Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. I am joined once again with a dear friend of mine actually

Professor of mine when I was in seminary my favorite Scotsman

Dr Sinclair Ferguson. It's true, we were at seminary together.

We were at seminary together.

And I believe you were the professor and I was the student at that moment.

Well, I learned a lot from students. I'm sure I learned a lot from you. It's lovely to see you.

It's good to see you Dr Ferguson so I'm here to ask you a single question. I'd like you to

talk to us about your favorite figure from Scottish

Church history next to John Knox so besides John Knox who's your favorite

Scotsman? Well that's that's actually quite a difficult question,

because I've quite a number of them.

But today, I think I'll choose Robert Murray-McCain.

Hmm. Tell us about him. Robert Murray McChane. Tell us about him.

Robert Meachane was a young Scottish minister beginning of the 19th century.

He was brought up in kind of upper middle class Edinburgh home, very well educated, very gifted intellectually, great poetic spirit brought up within the church and then his older brother was converted.

And I think then he began to realize that he himself had never been a true Christian.

And his brother really pointed him to Christ.

His older brother died prematurely, as we would say and this left a really deep

impression on McShane. He sensed a call into the gospel ministry. He studied with a number of friends, very remarkable

group of friends, maybe best known to people in the United States would be Horatius Bonner, the hymn writer, but also his brother Andrew,

a number of other men, greatly influenced by Thomas Chammers, who was another great Scottish figure in the mid-19th century.

And then he was called as a young man, probably he was only 22 at the time to be minister of a completely new church

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