Title:  The Biography of Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Author:  Andrew A. Bonar

Release Date:  March 4, 2005 [EBook #15251]

Language:  English

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The Biography of

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

[Illustration:  Robert Murray M’Cheyne with Signature]

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The Biography of

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

By

Andrew A. Bonar

ZONDERVAN publishing house
grand Rapids, Michigan

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PUBLISHER’S PREFACE

The telling of the deeply spiritual life story of the young minister of the Gospel of St. Peters Church, Dundee, Scotland, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, has been used of God to bring challenge, blessing and inspiration to hundreds of thousands down through the years since his death in 1843 at the early age of 30.  Few men have lived a life filled with such power and blessing in such a short span of years.

Dr. Andrew A. Bonar’s biography of this stalwart young man of God has been the standard recognized work on the life of this prince among men.  This biography is from the larger Memoirs and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M’Cheyne with just the memoirs—­or biography—­reprinted.  The “remains,” letters and sermons of M’Cheyne have been recently republished in the Wyckliffe Series issued by the Moody Press, but we are presenting in the pages of this volume Bonar’s soul-stirring biography of this young man who was so completely and wholly surrendered to the will of God.  Dr. Wilbur M. Smith, in his “Profitable Bible Study,” says, “Every minister, of whatever denomination, should have this marvelous work.”

The publishers of this unabridged edition send it forth once again with the earnest prayer that God will continue to use it to the inspiration and challenge of young and old alike to realize what can be done with a life completely and absolutely dedicated to Him.

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Memoir.

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CHAPTER I.

HIS YOUTH, AND PREPARATION FOR THE MINISTRY

   “Many shall rejoice at his birth; for he shall be great in the
   sight of the Lord”—­Luke 1:14.

In the midst of the restless activity of such a day as ours, it will be felt by ministers of Christ to be useful in no common degree, to trace the steps of one who but lately left us, and who, during the last years of his short life, walked calmly in almost unbroken fellowship with the father and the son.