Scotch-American clergyman; born at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire; graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1849; studied theology at the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian Church at Edinburgh; was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Kilmarnock in 1852; ordained pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Kilmaurs in 1853, and in 1855 was called to the United Presbyterian Church, on the Derby Road, Liverpool, where he had extraordinary success. He was a delegate to the General Assembly of the United States at Chicago in 1871, and was called, in November of the same year, to the Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational) Church, New York City, and held the charge until 1892, when he resigned. He received the degree of D.D. from Yale and Amherst colleges in 1872, and LL.D. from Princeton in 1883. In 1876 and 1886 he delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures in Yale College, and in 1880 the L. P. Stone lectures at Princeton. He published Life Truths (1862); The Miracles: Helps to Faith, not Hindrances (1865); The Lost Found and the Wanderer Welcomed (1870); Prayer and Business (1873); David, King of Israel (1875); Elijah the Prophet (1876); The Ministry of the World (1876); Songs in the Night (1877); Peter the Apostle (1877); Daniel the Beloved (1878); Moses the Lawgiver (1879); The Gospel Miracles in Their Relation to Christ and Christianity (1880); The Limits of Life, and Other Sermons (1880); Jesus at the Well (1884); John Knox: A Biography (1885); Joseph the Prime Minister (1886); The Parables of Our Saviour Expounded and Illustrated (1886); The Scottish Pulpit (1887); Ruth the Gleaner, and Esther the Queen (1891); Good Character: What It Is and How to Form It (1892); The Boy Jesus, and Other Sermons (1893). He died on the 8th of February 1895.
