By a somewhat different figure, the pestilence is said to walk in darkness, spreading its ravages by night as well as by day. God is said to walk on the wings of
the wind, and the heart of inan to walk after detestable things.
"Walker, Aldace, D.D., a
Congregational minister, was born in Strafford, Vt., July 20, 1812. He was prepared for col- lege at Kimball Union Acad- emy, and graduated at Dart- nu)uth College in 1837. From here he went to Brattlebor- ough, and remained as principal of its High - school for one year, until 1838, at which time he entered Yale Theological Seminary, where he remained until 1839. He then entered Andover Theological Seminary, and, alter remaining one year in study, graduated in 1840. He was ordained at West Rutland, Yt., Dec. 30, 1840, where he preached for twenty-two years, and was dis- missed Aug. 2G, 18t)2. He then became acting pastor at Wallingford, Vt., in 18G2, until installed there, :SIarch 10, 1809, in wliich office he remained until his death. He was disabled from service and resigned in January, 1877, but his Church did not accept. He was a trustee of Middlebury College from 1853 ; corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign IMissions from 1873. He was register of the General Convention of Vermont from 1856 to 1870, and a mem- ber of Fairbank's Board of Education from its first ap- pointment in ISofi. He died of general debility. July 24, 1878. (W. P. S.)
"Walker, Alexander "Waddell, a minister in the JNIethodist E]iisco]ial Church, South, was b<irn in Charleston, S.C., Jan.22, 1815. Hereceiveda good grammar-school education; spent much of his early man- hood in marble-working, dis- playing both skill and taste; was converted in 1830, and was ad- iTiitted into the South Carolina Conference in 1834, and for twen- ty-three years did efficient work on circuit, mission, and station, in the up-country and in the lowlands, in the miasma of the swamps and rice -fields, and in the bracing air of the tnoun- tains, to the white man and to the black, to the polite and re- fined, and to the rude and un- cultivated. In 1857 Mr. Walker settled at Spartanburg as supernumerary, and in 18G1 enlisted in the Confeder- ate army and served two years. He died in 1870. Mr. Walker was distinguished for purity and honesty of character, for sincerity, kindness, and generosity of heart, for modesty, constancy, courage, and conscien- tiousness. See Minutes of A nnital Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1870," p. 419.
"Walker, Augustus, a Congrcgationa' mission- ary, was born in Medway, jMass., Oct. 30, 1822. He was converted at the age of twelve ; followed mercantile pursuits in Charleston, S. C, and Baltimore, Md. ; pre- pared for college at Leicester Academy, and graduated at Yale in 1846. In 1852 he graduated at Andov-er Theological Seminary, was married and ordained, and in the following year sailed for Smyrna, Turkey — Diar- bekir, on the Tigris, being the field designated for him. Here he labored hard and successfully the remainder of his life, except from 1864 to 1865, when he visited his native land. He was welcomed with much joy by his friends and the natives upon his return to Diarbekir. But his work was nearly done. His exhausted and overworked body was stricken with the cholera, and. in spite of all that could be done, he died, Sept. 13, 1866. iMr. Walker did a noble and enduring work on the banks of the Tigris, and his death was felt severely both in
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Turkey and Amorica. "He fell where the standard- hearer wishes to fall, at his post, doini; manfidly. ear- nestlv. even l)eyond his strena^th. tiieworii given iiim to do." " .Sue Coi,;/. llntir. Xfiy'u . p. -JOl' sij.
Walker, Benjamin M., a ]Methodist Episcop.al minister, was born at Springtield, Vt., April '2(5, liSOl); was converted in 1830; licensed to preach in 1831; and joined the Xew England Conference in 1834. On the division of the conference he became a member of the I'rovidence Conference. His aiipointmeiits were as fol- lows: I?ariistable, Manstield, Franklin, Scitico, Tolland, Glastenbiiry, Wapping, North-west Bridgewatcr, Wood- stock, Square Pond, Norwich Falls, Eastford, South Coventry, West Thompson, South Glastenbury, Wap- ping. ^loosu]!. Statfordville, Tolland, Windsorville, and (^larryville. where he died, March •!><', 1871. IMr. Walker was a man of great devotedncss, faith, and zeal. See Miiiii/i's of Annual Conferences, 1872, p. 37.
"Walker, Charles, D.D., a Congregational min- ister, vas born in Woodstock, Conn., Feb. 1, 1791, and died in Hinghamton, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1870. At about the age of seventeen j'ears he attended one term at the Academy at Thetford, his education being largely ob- tained by his own efforts. Subsequently he became a teacher. In 181,5 he was converted and united with the Church, and in the year following turned his atten- tion towards the ministry. In Seiitember he began to teach at Ciierry Valley, N. Y., remaining one year, and then entering the Academy at Plainrield, N. H. In 1818 he entered the Theological Seminary at Andover, and, graduating in 1821, went immediately to New York city, to preach under the direction of the Seaman's and the Evangelical ^Missionary societies of that city. Go- ing to Central New York, in the year after, he received ordination from the Otsego Presbytery, Feb. 27, at Nor- wich. After this he preached three months in Leba- non, N. H.; and then, Jan. 2, 1823, after having served tiiere temporarily, was installed pastor of the Church in liutland, Vt., and served there until 1833. He was trustee of Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt. ; a director of Vermont Domestic Missionary Society, and a warm temperance advocate. la consequence of bronchial trouble he was forced to abandon the jndpit for a time, and took charge of a seminary in Castleton, Vt., for one year (1834). During part of 1834 he sujiplied the Pine Street Church in Boston, and Jan. 1, 1835, was installed pastor of the Church in Brattleborough, Vt., in which position he remained until Feb. II, 184(). In 1846 he accepted a call to Pittsford,Vt., and was installed Dec. 2, and resigned in 18G4. Though not a brilliant preacher, his style was singularly clear and chaste. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the University of Vermont in 1823, and from Middlebury and Dartmouth colleges in 182,5. Tlie degree of D.D. was bestowed by the University of Vermont in 1847. He was elected one of the corporation of Middlebury College in 1837, and of the American Board of Foreign INIissions in 1838. He died wliile on a visit to his daughter at Bingham- ton. \. Y. See Conf/. Quar. 1871, p. 357.