Howard Walter

Howard Arnold Walter (19 August 1883 – 1 November 1918) was an American Congregationalist assistant minister, hymn writer and author. He was born in New Britain, Connecticut.

In 1913, Walter joined the staff of the YMCA and left for Lahore. He wrote one of the earliest studies on the Ahmadiyya movement in 1918.[1]

Walter died at the age of 35 in Lahore during the 1918 flu pandemic outbreak in the British Raj (India).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Howard Arnold Walter The Ahmadiya Movement 1918 Page 92 "the interval between his visit to the Temple at Jerusalem and his baptism by John. Even had this story of Notovitch not been exploded by Prof. J. A. Douglas of Agra in 1895, it is difficult to see how Ahmad could think that a visit of Jesus to India in his youth, before his... Two other stories, introduced by Ahmad as evidence for his theory, were the well-known tale of Barlaam and Josaphat? in which various traditions are related with respect to an Indian Prince (supposed to have been..."
  2. ↑ Kenneth W. Osbeck 101 More Hymn Stories, Part 2 p142

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