The Life Of The Master By Ian Maclaren [john Watson]

Description

Externally book shows a little wear and tear especially the spine but otherwise internally intact. It nevertheless a first edition. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and fifteen colour plates with tissue guards. Collated complete. A detailed commentary on the life of Jesus Christ, arranged as a series of sermons. With titles such as: The Inevitable Christ, The Idyll of Bethlehem, His Own City, With the Children, and Twenty-four Hours with Jesus, amongst others. Written by John Watson, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland remembered as an author of fiction, and best known by his pen name Ian Maclaren. Illustrated by Corwin Knapp Linson, an American painter and illustrator. John Watson (3 November 1850 – 6 May 1907), was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He is remembered as an author of fiction, known by his pen name Ian Maclaren. He studied at Edinburgh University, then trained as a Free Church minister at New College in Edinburgh, also undertaking some postgraduate study at Tübingen. In 1874 he was licensed by the Free Church of Scotland and became assistant minister of Edinburgh Barclay Church. In 1875 he was ordained as minister at Logiealmond in Perthshire. In 1877 he was transferred to St Matthews Free Church in Glasgow. In Glasgow he lived at 44 Windsor Terrace. In 1880 he became minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church in Liverpool, from which he retired in 1905.[3] During this period he was a main mover in the founding of the Westminster College in Cambridge.