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 found in other communions as well as the Church of Rome." Socrates was not more lost in contemplation on a Potidaian battle-field than was Walsh in introspec- tion and prayer as he walked through the streets of great cities. In his devotions he was sometimes so rapt and absorbed in the visions of (iod that in these profound and solemn frames of mind he remained for hours still and motionless as a statue. Such were his learning, his talents in the pulpit (where he often seem- ed clothed with the ardor and majesty of a seraph), the saintly dignity and moral grandeur of his character, that contemporary allusions to him are touched with reverence and wonder (see Stevens, i, 338). " His por- traits might almost be taken as fac-similes of the cur- rent pictures of .Jonathan Edwards, whom he resembled much in other respects" (ibid, i, 339, note). Charles Wesley wrote several hymns in memory of Thomas Walsh, commencing "God of unfathomable grace;" "Glory, and thanks, and love;" and "'Tis finished, 'tis past." Nine Sermons by Walsh were published, with a preface by Morgan (1764, 12mo). See Morgan, Life of Walsh (Lond. 1762, 12mo; N. Y., 1843; repub- lished in Jackson's Early Methodist Preachers, 3d ed. vol. iii) ; Home, Appendix to W^alsh's Life (in .Jackson's Preachejs, iii, 278 sq.) ; Jackson. Life of Charles Wesley (N. Y. 1842, 8vo), xxi, 551 sq. ; Tverman, Life of John Wesley, ii, 200, 239, 661 ; Smith, Hist, of Wesl. Method- ism, i, 253, 522 ; Stevens, Hist, of Methodism, i, 287 sq., 337 sq. ; Myles, Chron. Hist, of Methmlism, aim. 1750, p. 69; Crowther, Portraiture of Methodism (Lond. 1814), p. 356 sq. ; Atmore, Meth. Memorials (ibid. 1801), p. 438-443; Southey, Life of Wesley, ch. xxiii; Wesley, Works (3ded. ibid. 14 voIs.),vii,.54; xii, 448 (see Index); Tefft, Methodism Successful (N. Y. 1860, 12mo), p. 138.
Walsh, Tracy R., a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, was licensed to preach in 1827, and admitted into the South Carolina Conference in 1830. Several j'ears later he located and assumed charge of the Marion Academy. For thirteen years the impress of his sterling character was stamped upon the youth committed to his training. During these years he did an amount of pulpit and parochial work seldom exceeded by a regular pastor. In 1849 he re- entered the Conference and continued to travel until elected president of Carolina Female College in 1852. In 1860 he again entered the itinerancy, and on Oct. 20, 1867, died. See Minutes of A nniiul Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1867," p. 111.
"Walsh, William M'Kendree, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Hanover County, Va., Feb. 19, 1814; was converted in 1829; and in 1835 en- tered the ministry in the Virginia Conference. During the following year he was transferred to the North Car- olina Conference, within which he labored for thirty j'cars. In 1867 he was admitted into the Baltimore Conference; was supernumerated in 1870; became effec- tive again in 1871, and was appointed to Green Ridge Circuit, and two years later to Hedgesville Circuit, where he died, Dec. 10, 1875. Few men have shown equal fortitude and devotedness. See Minutes of An- nual Conferences, 1876, p. 20.
Walsingham, Sir Francis, an eminent English statesman, was born at Chiselhurst, in Kent, in 1536, He was ambassador to the court of France from 1570 to 1.577, during which time the ]Massacre of St. Bar- tholomew occurred. Here he learned much of the part which Mary Stuart took in the intrigues of that dread- ful plot, and acquired a deep and abiding hatred to- wards her. He went as ambassador to Scotland in 1583, and in 1586 became one of the commission for the trial of Mary Queen of Scots. He afterwards became chan- cellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and remained such until his death, in 1590.
Walsingham, Thomas, an English Benedictine monk of St. Albans, was precentor at that place in 1440, and historiographer royal to Henry IV about the same time. He wrote two histories of England, and contin- ued the Polychronicon of Ranulph Higden, from 1342 to 1417.
Walter of Galloway, originally clerk to Roland, the high-constable of Scotland, was made bishop of Gal- loway in 1209. He gave the church of Sembry to the abbey of Dryburgh, and died in 1235. See Keith, Scot- tish Bishops, p. 272.
Walter of Glasgow, originally chaplain of king William, was elected bishop of Glasgow in 1207, and consecrated Nov. 2, 1208. He was sent to treat about peace with king John of England, and went to a general council at Rome in 1215. He died in 1232. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, p. 237.
"Walter of St. Victor was a pupil of Hugo of St. Victor, subprior of that monastery to the death of Rich- ard, in 1173, and thenceforward prior. He died in 1180. He is known to posterity through a j'et unpublished work, lengthy extracts from which are found in Bulae- us, //ist. Universit. Paris, ii, 200 sq., 402 sq., 562 sq., 629 sq. It bears the title Libri IV contra Manifestas et Dnmnatas etiam in Conciliis Hmreses, quas Sophistce Abelardus, Lombardus, Petrus Pictavinus et Gilberius Porretanus fJbris Sententiarum suarum A cuunt, Li- mant, Roborant, and is usually known by the title Con- tra quatuor Labyrinthos. Walter was a stranger to the profound mysticism of Hugo and Richard of St. Victor, but he shared their aversion to the trifling subtleties of scholasticism. To scholasticism he op- poses the principle that dialectics can bring into view only formal, but not material, truth. The truthfulness of premises assumed lies altogether beyond its field of research. He was nevertheless so much the slave of authority that he violently opposed every attempt at a