Warburtouian Lecture, a lecture founded by bishop Warburton (q. v.), to prove the truth of revealed religion in general, and the Christian in particular, from the completion of the prophecies in the Old and New Tests, which relate to the Christian Church, especially the apostasy of papal Rome. Courses of lectures on this foundation have been delivered by Halifax, Hurd, Bagot, Apthorp, and many others.
"Wardlaw, John Smith, D.D., an English Con- gregational missionary, was born at Glasgow, July 25, 1813. He early dedicated himself to the Lord, and com- menced preparation for his great work. JMr. A\' ardlaw had every advantage for mental and spiritual culture. He graduated with honor at Glasgow LTniversity and Theological Academy, and at once decided to give his life to missionary work. He was ordained as a mission- ary July 14, 1841, and sailed for India under the auspices of the London Missionary Society, arriving at IMadras in September, 1841. He at once took an efficient part in carrying out the objects of the mission — teaching, preaching, itinerating, and superintending the printing- press. He translated the Scriptures into the Telugu language, and was able to send thousands of copies of the New Test, into the mission fields. In 1855 Dr. Wardlaw visited Vizagapatam, and in 18,59 also visited Calcutta and the missions on the coast. He died Oct. 13, 1872. "Dr. Wardlaw was a laborious and faithful student, exact, thorough, with great analytical power," and the ability to express with clearness his conclusions. He was a man of broad sympathies, unselfish in friend- ship, with a character transparent and spotless, and with an "exhaustless patience and charity." See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1873, p. 365.
Wardlaw, Ralph, D.D., an eminent Scotch Con- gregational divine, was born in Dalkeith, Dec. 22, 1779. Though bred in the principles of the Secession Church, he resolved to join himself to the Congregational party; and was in 1803 ordained and installed pastor of the chapel in Albion Street, (ilasgow, but subsequently re- moved to a larger church in George Street. In 18! 1 he was appointed professor of theology in the Seminary of the Congregational Church of Scotland, which position he occupied, iii connection with his pastorate, until his death, Dec. 17, 18,53. He acquired a high reputation as a theologian. His life v/as a very laborious and ear- nest one. Besides discharging faithfully and ably the duties of the pidpit and the professor's chair, he was a voluminous author; often involved in theological con- troversy, and a prominent actor in the public, religious, and philanthropic movements of the day. His intellect was acute, his iniderstanding sound, and his style re- markable for its perspicacity, vigor, and grace. The most important of Dr. Wardlaw's works are, Discourses on the Socinian Controversy : — Lectures on Ecclesiastes (2 vols.): — Essays on Assurance of Faith, aiid on the Extent of the Atonement and Universal Pardon : — Dis- courses on the Sabbath: — Christian Ethics: — Discourses
on the Nature and Extent of the Atonement of Christ:
The Life of Joseph and the Last Years of Jacob : — Con- gregational fndependency : — On Miracles : — and Lectures against Religious Establishments. His life and correspond- ence were published by Dr. Alexander in 1856. See Al- libone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v. (W. P. S.)
Wardlaw, Thomas Delacey, D.D., a Presby- terian minister, was born at Warrenpoint, County Down, Ireland, Nov. 1, 1826, where he received his preparatory education. He graduated from Belfast College in 1844; and soon after went to Quebec, Canada, and from thence to the United States in 1846, when he entered Prince- ton Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1849. Immediately on leaving the seminary, he began to preach as a stated supply at Port Carbon, Pa. ; "but subsequently, having accepted a call, was ordained and installed pastor. After two years' service, he was re- leased to take charge of the Church at Paris, Ky., where he was installed ; after a service of six years he was called to Clarksville, Tenn., where he continued nine years. After this he removed to Shelbyville, where he continued to reside initil his death, Aug. 29, 1879. He became principal of a Young Ladies' Seminary in that place, at the same time supplying the neighboring churches of Petersburg and Bethlehem. He was a man of superior scholarship and extensive literary culture. See Necrological Rep. Princeton Sem. A lumni, 1880. (W. P. S.)
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"Ware, Henry, Sr.. D.D., a Unitarian clergyman, was liorn it SluTbiirne, Mass., April 1, 1704. He grad- uated nt Harvard College in 178.5, and stiulied theology under Rev. Timothy Iliiliard for a year and a half fol- lowing. He became pastor of the First Congregational Church at Ilingham in 1787, and labored there until 180.1, wlien he was chosen Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard College. This election was the occasion of a sharp controversy between the Unitarians and the Trin- itarian Congregationalists, which resulted in the separa- tion of the two parties as distinct bodies of Christians. He held his cliair in the college until 18l(;, when, on tlie organization of the Harvard Divinity School, he became professor of systematic theology and the evidences of Christianity, which office he held until 1840, when he was comi)elled to resign on account of the loss of his evesight. He died at Cainbridge, .hnie I'i, 184,5. Dr. Ware imblishcd, Lcttn-s to 'J'riui/iiri<ins und Cdh'inis/s (Camb. 1820), in reply to Dr. A^'ood's Letters to Unitari- ans:—Answer to Dr. Wood's Reply (IS22) -.—Postscript to the Answer to Dr. Wood's Reply (1823) -.—A n Inquiry into the Foundation, Eridences, and Truths of Reliyion (1842. 2 vols.) : — and numerous Se7-}nons. See Sprague, Annals of the A iner. Pulpit, viii, 199.