By: Robin Gray

Robin Gray — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:10:12 +0000

The Banner of Truth is to be commended for bringing back into print this superb ministerial biography, and for re-typesetting it and adding very helpful notes. Its subject was well known in his day, but he has since become a somewhat overlooked figure. It is to be hoped the republication will stimulate fresh interest in Moody Stuart, whose various spheres of influence are explored in this book, which is in part written by his son, Kenneth, and in part taken from his own reminiscences.
Sections of the book which highlight Moody Stuart’s lifelong concern for the conversion of the Jews, his stance against the “Higher Criticism” that was on the rise in his day, his defence of the Free Church’s Confession and principles, not to mention his travels in Holy Island, Madeira, Brazil and Hungary, give a fascinating insight into a man of rare abilities, as well as into the worlds in which he moved.
But running through the whole book is the rich vein of Moody Stuart’s long pastoral ministry in Free St Luke’s in Edinburgh, and it is here one gets the best sense of the man’s piety and warmth, wholly animated as it was by love to the Saviour.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough, and pray you are richly blessed in reading the life of one whom C. H. Spurgeon said was “fired with love to the Altogether Lovely One.”

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By: Robin Gray