WARNER, ZEBEDEE: United Brethren in Christ; b. in Pendleton Co., Va., Feb. 28, 1833; d. at Gibbon, Neb., Jan. 10, 1888. Educated at Clarksburg Academy, he entered the ministry of his denomination in 1854, and was presiding elder in 1862-69 and 1880-85, as well as pastor of a church at Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1869-80, and he also taught theology for eight years in the Parkersburg conference. He was a delegate to the general conference seven times, and for two years was president of the eastern Sunday-school assembly of his denomination. He wrote Christian Baptism (Parkersburg, 1864), Rise and Progress of the United Brethren Church (1865), Life and Times of Rev. Jacob Bachtel (Dayton, O., 1867), and The Roman Catholic not a True Christian Church (Parkersburg, 1868).

WARREN, HENRY WHITE: Methodist Epis copal bishop; b. at Williamsburg, Mass., Jan. 4, 1831. He was educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (A.B., 1853), and after teaching classics at Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy (1853 1855), was ordained to the ministry in 1855; he held pastorates at Worcester, Mass. (1855-57), Boston (1857-60), Lynn, Mass. (1881-63), West field, Mass. (1863-64), Cambridge, Mass. (1865-fi7), Charlestown, Mass. (1868-71), Philadelphia (1871 1873, 1877-79), and Brooklyn (1874-76); in 1880 he was elected bishop. In 1862-63 he was a mem ber of the Massachusetts Legislature, and in 1881 was a delegate to the Pan-Methodist Council in London. In theology he is conservative, although "with an open eye for results of recent investigations and inspirations." Besides editing The Study from 1896 to 1900, he has written Sights and In sights: A Book of Observations and Travels (New York, 1874); The Lesser Hymnal (1876); Recreations in Astronomy (1879); The Bible in the World's Education (1892); Among the Forces (1899); and Fifty-two Memory Hymns (1908).

WARREN, WILLIAM FAIRFIELD: Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Williamsburg, Mass., Mar. 13, 1833. He was educated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (A.B., 1853), and at the uni versities of Berlin and Halle (1856-58), traveling extensively in Europe and the East in 1856-58. He held pastorates at Ballardvale, Andover, Mass. (1854-56), Wilbraham, Mass. (1858-60), and Bos ton (1860-61); was professor of systematic theol ogy in the Missionsanstalt, Bremen, Germany (1861-66); of systematic theology and acting president, of Boston Theological Seminary (1866 1871); dean of the School of Theology of Boston

University (1871-73); first president of Boston University (1873-1903); and dean of the School of Theology of the same institution (since 1903). He has also been professor of the comparative history of religions, comparative theology, and the philosophy of religion in Boston University since 1873, this being the first chair of its kind in America. He has repeatedly served his church as delegate to various important conventions. In 1876 he was elected the first. president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women; was a member of the university senate of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1892-1904); and of the Commission on organio law of the same denomination (1896-1900). In 1874 he negotiated reciprocity agreements between Boston University on the one hand, and the National University of Athens and the Royal University of Rome on the other, thus anticipating the similar movement of more recent years.. He has written Anfangsgriinde der Logik (Bremen, 1863); Allgemeine Einleitung in die systematische Theologie (1865); Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole (Boston, 1885); The Quest of the Perfect Religion (1886); In the Footprints of Arminius (New York, 1888); The Story of Gottlieb (Meadville, Pa., 1890); The Religions of the World and the World-Religion (Boston, 1892); Constitutional Questions before the Methodist Episcopal Church (Cincinnati, 1894); and The Earliest Cosmologies; The Universe as pictured in Thought by the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Iranians, and IndoAryans (New York, 1909).