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MATHESON, GEORGE (1842-1906)

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MATHESON, See also:GEORGE (1842-1906) , Scottish theologian and preacher, was See also:born in See also:Glasgow in 1842, the son of George Matheson, a See also:merchant. He was educated at the university of Glasgow, where he graduated first in See also:classics, See also:logic and See also:philosophy. In his twentieth See also:year he became totally See also:blind, but he held to his resolve to enter the See also:ministry, and gave himself to theological and See also:historical study. His first ministry began in 1868 at Innellan, on the See also:Argyllshire See also:coast between See also:Dunoon and Toward. His books on See also:Aids to the Study of See also:German See also:Theology, Can the Old Faith live with the New? The Growth of the Spirit of See also:Christianity from the First See also:Century to the See also:Dawn of the Lutheran Era, established his reputation as a liberal and spiritually minded theologian; and See also:Queen See also:Victoria invited him to preach at Balmoral. In 1886 he removed to See also:Edinburgh, where he became See also:minister of St See also:Bernard's See also:Parish See also:Church. Here his See also:chief See also:work as a preacher was done. In 1879 the university of Edinburgh conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.D., and the same year he declined an invitation to the pastorate of See also:Crown See also:Court, See also:London, in See also:succession to Dr See also:John See also:Cumming (1807-1881). In 1881 'he was chosen as See also:Baird lecturer, and took for his subject " Natural Elements of Revealed Theology," and in 1882 he was the St See also:Giles, lecturer, his subject being " Confucianism." In 1890 he was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, See also:Aberdeen gave him its honorary LL.D., and in 1899 he was appointed See also:Gifford lecturer by that university, but declined on grounds of See also:health. In the same year he severed his active connexion with St Bernard's. One of his See also:hymns, " O love that will not let me go," has passed into the popular hymnology of the See also:Christian Church.

He died suddenly of See also:

apoplexy on the 28th of See also:August 1906. His exegesis owes its See also:interest to his subjective resources rather than to breadth of learning; his See also:power See also:lay in spiritual See also:vision rather than balanced See also:judgment, and in the vivid See also:apprehension of the factors which make the Christian See also:personality, rather than in constructive doctrinal statement.

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