Reverend John Ross Macduff (1818-1895), a Presbyterian minister, was born at Bonhard, near Perth, Scotland, and educated at the high school of Edinburgh and in the university of the same city. He became a minister of the Church of Scotland in 1842. Among his pastorates was one of fifteen years in the city of Glasgow. In 1871 Dr. Macduff gave up the pastoral relation. He is the author of a number of volumes in prose and poetry. Most of his hymns appeared in his Altar Stones (1853), and in The Gates of Praise (1874). The Universities of Glasgow and of New York each conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His works include: The Night Watches (c1851), Morning Watches (1852), The Little Child"s Book of Divinity (1853), The Words of Jesus (1854), The Mind of Jesus Christ (1855), Family Prayers (1856), Evening Incense (1856), Memories of Bethany (1856), Story of Bethlehem (1859), The Faithful Promiser (1860), The Ploughman"s Text-Book (1861), Grapes of Eshcol (1861), Palms of Elim (1879), Gleams From the Sick Chamber (1881), The Story of a Dewdrop (1881) and others. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Words of Jesus (Dodo Press) (John R. Macduff)