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Ian Maclaren (pseudonym of Rev. John Watson; 3 November 1850 – 6 May 1907) was a Scottish author and theologian. He stated,"Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." This quote inspired many people, even famous ones. ==Biography== He was the son of John Watson, a civil servant. He was born at Manningtree, Essex, and educated at Stirling and at Edinburgh University, later studying theology at New College, Edinburgh, and at Tübingen. In 1874 he became a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and became assistant minister of Edinburgh Barclay Church. Subsequently he was minister at Logiealmond in Perthshire and at Glasgow, and in 1880 he became minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, from which he retired in 1905. In 1896 he was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University, and in 1900 he was moderator of the synod of the English Presbyterian Church. While travelling in the United States he died from blood poisoning, following a bout with tonsilitis,〔(Papers Past - ''Nelson Evening Mail'', Volume XLII, 8 May 1907, Page 4 )〕 at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. His body was returned to England, and buried in Smithdown Cemetery in Liverpool. Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, ''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'' (1894), achieved extraordinary popularity,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ian Maclaren's Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush is one of the most notorious works of Scottish literature. First published in 1894, the book was an instant best-seller. Millions of readers across the world rushed to devour these nostalgic tales of Scottish life in a bygone age. )〕 selling more than 700 thousand copies,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kailyard School (1886-1896) )〕 and were succeeded by other successful books, ''The Days of Auld Lang Syne'' (1895), ''Kate Carnegie and those Ministers'' (1896), and ''Afterwards and other Stories'' (1898). By his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons, among them being ''The Upper Room'' (1895), ''The Mind of the Master'' (1896) and ''The Potter's Wheel'' (1897). It is thought that Maclaren was the original source of the quotation “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle,” now widely misattributed to Plato or Philo of Alexandria. The oldest known instance of this quotation is in the 1897 Christmas edition of ''The British Weekly'': “Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.”〔(Quote Investigator: Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle, June 29, 2010 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Maclaren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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