Name William Arnot Role Writer | Education University of Glasgow | |
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Died June 3, 1875, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Books The Parables of Our Lord, Laws from heaven for life on ear, Studies in Proverbs: Laws fro, Lesser parables of our Lord, Studies in Acts: The Church in | ||
William Arnot (1808–1875) was a Scottish minister and theological writer.
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Life
He was born at Scone, where his father was a farmer, 6 November 1808. He was apprenticed to a gardener; but was led to study for the ministry. In his university career at Glasgow had for classfellows two men, whose biographies he later wrote: James Halley, who died quite young, and James Hamilton, afterwards minister of the National Scotch Church in Regent Square, London.
After completing his theological studies he was called, in 1838, to be minister of St Peter's Church, Glasgow, one of the new churches built under the extension scheme of Thomas Chalmers. He became popular, and after 1843 was connected with the Free Church of Scotland.
In the year 1863, on the appointment of Robert Rainy to a professorship, Arnot was called to be minister of one of the congregations of the Free Church in Edinburgh. There he edited a monthly religious magazine, the Family Treasury. He three times visited America: in 1845, to minister in the dominion of Canada; in 1870 as a delegate from the Free Church of Scotland to congratulate the presbyterian churches in the northern states on their reunion; and for the third time, in 1873, as a member of the Evangelical Alliance, to attend its meetings at New York. Having been a sympathiser with the northern states and the anti-slavery movement, he was well received in the United States.
The degree of D.D. was virtually offered to Arnot by the University of Glasgow, and afterwards formally by the University of New York; but for personal reasons he declined. He died after a short illness at Edinburgh, 3 June 1875. He is buried beneath a huge but simple red granite monument in the northern half of the SE section of Grange, Cemetery in Edinburgh.
Works
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