to Redland, Bristol. Like dean Swift, he "died at the top.'' Tiie intellect, too active in life, lost its cunning, the memory its power. Finally, the great spirit passeil away, Nov. 7, 1876.
"Seldom has a man been intrusted with an intellect at once so strong and so sprightly; seldom have the earnest student, the |)owerful preacher, and the effective administrator been so happily united in the same per- son. Waddy was a great and noble man, of strongly marked individuality, strict integrity, and high-toned honor, admiral lie alike in public and private lil'e" {Min- utes, 1877, yi. 18j. In a beautifid and masterly memori- al, an inimitable piece of characterization. Rev. William Arthur thus speaks of Dr. Waddy as a preacher: "Those who best knew these private qualities also best knew that the gravity, depth, and elevation, which took up the whole man when he appeared in the ])ulpit, were as spontaneous as the rest. He was not now the friend among friends, but the servant in the presence of his Master, whose greatness and whose goodness put him and all his fellow-servants to shame, and, at the same time, gave them cause for adoration, of which the deep- est tone can never fully note the depth. He was now a messenger fraught with words of import, and bound to make their sense understood and their weight and urgency felt. Then did thought sit supreme in every chamber of the spirit, and look out with a most manly earnestness from everj'' window of the countenance. Calm, strong, reverent, and original; acute, lofty, rich, and often deep, he unfolded his Master's message, and laid his Master's will upon the soul" (see Life, p. 342 sq.). " Dr. Waddy was the brightest and most vivid of men in society. No one that ever passed a free hour in social intercourse with him could believe that even Sydney Smith was a wittier man or uttered more, or more pungent or more brilliant, mots. Every sentence sparkled; every repartee flashed. Now graceful, now caustic, now irresistibly comic and grotesque, the play of his wit was incessant and inexhaustible" (Dr. J. H. Rigg). " Like the flashing of steel, it never gave an impression of less than the strength of steel"' (Arthur). " His humor was always brilliant, never cruel ; like the flame of a diamond, bright but not burning" (Simpson, in A'. Y. Christian Advocate, Nov. 18, 1880).
Of Dr. Waddy's writings there were published, Exe- ter Hall Lecture on Sincerity (Loud. 1853) : — Ex-pi-esi- dential Charges (ibid. 1860) : — a volume of Sei'mons, is- sued by his family : — and several A ddresses, Ljetters, etc., preserved in his Life. See particularly a Letter to the L^ondon Times (Sept. 8, 1849) in defence of tlie action of the Conference in re Everett, (iriffith, and Dunn (^fAfe, p. 209-219); and a I^ecture on Popery (p. 364-405, Ap- pendix). Waddy, like most of the British Wesleyan divines, could see no good in the Roman Catholic Church. He closes this able lecture with a highly rhetorical and unlimited denunciation of the hatetl Church, a denunciation repugnant alike to fact and charity. Dr. Waddy was the brother of Ilev. Benjamin B. W^addy, and father of Samuel D. Waddy, Q.C., a prominent Liberal member of Parliament, aiul of Rev. John T, Waddy, of the British Conference. See Min- utes of Conference (Lond. 1877), p. 17; Ufe of S. T). Waddy, D.D., by his youngest daughter (ibid. 1878, r2mo), a beautiful and admirably written biography; Stevenson, Hist, of City Road Chapel, p. 226,
"Wade, Alpheiis, a Methodist Ejiiscopal minister, was born at Pawlet, Vt., June 14, 1801. He was con- verted when about nineteen, and licensed as a local preacher in 1821. In 1838 he joined the Troy Confer- ence, and was appointed to the Luzerne Circuit. Subse- quently he served at Ticonderoga and Jay, N. Y. ; Al- burgh, Sheldon, and Monkton, Vt. ; Northampton, N. Y. In 1847 he was supernumerated, and in 1852 was super- annuated. He died at Amsterdam, N. Y., July 26, 1868, See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1869, p. 117,
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tist missionan', wife of Rev. Dr. Jonathan Wade, was born in Nelson, N. Y.. June 10, 1801. She sailed for Burmah, the fielii of Christian lahor to which she and her hushand had heen designated by the Baptist Trien- nial Convention, June "i^, 1«2;;, and arrived at Calcutta Oct. Ill, and Kanj^'oon Dec. 5. of the same year. Soon after they reached tlieir station, the first Hurtnesc war broke out, and Mr. and Mrs. Wade took up their resi- dence in Doorgapoore. about live miles from Calcutta. Here they gave themselves to the work of studying the Burmese language and fitting themselves for the mis- sionary labors upon which they jiroposed to enter when- ever tiie i)rovi(lence oftiod should prepare the way. In 1826, the war having ended, they returned to Biirniah. and took up their residence at Amherst, in the month of November. IMrs. Wade devoted herself for a time to the care of the infant left by the first Mrs. Judson, and on its decease she established and superintended a school for Burman girls, and performed missionary labor among the Burman women. Amherst not proving to be so h<iiieful a place for missionary work, ;\Ir. and Mrs. Wade removed to ^Maulmain, and in 1830 to Kangoon. Sub- sequently they went to jNIergin. In all these different Stations Mrs. Wade devoted herself with great fidelity and perseverance to the work which she had undertak- en. We have read of but few persons who were more thoroughly consecrated to the service of their Master, and lived as if immediately in his divine presence. She returned to the United States in 1833 on account of the ill -health of her husband. Wherever she went, her presence was an inspiration, and she was the means of arousing the deepest interest in the cause of foreign missions. She spent a year and a half in her native land, and then returned to the sphere of her labor, once more to devote herself to the service of her Lord. What she accomplished during the next fourteen years cannot be told in a sketch so brief as this. The records of the final day, alone, will disclose it. The health of her hus- band again broke down, and she once more went back to her native land, reaching Boston July 31, 1848, and remaining in her ov,-n country two years; as useful, per- haps, at home as she had been on foreign shores in the great work to wliich she had consecrated all her faculties. On July 25, 18.50, she again set sail for the East, and in due time stood once more on the soil of Burmah. Her missionary labors were carried on in JNIanlmain and Ta- voy, and continued up to within a few months of the close of her life. Some time before the end of her toils was reached, she wrote to a friend, •' We are old. very old, for India ; and we live daily looking for the bright messenger to call us home. The dear anil more and more lamented Judson once exclaimed, when near the heavenly shore, ' Oh, the love of Christ ! What a beautiful study for eter- nity !' And for some time past I have had views, as never before, of the length and breadth, and height and depth, of the riches of the grace of God through Christ our Sav- iour; and often does my heart exclaim, 'What a beauti- ful, what a sublime study for eternity !' " The anticipated close of life came, and she entered the better world Oct. 6, J8()8. She occupies a conspicuous place among the ablest and most devout female missionaries of modern times. See Baptist Missionary Magazine, xlix, 9394. (J. C. S.)