The New International Encyclopædia/Wise, Daniel

WISE, Daniel (1813-98). A Methodist Episcopal clerical author. He was born in Portsmouth, England, came to America in 1833, and entered the New England Conference (1840). He was editor of Zion's Herald (1852-56), and corresponding secretary of the Sunday-School Union and Tract Society of his Church (1856-72). The rest of his life was spent in literary work. Part of his duty as secretary was to edit all the publications of the society. His published works include more than forty titles. The best known are: The Path of Life (1847); The Saintly and Successful Worker (1879); Heroic Methodists of the Olden Time (1882); Our Missionary Heroes and Heroines (1884); Young Knights of the Cross (1887); and Faith, Hope, Love, and Duty (1891).