Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Andrew Bonar (Available from Amazon or free here) - Commence Chapter 5 (Days of revival) by reading up to the paragraph beginning 'Another of these Communion seasons recorded, is April 1840. "Sabbath 10.'
He starts preaching again (one diary entry says he preached 6 times in 2 days) and the revival that began while he was away continues: people are converted; saints grow in holiness.
But amongst the happy work, there is an honesty about the backsliding of new converts and a grumbling from older ministers about the success of these younger ministers.
I found helpful Bonar's comment about the resentment of older ministers toward the revival: 'There was another ground of prejudice against the whole work, arising from the circumstance that the Lord had employed in it young men not long engaged in the work of the ministry, rather than the fathers in Israel. But herein it was that sovereign grace shone forth the more conspicuously. Do such objectors suppose that God ever intends the honor of man in a work of Revival? Is it not the honor of his own name that He seeks? Had it been his wish to give the glory to man at all, then indeed it might have been asked, "Why does He pass by the older pastors, and call for the inexperienced youth?" But when sovereign grace was coming to bless a region in the way that would redound most to the glory of the Lord, can we conceive a wiser plan than to use the sling of David in bringing down the Philistine?'
Who are we to judge who God should use in his revivals!
Conclude Chapter 5 (Days of revival).
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