Andrew Murray (writer)

Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray (born May 9, 1828 in Graaff-Reinet , South Africa , † January 18, 1917 in Wellington near Cape Town ) was a Reformed pastor of Scottish descent in South Africa, who u. a. became known through a lively literary activity.

Life

Education

Andrew Murray studied at the University of Aberdeen and graduated there in 1845 with a master's degree . He then continued his studies at the University of Utrecht . In 1848 he experienced a religious conversion in the spirit of the revival movement and returned to South Africa in the same year after he had been ordained pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa on May 9 in The Hague .

Orange and Transvaal

Sir Harry Smith , the Governor of Cape Town, sent Murray to the Orange River area , where he had to look after the four parishes of Bloemfontein , Rietpoort , Rietrivier and Winburg . From 1849 to 1852 he undertook numerous evangelism campaigns . In 1850 he was called to the Transvaal , and in 1856 he played a key role in founding Gray College in Bloemfontein. There he was appointed the first rector and householder of the dormitory. On July 2, 1856, he married Emma Rutherford in Cape Town, who had eight children. In 1860 he became a pastor in Worcester , where he also wrote his first books.

Cape Town and Wellington

In 1862 Murray became the moderator of the South African Synod , in 1864 a pastor in Cape Town; From 1871 until his retirement in 1906 he was a pastor in Wellington, where he founded the Institute for the training of missionaries and the Huguenot Seminary for girls .

In 1898 Murray received an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen and in 1907 that of the later University of Cape Town .

Contacts with the sanctification movement

Murray was a man of the sanctification movement , advocated its teachings and also practiced its practice. He was also a popular speaker at the sanctification movement conferences such as B. in Keswick ( Keswick Movement ). He was strongly influenced by the awakening in Oxford in 1874 and Brighton in 1875, u. a. also by DL Moody , and represented the then common doctrine of the healing of the sick or sanctification.

He held u. a. Contact with the leaders of the sanctification movement, such as B. Otto Stockmayer and Anna von Wattenwyl , a temporary employee of Franz Eugen Schlachter . He was also a major influence on Jessie Penn-Lewis . His wife shared his beliefs. He took the Reformed view of baptism .

Works (selection)

• The True Vine
• Abide in Christ (German: Stay in Jesus )
• Absolute surrender (German: devotion, call to the believer )
• The Prayer Life (German: The secret of common prayer )
• The Lord's Table (German: Come on, everything is ready )
• How to Raise Your Children for Christ
• With Christ in the School of Prayer (German: The School of Prayer )
• Be Perfect
• Humility (German: humility, jewel of the saints )
• Divine Healing
• The blood of Jesus Christ
• The School of Obedience (German: Schule des Obedience )
• Jesus heals the sick or healing according to the word of God
• The Full Blessing Of Pentecost (German: Die Fülle des Pfingstsegens )
• The Holiest of all (German: The great high priest. An explanation of the letter to the Hebrews ; excerpt under the title: The high priest Jesus Christ )
  • The great high priest. An explanation of the Epistle to the Hebrews and the heavenly mysteries of the opened sanctuary and the priest on the throne of God . Röttger, Kassel [1897].

literature

• Alfred Stucki: Andrew Murray. A witness of Christ in South Africa. 2nd Edition. Heinrich Majer, Basel 1959

Web links

• Works by Andrew Murray online
• Literature by and about Andrew Murray in the catalog of the German National Library