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George Halley Knight
George Halley Knight (28 February 1835 - 12 July 1917) was a Scottish Free Church Minister and author of numerous Christian books.
He was born in Mordington, Berwickshire, in 1835...view moreGeorge Halley Knight (28 February 1835 - 12 July 1917) was a Scottish Free Church Minister and author of numerous Christian books.
He was born in Mordington, Berwickshire, in 1835, the son of George Fulton Knight, minister, and Jessie Angus. He attended the New College in Edinburgh from 1856 to 1860. He was ordained as a Minister at Dollar and Muckhart, Clackmannanshire in 1863. In 1865 he married Marianne Sommerville (1845-1902), the daughter of Free Church Minister Alexander Neil Somerville, in Blythswood, Glasgow. The couple went on to have six children: Ella Catherine Knight, George A. F. Knight, Nora Jessie Knight, Adelaide Somerville Knight, Winifred Angus Knight and Gertrude Margaret Knight.
Minister Knight translated from Dollar and Muckhart, Clackmannanshire to South, Aberdeen in 1878, and then to Bearsden, Dunbartonshire in 1888, where he remained until he resigned his charge in 1895. He went on to publish a number of Christian books in the 1900s and 1910s, including: The Master’s Questions To His Disciples: Thoughts, Devotional and Practical, for the Silent Hour (1903); Full Allegiance and the Holy Way (1909); In The Cloudy And Dark Day: God’s Messages of Peace to the Weary, the Sorrow-Laden, the Troubled, and the Tired (1910); Courageous Calm and Heroic Christianity (1912); Abiding Help for Changing Days: Quiet Heart-Musings for Devotional Hours (1912); and “These Three”: Devotional Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (1914).
Minister Knight died in Almanaire, Garelochhead, Row, Dunbartonshire in 1917, aged 82.view less
Books by George Halley Knight
In the Secret of His Presence: Helps for the Inner Life When Alone with God