1854 - 1928 Person Name: William J. Dawson Author of "O Christ, withdrawn in depths divine" Born: November 21, 1854, Towcester, Northampton, England.
Son of William James and Susan Waller Dawson, William was educated at Didsbury College, Manchester, and ordained a Wesleyan minister in 1875. He married Jane Powell of Lowestoft in 1879, and served in various locations until assuming the pastorate of Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church, London, in 1892. The previous year, he was one of the English delegates to the Methodist Ecumenical Council in Washington, DC. He liked America so much that he emigrated there in 1905, joining the Presbyterians and first serving at the First Church in Newark, New Jersey. His works include:
A Vision of Souls, 1884
Question and Vision, 1886
A Threshold of Manhood, 1889
Makers of English, 1889
Makers of English Prose, 1899
The Man Christ Jesus, 1901
The Reproach of Christ, 1903
The Quest of the Simple Life, 1903
Makers of English Fiction, 1905
The Empire of Love, 1907
America, and Other Poems, 1912
The American Hymnal, 1913
Robert Shenstone, a novel, 1917
The Father of a Soldier, 1917
The Autobiography of a Mind, 1925
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