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Thomas Laurie
1821–1897
A Scottish-born missionary and minister who turned decades of travel, church work, and study into books about Persia, Syria, missions, and biblical history. His writing brings together firsthand experience overseas with the voice of a 19th-century pastor and teacher.
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Woman and Her Saviour in Persia By a Returned Missionary
by Thomas Laurie
About the author
Born in Edinburgh in 1821, Thomas Laurie later moved to the United States, studied at Illinois College and Andover Seminary, and went on to become a Congregational minister, missionary, and author. Sources describing his life connect him especially with missionary work in Turkey and with later pastoral work in Massachusetts.
Laurie wrote widely on religion and mission history. His books include works on Persia and Syria, memorial and church addresses, and The Ely Volume; or, The Contributions of Our Foreign Missions to Science and Human Well-Being, showing how strongly he believed missionary work shaped both faith and learning.
He died in 1897. Although he is not widely known today, surviving catalogs and hymnological records show a writer whose career joined preaching, scholarship, and close observation of the wider world.