1874 ROBERT S. CANDLISH. Memorial Volume of Sermons and Biography. Spurgeon Recommended.

A superb volume of the best sermons of Robert S. Candlish [1806-1873], published here for the first time, after his death. Previous to this, his published works were largely expository, including the work on I John, so beloved by Spurgeon.

Robert S. Candlish was one of the young ministers deeply affected by Thomas Chalmers and the revivals in Scotland during the 1830's. It was Candlish that first proposed Robert Murray M'Cheyne and Andrew Bonar should go to Palestine on the Mission of Inquiry to the Jews. It was also Candlish who, more than any person aside from Chalmers, led the charge toward the Disruption of 1843. 

His deep spirituality combined with an uncommon mix of scholarship and administrative skill made him an excellent pastor, gathering one of the largest churches in Scotland, a robust theologian and author, and later successor to Thomas Chalmers as the Chair of Divinity at New College, Edinburgh. 

Spurgeon said of his lectures on I John, We set great store by these Lectures. A man hardly needs anything beyond Candlish. He is devout, candid, prudent, and forcible. 

His expository works remain in print by Banner of Truth. The present volume is quite scarce and has never been reprinted. 

Candlish, Robert S. Memorial Volume. Sermons by the Late Robert S. Candlish, D.D. Minister of Free St. George's, and Principal of the New College, Edinburgh. With a Biographical Preface. New York. R. Carter & Bros. 1874. 315pp.

A near fine and superbly preserved example of a rare volume of highly evangelical and experimental sermons by an important Scottish divine. Cloth with only the very slightest rubbing. Text solid, crisp and clean with just the faintest trace of foxing.