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Formerly of Yale Divinity School Faculty; Author of "How to Speak in Public," Etc.
With Assistance from Many of the Foremost Living Preachers and Other Theologians
Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology in Yale University
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GUTHRIE (1803-1873). _Page_ The New Heart 1
MAURICE (1805-1872). The Valley of Dry Bones 23
MANNING (1808-1892). The Triumph of the Church 61
PARK (1808-1900). The Prominence of the Atonement 87
SIMPSON (1810-1884). The Resurrection of Our Lord 119
THEODORE PARKER (1810-1860). The Transient and Permanent in Christianity 147
MACLEOD (1812-1872). The True Christian Ministry 177
MOZLEY (1813-1878). The Reversal of Human Judgment 205
THOMAS GUTHRIE, preacher, philanthropist, and social reformer, was born at Brechin, Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1803. He spent ten years at the University of Edinburgh and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Brechin in 1825. In 1830 he was ordained minister of Arbirlot. After a valuable experience in evangelical preaching among the farmers, weavers and peasants of his congregation, he became one of the ministers of Old Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, in 1827. Lord Cockburn described his sermons in that city as appealing equally "to the poor woman on the steps of the pulpit" as to the "stranger attracted solely by his eloquence." He was a great temperance advocate, becoming a total abstainer in 1844, and has been styled "the apostle of the ragged school movement." Retiring from the active work of the ministry in 1864, he still remained in public life until he died in 1873. Through long practise, Dr. Guthrie delivered his memorized discourses as tho they fell spontaneously from his lips. His voice has been described as powerful and musical. He was fond of vivid illustration, and even on his death bed, as he lay dying in the arms of his sons, he exclaimed: "I am just as helpless in your arms now as you once were in mine."