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Williston Walker was born in Portland, Me. He came of clerical New England stock. His father, George Leon Walker, was a distinguished Congregational minister. His Christian name was the family name of his mother, Maria Williston.
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The First Ecclesiastical Society in Hartford, 1670-1903: An Address by Williston Walker on the Occasion of Transfer of Its Property to the First ... in Hartford, March 19, 1903 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The First Ecclesiastical Society in Hartford, 1670-1903: An Address by Williston Walker on the Occasion of Transfer of Its Property to the First Church of Christ in Hartford, March 19, 1903 But this building proved inadequate for the growing needs of the congregation, and in 1831-32 the present Lecture - Room was obtained. To it the parlors in which so many of our even ing meetings are held were added in 1875. Nor has it been in the study of the wants of the congregation alone that the Society has always shown a generous interest. The improvement of its property and its surroundings have been increasingly its con cern, as illustrated conspicuously of recent years in the reno vation of Gold Street. Our Ecclesiastical Society has had a conspicuous part in the development of the musical services of the Church. Its interest in church music began early. New England thought at the time of its organization opposed the use in public worship of any but versified portions of Holy Writ. The uninspired hymn was rejected, and the absence of books in which the tunes were printed led to singing by memory, or rote as it was called, with the result that such local modifications were made in music that the same tune was often scarcely recognizable as used in adjacent parishes. The best that Cotton Mather could say of the singing of New England in his day was that it was noi worse than what is heard in many other parts of the World. But the early eighteenth century saw an effort for reform, and this region of Connecticut was agitated (1727-1732) over singing by rote or by rule. To some it seemed as if the introduction of the tune-book would be but the first step in a process the logical completion of which would be the introduction of the prayer-book and the imposition of the Liturgy which the found ers of New England thought themselves to have escaped by crossing the Atlantic; but our Society had no such fears, though it moved with its customary caution. On June 20, 1733, it voted that, after three months' practice by such members of the congregation as inclined to sing by rule, the new methodshould be tried until the annual meeting of December, and then a further vote should be taken on the propriety of its continu ance. The innovation proved its permanent value. So, too, the uninspired hymn, which had conquered its place in the esteem of our churches by reason of the poetic genius with which Isaac Watts expressed the aspirations, hopes and praises of Christian people, found its place in our public worship through the vote of the Ecclesiastical Society. In 1756, it expressed its judgment that Dr. Watts' Psalms may be sung in the Congregation at the time of Divine Worship at least half ye time. Nearly three-quarters of a century later, the Society countenanced another musical innovation, admitting the organ which early New England usage had rejected. In 1822, a small instrument was installed by voluntary subscription; but this organ proved inadequate and was replaced, in 1833, by one purchased by the Society by a tax on the polls and ratable estates of the inhabitants of the Society and it, in turn, gave way, by gift, to the present organ, in 1883, after half a century of useful service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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Since publication of the first edition in 1918, A History Of The Christian Church by Williston Walker has enjoyed outstanding success and recognition as a classic in the field. Written by an eminent theologian, it combines in its narrative a rare blend of clarity, unity, and balance. Mr. Walker, Yale Professor of Divinity, covers the origin of the church, its early development, the changes of the middle ages, the course of the Reformation, the modern church, culminating with a section on American Christianity. Unhesitatingly frank in its opinions, and with an extensive list of recommendations for further reading.
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Williston Walker
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He received the degree of A. B. from Amherst College in 1883, and graduated from the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1886. With his bride he went to Europe for further study and received the degree of Ph. D. at Leipzig in 1888.
Career
Appointed associate professor of history in Byrn Mawr College, as successor to Woodrow Wilson, he served in that capacity until 1889. From the latter year until 1892 he was associate professor of church history at the Hartford Theological Seminary and from 1892 to 1901 professor of Germanic and Western Church history in the same institution. In 1901 Yale University called him to succeed George Park Fisher, as Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, which position he held for the remainder of his life. From 1896 on he acted as a trustee of Amherst College, and beginning in 1901, as secretary of the corporation. For the school year 1916-17 he served as acting dean of the Yale Graduate School, and as provost of the University from 1919 until his death. As first incumbent of this office he contributed to the efficiency of the administration of the university by the co"rdination of departments. He was president of the American Society of Church History and of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and was a member of several other organizations, particularly those concerned with the history of the colonial period. His interest was ever unflagging in the work of the Church and especially in that of the Congregational body. In 1913 he served on the committee of nineteen which drafted a new constitution for the denomination, and in 1919 he was a member of the commission on Christian unity between the Congregational and Episcopalian bodies. His concern for Christian unity and for Christian missions is evidenced by the following publications: The Validity of Congregational Ordination (1898), Dudleian Lecture at Harvard University; "The War and Church Unity" in Religion and the War (1918), by members of the faculty of the School of Religion, Yale University; Approaches Towards Church Unity (1919), edited in collaboration with Newman Smyth; Twenty Years of Work, a Paper Presented on the 20th Annual Meeting of the Woman's Congregational Home Missionary Union of Connecticut (1905). As a lecturer on church history Walker was possessed of singular charm. The story of the Church in his hands unrolled as a colorful panorama of stirring deeds. His writing was characterized by sobriety, balance of arrangement, and judgment, thoroughness, and accuracy. His major contributions to historical scholarships lay in the field of Congregational history in New England, on which he published three books: The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism (1893); A History of the Congregational Churches in the United States (1894), in the American Church History series; Ten New England Leaders (1901); and several articles. Outside of the colonial period his best two works from the scholarly standpoint are his doctoral dissertation, On the Increase of Royal Power in France under Philip Augustus (Leipzig, 1888) and John Calvin (1906, French translation, Geneva, 1909). On the order of textbooks are: The Reformation (1900) and A History of the Christian Church (1918). His Great Men of the Christian Church (1908) contains a series of popular brief biographies.
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The First Ecclesiastical Society in Hartford, 1670-1903: An Address by Williston Walker on the Occasion of Transfer of Its Property to the First ... in Hartford, March 19, 1903 (Classic Reprint)
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The Sandemanians of New England (Classic Reprint)
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A History of the Christian Church
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A History of the Christian Church (Classic Reprint)
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The First Ecclesiastical Society in Hartford, 1670-1903: An Address by Williston Walker on the Occasion of Transfer of Its Property to the First ... in Hartford, March 19, 1903 (Classic Reprint)
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On June 1 of that year he married Alice Mather, by whom he had two daughters.
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