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was appointed professor of natural science in connection with revelation in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, 8. C. In 1884 he was deposed from his position on account of the views which he advocated regarding evolution, but the action was not sustained by the controlling synods, and in the following year he was officially informed by the board, which had been remodeled in the mean time, that he had not been removed, but was still in office, whereupon he resumed his duties as chairman of the faculty and professor. He was chief of the laboratory of the medical department of the Confederate Army at Columbia, 8. C., in 1863-65, and was also professor of natural science in South Carolina College, Columbia, 8. C., in 1869-72 and again in 1880-97, while from 1891 to 1897, when he retired, he was president of the same institution. He was editor and proprietor of the quarterly Southern Presbyterian Review (1861-— 1885) and of the weekly Southern Presbyterian (1865-93).
WOODS, HENRY GEORGE: Church of England; b. at Wood End, Northamptonshire, June 16, 1842. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A., 1865), and was connected with Trinity College, Oxford, as fellow (1865-87), tutor (1866-80), bursar (1865-87), and president (1887— 1897), besides being senior proctor of the university in 1877-78. Since 1898 he has been honorary fellow of Trinity. He was ordered deacon in 1866 and ordained priest in the following year. In 1900-04 he was rector of Little Gaddesden, Herts, and chaplain and librarian to Harl Brownlow, Ashridge, and since 1904 has been master of the Temple, London. In theology he is a moderate Broad churchman, and has prepared an annotated edition of the first two books of Herodotus (2 vols., London, 18738).
WOODS, LEONARD: American Congregationalist; b. at Princeton, Mass., June 19, 1774; d. at Andover, Mass., Aug. 24, 1854. He was graduated from Harvard College, 1796; taught for a while, and studied theology at Somers, Conn.; was ordained 1798, and was pastor at Newbury, Mass., 1798-1808, when he became professor of theology at Andover Seminary, and was made professor emeritus, 1846. He then devoted himself to a History of Andover Seminary, which was published (Boston, 1885), and to preparing his lectures for the press. He was one of the founders of the American Tract Society, the American Education Society, American Temperance Society, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was a champion of orthodox Calvinism against the assaults of Ware, Buckminster, and Channing. His writings embrace Letters to Unitarians (Andover, 1820); Reply to Dr. Ware’s Letters to Trinitarians and Calvinists (1821); Remarks on Dr. Ware’s Answer (1822); Lectures on the Inspiration of the Scriptures (1829); Lectures on Infant Baptism (1829); Lectures on Church Government (New York, 1844); Lectures on Swedenborgianism (1846); Theology of the Puritans (Boston, 1851). He published a collective edition of his works (5 vols., Andover, 1849-50; 2d ed., Boston, 1851),
BrstiocrapHy: W. B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, ii. 438-444, New York, 1859; A. E. Dunning, Congregationalists in America, passim, ib. 1894; W. Walker, in American Church History Series, iii. 351 sqq., ib. 1894; idem, Ten New England Leaders, pp. 360-405, ib. 1901; F, H. Foster, New, England Theology, passim, Chicago, 1907.
WOODS, LEONARD, JR.: Congregationalist and educator; b. in Newbury, Mass., Nov. 24, 1807; d. in Boston Dec. 24, 1878. He was graduated from Union College, 1827, and from Andover Seminary, 1830; was resident graduate scholar at Andover for a year; was ordained, 1833; editor of The New York Literary and Theological Review, 1834-37; professor of sacred literature in Bangor Theological Seminary, 1836-39; and president of Bowdoin College, Me., 1839-66. In 1867 he visited Europe, under a commission to secure materials for a documentary history of Maine. He had the assistance of J. G. Kohl of Bremen, and the result of his work was the procuring of the Hakluyt manuscript of the Westerne Planting, and the publication of the Discovery of Maine (Portland, 1868). His only independent theological publication was his translation of George C. Knapp’s Lectures on Christian Theology (2 vols., New York and Andover, 1831-33). He was famous for oratory, and even more remarkable for his conversational gifts.
BrsiiocrapHy: The Memorial Discourse by C. C. Everett is in Collections of the Maine Historical Society, vol. viii., Portland, Me., 1881; and Professor Park’s Memorial Sermon was published at Andover, 1879.
WOOLSEY, THEODORE DWIGHT: American Congregationalist; b. in New York Oct. 31, 1801; d. in New Haven, Conn., July 1, 1889. He was graduated from Yale College, 1820; studied law for a year in Philadelphia, and theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, N. J., 1821-23; was a tutor at Yale College, 1823-25; was licensed to preach, 1825; and studied the Greek language and literature in Germany, France, and Italy, 1827-30. Returning to the United States, he was professor of Greek at Yale, 1831-46, when he was chosen president; in 1871 he resigned and withdrew from public life. He was an authority on international law, and was also a member of the American Company of Revision of the New Testament, and its chairman, 1871-81. He had extended literary interests, but his works pertaining to theology were Religion of the Present and of the Future: Sermons preached chiefly at Yale College (New York, 1871); Helpful Thoughts for Young Men (Boston, 1874); and Com-~ munism and Socialism in their History and Theory: A Sketch (New York, 1880); his chief work was the standard Introduction to the Study of International Law, designed as an Aid in Teaching and in Historical Studies (Boston, 1860); and Essays on Divorce and Divorce Legislation, with Special Reference to the United States (New York, 1869).
BisiiocrarHy: An excellent appreciation by J. Cooper is found in the Bibliotheca Sacra, lvi (1899), 607-638.
WOOLSTON, THOMAS. See Dzism, I., § 5.
WORCESTER, ELWOOD: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at Masillon, O., May 16, 1862. He was graduated from Columbia University (B.A., 1886), the General Theological Seminary (1887), and the University of Leipsic (Ph.D., 1889); was ordered