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Ian Maclaren, pseudonym of Rev. John Watson, (1850- 1907) was a Scottish author and theologian. In 1874 he entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and became assistant minister of Edinburgh Barclay Church. Subsequently he was minister at Logiealmond in Perthshire and at Glasgow, and in 1880 he became minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, from which he retired in 1905. In 1896 he was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University, and in 1900 he was moderator of the synod of the English Presbyterian Church. While travelling in the United States he died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. His first sketches of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894), achieved extraordinary popularity and were followed by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers (1896), and Afterwards and Other Stories (1898). Under his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons, among them being The Upper Room (1895), The Mind of the Master (1896) and The Potter's Wheel (1897).Download Description
The Revolution reached our parish years ago, and Drumtochty has a School Board, with a chairman and a clerk, besides a treasurer and an officer. Young Hillocks, who had two years in a lawyer's office, is clerk, and summons meetings by post, although he sees every member at the market or the kirk. Minutes are read with much solemnity, and motions to expend ten shillings upon a coal-cellar door passed, on the motion of Hillocks, seconded by Drumsheugh, who are both severely prompted for the occasion, and move uneasily before speaking. ... Read more

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Scottish fiction
"Ian Maclaren" was the pseudonym used for fiction writing (Scottish fiction) by John Watson. This book (best seller 1895-fiction) is a collection of stories, set in the fictional village of Drumtochty. It is thought that the village of Drumtochty was based on Logiealmond, where Maclaren began his ministerial career. The picture that he painted of rural life is closer to nostalgia than reality. It does demonstrate the importance of the Church in every aspect of people's live at that time. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1895 edition by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. ... Read more

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The addresses which make up this volume were written by Professor Drummond between the years 1876 and 1881, and are now published in the hope that they may continue his work. Included here are "Ill-Temper," "Why Christ Must Depart," "Going to the Father," "The Eccentricity of Religion," "To Me to Live Is Christ," "Clairvoyance," "The Three Facts of Sin," "The Three Facts of Salvation," "Marvel Not," "Penitence," "The Man After God's Own Heart," "What is Your Life?" "What is God's Will?" "The Relation of the Will of God to Sanctification," and "How to Know the Will of God." ... Read more

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Quite lively, and quite interesting
Though largely forgotten today, Scottish-born Henry Drummond (1851-97) was a leading evangelist and theologian of his day. In 1873, Dr. Drummond joined American evangelist Dwight Lymon Moody (1837-99) on his campaign in Great Britain, and from there his fame spread. After his untimely death, his friends collected a group of his addresses, which he had made from 1876 to 1881, and published them. This book represents those men's labor of love for the great Henry Drummond.

I found these fifteen addresses to be quite lively, and quite interesting. I must admit that I wish that there was some way that I could hear Dr. Drummond give them himself. My favorite was definite The Eccentricity of Religion, where Dr. Drummond argues that true Christianity will appear strange and off-putting to the nonbeliever. I highly recommend this blast from the past to all Christians. ... Read more