Show DR D JOHN WATSON The death of Dr John Watson bet better better better ter known to thousands or Americans as aa Ian 1 Maclaren la is most regrettable Only a few days ago Dr Watson was vas seized with what seemed to be bell a trifling illness in an Iowa town where he was scheduled tp deliver one ne of or The illness rapidly became more serious and finally resulted in his death on Monday Dr Watson will be particularly particularly lady well remembered In Salt Lake by b br reason ason r of a lecture which he delivered in the Assembly hall here some years ago At that time he made many acquaint acquaintances acquaintances ances and renewed some Some old friend friendships ships shills Those who met him knew him himas hl hlas as a kindly modest gentleman who walked uprightly before God and man and who went about preaching the gos gospel gospel gospel pel of sunshine Dr Watson at the time of ot his passing was not an old man He seemed up to the moment he was stricken to be In the very prime of his life and usefulness It was hoped that he would be spared for many years to continue his writing and his lectures Dr Watson was born in England in 1850 He was educated for the ministry at St Andrews A drewsand and at Yale Tale and since 1880 he had been pastor past r of Sefton Selton Park Presbyterian church at Liverpool But it was as an author under the pen p n name of ot Ian Maclaren that he was best befit known The he first firs work that gave him prominence was that great picture of Scotch life lICe Beside the the Bonnie B Brier Bush This partly by reason of the th dramatization that has been played in all the countries is ig his best known work In Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Dr Watson gave to the world of liter Uler literature literature characters chara that will live lire as long longas as some of the immortal characters of ot Dickens Who that has has read the book or seen the play pIa will wUl ever forget Lach Lachlan Lachlan Lachlan lan Campbell MacClure and the others for tor they are types that are drawn so clearly as to tobe tobe tobe be unmistakable Dr Watson wrote many other stories stories but tut his memory longest be because because because cause of Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Among his other works are The Days of ot Auld Lang Syne S De Kate i Carnegie A Doctor of the Old School Afterwards Rabbi derson and Young Barbarians Under his own name between 1895 and 1901 are included his The Upper Room The Mind of the Master The Cure of Souls lectures at Yale on practical theology The Potters Wheel Companions of the Sorrowful Way The Life of or the Master and other works |