WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODISTS. See Presbyterians, IV., VIII., 8.

WELTZ, velts, JUSTINIAN, FREIHERR VON: Austrian pioneer advocate of Protestant missions to the heathen and missionary; b. at Chemnitz (38 m. s.w. of Dresden) -1621; d. in Surinam (Dutch Guiana) in 1688. Little is known of his life. He wrote at the age of twenty the tractate De tyrarznorum ingenio et arcanis artibus, discussing the duties of rulers and subjects. In 1663 appeared, Vom Einsiedlerlebezz, wie es nach Gottes Wort xznd der alter heiligen Einsiedlerleben arzzustellen sei, a work inspired with lofty religious and moral earnestness; and his Kurzer Bericlzt, wie ein neue Gesellschaft enter den rechtgluubigen Christen Augsburgischer Koufession aufgerichted werden konrze (1663). His three principal works are: Eire christliche and treuherzige Vernzahnung an alle rechtglaubigen

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Since then his fame increased not only because of his services but because of his misfortunes, so that among the Czechs he is to-day, next to St: Nepomuk (see John of Nepomuk), the best beloved of the saints.

(A. Hauck.)

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