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GEORGE MATHESON (1842-1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 886 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:MATHESON (1842-1906)  , Scottish theologian and preacher, was See also:born in See also:Glasgow in 1842, the son of See also:George See also: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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