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McClintock & Strong Cyclopaedia — Volume 10
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Walker, Charles S., a minister in the Methodist Kjiiscopal Church, South, was born in Charleston, S. C, Jan. 22, 1815; experienced religion in 1830; and en- tered the South Carolina Conference in 1834. In 1855 he was made supernumerary ; in 18,56 was appointed agent for WofTord College; and died Jan. 18, 1857. IMr. Wal…
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Walker, George (3), a Dissenting minister, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in 1734. He became pastor of a body of Dissenters at Durham in 1757; of another, at Great Yarmouth, in 17(J1 ; and of another, at Nottingham, in 1774; was tutor in mathe- matics at Warrington from 1772 to 179G; and tutor in various bra…
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WALKER 8G2 WALKER he never resumed the place he once occupieil among the ministers of liis denomination. His last illness was at- lendL-d with great physical suffering, lie died, as was be- lieved, an humble Christian, accepted by his Lord in spite ol' all his frailties. His deatli occurred Sept. 20, 1792. See Bened…
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"Walker, John (4), an English clergyman, was born in 1770. He was educated at Oxfonl, where he became fellow of New College ; and was vicar of Ilorne- church, Essex, from 1819 until his death, which occur- red April 5, 1831. Among his published works are, Curia Oxoniensis: — Selection of Curious Articles fjom the Gentl…
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"Walker, Levi (2), ]\I.D., a Baptist minister, was born in 1781. He spent the early part of his life in Livermore. ^le. Not far from the year 1804 he became a hopefid Christian. For some twelve years he was an earnest, zealous preacher in the ^Methodist denomina- tion. A change of sentiment on the subject of baptism le…
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"Walker, Samuel, a Church of England divine, was born at Exeter, Dec. 1(5, 1714: entered Exeter Col- letje, Oxford, in 1732, and took his A.B. degree in 173(5 ; and in 1737 was ordained to the curacy of Doddis- combsleigh. In the loUowinn; year he travelled in France, and added music to his acquisitions; and in 183!) r…
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"Walker, "William (2), a Baptist minister, was born in Dighton, jMass., Sept. 19, 1817. When a young man he resided in New Bedford, where he learned the trade of a shipwright. While thus engaged, he became a hopeful Christian, and his attention was soon turned to the Christian ministry. He was prepared for college at t…
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Only a few other points need here be noticed (from Smith's Did. of the Bible) in addition to what has been said elsewhere on wall construction, whether in brick, stone, or wood. See Brick; Handicraft; Mortar. 1. The practice was common, in Palestine, of carrying foundations down to the solid rock (Luke vi, 48). as in …
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Wallace, Benjamin John, D.D., an eminent Presbyterian divine, was born at Erie, Pa., June 10, 1810. He made a profession of religion when in his twelfth year; received an appointment of a cadetship to the West Point Military Academy. N.Y., in 1827; graduated at the Princeton (N..).) Theological Semi- nary in 1832; was …
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"Wallace, John (2), a Presbyterian minister, was born near Gap, Lancaster Co., Pa., Oct. 1, 1791. He was self-educated, but out of regard to his classical and theological attainments was licensed by New Castle Presbytery, and ordained by the same in 1832 as pas- tor of the Pequa Church in Lancaster County, which was hi…
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"Wallachian "Version. See Roumanian Ver- sion. "Wallauer, George, a German Reformed minis- WALLBKIDGE WALLIN tor, arrived in America, from luiropc. in the winter of 1771. He was pastor of (lie coni;re,i?atioii at Haliimore from 177-_' until near May, 177t),wlien it is said that he left Baltimore. Some one lias rela…
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Wallet, a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey, which anciently always formed a part of the dress of the Christian pilgrim. See ScRii". Wallin, Benjamin, an English Baptist minister, was born in London in 1711. He received a good edu- cation; and although it was the earnest wish of his friends that he should…
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Walloon Church, a branch of the French Re- formed Church, whicli still exists in the Netherlands. It differs from the Dutch Reformed Church chiefly in retaining the use of the French language in divine ser- vice, and of the Geneva Catechism instead of the Heidel- berg. The congregations of this body, though once nu- me…
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"Walsh, Henry, a Presbyterian minister, was born near Dublin, Ireland. Aug. b, 1824. He came to the United States in 1840; was educated at Oglethorpe University, Ga.; taught for several years; studied the- ologj' in the Princeton Theological Seminary; was li- censed by Raritan Presbytery in 1852; was pastor of the chur…
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The Church has produced few such men as Thomas Walsh. With tlie devotion of a Kempis — strongly tinged, too, with his asceticisrn — and the saintliness of Fletcher, he had the memory of Pascal and the studi- ousness of Origen. "His life," says Southey, "might, indeed, almost convict a Catholic that saints are to be fou…
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WALTER WALTERS philosophical investigation of doctrine as a dangerous heresy. His work is tilled with abusive epithets and denunciations. He accused Peter Lombard of Nihil- ism, and Abelard of errors with respect to the Trinity. Various historians, among tiiem Neander, have erro- neously identified Walter of St. Vic…
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"Walter, Thomas, a Congregational minister, son of Rev. Nehemiah Walter, was born Dec. 13, 1696. He graduated from Harvard College in 1713; was ordained as colleague to his father in Roxlxiry, Mass., Oct. 19, 1718. Among his pul)lications were, Grounds and Rules of Music Explained (1721) :^an Essay upon Infallibil- ity…
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"Walther, Christian (2), D.D., a German divine. was born at Norkitten, near Kiinigsberg, in 1655. He was educated at Kouigsberg, Leipsic,and Jena, receiving the degree of A.^M. at the latter place in 1677. He then returned to his native country, where he held several ecclesiastical offices. In 1701 he became a member …
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Walther, Rudolph, a Reformed theologian of Germany, was born at Zurich, Nov. 9, 1519. He stud- ied at different places, visited England, and, after his re- turn, he continued his studies at Marburg. Here he at- tracted the attention of the landgrave, Philip of Hesse, who took him in 1541 to Katisbon, where he acted as …
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WALTOX WANDELBERT brew in the General Theolofjieal Seminary, New York city. See Amer. Qmu: Church Rev. Jan. 1870, p. 63G. "Walton, William C, a rresbyterian minister, was born in Hanover C'oi;nty, Va., Nov. 4, 1793. He was educated at Hampden Sidney College; licensed to preach Oct. 2-2, 1814; ordained April 25, 1818…
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"Wandalin, Peter, a Protestant theologian and linguist of Germany who died in 1659, is the author of Cat(dogus 300 Vocabulorum Danicorum Cognationem ex Lingua Hebr. Ducentiuni (Hafniaj, 1651). He also wrote Paraphrasis Germ, in 7 Psalmos Pwnitentiales, in Epist. ad Galatas, Philippenses, Hehrceos, et Tres Juhannis Epis…
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W^anker, Ferdinand (Je.minian, a Catholic divine of Germany, was born Oct. 1, 1758, at Freiburg, in the Breisgau, where he also studied, and where, on account of his excellent examination, he was promoted as doctor of divinity. In 1782 he received holy orders at Con- stance, in 1783 was made subregens at the seminary i…
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2. A mong the Early Nations, Neiyhhors to the Israel- ites.— From the existing monuments of Egypt and As- syria, we learn that war was, among the ancient na- tions, the main business of life. The Egyptians early possessed a considerable standing army, which was prob- ably kept up by conscription. " Wherever," says Ro- …
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Where such exact order and instruction existed, it may not be doubted that in military affairs, upon which, in the tirst years of emancipation, so much of future power and success was to depend, measures no less appropriate were taken, and that, with the Egyptian model universally known, similar institutions or others …
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yet inhabited it; (2) those who had planted an olive or vineyard and had not tasted the fruit, which gave leave of absence for live years; (3) those who were betrothed, or had been married less than one year; (4) the faint- hearted, whicdi may mean the constitutionally delicate, rather than the cowardly, as that qualit…
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The war-cry of the Hebrews was not intonated by the ensign-bearers, as in the West, but by a Levite; for priests had likewise charge of the trumpets and the sounding of signals ; and one of them, called " the anoint- ed for war," who is said to have had the charge of ani- mating the army to action by an oration, may ha…
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Such were the instruments and the institutions of war which the Hebrew people, as well as the nations which surrounded them, appear to have adopted; but in the conquest of the Promised Land, as regarded their ene- mies, the laws of war prescribed to them were, for pur- poses which we cannot now fully appreciate, more s…
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line one or more "mounts" or "banks" (tnbsO. Saal- schiitz [Ai-chdol. ii, 504] understands this term of the scaling-ladder, comparing the cognate Milium [Gen. xxviii, 12], and giving the verb Khaphuh, which accom- panies solelah, the sense of a " hurried advancing" of the ladder) in the direction of the cily (2 Sam. xx…
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The Mosaic law, however, mitigated to a certain ex- tent the severity of the ancient usages towards the van- quished. With the exception of the Canaanites, who were delivered over to the ban of extermination by the express command of God, it was forbidden to the Is- raelites to put to death any others than males bearin…
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WAR, Christian Views of. I. History of Opinion. — The question whether war is allowable to Christians divides itself into two, which are intimately related to each other: (a) Is it right for a Christian government to carry on war? and (6) is a Christian subject obliged to serve as a soldier? Christianity always breathe…
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are justified in resorting to arms: as if two wrongs made one right! Doubtless all men have a mitural and even a. jwliiieal right to take up arms in. a just cause; but as Christians they are required to hold these rights in abeyance, and trust to the divine protection. AV'heth- er in absolute self-defence they may not …
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Warburtouian Lecture, a lecture founded by bishop Warburton (q. v.), to prove the truth of revealed religion in general, and the Christian in particular, from the completion of the prophecies in the Old and New Tests, which relate to the Christian Church, especially the apostasy of papal Rome. Courses of lectures on th…
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Ware, Henry, Jr., D.D., a Unitarian clergyman, eldest sou of the jjreceding, was born at Hingham, Mass., April 21, 1794. He was educated at I'liillips Academy, Andovcr, and at Harvard College, from which he gradu- ated in 1812. During the next two years he taught in the academy at Exeter, N. W., spending much of his le…
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"Water (Dl*^, vSwp), universally one of the chief necessaries of life. No one can read f.ar in the Sacred Scriptures without being reminded of the vast impor- tance of water to the Hebrews in Palestine, and, indeed, in everv country to which their history introduces us; but more particularly in the deserts in which the…
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WATER, Holy. See Baptism ; Holy Water, WATER OF Jealousy (Numb. V, 11-31, D'l'nrin 1X2, " waters of bitterness," sometimes with D'^"i"iXXin add- ed, as causing a curse ; Sept. v^wp tov tXiyfiov ; Philo, ii, 310, TToTog IXfyxov). This was probably not the " water of seiiaration" for purification, mixed with the ashes of…
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words cabalistic or medical relating to a particular case, and then washing them off, and giving the patient the water of this ablution to drink, has descended among Oriental superstitions to the present day, and a sick x\rab would probably think this the most natural way of "taking" a prescription. See, on the general…
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■Waterland, Daniel, D.D., an eminent English theologian and controversialist, was born at Wasely, in Lincolnshire, Feb. U, 1G83. He was educated at the free-school of Lincoln, and Magdalene College, Cam- bridge, where he graduated about 1703, and became a fellow of the college in 1704. He continued to reside at the uni…
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Watson, Richard (21, a Wcsleyan theologian, was born at Barton-upon-H umber, Lincolnshire, Feb. 22, 1781. Physically feeble, he had a precocious mind, and against poverty and great difficulties he bent his ener- gies to the acquisition of knowledge. He enjoyed no school advantages after he was fourteen, having at that …
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Watson's influence has been great and enduring. His premature death was greatly lamented; but, "with an intellect so intense, mental labor so abundant and untir- ing, activity so incessant, and feelings so deep, we are not surprised that Watson fell a martyr to his exertions in the midst of his years" {Lond. Quai: Revi…
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At the end of this time he was invited by Sir John Hartopp to reside in his family, at Stoke Newington, near London, as tutor to his son. Here he remained until 1702; but on the completion of his twenty-fourth year (in 1698), he preached his first sermon, and was chosen soon after assistant to Dr. Chauncy, pastor of th…
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WATTS 890 WAYLAND was laid there May 6, 1875. See Southey, Memoir of J.<(i(ic Watts, I). D.; Johnson, Life of Watts ; Jennings, Sermon on the Death of the Late Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. ; Gibbons, Memoirs of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. See IIymnoi.oc.y. Watts, William, D.D., an English ecclesiastic, was born near Lynn,…
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Wayland, Francis, D.D., LL.D., an eminent Baptist divine and educator, was born in the city of New York, March 11. 1796. His parents came to the United States from England in 1793. Soon after his settlement in New Y'ork, his father left his secular business and was licensed to preach the Gospel, and spent the remainder…
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for the library, and the library itself greatly enlarged and enriched by some of its most valuable treasures ; Kliode Island Hall erected, a new president's house built, the college campus greatly improved and extended, and the endowment and scholarship and aid funds eidarged. For twenty-eight years and a few months Dr…
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Wayusaccha (or Vayusacca), in HindCi mj'- thology, is a surname of the god Agni (fire); it signi- a^s friend of the air. "Wazo, bishop of Liege, w^is born probably in the eighth decade of the 10th century. His name was originally Walter or Warner. He came under the no- tice of bishop Notger, and was a<lmitted into the…
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1. Protective Weapons. — To this class belong the fol- lowing : h The Shield (q.y.). 2. The Helmet (S'^IS or "?ip, 2 Chron. xxvi, 14; .Jer. xlvi, 4; j) ■7rEptKt<pa\aia, Eph. vi, 17) of brass (1 Sam. xvii, 6, 38 ; 1 Mace, vi, 85 ; comp. Diod. Sic. v, 30 ; Xenoph. Anub. i, 2, 16). Whether the Israelites also w'ore them…
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3. The^Bow (q.v.) in connection with Arron-s (q.v.). 4. TheSliiiff (q.v.). 5. A Battle-axe (see Wilkinson, i, 323, 325 sq.) is named ("linO, Psa. xxxv, 3 ; comp. the adyapic of the Scythians, Massageta;, and Persians, Herod, i, 215; iv, 70 ; vii, 64 : Xenoph. Cyrop. i, 2, 9 ; ii, 1, 9 ; Strabo, xv, 734; the Armenian …
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Paradvxicrua tijpus (Pulm-iuarten). region, excepting as regards the last mentioned, now known to be a kind of miniature fox {Megalotis zerda, Ham. Smith), or ,/('H«ec of Bruce, who nevertheless con- founded it with Parudoxurtis fi/pun, or an allied species which ecpially fretpients palm-trees; but the/ennfc does not …
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Weatiierford, Thomas, a Methodist Episcopal nimister, was born in Euroiie about 1736. He labored four j'ears in the ministry in the United States. He was slender in frame, remarkable for his piety, and died triumphantly in 1792. See Minutes of Annual Confer- ence's, 1792, p. 45. "Weaver, John M., a Methodist Episcopal…
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WEAVING WEBB All Egyptian Loom, (k is a shuttle, not thrown, but put iu with llie hand. It had a hook at each end.) vii, 6); the thrum (tl^'n) or threads which attached the web to the beam (Isa. xxxviii, 12, marg.) ; and the web itself (Judg. xvi, 14; A. V. "beam"). Whether the two terms in Lev. xiii, 48, rendered "…
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mer. Qua?: Modern Egyptian Shawl-weaver. WEBB 897 WEBB Barnstable, where by various arrangements by his highly cultured and appreciative audience he was con- tinued six years consecutively. Here he died, March 19, 1867, one of the most noted Methodists of his time, having spent more years in the active work than a…
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Webb, Nathan, a Congregational minister, was born in Braintree, ]\Iass. He graduated from Harvard College in 1725 ; was ordained pastor of the Church in Uxbridge, Feb. 3, 1731 ; and died March 14, 1772, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. See Sprague, Annals of the A iner. Pulpit, ii, 85. "Webb, Samuel, an English W…
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cited before a committee of examination to defend him- self against complaints respecting his teachings in tiie lecture-room. The intervention of political events de- prived the examination of such importance as it might have possessed l\)r him, but his influence was neverthe- less irrevocably broken. Ullmanii came to …
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"Weigel, Valentine, a mystic of the 16th cen- tury, was born in 1533 at Hayn, in Misnia, where his fa- ther was then pastor. He studied at Leipsic and Wit- tenberg from 1554 to 1567, and was ordained pastor of Zschoppan,in the diocese of Chemnitz, Nov. 16, 1567, by Paul Eber (q. v.). He remained in that position till h…
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It remains to be observed that while, in his opposi- tion to the literalism of the Church, Weigel was at one with the sects of the time of the Reformation, he was utterly at variance with them in his advocacy of a fully developed quietism, and in his denunciation of war, lawsuits, etc., as he was also with the gross ma…
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xl, 15). The "little grain" (poTr//) of the balance in \Visd. xi, 22 is the small weight which causes the scale to turn. In this pas- sage, as in 2 jNIacc. ix, 8, the Greek word Tr\d<TTiy'£„ ren- dered " balance," was origi- nally applied to the scale-pan alone. See Balance. The balance in this form was known a…
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of his body; of which they speak flatteringly, however they think it to be." It appears, however, from a con- sideration of the other metaphorical expressions in the same passage of Daniel that the weighing in balances is simply a figure, and may or may not have reference to such a custom as that above described. Many …
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"Weimar, David, a Jewish philologist of Ger- many who lived in the 17th century, is the author of N"ip'2n ''12'J'^ mr, Doctrina Accentuationis Ilebr. (CizM, 1681; studio Matthesii, Lips. 1687 a. o.) : — Mys- terium in Infallibili A ccentuum Bibl. Ministerio Defectum (ibid. IGdil) : — Solida Demnnstratio de T>r« Decalo…
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Welch, Mcses Cook, D.D., a Congregational minister, son of Rev. Daniel Welch, was born in Mans- field, Conn., Feb. 22, 1754. Although he graduated from Yale College in 1772, he remained for several years ini- decided as to his profession. For a while he was teach- er of a grammar-school in Windham, Conn., and then ente…
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The importance of wells is verj' great, especially in the desert, where the means of forming them are deficient, as well as the supph^ of labor necessary for such undertakings, which, after all, are not always rewarded by the discovery of a su])])ly of water. Hence in such situations, and indeed in the settled coun- t…
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A well was often covered with a great stone, which being removed, the person descended some steps to the surface of the water, and on his return poured into a WELL 905 WELLES trough that which he had brought up (Gen. xxiv, 11- 15; xxix, 3-10; Exotl. ii, 10; Judt;. v, 11). There is, in fact, no intimation of any oth…
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