Walter Chalmers Smith

Born: December 5, 1824, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Died: September 19, 1908, Kinbuck, Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland

    Smith attended Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen and New College, Edinburgh. He was ordained pastor of the Chadwell Street Scottish Church, Pentonville, Islington, London, on Christmas Day, 1850. He later served at the Free High Church, Edinburgh; the Roxburgh Free Church, Deinburgh; the Orwell Free Church, Milnathort, Kinrossshire; and the Free Tron Church, Glasgow. The Free Church of Scotland elected him its moderator during its Jubilee year in 1893. His works include:

• The Bishop’s Walk, 1860
• Olrig Grange, 1872
• Borland Hall, 1874
• Hilda among the Broken Gods, 1878
• North Country Folk, 1883
• Kildrostan, 1884
• Hymns of Christ and Christian Life, 1876

Hymns

1. Clean Heart, A
2. Earth Was Waiting, Spent and Restless
3. Faint and Weary Jesus Stood
4. Gird Your Loins About with Truth
5. If Any to the Feast Have Come
6. Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
7. Jesus, unto Whom We Pray
8. Lord, God, Omnipotent
9. Lord Hath Bid His Face From Us, The
10. Our Portion Is Not Here
11. There Is No Wrath to Be Appeased
12. To Me to Live Is Christ