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Alexander Maclaren
(1826-1910) was a Baptist preacher in England.
Maclaren was born in
Glasgow, Scotland, the son of David Maclaren, a merchant
and Baptist lay preacher. In 1836, his father went
to Australia where from 1837 to 1841 he served as
Resident Manager of the South Australian Company,
leaving his family in Edinburgh. During his father's
absence Maclaren was converted and publicly baptized
into the fellowship of the Hope St. Baptist Church,
Glasgow, some time between the ages of eleven and
thirteen. He was educated at the Glasgow High
School, and Glasgow University, and on the return of
David Maclaren from Australia, the family moved to
London. In 1842, at the age of sixteen, Maclaren
entered Stepney College, a Baptist institution in
London.
At Stepney, Maclaren was heavily influenced by Dr. David
Davies, an eminent Hebrew scholar, and became an
enthusiastic student of Hebrew and Greek, among other
subjects. He took his BA degree at the University of
London before he was twenty, sitting for examinations
for his arts degree, and winning prizes in Hebrew and
Greek. Besides his collegiate studies, he read
widely in literature, being especially fond of the
English poets. The following year he commenced his
ministry at Portland Chapel, Southampton. He
worked there for twelve years, and developed a
reputation as an attractive and powerful preacher.
After much solicitation from other congregations, he
received and accepted an invitation to the pastorate of
Union Chapel, Fallowfield, Manchester, where he
remained until his retirement, in 1903. He visited
Australia and New Zealand in 1889 where, despite
indifferent health, he preached at major cities to large
congregations.
Maclaren was twice president of the Baptist Union of
Great Britain, and president of the Baptist World
Congress, in London, in 1905. He received honorary
degrees of divinity from both Edinburgh and Glasgow
Universities. In 1896 the citizens of Manchester
had his portrait painted for their art gallery, and on
the presentation of the portrait the Anglican bishop of
Manchester gave the address and said:
“ In an age which has been charmed and inspired by
the sermons of Newman and Robertson, of Brighton, there
were no published discourses which, for profundity of
thought, logical arrangement, eloquence of appeal, and
power over the human heart, exceeded in merit those of
Dr. Maclaren.”
Many attempts were made to draw Maclaren from
Manchester, but he remained there despite his dislike of
the climate and the workload, of which he sometimes
complained. In 1903, he was made pastor emeritus and
retired from the active ministry.
Called the "prince of
expositors," Alexander MacLaren was a renowned preacher
of the 19th and 20th century. Expositions of Holy
Scripture brings together many of the sermons over
his fifty years in ministry. Although it discusses many
different books and passages of the Bible,
Expositions of Holy Scripture isn't a commentary in
the fullest sense--for example, MacLaren doesn't comment
on every verse. Rather, these volumes are MacLaren's
powerful sermons, arranged by the text of the sermons.
Broadly evangelical in nature, MacLaren's sermons are
not historical--rarely referring to the current events
of his day--allowing them to retain their interest and
power since he first gave them. Expositions of Holy
Scriptures is thus highly practical and lively. It
makes a wonderful companion to more textually oriented
commentaries. To read Expositions of Holy Scripture
is to be in the presence of one of the greatest
preachers of the last few centuries.
In his Exposition, Alexander Maclaren covers the
following books of the Bible:
GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS AND NUMBERS
DEUTERONOMY, JOSHUA, JUDGES, RUTH, FIRST SAMUEL, SECOND
SAMUEL, FIRST KINGS, AND SECOND KINGS CHAPTERS I to VII.
SECOND KINGS
FROM CHAP. VIII, AND CHRONICLES, EZRA, AND NEHEMIAH
ESTHER, JOB,
PROVERBS AND ECCLESIASTES
PSALM I to CXLV.
ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH
EZEKIEL, DANIEL, AND THE MINOR PROPHETS
ST. MATTHEW
ST. MARK
ST. LUKE
JOHN
THE ACTS
ROMANS, CORINTHIANS
SECOND CORINTHIANS, GALATIANS, EPHESIANS
PHILIPPIANS, COLOSSIANS, 1 & 2 THESSALONIANS, 1 & 2
TIMOTHY, TITUS
PHILEMON, HEBREWS, JAMES, 1 PETER
2
PETER, 1, 2, 3 JOHN, JUDE, REVELATION
