Studies in the First Book of Samuel: For the Use of Classes in Secondary Schools and in the Secondary Division of the Sunday School (Classic Reprint)
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The editor Of the series in which this volume appears holds the firm conviction that the Sunday School should have a curriculum Of study, based on thorough knowledge Of the Bible and intelligent understanding Of the principles Of teaching. Such a curriculum will, in the nature Of the case, be graded both with respect to the Scripture material employed in its successive years and in respect to the method Of using this material. The Epistle to the Ephesians cannot profitably be employed in teach ing children six or seven years Old, nor are children Of that age ready for broad historical generalizations.
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The Prophets Of Israel
Herbert Lockwood Willett
Fleming H. Revell Co., 1899
Bible; Prophets
The Message Of The Prophets Of Israel To The Twentieth Century (1916)
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The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary, Fully Defining and Explaining All Religious Terms, Including Biographical, ... Superbly Illustrated With Over 600 Maps An
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Herbert Lockwood Willett was an American clergyman and biblical scholar.
Background
Herbert Lockwood Willett was born on May 5, 1864 in Ionia, Michigan, the first of four children (all boys) of Gordon Arthur and Mary Elizabeth (Yates) Willett. The families of both parents had moved to Michigan from the Finger Lakes section of upstate New York. During the Civil War, Gordon Willett served with the United States Sanitary Commission and had charge of the hospital ship S. R. Spaulding, on which his wife helped care for the sick and wounded. After the war he joined with his father-in-law to found a farm machinery store in Ionia, which soon prospered.
Education
Herbert Willett never attended public school, but studied at home under the direction of his mother, meanwhile clerking part-time in his father's store. After teaching for two winters in country schools near Ionia, he entered Bethany College in West Virginia, founded by Alexander Campbell of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); he graduated three years later, in 1886, with the B. A. degree. Determined to begin graduate study as soon as circumstances would permit, Willett received a leave from his congregation to enter Yale Divinity School in the fall of 1890. In spite of varied responsibilities, he received his Ph. D. at the University of Chicago in 1896, writing a doctoral thesis on "The Development of the Doctrine of Immortality among the Hebrews. " He later spent a year of study at the University of Berlin (1898 - 99).
Career
Having decided in his senior year to become a minister of the Disciples, he accepted a call to a church in North Eaton, Ohio, then moved in 1887 to another in Dayton; he was ordained in 1890.
He had planned to take the regular theological course, but Prof. William Rainey Harper persuaded him instead to concentrate on Hebrew. When Harper left after a year to become president of the University of Chicago, Willett returned to his Dayton pastorate, but, convinced that his true vocation was teaching, he resigned two years later to resume graduate study with Harper at Chicago. A man of extraordinary energy, Willett became involved in several important projects. He interrupted his studies to teach for six months at the University of Michigan in a new extracurricular "Bible Chair" founded by the Disciples to provide biblical instruction for undergraduates. He helped organize (1894) the Hyde Park (later University) Church of the Disciples in Chicago and served as its pastor until 1897. When in 1894 his denomination established Disciples Divinity House in conjunction with the divinity school of the University of Chicago, Willett was selected as acting dean and then dean (1896), a position he held for the next quarter of a century.
Upon the completion of his graduate work at the University of Berlin, Willett received a teaching appointment in the department of Semitics at the University of Chicago. He remained on the faculty, while continuing at times to hold pastorates, until his retirement in 1929, becoming assistant professor in 1900, associate professor in 1909, and professor of Oriental languages and literature in 1915.
During his ministry with the First Christian Church in Chicago (beginning in 1905), he led the congregation to unite with a nearby Baptist church and continued as minister of the united congregation until 1920. A founder of the Chicago Federation of Churches and its president from 1916 to 1920, he served for five years as executive secretary of the Western Section of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. He represented his denomination at the first assembly of the Federal Council in 1908 and was a delegate to the 1937 ecumenical conferences in Oxford and Edinburgh. The Union Church in Kenilworth, Ill. , a Chicago suburb, called Willett as pastor in 1926, three years prior to his retirement at the University of Chicago. Although for some years a heart ailment had slowed his pace, he continued active even after 1940, when he resigned his Kenilworth pastorate in order to spend the winters in a warmer climate. He died of a coronary thrombosis in Winter Park, Fla. , in 1944, in his eightieth year.
Achievements
Willett's major importance was as a popularizer of liberal biblical scholarship, both within his own denomination, where he assisted and strengthened its liberal wing, and beyond it.
He wrote many expository articles for denominational weeklies and served for some years as associate editor of the Christian Century. He was perhaps most widely known as a lecturer. A speaker of quiet eloquence and power, he addressed interdenominational groups across the country. To Willett, no task was more important than that of interpreting the Bible to the Christian layman.
An authority on the Old Testament, he applied the methods of historical criticism to the Bible, which he regarded as an inspired work, not in the sense of supernatural dictation, but in the sense that the spirit of God had motivated the sacred authors and the lives of the people about whom they wrote.
Convinced of the folly of denominationalism, Willett supported the cause of Christian unity at every level.
Personality
For many years he had spent his summers in a cottage overlooking Lake Michigan near Pentwater, Mich. , where a group of Disciples had purchased a tract of land.
Connections
On January 4, 1888, he married Emma Augusta Price of Kenton, Ohio; they had three children: Herbert Lockwood (originally named Floyd), Robert Leslie, and Paul Yates.
