Walter Chalmers Smith

Walter Chalmers Smith

Walter Chalmers Smith (5 December 1824 - 19 September 1908), was a hymnist, poet and minister of the Free Church of Scotland and is chiefly remembered his hymn Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise.

Life

He was born in Aberdeen and at­tend­ed Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen and New College, Edinburgh. [cite web
url=http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/m/smith_wc.htm
title=Walter Chalmers Smith
publisher=Cyberhymnal
accessdate=2008-02-24] He received the degrees of D.D. and LL.D. He was mentioned in Lord Adam Gifford's will.

ervice

He was ordained pastor of the Chadwell Street Scottish Church, Pentonville, Islington, London, on Christmas Day, 1850. He later served at:
*Roxburgh Free Church, Deinburgh
*Orwell Free Church, Milnathort, Kinrossshire(1853-1858)
*Free Tron Church, Glasgow
*Reid Memorial Church, Edinburgh
*Free High Church, Edinburgh (1874-1884)The Free Church of Scotland elected him its moderator during its Jubilee year in 1893. He was a distinguished preacher and a man of catholic sympathies.

Published Works

He attained considerable reputation as a poet. Among his works are "The Bishop's Walk" (1861), "Olrig Grange" (1872), "Hilda among the Broken Gods" (1878), "Raban" (1880), "Kildrostan" (1884), and "A Heretic" (1890). Some of these were written under the names of "Orwell" and Hermann Kunst.

Hymns

* Earth was waiting, spent and restless [cite web
url=http://www.servicemusic.org.uk/smith/earth.pdf
title=Earth was waiting, spent and restless
accessdate=2008-03-21]
* Immortal, invisible, God only wise [cite web
url=http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/i/i/iigowise.htm
title=Immortal, invisible, God only wise
publisher=Cyberhymnal
accessdate=2008-02-24]

References

Further reading

cite book
last =Bailey
first =Albert Edward
authorlink =
coauthors =
title =The Gospel in Hymns
publisher =Charles Scribner's sons
date =1950
location =New York
pages =455-456
url =
doi =
id =

cite book
last =Julian
first =John
authorlink =John D. Julian
coauthors =
title =A Dictionary of Hymnology
publisher =John Murray
date =June, 1907
location =London
pages =1064
url =
doi =
id =

cite web
last =
first =
authorlink =
coauthors =
title =Gifford Lecture Series
work =
publisher =
date =
url =http://www.giffordlectures.org/will.asp
format =
doi =
accessdate = 2007-01-30

External links

*http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/m/smith_wc.htm


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