Means of Revival

Robert Murray McCheyne and Andrew Bonar, two minister of the Church of Scotland took an important journey in the 1830's. They were sent by the Church of Scotland to see the state of the Jews in Palestine and the affect of the Presbyterian mission to the Jews. They were gone from Scotland for a number of months. McCheyne left his church in Dundee in the hands of William Burns, a young evangelist who would one day become famous as a missionary to China. While McCheyne was gone, there was a great revival under the preaching ministry of Burns. It is interesting to note that the very day of the beginning of the revival that there is a statement in McCheyne's diary that he had been in prayer all that Sunday for revival in his church. So, what were the means of revival in the Dundee church in Scotland: it was both Burns' preaching of the word and McCheyne's praying.