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 enter the ministry, he felt so dis- trustful of his qualifications for the work that, for a long time, he resisted their importunities. " When I con- sider," said he, "the design of such a care to be em- ployed more or less in preaching the Gospel, the very thought strikes me with terror. It is a work of ati awful nature." His scruples were, however, in time overcome, and he consented to be set apart to the Christian ministry, and was ordained as the successor of his father. Rev. lulward Wallin, as pastor of the Bap- tist Church, IMaze Pond, London. This ])osition he tilled for more than forty years, his death occurring in F'ebruary, 1782. ]Mr. Wallin was the author of the hymn, " Hail, mighty Jesus, how divine is thy victori- ous sword !" See Belcher, IJislorical sketches of //i/mns, p. 252. (J. C. S.)
Wallin, Johan Olof, a Swedish theologian, was born Oct. 15, 1779, at Stora Tuna, in Dalecarlia. He studied at Upsala, and on first coming before the pub- lic, in 1805, as a poet, he received the great prize of the Swedish Academy, which was also awarded to him in the following years by the same academy, of which he became a member in 1809. He now betook himsilf to spiritual i)oetry, and became the most prominent rep- resentative of this kind of poetry in Sweden. In the same year he was appointed pastor at Solna, and in 1812 was called to Stockholm, and advanced, in 1816, as pastor primarius, thus becoming entitled to a seat and vote in the national diet. In 1837 he was made archbishop of Upsala, and died June 30, 1839. He pub- lished sermons under the title Religiojis-Tid vid atskil- lia TillfdUen (Stockholm, 1827-31,' 3 yoh.) : — Predi/c- ninf/nr (2d ed. 1842, 3 vols.; most of his sermons are translated into German). His poetry he published un- der the title Witlerhets- nrbeten (1848,2 vols.). The Swedish hymn-book, which he completed in 1819, is mostly his work. See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. ii, 1412; Theolofj. U nirei-sal-Lexikon, s. v. ; Winer, llaudbuch dCT theolog. Lit. ii, 167, 825. (B. P.)
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TTT'allis, George, an English Congregational min- ister, was burn at Aiidover, in May, 1816, and died Sept. 6, 1874. He was educated at the University of Edin- burgh, and preached successively at Leytonston^, Batn- bury, Hungerford, Stonehduse, and Bradford. Mr. Wal- lis was endowed with talents of no ordinary cliaracter, wliich he cultivated diligently, and became a great power for good to the Church. See (Lond.) Con(). Year- book, 1875," p. 372.
Wallis, Hugh, a Congregational minister, was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1791. He was or- dained pastor of the Church in Bath, Me., Dec. 9, 1795; was dismissed July 15, 1800; and died in 1848. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, ii,379.
Wallis, John (1), D.D., F.R.S., an eminent English divine and mathematician, was born at Ashford, Kent, Nov. 23, 1616, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated about 1636. He took orders in the Church of England in 1()40, and was chaplain to sir Kichard Darley and to lady Vere. Being an expert in discovering the keys to MSS. written in cipher, he was em- ployed in this capacity by the Eong Parliament. He afterwards obtained the living of St. Gabriel, London, but exchanged it for St. Martin's in 1643; became Saviliaii professor of geometry at Oxford in 1648; keeper of the ar- chives there in 1658; and was con- firmed in these offices at the Restora- tion in 1660. He was a member of the Royal Society in 1662. He had a con- troversy with Hobbes, who pretended to have discovered the quadrature of the circle, which lasted from 1655 till 1 663. He died at Oxford, Oct. 28, 1703. Besides publishing numerous scientific and mathematical works, he was one of the revisers of the Book of Common Prat/er (1661) ; edited the posthumous works of Jeremiah Horrox (1673); maintained theological controversies with the Arians, liaptists, and Sabbatarians; published Theolof/ical Dis- courses (1692); and left the MSS. of a number of ser- mons, which were published for the first time in 1791. See his Memoir, by Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon, printed with the Sermons.
"Wallis, John (2), an English clergyman, was born in Cumberland in 1714. He wrote. Letters to a Pupil on Entering into Holy Orders : — Miscellany in Prose and Verse (1748): — and Natural History and Antiquities of Xorthumherland (1769). He died at Norton in 1793.
Wallis, William James, an Englisli Methodist preacher, was born in London in 1840. His father was an exciseman, his mother a (Quakeress, who brought him up religiously. At fourteen he had more friends than companions; at fifteen he gave his heart to God, and devoted himself to his service. At nineteen he removed to Bronsgrove, and joined the Primitive Methodists, who wished to secure him for their ministry; but his New-Coimection friends had the first claim on him, and he entered their ministry in 1864, but after travel- ling in five circuits his voice failed him, and the rupt- ure of a blood-vessel suddenly closed his useful life, at Stockton, April 30, 1870. See Minutes of the Confer- ence.