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| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Jane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper | | Comment | List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia, extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
| | Section | India  | | | Volume No. | 7 | | | Page No. | 696 | | | Surname | Johnston | | | Christian Name(s) | Robert | | | Body of text | JOHNSTON, ROBERT, born Craigieburn, Moffat, 16th December 1807, son of Robert J and Janet Gillespie [his mother died when he was a child, and on her dying bed expressed a wish that her son might become a minister]; educated at Moffat School; taught at Crawford and other places, and entered the University of Edinburgh in 1827; tutor at Tweedsmuir manse, 1829-30; took charge of a school at Moffat in 1831 ; licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 25th November 1835; followed his friend, John Anderson, as tutor at Troqueer Holm, June 1836; became missionary at Wallacetown, Ayr, July 1837; appointed by Foreign Mission Committee 7th August 1838, and ordained by Presbytery of Edinburgh 5th September following; sailed 10th October and arrived at Madras 24th January 1839. Joined the Free Church in 1843. He was colleague to John Anderson until his health broke down in 1850, when he was ordered home, ""unless he wishes to die at his post."" He spent some time in Arran, addressed occasional meetings on behalf of missions, but never regained strength, and died (of consumption) at 124 Princes Street, Edinburgh, 22nd March 1853. He was buried at Moffat, and was unmarried. A fine classical scholar, first student in the Greek classes of his time, a sound Biblical critic and theologian, he was a man of deep and earnest purpose, and one of the most devoted of Indian missionaries. Publications - Address to the Divinity Students (Edinburgh, 1853); The Conversion of the Jews (Edinburgh, 1853). [Braidwood's True Yoke-Fellows in the Indian Mission Field (portraits) (London, 1862)] |
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