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Waco,
University of --cf. (Feb.1)
Wadsworth, Captain Joseph --his preservation of the charter of
Connecticut, (Oct.31)
Wagenberg (Oct.11)
Waldeck, Bishop Franz --demands the removal of evangelical pastors from the city of Muenster, and the Restoration of Roman Catholicism, (June 28)
Waldensians --outlawed, (Jan.1), (Jan.31); forbidden their right to assemble, (July 25); their books burned, (July 25); Innocent VIII launches a Bull against them, (May 5); inhumanities urged against them by the Inquisition, (May 11); expelled from the city of Lyon by Archbishop Jean, (May 31); the attack upon the congregation of Henri Arnaud, and the subsequent siege at the Balsille, (Apr.30); Henri Arnaud counself resistance, (Sept.30); the attack at Angrogna, (June 15); the attack by the Count de la Trinite, (Nov.2); limited toleration granted, (June 5); the first Synod of, (Aug.1-4); the Peace of Cavour, (June 5); the formation of a league to protect the rights accorded by the Peace of Cavour, (Nov.11); massacred when they administer the Sacraments, (Nov.11); a treaty acknowledges certain rights while prohibiting religious instruction, (Aug.17); Swiss exiles return to invade France, (Aug.17); cf. (Sept.8); rescued by Oliver Cromwell, (Aug.1-4); assisted by William III in their return from exile, (Aug.1-4); the condemnation and flight of Jean Leger, (Jan.12); the city of Amaterdam offers free passage to New Amsterdam, (Dec.19); establish a colony in Uruguay, (Aug.1-4); their missionary work in China, (Aug.1-4); their missionary work in South Africa, (Aug.1-4); John Charles Beckwith labors among, (Oct.2); Francisco de Paula Ruet labors in Spain, (Nov.18); Felix Neff labors among, (Aug.29); permanent rights secured by Charles Albert, (Feb.17); Matteo Prochet enters Rome, (Sept.20), (Sept.28); cf. (May 29)
Walpole, Horatio --warns of a treacherous bill before Parliament to overrule the charters of the American colonies, (Mar.3)
Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm founds the St. Louis Bible Society, (May 7); founds the Missouri Synod, (May 7); Death of, (May 7)
War of
Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War) (Apr.11)
War of the Henrys' (Oct.20)
Ward, William --baptizes Luther Rice, (Nov.1)
Wardwell, Samuel (Sept.22)
Warfield, Benjamin (Nov.5)
Warren Association --founded, (Sept.8); petitions the First Continental
Congress for the acknowledgment of religious liberty, (Sept.13)
Washington, George --his marvelous preservation while serving as aide to General Edward Braddock in his defeat by the French and Indians, (July 9); assumes the command of the Continental Army, (July3); at Valley Forge, (May 28); encouraged by Joseph Trumbull during the struggle for Long Island, (Aug.5); begged by Virginia for help, (May 20); authorized by Congress to attack British-held Boston, and the subsequent prayer of John Hancock, (Dec.22); his march into Trenton and the subsequent rejoicing among Pennsylvanian Lutherans, (Dec.26); the tremendous suffering of his Army, and the secret of his character, (Dec.22); the surrender of General John Burgoyne, (Oct.18); the surrender of General Charles Cornwallis, (Oct.19); Robert Morris of, (Dec.22); William Hooper of, (Dec.22); petitioned by Virginia Baptists fearing liberty of conscience was not adequately recognized in the National Constitution, and his subsequent reply, (Aug.8); cf. (July 6)
Waterhouse,
Dr. Benjamin --cf. (June 26)
Watson, Richard --cf. (Jan.20)
Watson, Thomas --ejected from his pulpit, (July 28); pens The Divine Cordial, A Body of Practical Divinity, and One Hundred Seventy-Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism, (July 28); his Death while in secret prayer, (July 28)
Watts, Isaac --Birth of, (July 17); his correspondence with Elizabeth Singer, (July 17); his influence upon Sir Walter Scott, (Nov.25); Death of, (Nov.25); cf. (Feb.19)
Watts, John
(Sept.27)
The Way To Christ (Nov.17)
Webb, Thomas (Dec.20)
Webster, Daniel --Birth of, (Jan.18); his confession, (Oct.24); his creed, (Jan.18); Secretary of State under Millard Fillmore, (Oct.24)
Weishaupt,
Adam --founds the Illuminati, (May 1)
Welch Presbyterian Church in America --(Calvinistic Methodist Church)
--organized, (Sept.22)
Welch Revival (July 8)
Welde, Thomas --assists in the preparation of the Bay Psalm Book,
(Feb.27)
Wenceslaus (935) --declares Christianity the State religion of Bohemia, and his lack of success, (Sept.28); his treacherous murder by his brother, (Sept.28)
Wenceslaus (1383) --his dissolute life, (May 16); his murder of his wife's confessor, (May 16); permits John Trocznowski to bring Emperor Sigismund to account for his betrayal of the safe conduct promised to John Huss, (Oct.11)
Wentworth,
Governor (Nov.10)
Wesel, John --his creed, (Feb.21); his recantation and subsequent
sentence to life imprisonment, (Feb.21)
Wesley, Charles --Birth of, (Dec.18); arrives in Georgia as Secretary to General James Oglethorpe, (Feb.5); his chaplaincy of Frederica, and the subsequent attempt by the inhabitants to assassinate him, (Dec.18); persecution of by General James Oglethorpe, (Dec.18); conversion of, (May 21); pens "And Can It Be", (May 23); quiets a mob, (Mar.29); his encounter with a man armed with a sickle, (Mar.29); his marriage to Sarah Gwynne, (Apr.8); his wife stricken with Smallpox, (Apr.8); Death of, (Mar.29); cf. (Feb.6)
Wesley, John --Birth of, (June 17); arrives in Georgia and his subsequent meeting of Peter Bohler, (Feb.5); appointed the spiritual leader of Georgia, (Feb.6); awakened by Augustus Spangenberg, (June 12); conversion of, (May 24); ordained by Bishop Potter, (Sept.19); questions Adam Clarke, (Sept.25); preaches over the open grave of his mother, (July 20); of the death of his mother. (July 20); with William Grimshaw, attacked by a mob, (Aug.24); his escape from an angry mob, (Mar.2); an attempt made to impress him into military service, (Mar.2); ordains Thomas Coke, (Sept.2); the conversion of Thomas Webb, (Dec.20); the conversion of Robert Robinson, (June 9); espouses the teachings of Arminius, (Oct.10); receives a letter from George Whitefield, (Nov.24); opposed by Augustus Toplady, (Aug.14); of John Berridge, (May 20); Death of, (Mar.2); Luke Tyerman of, (Sept.19); Charles Spurgeon of, (Mar.2)
Wesley,
Samuel (Apr.25)
Wesley, Susannah -- the Christian Nurture of her children, (Jan.20);
John Wesley of, (July 20); Death of, (July 23)