Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Isabella Dickson, who would one day become Mrs. Andrew Bonar, was converted to Jesus during the times of revival in Edinburgh in 1842. Along with a friend, Miss Gifford, she went to a prayer meeting for the Jews held at St. Andrews Church. Robert Murray M'Cheyne spoke at the meeting; what he said interested her, but it was the impression of his personal holiness that really deeply affected her. She said, "There was something singularly attractive about Mr. M'Cheyne's holiness" she would later tell her husband. "It was not his matter nor his manner either that struck me; it was just the living epistle of Christ -- a picture so lovely, I felt I would have given all the world to be as he was, but knew all the time I was dead in sins."