LETTER TO THE REV. DAN. EDWARDS - Robert Murray Mcchene

Before his ordination as missionary to the Jews—What he must seek.

DUNDEE, June 15, 1840.

MY DEAR FRIEND, —.… The grand matter of study, however, must still be divinity, —a knowledge of divine things, a spiritual discernment of the way of pardon for the chief of sinners. I feel that the best of ministers are but babes in this. Pray for more knowledge of your own heart, —of the total depravity of it, —of the awful depths of corruption that are there. Pray for glorious discoveries of Christ, —his person, beauty, work, and peace. But I need not tell you these things; only I feel persuaded that God will put all natural and literary qualifications in the dust, if there be not the simple exhibition of Christ for us in the preaching of our missionaries. —Yours, etc.