Bishop Gerhard charged the Gnndulfians with hold- ing these and similar opinions, but they refused to ac- knowledge them. They attempted .only to defend their views regarding baptism, but finally announced that they were ready to recant their errors. Then the bish- op and other members of the clertry solemnlj^ con- demned the heresy, excommunicated its originators in case they did not repent, and made the prisoners sign a Koman Catholic statement of the doctrines on which they had held heretical opinions, translated from Latin into the vernacular ; after which the prisoners were released and the synod closed. Gerhard sent a copy of its acts to the bishop of Liege, who applied him- self also with great zeal to the suppression of the here- sy. These acts, whicli arc the only source from which the details of this affair can be obtained, are to be found in D'Achcry's Spicilorjimn (2d edit., i, C07-G24), and in Mansi's Concilia (xix, 42;) sq.). Still tliey give no information as to the rise and development of this party, nor on its relation to those which arose before and after it in the same and neighboring dis- tricts. Gundulf appears to liave made northern France the exclusive field of his exertions, and it was prob- ably there he had made the converts which were
afterwards arrested at Arras. His connection with them was probably an imitation of Christ's connection with his disciples ; they called him the Master, and, as already stated, considered the imitation of the apostles as their highest aim. Gundulf may have been him- self a working man who went to that country because the trades, and especially that of weaver, were in a prosperous condition there. Once there, he i)robably found a body of disciples among his fellow-workmen, whom he instructed in his principles, and whom he af- terwards sent as travelling workmen to propagate his views in their own districts. Of the end of Gundulfs career nothing is known. The period of his greatest ac- tivity was probably alread}' over in 1025. As we see no mention of search for him having been made by order either of Gerhard or of the bishop of Liege, although his disciples had proclaimed him as their chief, it is probable that he was out of the reach of both, and had perhaps been already- removed by death. We have no further information as to what became of the sect afterwards, and, at an}' rate, it continued, if at all, in secret. Similar sects have existed at all times in the bosom of the Romish Church, and they are generally found to represent vital piety as opposed to the corrupt- ed Christianity of Rome. See Hahn, Gesch. d. Ketzer im Miitelalfer, pt. i, p. 89 sq. ; Herzog, Real-Encykl. v, 411 sq. ; Neander, Ch. History, iii, 597.
Gu'ni (Heb. Guni', "^3^5, (/?/etZ [Gesen.] ov protected [Fiirst] ; Sept. Twi, but in 1 Chron. vii, 13, T^vvi, Vulg. Guni), the name of two men.
1. One of the sons of Naphtali (B.C. ante 185G, but not necessarily born before the migration to Egj-pt) (Gen. xlvi, 24 ; Numb, xxvi, 48 ; 1 Chron. vii, 13). His descendants are called Gunites (Numl). xxvi, 48).
2. Father of Abdiel, and grandfather of Ahi, which last was chieftain of the Gileadite Gadites (1 Chron. V, 15). B.C. between 1093 and 782.
Gii'nite (Hebrew with the art. hig-Guni' , "^S^iiil, Sept. I) IVd'j'/, Vulg. Gunita:, A. V. "the Gunites"), a general name of the descendants of Guni, of the tribe of Naphtali (Numb, xxvi, 48).
Gunn, "Walter, was born in Carlisle, Schoharie Co., N. Y., .Tune 27, 1815. He was graduated at Union College in 1840, and studied theology in the seminar^' at Gettysburg. He was licensed bj' the Hartwich Synod in 1842, and the following 3'ear was ordained as a missionar}' to foreign lands. He soon sailed for In- dia, where he labored in faith, and with perseverance and success, among the Tulugoos until his death, which occurred at Guntoon July 8, 1857. Mr. Gunn was the first missionary from the Lutheran Church in the United States who fell in the foreign field. He exerted an influence in Lidia which still lives. He was a man of faith and love, a missionary in the highest sense, of whom the " world was not worthy." (M. L. S.)
GuniiiWiniani, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was born in Caswell Co., N. C, ]\Iarch 13, 1797, and died at Lexington, Ky., Sept. 3, 1853. He removed in early life to Tennessee with his father ; l)ecame, while a mere youth, an active member of the Church ; was licensed to preach before 21 years of age, and joined the itinerancy in 1819. He spent his subsequent life in ministerial labors, mainly in the state of Kentucky, filling with great acceptal)ility and usefulness the positions of circuit and station preacher and presiding elder, and died in the full assurance of the faith he preached to others and so beautifully ex- emplified in his life. He pulilished, in connection with another minister, The Christian Psalmist (Louisville, Kentucky), and also another work, chiefly selections of the preceding, and entitled The Christian Melodist. — Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pul]nt,\\\,Qi22; Minutes of Coif, of M. E. Church South. (J. W. ISL)
Giiiining, Peter, D.D., an eminent English High-church bishop, was born at Hoo, in Kent, in the