Morrison's sermons are unconventional in the best sense--combining imagination, culture, and style with spiritual insight, intense sympathy, and the power of direct appeal. George Herbert Morrison (1866-1928) completed his university studies and then assisted Sir James Murray at Oxford in the preparation of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sensing a call to the ministry, he studied at Free Church college and went on to serve several churches, including the Wellington United Free Church of Glasgow, Scotland, from 1902 until his death. He has been characterized as one of the century's great "pastor-preachers," always seeking to meet life's need with a word from God.
