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Title: Rabbi Saunderson
Author: Ian Maclaren
Release Date: March 28, 2006 [eBook #18063]
Language: English
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RABBI SAUNDERSON
by
IAN MACLAREN
With Twelve Illustrations by A. S. Boyd
London: Hodder and Stoughton
27 Paternoster Row
1898
To
Mrs. Williamson
OF GLENOGIL
WHO HAS INHERITED
THE GIFT OF WITTY SPEECH
AND HAS LAID IT OUT AT USURY
TO THE JOY OF HER FRIENDS
AND THE
GLADDENING OF LIFE
Contents
A SUPRA-LAPSARIAN
KILBOGIE MANSE
THE RABBI AS CONFESSOR
THE FEAR OF GOD
THE WOUNDS OF A FRIEND
LIGHT AT EVENTIDE
Illustrations
He put Jamie's ecclesiastical history into a state
of thorough repair
The farmers carted the new minister's furniture
from the nearest railway station
Searching for a lost note
The suddenness of his fall
"Some suitable sum for our brother here who is
passing through adversity"
"We shall not meet again in this world"
When Carmichael gave him the cup in the sacrament
"Shall . . . not . . . the . . . Judge . . . of all the
earth . . . do . . . right?"
"You have spoken to me like a father: surely that is enough"
Then arose a self-made man
He watched the dispersion of his potatoes with dismay
He signed for her hand, which he kept to the end
A SUPRA-LAPSARIAN
Jeremiah Saunderson had remained in the low estate of a "probationer" for
twelve years after he left the Divinity Hall, where he was reported so
great a scholar that the Professor of Apologetics spoke to him
deprecatingly, and the Professor of Dogmatics openly consulted him on
obscure writers. He had w
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