Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

On this episode, we are talking about John Murray.

He was born in 1898 in the Highlands of Scotland.

He was the eighth of eight children, six boys and two girls. He was raised in a

Presbyterian home. His parents were in the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and by all accounts it

was a godly home, and a young John Murray excelled as a student. Well, four of the six Murray boys

went off to fight in World War I. John Murray

fought with the Royal Highlanders, the Black Watch, and he served in France. During fighting in what

would be the last German offensive, he lost his right eye to shrapnel and had a glass eye

the rest of his life.

Two of his brothers lost their life in the war.

When Murray returned, he went to Glasgow and received an M.A. in theology from the University

of Glasgow.

Then he went across the Atlantic and studied at Princeton Seminary under Machen and Gerhardus

Voss. Then he returned for more study, back to Edinburgh and there at the Free College.

In 1929, he was invited to come back to Princeton as a professor.

And he did serve as a professor at Princeton Seminary from 1929 to 1930, that one year.

You might recall that it was in 1929 that Machen actually left Princeton and founded Westminster

Seminary.

And after Murray completed that first year of teaching, he crossed the Delaware River,

and he joined Machen and became a professor of systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.

Murray was a legend at Westminster.

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