W. J. Dawson

Short Name: W. J. Dawson
Full Name: Dawson, W. J. (William James), 1854-1928
Birth Year: 1854
Death Year: 1928

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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Texts by W. J. Dawson (5)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Christ must be served indeedWilliam J. Dawson (Author)5
Fast falls the night around usWilliam J. Dawson (Author)English4
Not for the things we singWilliam J. Dawson (Author)2
O Christ, withdrawn in depths divineWilliam J. Dawson (Author)3
When the golden evening gatheredWilliam J. Dawson (Author)English12

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