WILD, Joseph, Canadian clergyman, born in Summit, Littleborough, Lancashire, England, 16 November, 1834. He entered the local ministry of the Primitive Methodists at the age of sixteen, became a travelling preacher, and at twenty-one emigrated to the United States. After travelling through the south and west as a preacher and lecturer, he was stationed as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1857 at Hamilton, Ontario, remaining one year. He then took a three-years' course in theology at the Biblical institute at Concord, New Hampshire, returned to Canada, preached for a year at Goderich, and in 1863 was settled at Orono, Maine, whence he was transferred two years later to Belleville, Ontario, where he was pastor of the Methodist church and bursar and professor of Oriental languages in Albert university. Wesleyan university of Ohio gave him the degree of D. D. in 1870. In 1872 he was called to Brooklyn, New York, and, after remaining the allotted three years, being dissatisfied with the itinerant system, he accepted a call to the Union Congregational church in the same city. In 1881 he was installed as pastor of the Bond street Congregational church, Toronto, where he still officiates. He is popular as a preacher, has the largest regular congregation in Canada, and his sermons are printed in the "Canadian Advance," and circulated in Great Britain and Australia, as well as in the Dominion. In 1888 he acted as chairman of the Congregational union of Ontario and Quebec. Dr. Wild is a large and successful cultivator of fruits. He has published "The Lost Ten Tribes" (New York, 1878); "How and When the World Will End" (1879); "The Future of Israel and Judah" (London, 1879) ; "Talks for the Times" (Toronto, 1886); and "Songs of the Sanctuary" (1886). Editions of most of his works have been issued in the United States and England as well as in Canada.