The Life of Principal Rainy
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. With portraits. Two large 8vo. volumes. 469 pp. and 535 pp. including index for both volumes. Top edges gilt. Both volumes tight and clean. Top 1/4 of free front endpaper sliced out. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown of vol. I.A little light rubbing. Overall, very good condition.
This work will be found to be, in many respects, an ecclesiastical history as well as a biography. It is the life of one whose career was not simply connected with, but practically identified with the fortunes of a Church. Both the structure and the character of the book have been moulded in obedience to this primary fact. . . . .There will be found in these pages not merely the narration of much of the history of the Scottish Church during the last three-quarters of a century, but also considerable discussion of it. Now, certainly the ideal biography or history is that which merely tells its tale. . . . .But Principal Rainy was, in an exceptional degree, the embodied apologia of his Church; and it has seemed to the writer, after careful consideration, that this biography must be not merely a record of the policies and principles of that Church, but also, at least in some parts of it, their interpretation and vindication.
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