Legacy
The town of Wayland, Massachusetts was name in his honor. Wayland Seminary in Washington D.C., a predecessor of Virginia Union University was named for him. The Wayland Day lectures at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, were named in honor of Wayland, whose writings had a lasting effect on the founder of the oldest university in Japan.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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