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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917). South African pastor, author, and revivalist born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, to Dutch Reformed missionary parents. Sent to Scotland at 10, he studied at Aberdeen University and Utrecht, Netherlands, returning ordained in 1848. He pastored in Bloemfontein and Worcester, later moderating the Dutch Reformed Church’s Cape Synod. In 1860, he sparked a revival in the Orange Free State, preaching to thousands across racial lines despite apartheid’s rise. Murray wrote over 240 books, including Abide in Christ (1882) and With Christ in the School of Prayer, translated into dozens of languages. His emphasis on holiness, prayer, and divine healing influenced global Pentecostalism. Married to Emma Rutherford in 1856, they had eight children, four becoming missionaries. He founded theological seminaries and the Huguenot College for women. Despite chronic illness, he traveled to Europe and America, speaking at Keswick Conventions. His devotional works remain widely read, shaping Christian spirituality across denominations.
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Andrew Murray emphasizes the urgent need for prayer among God's people to ignite a revival that empowers them to fulfill their divine duties and enhance missionary efforts. He highlights the correlation between the spiritual vitality of the mother church and the strength of its converts abroad, suggesting that a revival at home will positively influence missionary work. Murray calls for believers to seek God's presence fervently, ensuring that what they share with others is pure and life-giving, akin to streams flowing from the throne of God.
Shall We Not Pray as Never Before
Shall we not pray as never before for a revival in the life of God’s people that shall fit them to fulfill their duty to God and the world, that shall make missionary effort in every deed the supreme end, the chief glory of the church? If there is anything more needed to urge us to such prayer, let it be this. The proverb says: As the mother, so the daughter. The complaint in missionary churches of the weakness of many of our converts is most natural when we look at the general tone of our Christians at home. The influence of the revival of believers in the older churches on missionaries and converts abroad will be certain and most blessed. The power of the Spirit of God in the mother churches wakening to a higher devotion will infallibly affect all their branches in heathen lands. We cannot impart to them more than we have. Shall we not beseech God that what we give them shall indeed be streams of living water in all their divine purity and abundance and quickening power as they flow from under the throne of God and the Lamb? (Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 55)
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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917). South African pastor, author, and revivalist born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, to Dutch Reformed missionary parents. Sent to Scotland at 10, he studied at Aberdeen University and Utrecht, Netherlands, returning ordained in 1848. He pastored in Bloemfontein and Worcester, later moderating the Dutch Reformed Church’s Cape Synod. In 1860, he sparked a revival in the Orange Free State, preaching to thousands across racial lines despite apartheid’s rise. Murray wrote over 240 books, including Abide in Christ (1882) and With Christ in the School of Prayer, translated into dozens of languages. His emphasis on holiness, prayer, and divine healing influenced global Pentecostalism. Married to Emma Rutherford in 1856, they had eight children, four becoming missionaries. He founded theological seminaries and the Huguenot College for women. Despite chronic illness, he traveled to Europe and America, speaking at Keswick Conventions. His devotional works remain widely read, shaping Christian spirituality across denominations.