and the life of a soldier, and gave the Warrack Lectures and McNeil-Frazer Lectures on preaching in 1930. A number of his poems and books are war-related. I Bind My Heart this Tide (hymn - 1907) The Tryst: A Book of the Soul (1907) Scottish Life and Poetry (1912) In the Land of War (1915) The Soldier's Friend (1916) The Heart of a Soldier (1918) The Gordon Highlanders (1918) While the Candle Burns (1933) Scottish Ballads and Ballad Writing The Cameron Highlanders The Hills of Home (this appears to be the basis of the song "A Scottish Soldier") The Book of the Beloved The Advocate's Wig Edragil 1745 By Still Waters Thomas Carlyle The Preacher's Life and Work Douglas's Aeneid Family In June 1897 he married Jenny (or Jeannie) Hall Reid. They had one son, Hector MacLean Watt (b.1900). References 1867 births 1957 deaths 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Scottish poets Scottish literary critics Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Ministers of Glasgow Cathedral 19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland