At the time he lived, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, was known to be a most devoted and able minister of the Word. He entered Edinburgh university in 1827 achieving great success in his academic studies gaining many prizes. He next started Divinity Studies under Thomas Chalmers who had a passionate burden that the Gospel would reach every door. It was after Robert’s brother’s death that he came into a saving knowledge of Christ finding peace and acceptance in Him. After different appointments, he was sent to a large industrial parish to take be their minister, although not in good health. His ministry in the pulpit brought an awareness of the Presence of God, and his many gifts of eloquence made him a sought after preacher. His greatest burden however was to reach the lost and he saw himself as an evangelist first and foremost and greatly longed that the church would allow him to be one in a fulltime capacity. Near the end of 1838, Robert M’Cheyne’s health again being very delicate, he was advised to visit Israel to find out about the mission work there, accompanied by Alexander Keith and Bonar. This visit was recorded in the published by the Church of Scotland and was instrumental in placing emphasis on mission outreach to the Jews. His was in constant demand to preach in other churches thus his fruitful ministry was not only in Dundee itself. He died of typhus in the epidemic of that time, a man that had poured out his life to the uttermost and been used mightily by God whose passion and zeal can still be sensed by reading written texts of his work, still available today.