WALTOX
WANDELBERT
brew in the General Theolofjieal Seminary, New York city. See Amer. Qmu: Church Rev. Jan. 1870, p. 63G.
"Walton, William C, a rresbyterian minister, was born in Hanover C'oi;nty, Va., Nov. 4, 1793. He was educated at Hampden Sidney College; licensed to preach Oct. 2-2, 1814; ordained April 25, 1818; and on May (J fol- lowing was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hopewell. In 1823 he accepted a call to the Third Presbyterian Church in Baltimore; in 1825 returned to Virginia; in July, 1827, was installed pastor of the Sec- ond Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Ya. ; in Octo- ber, 1832, of the Free Church in Hartford, Conn., where he continued to labor until his death, Feb. 18, 1834. He was a most zealous and devoted minister, full of love for souls and the glory of God. See Danforth, Life of W. C. Wdl'oii (1837, r2mo); Christ. Quar. Speciaior, X, 193 ; Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, iii, 5(55.
Waltz, HENPa' C, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Wayne' County, Ind., June 5, 1843. He spent his boyhood on a farm ; entered Indiana Asbury University in 1860 ; was converted in 1802 ; graduated in 1866; spent twentj'-two months in travelling over Europe and the Orient; lectured the following year on the sights, scenes, customs, and habits of the people of the Old World ; joined the North Indiana Conference in 1869; and served the Church at Wabash and Fort Wayne. In 1871 he joined the Colorado Conference, which he served faithfully until 1875, when his failing health obliged him to take a supernumerary relation. He next removed to Quiney, 111., where he died, May 11, 1877. As a writer, Mr. Waltz was clear, lucid, in- structive, and interesting; as a preacher, above the av- erage, faithful, practical, logical; as a pastor, devoted; as a father, affectionate. See Minutes of Annual Con- ferences, 1877, p. 82.
Wania (or Vania), in Hindi! mythology, was the wife of king Aswarena, who sprang from the holy fam- ily of Ikswaka. She gave birth, by her husband, to Parswa, who became so renowned for his piety that he was made one of the twenty-three elders of Buddha.
Wamack, Drury, a minister in the IMethodist Episcopal Church, South, was liorn in i;utlierft)rd Coun- ty, N. C, Oct. 12, 1806. He professed religion after reaching his majority, and entered the Tennessee Con- ference. In 1854 he went to Texas, and entered the North-west Texas Conference. He died in 1878 or 1879. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, I87d,p.77.
Waiiibaugh, Abraham B., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Hunterdon County, N. J., Oct. 26, 1815. He was converted at the age of thirteen ; joined the Ohio Conference in 1838, and served at Jamestown, Bellefontaine, East Liberty, Jamestown a second term, Columbus, and Circleville. In 1844, because of failing health, he located, studied law, and for six years pur- sued that profession, though all the time punished by a guilty conscience. In 1862 he was readmitted into the Conference, in which he labored earnestly until his death, Aug. 14, 1873. Mr. Wambaugh was a minister of large ability, reserved among strangers, amiable among acquaintances, always verj- dignified. See JUin- utes (f A nnual Conferences, 1873, p. 146.
Wamen. See Vanama.
Wan, in Norse mythology, is one of the infernal streams in the kingdom of Hell.
Wanadis, in Norse mythology, is a surname of Freia. the goddess of the Wanes, she having sprung from that nation.
■Wanagaren(orVanagarenorBanafsheren),
in Hindil mythology, is the son of the giant-king Bali, and reigned in Maralipuram. Because Krishna's son Anuredh enticed his daughter and was captured. Krish- na carried on a war with him, and captured his king- dom, notwithstanding Siva's defence, and cut off the
giant's thousand hands, all but two, with which he is obliged to [lay homage. It would seem as if this myth were designed to express the removal of the Siva-wor- ship by Yishnu.
Wanaheini, in Norse mythology, is the country of tlie Wanes, and is thouglit to be in the extreme nortli of Europe, but is difticult to locate exactly either its history or its geography.
"Wandalin, Johan (1), a Protestant theologian of Denmark, was born Jan. 26, 1624, at Yiborg, in Jutland. At the age of fourteen he was acquainted with the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Habbin- ical languages. He studied at Copenhagen, Leyden, Utrecht, and other universities. In 1651 he returned to Copenhagen ; was appointed in 1652 professor of lan- guages, and in 1655 professor of theology. He died as bishop of Seeland in 1675. He wrote, Comment, in Hag- ffcEum: — Comment, in Lihrum Ezrcn : — Exercitatt, in flistoi-iam Sacrum A ntediluv. : — De Statu A nimarum Post Mortem, etc. See Witte, Memorice Theologorum; \m\mi:\, A cademia Hafniensis ; Barthelini, Z)e Scrip- toribus Dnnis ; Jocher, A llgemeines Gelehrten - Lexikon, s. V. (B. P.)
Wandalin, Johan (2), son of the preceding, was born at Copenhagen, Jan. 14, 1656, where he also be- came professor of Oriental languages in 1683. He died March 20, 1710. He wrote, Dissertatio Philologico-the- ologica de Prophetis et Prophetiis (Hafnite, 1676) : — Dis- cussio Spei Speciosm de Conrersione Judaurum (ibid. 1702). See Eaiipach, De Utilitate Peregrinationis Da- nicce ; Jocher, A llgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s. v. ; Furst, Bihl. Jud. iii, 493. (B. P.)