WALDO, PETER. See WALDENSES.
WALKER, CORNELIUS: Protestant Episcopalian; b. near Richmond, Va., June 12, 1819; d. at Washington, D. C., Jan. 28, 1907. He was educated at Richmond Episcopal High School and the Alexandria Theological Seminary, and was ordered deacon in 1845 and ordained priest in the following year; was minister and rector at Amherst Court House, Va. (1845-47); curate at St. Paul’s, Richmond (1847— 1848); rector at Winchester, Va. (1848-60), Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. (1860-61), and Emmanuel, Henrico, Va. (1862-66); professor of church history in Virginia Theological Seminary (1866-76); and professor of systematic theology and homiletics in the same institution (1876-98), where he was also dean. In theology he was an old-school evangelical Churchman, and wrote Biography of Rev. William Duval (Richmond, 1854); Biography of Rev. William Sparrow (Philadelphia, 1877); Biography of Charles W. Andrews (1877); Sorrowing not without Hope (sermons; New York, 1887) ; Outlines of Christian Theology (1894); and Lectures on Christian Ethics (1896).
WALKER, GEORGE LEON: Congregationalist; b. at Rutland, Vt., Apr. 30, 1830; d. at Hartford Mar. 14, 1900. He studied law in Boston, Maass., intending to devote himself to legal practise. Led to prefer the ministry, he studied theology with his father, and at Andover Theological Seminary (1857— 1858); was pastor of State Street Church, Portland, Me. (1858-67); First Church, New Haven, Conn. (1868-73); was acting pastor at Brattleboro, Vt.
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(1875-78); and pastor of the First Church, Hartford, from 1879, being made emeritus in 1892. He was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions after 1877, and was on the commission to prepare the Congregational creed (1883). He wrote: False Ideas of God (1881; three sermons); History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883 (Hartford, 1884); Thomas Hooker, Preacher, Founder, Democrat (New York, 1891); Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England (1897; Carew lectures); edited Diary of Rev. Daniel Wadsworth, with Notes (1894); and issued a large number of individual sermons.
BrsiioGRAPHY: Congregational Year Book, pp. 45-46,,Boston, 1901.
WALKER, WILLIAM: Scotch Anglican; b. at Inveramsay (17 m. n.w. of Aberdeen), Aberdeenshire, Nov. 3, 1817. He was educated at King’s College, Aberdeen (M.A., University of Aberdeen, 1840), and was ordered deacon in 1832 and ordained priest two years later; was curate of St. Andrew’s, Aberdeen (1842-44); rector of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire (1844-1900); and dean of Aberdeen and Orkney united dioceses (1896-1906). He has written Life of Bishops Jolly and Gleig (Edinburgh, 1878) ; Moses and Deuteronomy (1880); Life and Times of the Poet-Priest John Skinner (Aberdeen, 1882); The Kings of Israel (London, 1882); Life and Times of Bishop John Skinner (Aberdeen, 1887); Reminiscences of Three Churchmen (Primus C. H. Terrot, Bishop M. Russel, and Professor G. Grub; Edinburgh, 1893); and Epochs of Scottish Church History (1897).
WALKER, WILLIAM DAVID: Protestant Episcopal, missionary bishop of North Dakota; b. in the city of New York June 29, 1839. He was graduated from Columbia College, New York City (1859), and from the General Theological Seminary (1862); as deacon, he took charge of Calvary Chapel, New York City (1862); was ordained priest (1863); remained in charge of Calvary Chapel until Feb. 1, 1884, when he resigned to enter upon his episcopate, to which he had been consecrated in Dec., 1883. In the exercise of his ministry in Dakota he was the originator of the ‘‘ cathedral car,”’ by which the services of the church are carried to places where they would not otherwise be rendered.
BrpLioGRAPHY: W.S. Perry, The Episcopate in America, p. 281, New York, 1895.
WALKER, WILLISTON: Congregationalist; b. at Portland, Me., July 1, 1860. He was educated at Amherst College (A.B., 1883), Hartford Theological Seminary (graduated, 1886), and the University of Leipsic (Ph.D., 1888); was associate in history at Bryn Mawr College (1888-89), professor of Germanic and Western church history in Hartford Theological Seminary (1889-1901); since 1901 he has been professor of ecclesiastical history in Yale University. He has written The Increase of Royal Power under Philip Augustus (Leipsic, 1888); The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism (New York, 1893); A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States (1894); The Reformation (1900); Ten New England Leaders (Boston, 1901); John Calvin (New York, 1906); and Greatest Men of the Christian Church (Chicago, 1908).
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WALL, WILLIAM: English divine; b. in the neighborhood of Sevenoaks (20 m. s.e. of London), Kent, Jan. 6, 1646-47; d.at Shoreham (17 m. s.e. of London) Jan. 13, 1727-28. He was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford (B.A., 1667; M.A., 1670); became vicar at Shoreham, 1674; and rector of Milton-next-Gravesend, 1708, the same year becoming chaplain to the bishop of Rochester. He is justly famed for his works on infant baptism, which include The History of Infant Baptism (2 parts, London, 1705, 3d ed., 1720, new and best ed., combining J. Gale’s Reflections on Mr. Wall’s History, and Wall’s Defence, by H. Cotton, 4 vols., Oxford, 1836, 2 vols., 1862, reprinted, 1889); A Conference Between Two Men that had Doubts about Infant Baptism (London, 1706, frequently reprinted); and his Defence of the History of Infant Baptism (London, 1720; usually reprinted with Gale’s work and the History). He wrote also Critical Notes (on the New Testament and the Old, 3 vols., London, 1730-34).
BrsuioGRAPHy: T. Crosby, Hist. of the English Baptists, i. 6, 161, iii. 14, 42, 4 vols., London, 1738-40; DNB, lix. 97.
WALLACE, ALEXANDER GILFILLAN: United Presbyterian; b. at Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pa., Mar. 2, 1829. He graduated from Jefferson College (B.A., 1847) and from Allegheny Theological Seminary; was pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Bethel, Pa., 1854-68, at New Brighton, 1868-84, and at Sewickley, 1886-88; has been clerk of the United Presbyterian Assembly since 1868, and secretary of the Board of Church Extension of his denomination since 1870; he was also editor of The Evangelical Repository, 1886-90, temporary professor in Allegheny Theological Seminary, 1885-87, and was editorial writer, then associate editor, and finally has been senior editor of The United Presbyterian, since 1868. He has written The Scotch and Scotch- Trish in Colonial America (1909).
WALLACE, WILLIAM: Presbyterian foreign missionary; b. at Santa Fé de Bogot4, United States of Colombia, Apr. 5, 1864. He studied at Washington and Jefferson College (B.A., 1882), Western Theological Seminary, 1884-85, and Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1885-88, having meanwhile taught in private schools, 1881-85; was pastor at St. Peter, Minn., 1888-90; missionary superintendent at Zacatecas, Mexico, 1890-92; became director of the theological seminary at Tlalpam, 1893; was superintendent of missions for Guerrero, Mexico, 1894-95, and for Saltillo, 1895- 1907; and has been president of the Presbyterian College and Seminary at Coyoacan since 1907. He is the editor of El Esforzador, the organ of the Mexican societies of Christian Endeavor, and stated clerk of the general synod of the Presbyterian Church in Mexico.
WALLOON CHURCH. See Hotuann, L., 1.
WALPURGIS, val-pur’gis (WALDBURGIS, WAL- PURGA, WALBURGA): German saint; b. in Sussex, England, early in the eighth century; d. at Heidenheim (32 m.s.s.w. of Nuremberg) before 786. The sister of Willibald, the first bishop of Hichstiatt, and of Wunebald, the founder (ec. 751), first abbot of the double monastery of Heidenheim, she went to
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