Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Andrew Bonar (Available from Amazon or free here) - Conclude Chapter 4 (His mission to Palestine and the Jews).
We read of his visits to Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus Constantinople, Moldavia, Wallachia, Austria, Poland, Prussia, Berlin and Hamburg.
M'Cheyne particularly enjoyed the Holy Land as he visited Biblical sites. Yet we do see him descend again into illness.
There is also mention of a yearning to back with his congregation and of his continual prayer for them. And while he prays, unbeknown to him, revival breaks out under the replacement minister.
I enjoyed seeing the continual desire to witness, even despite language barriers: 'We have our two Arab servants, to whom I now introduce you-Ibrahim, a handsome small-made Egyptian, and Achmet the cook, a dark good-natured fellow, with a white turban and bare black legs. Ibrahim speaks a little English and Italian, and Achmet Italian, in addition to their native Arabic. I soon made friends with our Arab donkey men, learning Arabic words and phrases from them, which pleased them greatly.'
And another instance: 'Mr. McCheyne's anxiety for souls appeared in the efforts he made to leave at least a few words of Scripture with the Jews whom we met, however short the time of our interview. His spirit was stirred in him; and, with his Hebrew Bible in his hand, he would walk up thoughtfully and solemnly to the first Jew he could get access to, and begin by calling the man's attention to some statement of God's Word. In Palestine, if the Jew did not understand Italian, he would repeat to him such texts in Hebrew as, "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David" (Zech. 13:1).'
M'Cheyne's love for the lost is most admirable.
Commence Chapter 5 (Days of revival) by reading up to the paragraph beginning 'Another of these Communion seasons recorded, is April 1840. "Sabbath 10.'
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