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5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

The Haldane Brothers

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

When the Haldane brothers saw that the church in Scotland needed ministers, they funded academies to train them. Today, Dr. Stephen Nichols introduces two men who supported the work of the church with the resources that God entrusted to them.

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0:00.0

Probably the most famous brothers in Church history are John and Charles Wesley.

0:12.8

But there are other brothers throughout Church history and among them are the Haldane brothers.

0:19.8

Robert Haldane was born in 1764 and died in 1842.

0:26.8

And the younger brothers, James Alexander Haldane, born in 1768 and died in 1851.

0:35.6

Their father was Captain James Haldane, a man of means from Scotland.

0:42.3

And in 1774, when James was only six and Robert was ten, both their parents died and they

0:49.6

were raised by their grandparents.

0:52.4

They'd both be off to studies in the Scottish universities.

0:56.6

Robert studied at Edinburgh and then he joined the Royal Navy.

1:01.4

At one point, he came under the influence of an independent Scottish minister.

1:07.1

He finished off his tour of duty, returned to Edinburgh, finished off his studies, and

1:12.8

then he settled in at the family estate and took to running it.

1:17.5

But the year 1795 changed all that.

1:20.8

That was the year that he was converted and he immediately devoted himself to the cause

1:27.0

of missions.

1:28.0

He concocted a plan to go to India but it was blocked by the East India Company and so he took

1:34.8

to a tenorate preaching around Scotland.

1:39.0

In 1797, his younger brother James joined forces with him and the two of them, Chris Cross

1:46.9

Scotland and even into Ireland planting churches.

1:50.7

They were officially ministers of the Church of Scotland but they had contacts with both

1:56.2

the Church of England through Charles Simeon and James met Charles Simeon while he was

2:02.5

a student at Cambridge and they also had contacts with the independent church and the independent

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