'IAN MACLAREN.'

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4900, 16 October 1901, Page 4

'LAN MACLAREN.'

In a character sketch in the ' Young Man f of Dr John WatsoD, of Liverpool, the writer dwells on the preacher and writer's extraordinary 1 capacity ' and pays that is undoubtedly one of the secrets., of bib success. "It has been said that Dr Watson would have been one of tbe most successful pleaders of the ; day had he been at tbe bar, and the business mon of bis congregation are fully alive to his business ability. Someone was complaining to a shipowner, a member: of Dr Watson's church, because tbe teacher's stipend had been increased, and was met with the" rejoinder, ' Why, I should be glad to give the doctor' dsl'j2oo a year to come into my office. just as he< is, without special experience. It would more than pay vie to' do it, even in tbe first year.' Only once, the writer of the sketch

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goee on to cay, have mast of his hearers heard him really fail in a sermon, and probably few of them knew the reason why. 'It was on a Sunday morning ; tbe thoughts were crude, and the sentences broken backed. He closed abruptly, and vouchsafed no explanation. But those nearest him were aware that at midnight on Satur* uay be bad been sitting by tbe bedside of a dying man, who was leaving his wife and young children, lonely and far from friends. It wns tbe laßt of severals visits that dny, but it was judged a higher duty than the perfect preparation of a surtnou for a thousand people, mauy of them his most cultured fellow-citizens.'

Although a very successful writer of bookß, Dr Wat sou ' has no time to study. I only, l.c once said, ' devour books as 1 can.'