The Kingdom and the Seven: Thomas Chalmers and Scotland's First Missionaries

“We tend to associate fresh movements of God’s Spirit with one significant individual; but when God purposes a new work He ordinarily raises up a ‘band of brothers.’ He did so at the Reformation, among the English Puritans, and in the First and Second Great Awakenings. Less well known, but no less awe-inspiring, is the story of ‘The St Andrews Seven’—a brotherhood of young men (some very young indeed) who sat in Professor Thomas Chalmers’s moral philosophy classes at the University of St. Andrews, but in addition were spiritually befriended, nurtured, challenged, and loved by him. The story of how, at great personal cost, they consecrated their lives to serving Christ in world missions cannot fail to humble, inspire, and challenge readers today. It deserves to be told and retold wherever Jesus Christ is honored. Paul Schlehlein has made that possible by telling it so well in these pages.”