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Donald Fraser (missionary)
Donald Fraser (1 June 1870 – 20 August 1933) was a Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900), Free Church of Scotland missionary in Africa and author of six non-fiction books about his almost three decades of work there. Biography Born in the town of Lochgilphead, Argyll, in western Scotland, Fraser was the fourth of eight children born to The Reverend William Fraser (1824–1892), Minister (Christianity), minister of the Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900), Free Church of Scotland in Lochgilphead, and Violet Ferguson (1835–1888). His older brother was the architect William Fraser (architect), William Fraser. In 1886, at age 16, Fraser began studies at the University of Glasgow but in 1891, before completing his degree, he entered the Free Church College in Glasgow (now Trinity College, Glasgow) to study for the ministry and was ordained in 1896. During the first half of the 1890s, Fraser played an instrumental role in the founding of the Great Britain branch of the Student Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Reverend
The Reverend is an style (manner of address), honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and Minister of religion, ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and church traditions. ''The Reverend'' is correctly called a ''style'' but is often and in some dictionaries called a title, form of address, or title of respect. The style is also sometimes used by leaders in other religions such as Judaism and Buddhism. The term is an anglicisation of the Latin ''reverendus'', the style originally used in Latin documents in medieval Europe. It is the gerundive or future passive participle of the verb ''revereri'' ("to respect; to revere"), meaning "[one who is] to be revered/must be respected". ''The Reverend'' is therefore equivalent to ''The Honourable'' or ''The Venerable''. It is paired with a modifier or noun for some offices in some religious traditions: Lutheran archbishops, Anglican archbishops, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |