St. Andrews Seven

Stuart Piggin

Occasionally, in the annals of Christian history, the heroic stories of long-forgotten movements of God's Spirit are rediscovered. This little book contains the narrative of such a movement in the nineteenth century. Its chief characters are the great Thomas Chalmers and six of his students: Alexander Duff, John Urquhart, John Adam, Robert Nesbit, William Sinclair Mackay and John Ewart. These six young men, deeply influenced by the legendary Chalmers, also exerted a remarkable influence on one another as fellow students at the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland, in the 1820s. Their influence in later life, especially in India, was to be far beyond their wildest expectation, even in their teenage enthusiasm to serve Christ to the ends of the earth. In this extraordinary account, Stuart Piggin and John Roxborogh, both experts in the field of missions, trace vividly and popularly the...

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