Rev. Dr. Robert Smith Candlish This is Me

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1. 1. People: St Geoge's West Edinburgh

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   Published on: 3/25/2008   Last Visited: 3/25/2008

   Rev. Dr. Robert Candlish ( 1806 , 1873)
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   Robert Candlish was born in Edinburgh and educated in Glasgow. He attended services in St. John's Church, where the preachers were Dr. Thomas Chalmers (1780 - 1847) and Edward Irving (1792 - 1834).
   
   From 1831, he served as Assistant Minister at Bonhill in the Vale of Leven, but in 1834 moved to St. George's in Edinburgh, where he was ordained, took charge of the congregation and gained a reputation as a powerful preacher.
   
   Central to church politics of the time, Candlish was one of the Ministers who left the Church of Scotland following the Disruption of 1843 and he became a leader of the Free Church. When Thomas Chalmers died, Candlish briefly replaced him as Professor of Theology at New College while retaining his role at St George's but, within a year, he had resigned the former role to concentrate on his preaching. However, in 1861 he was Moderator of the Free Church Assembly and accepted the Principalship of New College the following year, succeeding Prof. William Cunningham (1805-61).
   
   Candlish was honoured by the award of a Doctorate of Divinity by Princeton College (New Jersey) in 1841. His works included Contributions towards the exposition of the Book of Genesis (in three volumes from 1846).

2. 2. IJEF: International Jewish Evangelical Fellowship.

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   Published on: 1/1/2004   Last Visited: 3/9/2008

   It was during his time in the city that M'Cheyne struck up a close friendship with Robert Smith Candlish, the minister of St. George's, and his wife, with whom he would often dine. Candlish's able mind was wrestling with two important matters: the need to gather information for the Jewish Committee, of which he was convenor; and the equally pressing needs of his young friend.
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   The conversion of Israel, in which Dr Candlish was deeply interested, had already been taken up by the General Assembly, but without the adoption of any practical steps.
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   The final member of the deputation was M'Cheyne's close friend and Robert Candlish's former parish assistant, the twenty-nine year old Andrew Bonar, then the minister of Collace, Perthshire.

3. 3. St Geoge's West Edinburgh: Sanctuary, Venue, Cafe, Complex

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   Published on: 11/27/2007   Last Visited: 11/27/2007

   Robert Smith Candlish The famous Robert Smith Candlish forms the historical link between old St George's and our own congregation. He was born in 1806, his father, a doctor of medicine, being a friend of Robert Burns. He was inducted to the church in Charlotte Square in the autumn of 1834, a young man of twenty- eight years of age. Up to that time he had held no independent charge of his own, but had been an assistant- minister for about five years. He actually came to St George's as an assistant, but the quality of the man and the power of his preaching so won the people that the Session petitioned the Town Council to ordain him as their minister.
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   Dr Candlish and the great majority of his people had resolved to go out from the Church of Scotland and suffer for their religious liberties and principles.