Born: Ju­ly 24, 1895.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 1975, St. Lou­is Coun­ty, Mis­sou­ri.

Wernecke at­tend­ed Mil­wau­kee State Teach­ers Col­lege, Miss­ion House (now Lake­land), South­ern Bap­tist Sem­in­ary, Hope Sem­in­ary, and Prince­ton Seminary. He taught Re­li­gious Edu­ca­tion at Cen­tral The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­ary and at Eden The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, Web­ster Groves, Mis­sou­ri, af­ter the two schools merged. His works in­clude:

• Car­ols, Cus­toms and Cos­tumes Around the World (Web­ster Groves, Mis­sou­ri: The Old Or­chard Book Shoppe, 1936)
• Through Four Centuries: The Story of the Beginnings of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, with Julius H. Horstmann (Saint Louis, Missouri: The Eden Publishing House, 1938)
• The Book of Revelation Speaks To Us (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Westminster Press, 1954)
• Christmas Customs Around the World, 1959
• Tales of Christmas from Near and Far, 1963
• Celebrating Christmas Around the World
• When Loved Ones Are Called Home

Translations

1. He Became Incarnate
2. In Bethlehem’s Manger
3. Sleep, Little Baby