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beth’s, Philadelphia (1889-92);. professor of dogmatic and moral theology in Nashotah House, Nashotah, Wis. (1892-97), and president (1897-1906) ; was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Milwaukee (1906), succeeding to the full administration of the diocese within the year. He was also canon of All Saints’ Cathedral, Milwaukee (1892-1906), and president of the Standing Committee of the diocese of Milwaukee (1896-1906). In theology he is a High-churchman of the Anglo-Catholic school, and has written Guide to Seminarians (New York, 1889), and The Cure of Souls (Milwaukee, 1892, 2d ed., 1910).
WEBB-PEPLOE, HANMER WILLIAM: Church of England; b. at Weobley (47 m. s.w. of Birmingham) Oct. 1, 1887. He received his education at Marlborough College (1848-51), Cheltenham College (1851-56), and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A., 1859; M.A., 1878); was ordained deacon 1863 and priest the same year; was curate of Weobley, 1863-66; chaplain of Weobley Union, 1863-76; vicar of Kings Pyon cum Birley, 1866-76; and of St. Paul’s, Onslow Square, 1876 sqq.; and has been prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral since 1893. Among his other services are those he has rendered as Cambridge University select preacher, 1896; president of the Barbican Mission to the Jews, and of the London Clerical and Lay Union; chairman of the Council of the National Church League; vicepresident of the Church Missionary Society, Protestant Reformation Society, Missions to Seamen, and the Spanish and Portuguese Church Aid Society; and chairman of the Waldensian Church Mission. He is “a stanch upholder of the Protestant and Evangelical position of the Church of England as bequeathed to us from the Reformation; a strong believer in the absolute inspiration of every part of the Bible ..., and an earnest upholder of the divinity of Jesus Christ and of his birth by the Holy Ghost, and of the atonement made by him for the sin of the world.” He has written: J Follow after (London, 1894); All One; Sermons (1896); Life of Privilege (1896); Victorious Life (1896); Calls to Holiness (1900); Within and Without (1900); Titles of Jehovah (1901); Four Remarkable Letters of St. Paul’s (1903); He Cometh (1905); Consider him; or, Sketches of the Four Gospels (1906); and The Beautiful Name (1910).
WEBER, vé’ber, LUDWIG: Lutheran pastor; b. at Schwelm (28 m. n.e. of Cologne) Apr. 2, 1846. He received his education at the gymnasium in Marienwerder and at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Erlangen; was pastor at Iserlohn, 1871-73; at Dellwig, 1873-81; and at Gladbach from 1881 to the present. He describes himself as a “ positive Biblical Lutheran.” He is the author of Der lebendige Gott in seiner Schépfung (Bonn, 1886); Behandlung der socialen Frage auf evangelischer Seite (1888); Ansprachen fiir evangelische Arbeiter-, Biirger-, und Volksvereine (Hattingen, 1890; greatly enlarged, Giitersloh, 1891, and often republished); Christus ist unser Friede (Gottingen, 1892); Geschichte der sittlich reliégisen und sozialen Entwickelung Deutschlands in den letzten 35 Jahren (Gitersloh, 1895); Friede set mit diesem Hause. Predigt- und Andachtsbuch
(Dresden, 1899-1900); Die religidse Entwickelung der Menschheit im Spiegel der Weltlitteratur (Giitersloh, 1901); Soziales Handbuch (Hamburg, 1907); Alkohol und soziale Verhdltnisse (1908); and a long series of occasional lectures published in various collections. ;
WEBER, SIMON: German Roman Catholic; b. at Bohlingen (a village near Radolfzell, 17 m. n.w. of Constance), Baden, Jan. 1, 1866. He was educated at the University of Freiburg, St. Peter’s seminary for priests, Rome, the College of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, and the Academy of St. Apollinaris, Rome (D.D., Rome, 1894); was vicar of Offenburg, Baden (1891-94); curate at Wollmatingen, Baden (1894-96); privat-docent at the University of Freiburg (1896-98); became associate professor of apologetics in 1898, and of the New Testament in 1908. Besides preparing the fifth edition of C. H. Vosen’s Das Christentum und die Einspriiche seiner Gegner (Freiburg, 1905), he has written Jesus taufte, Untersuchung zu Joh. tii. 22 (Offenburg, 1895); EHvangelium und Arbeit, Hrwigungen viber die wirtschaftliche Segungen der Lehre Jesu (Freiburg, 1898); Der Gottesbeweis aus der Bewegung bet Thomas von Aquin (1902); Die katholische Kirche in Armenien, thre Begriindung und Entwicklung vor der Trennung (1903); Christliche A pologetik in Grundztigen (1907); and Die katholische Kirche die wahre Kirche Christi (1907).
WEBER, VALENTIN: German evangelical; b. at Aschaffenburg (22 m. s.e. of Frankfort) Apr. 1, 1858. He received his education at the University of Wiirzburg, 1877-81; served as chaplain, 1881-86; was prefect at the Julianum of Wiirzburg, 1886-88; traveled for the next two years, and then was prefect in Aufsees-Seminar at Bamberg; became gymnasial professor at Straubing, 1891; and took up the duties of his present position as professor of New-Testament exegesis at the University of Wiirzburg, 1896. He is the author of Kritische Geschichte der E'xegese des 9. Kapitels . . . des Rémerbriefes bis auf Chrysostomus und Augustinus (Wiirzburg, 1889); Die Addressaten des Galaterbriefes. Beweis der reinstidgalatischen Theorie (Ravensburg, 1900); Die Abfassung des Galaterbriefs vor dem Apostelkonzil. Grundlegende Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Urchristentums und des Lebens Pauli (1900); and a commentary on the epistle to the Galatians (1901).
WEDDING CUSTOMS. See Marriaas, I., § 11.
WEED, EDWIN GARDNER: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Florida; b. at Savannah, Ga., July 23, 1847. He was educated at the University of Georgia and the University of Berlin, after which he was graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1870. He was ordered deacon in the same year and was advanced to the priesthood in 1871; was rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Summerville, Ga., until 1886, when he was consecrated bishop of Florida.
Bisiiograpuy: W. S. Perry, The Hpiscopate in America, p.
295, New York, 1895.
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