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File Submitted: 29 Apr 2012
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Author: Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Robert Murray M’Cheyne would choose to be remembered today as a sinner used by God’s grace alone as a tool for the glory of Jesus Christ. He was a young pastor in Scotland who passionately pleaded with the lost. Although his ministry lasted for only a few years, the Lord saw fit to use His tool to preach the gospel in a way seldom repeated. M’Cheyne’s sermons contain the best examples of loving concern mixed with stern warnings, a necessity of effective evangelism. Heroically, M’Cheyne gave his life to preach and fight for Christ’s Kingdom, dying at age 29 in 1843.
Letters to Inquirers and Young Converts is a selection from the letters of this godly preacher. Edited by Andrew A. Bonar, The Remains of Robert Murray M’Cheyne, as well as the sequel Additional Remains, contained more than 1000 combined pages. Although all the letters are all well worth reading, Rev. J.H. Wilson saw a need to reduce the pages to the best letters of advice and warning.
Combined with the letters is a selection of M’Cheyne’s poetry. God centered as always, the poems reflect the pure gospel with a quality and winsomeness seldom repeated.
May God bless this edition of M’Cheyne’s pen in e-formatting. As M’Cheyne himself would proclaim, the purpose is to direct souls to Christ Jesus alone.
From the Original Edition
PREFATORY NOTE
In these times of blessing, when so many have been led to seek the Lord, and so many have through grace believed, it has been thought that the separate publication of these letters of Mr. M’Cheyne,—especially the six addressed ‘to a soul seeking Jesus,’—may be welcome and helpful to a large class, alike of anxious inquirers and of young Christians. Though Dr. A. Bonar’s Memoir and Remains has obtained a world-wide circulation, these ‘Letters’ are not so well known as they ought to be, and there seems ample warrant for issuing them in a form more suitable for general distribution. Nothing that bears the name of this beloved servant of Christ needs any recommendation; but I may be permitted to say, that his mode of presenting the truth to inquirers, and especially his representation of the sinner in his guilt and helplessness, and of Christ in His justifying righteousness, is wonderfully fitted to commend the Savior to the sinner’s acceptance. The little book is sent forth in the hope that the Spirit of all grace may increasingly glorify Christ, by making its contents a means of awakening, enlightenment, and establishment to many.J. H. W.
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