winter Mr. Chase opened a school for boys in Washington. In 1829 he was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, for which he had qualified him- self while discharging the duties of a teacher.