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tics (London, 1883); Rhetoric (1886); and Nicomachean Ethics (1892), he has written Sermons Preached to Harrow Boys (8 series, London, 1887— 1903); The Spiritual Life, and Other Sermons (1888) ; The Future and the Past (1888); Gerald Eversley’s Friendship (1895); The Hope of Immortality (1898; 3d ed., 1905); The Revelation of the Holy Spirit (1902); The School of Faith (1904); Be Strong. Lessons for Young Lives (1907); and The Gospel in a Great City (1910).
WELLER, REGINALD HEBER, JR.: Protestant Episcopal bishop coadjutor of Fond du Lac; b. at Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 6, 1857. He was educated at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. (1875-77), and at Nashotah House (graduated 1884). He was ordered deacon in 1880 and priested in 1884, and was rector of Christ Church, Eau Claire, Wis. (1884-88), St. Matthias, Waukesha, Wis. (1888- 1890), and the Church of the Intercession, Stevens Point, Wis. (1890-1900). In 1900 he was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Fond du Lac, Wis.
WELLHAUSEN, JULIUS: German Protestant; b. at Hameln (25 m. s.w. of Hanover) May 17, 1844. He studied at G6ttingen (Ph.D., 1870); became privat-docent there (1870) in the theological faculty; professor in the same faculty at Greifswald (1872); associate professor of Semitics at Halle (1882) in the philosophical faculty; full professor of the same subject at Marburg (1885) and at G6ttingen (1892). He is best known for his elaboration of the theory that the Pentateuch is post-exilic, and is, consequently, distinctly Jewish, rather than Hebraic or Israelitic. He has written De gentibus et familiis Judeis que I Chron. tw. 4 enumerantur (Gottingen, 1870), Der Text der Bricher Samuels untersucht (1871), Pharisder und Saduzder (Greifswald, 1874), Geschichte Israels (Berlin, 1878; 2d—6th eds., under the title Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels, 1883- 1905; Eng. tr. by J. 8S. Smith and C. A. Menzies, Edinburgh, 1885, 3d ed., 1891), Muhammad in Medina (1882), Skizzen und Vorarbeiten (6 vols., 1884-92), Abriss der Geschichte Israels und Judas; Lieder der Hudhatliten (1884), Composition des Hexateuchs (1885; 3d ed., 1899), Reste arabischen Heidentums (1887; 2d ed., 1897), Medina vor dem Islam; Muhammads Gemeindeordnungen von Medina; seine Schreiben und die Gesandtschaften an ihn (1887), and Die kleinen Propheten ribersetzt mit Noten (1892; 3d ed., 1898); Jsraelitische und jtidische Geschichte (1894; 6th ed., 1907); Der arabische Josippus (1897); Die religiés-politischen Oppositionsparteien im alten Islam (1901); Das arabische Reich und sein Sturz (1902); Das Evangelium Marci tibersetzt (1903; 2d ed., 1909); Matihei (1904); Luce (1904), Johannis (1908); and Hinleitung in die drei ersten Evangelien (1905); and he also prepared the sixth edition of F. Bleek’s Hinleitung in das Alte Testament (Berlin, 1893), and Psalms for the Polychrome Bible (New York, 1895).
WELLS, AMOS RUSSEL: Congregationalist- Presbyterian layman; b. at Glens Falls, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1862. He received his education in the public schools of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and Antioch College (B.A., 1883); was professor of Greek in his alma
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mater, 1883-92, and in 1892 assumed his present position of editorial secretary for the United Society of Christian Endeavor. Has also been managing editor, since 1892, of The Christian Endeavor World, and is associate editor of Peloubet’s Notes on the International Sunday-School Lessons. His position theologically is that of a conservative Calvinist. He is a prolific writer, having produced about fifty volumes or booklets, classified into stories, essays, devotional works, poems, books for young people’s societies, on the Bible, and on the Sunday-school. Of these mention may be made (1) of the essay Sermons in Stones (New York, 1899); How to Work, How to Play, How to Study (8 vols., Boston, 1900); Into All the World (1903); Studies in the Art of Illustration (New York, 1903); Help for the Tempted (Boston, 1903); and That They All may be One (New York, 1905). (2) Among devotional works mention may be made of When thou hast Shut thy Door (New York, 1895); and The Cheer Book (1901). For young people’s societies there are The Junior Manual (Boston, 1895); and Prayer Meeting Methods (1896). For the Sunday-school there are Sunday-School Problems (1895); Sunday-School Success (New York, 1897); Three Years with the Children (1900); Introduction to Bible Study (Philadelphia, 1909); and Why we believe the Bible (1910).
WELLS, LEMUEL HENRY: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Spokane; b. at Yonkers, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1841. He began his college education at Trinity, Hartford, but left in 1861 to enter the Union Army, in which he served three years as second and first lieutenant. He was graduated from Hobart College (1867), and Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn. (1869). He was ordered deacon in the same year and priested in 1871. Spending the year 1871-72 in study in Europe, he was curate at Trinity Church, New Haven (1872-73), and rector at Walla Walla, Wash. (1873-82). He then resided in the eastern part of the United States for a year and a half, but in 1884 became rector of St. Luke’s, Tacoma, Wash., where he remained until 1889. In the latter year he accepted the rectorate of Trinity Church in the same city, and in 1892 was consecrated first missionary bishop of Spokane.
BrsiiocRapHy: W.S. Perry, Hpiscopate in America, p. 343,
New York, 1895.