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Endorsements<\/h2>\n

\u2018Long forgotten and hard to obtain, Alexander Moody Stuart<\/em> is a book for any Christian to enjoy, and every Christian will find it richly instructive, graciously challenging, and wonderfully inspiring. And for ministers of the gospel it is quite simply a \u201cmust have\u201d. While it ranks among the finest Christian biographies of a past century, the effect of reading it will be a fresh desire to love Christ more and serve him better in the present century.\u2019 — Sinclair Ferguson<\/p>\n

\u2018There are few ministerial biographies that are better worth reading than Moody Stuart\u2019s Life by his son.\u2019 — Principal John Macleod (1872\u20131948) in Scottish Theology<\/em><\/p>\n

Book Description<\/h2>\n

Many twenty-first-century Christians still read the works and love the memory of the remarkable Scottish brotherhood that included Robert Murray M\u2018Cheyne and Andrew and Horatius Bonar. But the name of Alexander Moody Stuart (1809\u201398), whom they all esteemed so much, has been forgotten. Yet it took only one encounter with his preaching for M\u2018Cheyne to say, \u2018I have found the man.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, this new edition of Alexander Moody Stuart: A Memoir<\/em> will throw light on a life and ministry which were profoundly influential\u2014a ministry in which Moody Stuart was, variously, a pioneer rural missionary in an island fishing community; a capable church planter in a growing city; a clear and searching preacher; a much-loved pastor; a caring husband and father; and a committed advocate for overseas missionary endeavour.<\/p>\n

Alexander Moody Stuart\u2019s long life and ministry encompassed many of the defining events and debates in the Scottish church in the middle and later nineteenth century, including that which led to the formation of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. But far from being defined by these important debates, his ministry was principally marked by contemporaries for its deep spirituality, earnestness, and originality.<\/p>\n

This well-paced and engaging memoir, partly autobiographical and completed by its subject\u2019s eldest son, covers the life, work, friendships, and challenges of one who was fully engaged with the people under his spiritual care, and who was also a willing defender of orthodox belief in an age of rapid change in approaches to Scripture. As Sinclair B. Ferguson notes in the Foreword, \u2018like Andrew Bonar\u2019s memoir of M\u2018Cheyne, there is a touch of heaven about these pages.\u2019<\/p>\n

It is hoped that the republication of this long-forgotten book will go some way to lift Alexander Moody Stuart out of relative obscurity\u2014a man who, in his allotted time and circumstances, exercised a deep and penetrating ministry of the word, the character and aroma of which contain much to stimulate and inspire those engaged in that same spiritual work today.<\/p>\n

This fresh edition includes numerous illustrations and an extensive appendix containing several of Moody Stuart\u2019s sermons and addresses, and other documents of interest.<\/p>\n

Other Commendations<\/h2>\n

\u2018He has poetry in his soul, and beyond that, a heart like that of Rutherford, fired with love to the altogether Lovely One.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

— C. H. Spurgeon (1834\u201392)
\nPastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Baptist Church, London<\/p>\n

\u2018I know not a greater master in spiritual analysis.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

— Dr John \u2018Rabbi\u2019 Duncan (1796-1870)<\/p>\n

\u2018Few were honoured to wield an influence so profound and far-reaching.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

— Address from the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh upon Moody Stuart\u2019s ministerial diamond jubilee in 1897<\/p>\n

\u2018… a man who was the first and earliest of a well-defined and very remarkable school of preaching; who was also its patriarch and survivor; and who, besides being the originator, was himself the most original man not only in that school but, according to my judgment, in the whole Scottish pulpit during the long span of his ministerial career.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

— Alexander Taylor Innes (1833\u20131912)
\nLawyer, political and ecclesiastical adviser, and author<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Endorsements \u2018Long forgotten and hard to obtain, Alexander Moody Stuart is a book for any Christian to enjoy, and every Christian will find it richly instructive, graciously challenging, and wonderfully inspiring. And for ministers of the gospel it is quite simply a \u201cmust have\u201d. 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