Born: Au­gust 19, 1883, New Britain, Con­nec­ti­cut.

Died: November 1, 1918, Lahore, India.

Walter grad­u­a­ted with hon­ors from Prince­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty in 1905, and stu­died at Hart­ford The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary; 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. He lat­er be­came a mis­sion­ary with the YMCA in In­dia and 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.

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Hymns

1. I Would Be True