PREFACE
“The
history of the world,” it has been said, “is the
biography of great men.” It is true, also, to say
that the history of the Church of Christ is the
biography of the Christian heroes and heroines who
have adorned the Church by their lives and advanced
its work by their sacrifices. Progress everywhere
depends on personality; and the great man is God’s
best gift to his generation and to the Church of
Christ. Nowhere has this been more true than in the
Scottish Church, and nowhere is there to be found a
nobler roll of great men. It is with this conviction
that the Author has written the present work.
Further, he feels that there is no more illuminating
study than the story of the Scottish Church; and if
that story is to be fully appreciated, there is no
more profitable method of studying it than through
the lives of the men and women who have done so much
to make the Church in Scotland what it is to-day.
The Author desires to acknowledge gratefully the
counsel and help of many friends.
