Description
Revival Sermons by Typeset, printed and bound in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd
!!! Condition of this book USED VERY GOOD !!!
UPC: 0851513166
- Publisher : Banner of Truth (January 1, 1981)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 205 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0851513166
- ISBN-13 : 9780851513164 / 978-0851513164
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.5 x 7.25 inches
Few remains of the work of William Chalmers Burns (1815-1868) survive in the annals of the Christian Church. Beyond his native Scotland he is best known as a figure passing through the life of Hudson Taylor the founder of the China Inland Mission. These pages will revive Burns' magnificent testimony to the gospel of Jesus Christ. They record some of the messages he preached in days of revival when he was still in his twenties, and even in written form they continue to pulsate with echoes of the power in which they were first preached. To read these pages is to overhear the voice of a man whose zeal for God consumed him. Cover picture The Manse, Kilsyth, Scotland- The scene of Burns childhood and youth.
William Chalmers Burns, born in Dun, Scotland in 1815 died at the port of New Chwang, China in 1868. His life was characterised by a deeply-felt devotion to Jesus Christ wherever he was led. Licensed as a minister of the gospel in 1839 by the Church of Scotland, his anticipated departure to the East was delayed for several years while his remarkable gifts in evangelism were employed in Scotland and beyond.
He was one of the group of young men God raised up in the days of M'Cheyne and the Bonar brothers whose only concern was for the universal triumph of the Cross. From the limelight of revival, he sailed to the obscurity of China in 1847, and laboured incessantly there, taking little rest, until on April 4 1868, he breathed his last words: 'Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. In few
lives have these words been more eloquently portrayed.
