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

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

Robert Haldane was born in 1764 and died in 1842.

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

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

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

were raised by their grandparents.

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

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

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

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

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

But the year 1795 changed all that.

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

of missions.

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

to a tenorate preaching around Scotland.

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

Scotland and even into Ireland planting churches.

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

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

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

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