words cabalistic or medical relating to a particular case, and then washing them off, and giving the patient the water of this ablution to drink, has descended among Oriental superstitions to the present day, and a sick x\rab would probably think this the most natural way of "taking" a prescription. See, on the general sub- ject, Groddeck, De Vett. Ilebr, Puvfjal. Castitatis, in Ugolino, Thesimr. The custom of such an ordeal was probably traditional in Moses' lime, and bj- fencing it round with the wholesome awe insjiired by the solem- I nity of the prescribed ritual, the lawgiver would de- j)rive it to a great extent of its barbarous tendencv, and would probably restrain the husband fmni some of the ferocious extremities to which he might other- wise be driven by a sudden lit of jealousy, so powerful in tiie Oriental mind. On the whole, it is to be taken, like the permission to divorce by a written instrument, rather as the mitigation of a custom ordinarily harsh, and as a barrier placed in the way of uncalculating vin- dictiveness. Viewing the regulations concerning mat- rimony as a whole, we shall find the same principle an- imating them in all their parts — that of providing a legal channel for the course of natural feelings where irrepressible, but at the same time of surrounding their outlet with institutions apt to mitigate their intensitv, and so assisting the gradual formation of a gentler tem- per in the bosom of the nation. The precept was given " because of the hardness of their hearts," but with the design and the tendency of softening them. (See some remarks in Spencer, De Leg. Ilebr.) — Smith. See Jeal- ousy; Oki>eal.
WATER OF Separation. See Purification.
"Waterbury, Jarkd Bei.l, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born in the citj' of New York, Aug. 11, 1799. He was converted at the age of seventeen, and united with the Rutgers Street Presbyterian Church, becoming at once an earnest Christian worker. He en- tered Yale College and graduated with high honors in 1822, and in the autumn of the same year he entered upon his theological studies in Princeton Seminarv', where he remained two years. On April 15, 1823, he was taken under the care of the New York Presbytery as a candidate for the ministry, and that body licensed him to preach in 1825 and ordained him sine titiilo Nov. 13 of the same year. Shortly after completing his the- ological studies, he accepted an agency for the Ameri- can Bible Society, and made a highly successful and useful tour in its interests through the Southern States. In the year 182t) he commenced preaching at Hatfield, Mass. : and having been dismissed by the Presbytery of New York, April 18, 1827, to the Association of North- ampton, Mass., was shortly after installed pastor of the Hatfield Church. AVhile residing there, he published a small volume entitled Advice io a Young Christian, by a Village Pastor, w'lih a very interesting introduction by Dr. Archibald Alexander. This little book was wide- ly read and very useful. In 1829 he was called to Ports- mouth, N. H., where he was installed shortly after, and remained for two years in a hajipy and useful ministry, which he was compelled to resign on account of his health. For a short time he resided in Brooklyn, at the house of his father-in-law, the late Zachariah Lewis. In the fall of 1832, he began to supply the Presbyterian Church at Hudson, N. Y., and in the spring accepted a call from and was installed its pastor. Here he labored fourteen years, and his earnest and fervent pulpit efforts, his genial and social manners, glowing zeal and godly life, secured for him the unbounded affection of the entire community. During his ministry, a large and beautiful church was erected, and a great number of persons, many of them of high social position and intel- ligence, were gathered into the church. In 1840 he ac- cepted a call to the Bowdoin Street Church, Boston, where he was installed pastor, and where he continued to labor until 1857, when he resigned his charge and re- moved to Stamford, Conn., where he lived over two
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years in retirement, but preaching oceasionallJ^ as op- Jiortiinity offered. In 1859 he supplied the pidpit of tlie Central Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., dur- ing the absence oi' its pastor (Dr. Rockwell) in Europe, and thenceforward to the end of his life he made that city his home. During the late war of the Kobellion, Dr. Waterbury was made secretary of the Brooklyn branch of the Christian Commission, in which position he rendered valuable and effective service, collecting books and pamphlets to be sent to the Union army, and superintending the sending-out of ministers to supple- ment the work of the regular chaplains in the army. He was afterwards appointed city missionary in Brook- lyn. He had a large tent erected on Fort Greene and in Lefferts Park, where on Sundays the outside multi- tude were congregated to hear the Gospel. Misfortune clouded his last days. His ample property was swept away at a stroke, and his health was gone; yet in the midst of all he never lost his cheerfulness or trust in God, but rested calmly on the never-failing promises. Dr. Waterbury was a man of warm piety, and always watchful for opportunities of winning souls to Christ. As a pastor, he was faithful, sympathetic, and earnest. In his prime he was a preacher of unusual excellence and power. He wrote much for the religious press, published quite a number of sermons and tracts, besides six or eight volumes of works on various religious sub- jects. Among his last utterances w;is this — "Jesus is with me." He died on Sabbath morning, Dec. 31, 1876. (W. P. S.)