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Wesleyan Methodist Connection in America – (May 31)
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Meeting – (Dec.1)
Wesleyan Revival – (Mar.22)
West, Benjamin -- teaches Samuel Morse, (Apr.2)
West, Stephen – (May 15)
Westen, Thomas --labors among the Norwegian Finns, (Sept.13)
Western Theological Seminary –(Nov.12)

Westminster Assembly -- the summoning of, (July 1); ordered to prepare a confession of faith, (Aug.20); revises the Thirty-Nine Articles, (Nov.8); swears to the Solemn League and the National Covenant, (Sept.25); completes the Directory for Public Worship, (Dec.21); sends to Parliament Propositions Concerning Church Government And The Ordination Of Ministers, (Nov.8); petitioned by Independents for the recognition of the freedom of worship, and the subsequent denial of the petition, (Dec.4); closes its appointed work, but continues irregular meetings as a Board of Triers to examine ministers, (Feb.22); the disbanding of the Board of Triers, (Feb.22); cf. (May 17)

Westminster Larger Catechism --adopted by the Scotch Assembly, (July 2); adopted by the English Parliament, (Sept.15)

Westminster Shorter Catechism --adopted by the Scotch Assembly, (July 2); adopted by the English Parliament, (Sept.15)

Westminster Confession of Faith --ordered, (Aug.20); its revision, (Apr.29); its influence upon the London Confession Of Faith, (July 11)

Westphalia, Peace of – (Oct.24)
Wheelock, Eleazar --founds Dartmouth College, (Nov.16)
Wheelock, Nathaniel –(July 14)
Whitaker, William --draws up the Lambeth Articles, (Nov.20)
White, Rev. George --his persecution of William Grimshaw and John Wesley, (Aug.24)

White, William --assists in founding the Sunday School Society, (Dec.19); his examination of Robert Aitken's Bible translation for the United States Congress, (Sept.1)

Whitecross, Margaret --(Mrs. John Paton) --arrives in Australia with her husband, (Jan.17); Death of, (May 16)

Whitefield, George --Birth of, (Dec.16); ordained a deacon, (June 20); ordained a preacher, (Jan.14); his first sermon, (June 27); preaches in the open air, (Feb.17); the Cambuslang Revival, (July 11); arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, (Sept.14); speaks alarmingly fearing the end to civil and religious liberties in America, (Oct.8); opposed by Charles Chauncey and Harvard College, (Nov.2); opposed by Yale College, (Feb.25); opposed by the ministers of Weymouth and Marlborough, (Nov.2); awakens Robert Robinson, (June 9); accompanied by Gilbert Tennent, (Feb.5); the founding of the Bethesda Orphanage, (Mar.25); returns to London, (Apr.27); the conversion of John Fawcett, (Jan.6); of William Romaine, (Sept.25); marriage of, (Nov.14); the Controversy with John Wesley, (Aug.24), (Nov.24); Death of, (Sept.29); John Newton of, (Feb.15); cf. (Mar.6), (May 28), (Aug.24)

Whitgift, John --his controversy with Thomas Cartright and his persecution of the Puritans as the Archbishop of Canterbury, (Feb.29); espouses the Lambeth Articles, (Feb.29); Death of, (Feb.29)

Whitman, Marcus --denounces the Adventism of William Miller, (Nov.5); Death of, (Feb.25)
Whittier, John Greenleaf –(Dec.17)
"Who Is On The Lord's Side" – (Dec.14)

Whyte, Alexander --Birth of, (Jan.13); receives a tract from Robert Murray McCheyne, (Jan.13); taught by Thomas Chalmers, (Jan.13); Death of, (Jan.7)

Widerkind --his revolt and the subsequent attacks upon the Church, (Nov.8)

Wilberforce, Samuel --denounces the liberalism of the book Essays And Reviews, (Feb.24); pens Heroes Of Hebrew History, (July 19); draws up the address calling for the resignation of John Colenso, (July 19); Death of, (July 19)

Wilberforce, William --Birth of, (Aug.24); con-version of, (Aug.24); brings Samuel Morse to Christ, (Apr.2); the influence of William Cowper, (Dec.21); his influence upon Leigh Richmond, (Dec.21); leads England in the abolition of the slave trade, (July 29); forms the Proclamation Society for the Reformation of Manners, (Aug.24); Death of, (July 29)

Willard, Samuel --reads publicly the confession of guilt by Judge Samuel Sewell for his part in the witchcraft trials, (June 10); cf. (Aug.31)

Willehad --his narrow escape with death when his sermons enrage the Frisians, (Nov.8); receives encouragement from Charlemagne, (Nov.8); escapes when the people revolt, (Nov.8); Death of, (Nov.8)

William III (Prince of Orange) --espouses Protestantism, (July 15); sanctions public preaching in the Netherlands, (Sept.2); a price is put upon his head, (July 26); lands at Tor Bay, (Nov.5); cf. (Feb.13); its affect upon New England, (Apr.18); the Battle of the Boyne, (July 1); with Mary, proclaimed joint monarchs, (Feb.13); passes the Toleration Act, acknowledging limited religious freedom, (May 24); Connecticut forwards a declaration of its loyalty, (June 13); issues a Religious peace acknowledging the liberty of conscience, (July 22); his murder attempted, (Apr.27); assists Waldensians in their return from exile, (Aug.1-4); his Murder, cf. (Aug.24); cf. (June 30)

Williams, George --founds the first Young Men's Christian Association, (June 6)

Williams, John --labors on Rarotonga and his translation of the Bible into the native tongue, (Nov.20); his murder by Cannibals, (Nov.20); a ship named in honor of him carries James Chalmers to New Guinea, (Jan.4)

Williams, Roger --writes The Bloody Tennent Of Persecution For Cause Of Conscience, and the controversy that followed, (July 15); opposed by Thomas Hooker, (July 7); opposed by John Cotton and the reasons given, (Sept.4); his banishment and his subsequent escape from the Bay colony, (Oct.9); his successful negotiations with the Narragansett Indians against forming an alliance with the Pequod Indians, (Oct.9); secures a charter for Providence Plantations, (Mar.14); delays an English shipment of arms intended for use against New Netherlands, (Aug.15)
 

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