The Maker and the Breaker of a Family’s Peace - William Arnot (1808 - 1875)

The Maker and the Breaker of a Family’s Peace - William Arnot (1808 - 1875)

These illustrations of the Proverbs are not critical, continuous, exhaustive. The comments, in imitation of the text, are intended to be brief, practical, miscellaneous, isolated. The reader may, however, perceive a principle of unity running through the whole, if he takes his stand at the outset on the writer's view point — a desire to lay the Christian System along the surface of common life, without removing it from its foundations in the doctrines of Grace. The authority of the instructions must be divine; the form transparently human. - Summary by the Author

William Arnot (1808–1875) was a Scottish minister and theological writer. He served in the Church of Scotland but moved to the Free Church of Scotland at the Disruption of 1843.

Early life and education
He was born on 6 November 1808 at a farm in the parish of Forgandenny near Scone, where his father was a farmer. William was the youngest of seven children. His mother died at his birth.[2] He was educated at the local parish school then trained as a gardener alongside his older brother Robert Arnot. He worked independently as a gardener from age 16 to 20. He then decided to study for the ministry. In November 1828 he left for Glasgow and, after a year of private study, entered Glasgow University in October 1829.[3] He had two noteworthy classmates, whose biographies he later wrote: James Halley,[4] who died quite young, and James Hamilton,[5] later minister of the National Scottish Church in Regent Square, London.[6]

Ministry
After completing his theological studies he was licensed by the Church of Scotland in October 1837 and became assistant minister to Rev John Bonar of Larbert and Dunipace. In 1838 he found a patron and was ordained minister of St Peter's Church in