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of the History of Protestant Missions, Edinburgh, 1884, new ed., 1901); Protestantische Beleuchtung der rémischen Angriffe auf die evangelische Heidenmission (Giittersloh, 1884); Die Mission in der Schule (1887); Der Romanismus im Lichte seiner Heidenmission (Leipsic, 1888); Die Aufgabe der Heidenmission und ihre Triibungen in der Gegenwart (Halle, 1891); Evangelische Missionslehre, ein missionstheoretischer Versuch (3 vols., Gotha, 1892-1903); Das Biirgerrecht der Mission im Organismus der theologischen Wissenschaft (Berlin, 1897); and Die gegenwartige Lage der deutschen evangelischen Mission (1905).
WARNER, ZEBEDEE: United Brethren in Christ; b. in Pendleton Co., Va., Feb. 28, 1833; d. at Gibbon, Neb., Jan. 10, 1888. Educated at Clarksburg Academy, he entered the ministry of his denomination in 1854, and was presiding elder in 1862-69 and 1880-85, as well as pastor of a church at Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1869-80, and he also taught theology for eight years in the Parkersburg conference. He was a delegate to the general conference seven times, and for two years was president of the eastern Sunday-school assembly of his denomination. He wrote Christian Baptism (Parkersburg, 1864), Rise and Progress of the United Brethren Church (1865), Life and Times of Rev. Jacob Bachtel (Dayton, O., 1867), and The Roman Catholic not a True Christian Church (Parkersburg, 1868).
WARREN, HENRY WHITE: Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. at Williamsburg, Mass., Jan. 4, 1831. He was educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (A.B., 1853), and after teaching classics at Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy (1853- 1855), was ordained to the ministry in 1855; he held pastorates at Worcester, Mass. (1855-57), Boston (1857-60), Lynn, Mass. (1861-63), Westfield, Mass. (1863-64), Cambridge, Mass. (1865-67), Charlestown, Mass. (1868-71), Philadelphia (1871- 1873, 1877-79), and Brooklyn (1874-76); in 1880 he was elected bishop. In 1862-63 he was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and in 1881 was a delegate to the Pan-Methodist Council in London. In theology he is conservative, although “with an open eye for results of recent investigations and inspirations.” Besides editing The Study from 1896 to 1900, he has written Sights and Insights: A Book of Observations and Travels (New York, 1874); The Lesser Hymnal (1876); Recreations in Astronomy (1879); The Bible in the World’s Education (1892); Among the Forces (1899); and Fifty-two Memory Hymns (1908).
WARREN, WILLIAM FAIRFIELD: Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Williamsburg, Mass., Mar. 13, 1833. He was educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (A.B., 1853), and at the universities of Berlin and Halle (1856-58), traveling extensively in Europe and the Hast in 1856-58. He held pastorates at Ballardvale, Andover, Mass. (1854-56), Wilbraham, Mass. (1858-60), and Boston (1860-61); was professor of systematic theology in the Missionsanstalt, Bremen, Germany (1861-66); of systematic theology and acting president of Boston Theological Seminary (1866- 1871); dean of the School of Theology of Boston
University (1871-73); first president of Boston University (1873-1903); and dean of the School of Theology of the same institution (since 1903). He has also been professor of the comparative history of religions, comparative theology, and the philosophy of religion in Boston University since 1873, this being the first chair of its kind in America. He has repeatedly served his church as delegate to various important conventions. In 1876 he was elected the first president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women; was a member of the university senate of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1892-1904); and of the Commission on organic law of the same denomination (1896-1900). In 1874 he negotiated reciprocity agreements between Boston University on the one hand, and the National University of Athens and the Royal University of Rome on the other, thus anticipating the similar movement of more recent years. He has written Anfangsgriinde der Logik (Bremen, 1863); Allgemeine EHinleitung in die systematische Theologie (1865); Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole (Boston, 1885); The Quest of the Perfect Religion (1886); In the Footprints of Arminius (New York, 1888); The Story of Gottlieb (Meadville, Pa., 1890); The Religions of the World and the World-Religion (Boston, 1892); Constitutional Questions before the Methodist E'piscopal Church (Cincinnati, 1894); and The Harliest Cosmologies; The Universe as pictured in Thought by the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Iranians, and Indo- Aryans (New York, 1909).
WASHBURN, GEORGE: Congregationalist; b. at Middleborough, Mass., Mar. 1, 1833. He was graduated from Amherst College (A.B., 1855), and Andover Theological Seminary (1860). He was treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Turkey (1860-68), with headquarters at Constantinople; professor of philosophy and political economy in Robert College, Constantinople (1869-1903); acting president (1871-77), and president (1877-1903). After a year in the United States he returned to service in Robert College in 1906. Theologically he “ accepts the Nicene Creed and believes that the Old and New Testaments contain a revelation from God.” His belief “‘ centers in the person of Jesus Christ and in the work of his Spirit,’”’ but he does not believe that “the work of the Divine Spirit is limited by any human creed whatsoever.’’ He has had an important part in the religious and political development of the Balkan peninsula, and has written extensively on topics connected with the region for various important reviews and journals. He wrote Fifty Years in Constantinople and Recollections of Robert College (Boston, 1909).
WASHBURN, ROBERT HOOSICK: Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., Apr. 9, 1869. He was educated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. (B.A., 1889), Drew Theological Seminary, and Boston University (8.T.B., 1892), and from 1892 to 1906 held various pastorates in New York and Vermont. Since 1906 he has been professor of Hebrew and church history in Kimball College of Theology, Salem, Ore., and in 1906-07