WEBB-PEPLOE, HANMER WILLIAM: Church of England; b. at Weobley (47 m. s.w. of Birmingham) Oct. 1, 1837. He received his education at Marlborough College (1848-51), Cheltenham College (1851-56), and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A., 1859; M.A., 1878); was ordained deacon 1863 and priest the same year; was curate of Weobley, 1863-66; chaplain of Weobley Union, 1863-76; vicar of Kings Pyon cum Birley, 1866-76; and of St. Paul's, Onslow Square, 1876 sqq.; and has been prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral since 1893. Among his other services are those he has rendered as Cambridge University select preacher, 1896; president of the Barbican Mission to the Jews, and of the London Clerical and Lay Union; chairman of the Council of the National Church League; vicepresident of the Church Missionary Society, Protestant Reformation Society, Missions to Seamen, and the Spanish and Portuguese Church Aid Society; and chairman of the Waldensian Church Mission. He is "a stanch upholder of the Protestant and Evangelical position of the Church of England as bequeathed to us from the Reformation; a strong believer in the absolute inspiration of every part of the Bible . . ., and an earnest upholder of the divinity of Jesus Christ and of his birth by the Holy Ghost, and of the atonement made by him for the sin of the world."' He has written: 1 Follow after (London, 1894); All One; Sermons (1896); Life of Privilege (1896); Victorious Life (1896); Calls to Holiness (1900); Within and Without (1900); Titles of Jehovah (1901); Four Remarkable Letters of St. Paul's (1903); He Cometh (1905); Consider him; or, Sketches of the Four Gospels (1906); and The Beautiful Name (1910).

WEBER, vi;'ber, LUDWIG: Lutheran pastor; b. at Schwehn (28 m. n.e. of Cologne) Apr. 2, 1846. He received his education at the gymnasium in Marienwerder and at the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Erlangen; was pastor at Iserlohn, 1871-73; at Dellwig, 1873-81; and at Gladbach from 1881 to the present. He describes himself as a "positive Biblical Lutheran." He is the author of Der lebendige Gott in seiner Schopfuug (Bonn, 1886); Behandlung der socialen Frage auf evangelischer Seite (1888); Ansprachen für evangelische Arbeiter-, Burger-, and Volksvereine (Hattingen, 1890; greatly enlarged, Gütersloh, 1891, and often republished); Christus ist unser Friede (Göttingen, 1892); Geschichte der sittlich reliogisen and sozialen Entwickelung Deutschlands in den letzten 36 Jahren (Gütersloh, 1895); Friede lei mit diesem House. Predigt- and Andachtsbuch

(Dresden, 1899-1900); Die religiöse Entwickelung der Menschheit im Spiegel der.Weltlitteratur. (Gtiters loh, 1901); Soziales Handbuch (Hamburg, 1907); Alkohol and soziale Verhkltnisse (1908); and a long series of occasional lectures published in various collections.