D. D Bushnell Horace, an American clergyman, born at New Preston, Conn., in 1802. He graduated at Yale college in 1827, was teacher in an academy at Norwich, Conn., and in 1829 became tutor in Yale college, also studying law and theology. In 1833 he became pastor of the North Congregational church in Hartford. In 1837 he delivered at Yale college the Phi Beta Kappa oration on the " Principles of National Greatness," and in 1847 published " Christian Nurture," in which he discussed the subject of religious education, and treated of the family as a religious institution. In 1849 appeared " God in Christ," three discourses previously delivered, with a preliminary "Dissertation on Language as related to Thought." The views herein expressed respecting the doctrine of the Trinity were questioned, and the author was called upon to answer a charge of heresy before the clerical association of which he was a member. The charge, was not sustained. In further explanation and defence of his views, he published in 1851 a work entitled " Christ in Theology," in which he argued that systematic orthodoxy is not attainable, and that human language is incapable of expressing with any exactness theologic science.

His other principal works are: " Sermons for the New Life" (1858); "Nature and the Supernatural" (1858); "Work and Play" (1864); "Christ and his Salvation" (1864); "The Vicarious Sacrifice" (1865); " Moral Uses of Dark Things " (1868); and "Women's Suffrage, the Reform against Nature" (1869). He has also published many discourses and addresses, and has been a frequent contributor to religious periodicals.