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Ian Maclaren was born on November 3, 1850, in Manningtree, Essex.
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Ian Maclaren was born on November 3, 1850, in Manningtree, Essex.
In due time young Maclaren went to the University of Edinburgh, where he excelled in the classics and in philosophy. He became secretary and afterwards president of the Philosophical Society connected with the University.
When he had completed his studies he decided to enter the Free Church of Scotland, and passed through the curriculum of the New College. He also spent some time at Tübingen.
For a short period—about a year—after his ordination, he served as assistant pastor to Dr. J. H. Wilson of the Barclay Church in Edinburgh, before he became minister of the Free Church in Harrietfield, a small village consisting chiefly of one main street, belonging to the estate of Logiealmond in Perthshire, and now far-famed as Drumtochty.
The work amongst this people of primitive instincts, and simple fundamental needs, proved congenial; and he made a close study of them with an intention of using the material. But self-distrust and various plans intervening, his literary schemes were laid aside and were discarded, as the years distanced him from these early scenes and experiences. His gifts as a brilliant preacher could not be hid under a bushel; and two and a half years were all that he was permitted to spend at Logiealmond. Calls multiplied, and became insistent, until he ultimately accepted one from St. Matthew’s in Glasgow, where he became the colleague of Dr. Samuel Miller, in a pulpit celebrated for a succession of powerful preachers.
But he found his true sphere, when, three years later, he became minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool. This took place in 1880; and Maclaren long remained the pastor of that church. His liberal views and catholicity of thought, his geniality and bright, winning disposition, ever drew to him men of all schools; and young men especially found a haven in Sefton Park for their varied intellectual cravings and aspirations. Maclaren’s church was constantly crowded by one of the largest and most influential congregations in Liverpool; and among the younger generation of English preachers Maclaren held a foremost place. He was a speaker of extraordinary force and clearness.
Up to 1894 he was quite unknown to the public as an author; and yet, in little more than a year after the publication of his first volume, "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, " the sales had exceeded in England and America 200, 000 copies. Much curiosity prevailed in England while the stories were appearing serially in the British Weekly under the pen-name "Ian Maclaren" (Ian, Gaelic for John, and Maclaren, his mother’s maiden name); and not until a month after the book had been published, was the author’s identity discovered. Later, another volume of Drumtochty sketches, entitled "The Days of Auld Lang Syne, " dealing with the same characters and scenes, was published with similar success. A small volume of consecutive sermons, applicable to the communion season, was issued at the beginning of 1896 under the title "The Upper Room"; and a large volume of discourses on practical religious themes, called "The Mind of the Master, " appeared in the spring of the same year.
Ian Maclaren continued his literary activity up to the time of his death, which took place on May 6, 1907, and "Children of the Resurrection" was published posthumously in 1912. Much of his later work was devotional in character, but his books in a lighter vein, such as "Young Barbarian" (1901) and "His Majesty, Baby (1902), continued to attract a wide circle of readers, although they had not the phenomenal success of his earlier stories.
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"Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty. "
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