Introduction

Introduction

Biography

Walter gra­du­at­ed with hon­ors from Prince­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty, Prince­ton, New Jer­sey, in 1905. He went to stu­dy at Hart­ford The­o­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, Con­nec­ti­cut; in Ed­in­burgh and Glas­gow, Scot­land; and in Gött­ing­en, Ger­ma­ny.

At age 23, he spent a year in Ja­pan teach­ing Eng­lish at Wa­se­da Un­i­ver­si­ty.

After or­di­na­tion, he be­came as­sist­ant pas­tor at the Asy­lum Hill Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut.

Walter lat­er be­came a mis­sion­a­ry with the Young Men’s Chris­tian As­so­ci­a­tion (YMCA). As of about 1920, he was Li­ter­a­ry Sec­re­ta­ry for the Na­tion­al Coun­cil of the YMCA of In­dia and Cey­lon (now Sri Lan­ka).

Doctors had ad­vised against his go­ing, due to his weak heart, but he in­sist­ed he must be true. He died while work­ing at the Fore­man Chris­tian College in La­hore.

Works

• My Creed, and Oth­er Po­ems (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ri­chard G. Bad­ger, 1912)
• The Ah­ma­di­ya Move­ment (Lon­don: Hum­phrey Mil­ford, 1918)
• Soul-Sur­gery: Some Thoughts on In­ci­sive Per­son­al Work