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James Montgomery was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on November 4th, 1771.
This son of a Moravian minister “wrote more hymns in common use today than any writer except Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts”.
His early years were spent in a Moravian settlement and when he was twelve his parents went as Moravian missionaries to the West [...]

This is the day that … Torial Joss was born in Scotland, in 1731.
After his father’s death, young Joss ran away to sea and was captured, and imprisoned, by the French.
Back in Scotland – aged 15! – he was press-ganged on to a man-of-war – escaped, and at a place called “Robin Hood’s Bay” (on [...]

This is the day that …Alexander Henderson died in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1646.
Henderson was born in 1583 at Criech, Fifeshire. He graduated at the University of St Andrews in 1603 and in 1610 was appointed professor of rhetoric and philosophy. Shortly after this he was appointed to the parish of Leuchars by Archbishop George Gladstanes.
Henderson’s [...]

This is the day that …John Cairns was ordained in the United Presbyterian Church – one of the three branches of Presbyterianism that existed in Scotland in 1845.
Born on 23 August, 1818, John Cairns was to become “their outstanding leader” - 33 years ministering at Berwick-on-Tweed, and then serving many years as principal of their [...]

This is the day that … Andrew Melville was born in 1545. His family displayed the fighting Scottish spirit and his father died in battle when Andrew was just 2 years old. His mother died soon after and the lad was raised by his older brother.
With an aptitude for scholarship he outshone his peers in [...]

This is the day that … Oswald Chambers was born in 1874, in Scotland … the author of 30 best-sellers, who never wrote a book!
“Thirty-two volumes bear his name on the cover, including My Utmost for His Highest, (which has been a blessing to thousands in their daily quiet time), but he never knew about [...]

This is the day that … John McNeill was born in Scotland, in 1854.
(Now this John McNeill is not to be confused with the Canadian John T. McNeill who became leading Presbyterian professor and author; or with John MacNeill who was also born in Scotland in 1854, but spent much of his life as a [...]

This is the day that … Archbishop Robert Leighton died in London, in 1684.
He was born in 1611 … the exact date being unknown. Nor are we sure of the place. His father, Alexander Leighton, was an outspoken Puritan who incurred the wrath of the infamous Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. As a result, Laud [...]

This is the day that … Ebenezer Erskine was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, in 1680.
His father was a Church of Scotland minister. Ebenezer, and his young brother Ralph, followed suit. But their respective ministries encountered stormy days.
The republishing of a volume that had first appeared 73 years earlier – The Marrow of Modern Divinity – [...]

This is the day that … Elizabeth Cecilia Douglas Clephane was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1830. She was the delicate, retiring one of three sisters whose example impacted their community.
“Gentle and retiring in disposition, and generous to a degree, she was known as ‘The Sunbeam’ among the poor and suffering in Melrose”, the [...]