Lorimer, Peter

LORIMER, GEORGE CLAUDE: American Baptist; b. in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 4, 1838; d. at Aix-les-Bains (40 m. s.s.w. of Geneva), France, Sept. 8, 1904. He came to the United States in 1856 and studied at Georgetown College, Ky. He was pastor at Harrodsburg, Ky. (1859); Paducah (1860-68); Albany, N. Y. (1868-70); Boston (1870-79); Chicago (1879-90); Boston (1891-1902); and New York (1902-04). He was the author of: Under the Evergreens (Boston, n. d.); Great Conflict: Discourse concerning Baptists and Religious Belief (1877); Isms old and new (Chicago, 1881); Jesus, the World's Saviour (1883); Studies in Social Life (1886); Baptists in History (BOStOIiI 1893); Argument for Christianity (Philadelphia, 1894); Messages of Today to the Men of Tomorrow (1896); Christianity and the Social State (1898); Christianity in the 19th Century (1900); Master of Millions (New York, 1903); and The Modern Crisis in Religion (1904); and edited the People's Bible History (2 vols., Chicago, 1896).

LORIMER, PETER: English Presbyterian; b. in Edinburgh June 27, 1812; d. at Whitehaven (36 m. s.w, of Carlisle), Cumberland, July 29, 1879. He was the son of a master builder who occupied a good position in his native city. He received the elements of his education at George Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, and proceeded from the hospital to Edinburgh University. Here he passed through the classes of the arts curriculum with much credit, and also took his theological course, the professor of divinity at the time being Dr. Thomas Chalmers, to whom, as a teacher, Dr. Lorimer always acknowledged the highest obligations. In 1836 he was ordained as minister of the Presbyterian Church, River Terrace, London, connected with the Church of Scotland. In 1843, with his congregation, he cast in his lot with the Free Church. In 1845 he was appointed professor of Hebrew and Biblical criticism in the theological college of the English Presbyterian Church, then newly established in London, and in 1878 he was made principal. His most important writings are: a life of Patrick Hamilton (Edinburgh, 1857), the first of a projetted series of works on the precursors of Knox; The Scottish Reformation (London, 1860); John Knox and the Church of England (1875), founded on the Kim papers preserUed Ameng ile M orr~ manuscripts; two lectures on The Evidential Value of the Early Epistles of St. Paul (1874); The Evidence to Christianity Arising from its Adaptation to All the Deeper Wants of the Human Heart (1875); and a translation with notes of vol, i (containing Wyclif's personal history) of G. V. Lechler's Jo harm von Wiclif und die Vargeschichte der Reforms,. Lion (John Wiclif and his English Predecessors, 2 vols., London, 1878 new eds. 1881, 1884).

W. Lee†, revised by Henry Cowan.

Bibliography: DNB, XXXIV, 138.

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