KNOX 500: day 8, Leuchars, Dundee, Perth

What a quality hotel in St Andrews! We awoke to brilliant sunshine and full Scottish breakfast in a finely appointed dining room looking out on the North Sea (and the beach Chariots of Fire opened with). 

Alexander Henderson's pulpit in 11th century Romanesque church in Leuchars.

On to St Peter's Dundee, where Knox preached and Robert Murray M'Cheyne. We met with intrepid pastor David Robertson. 

From there we drove to Perth, saw St John's Kirk where Knox preached May 1559 and revival and iconoclasm erupted in the city. Read from The Thunder.

Henderson, M'Cheyne, Knox... Leuchars, Dundee, Perth

Alexander Henderson's church in Leuchars

We began our day trip from St Andrews in some pretty serious Scottish rain squalls, the first real need for umbrellas while off the coach--amazing for this northern land. Alexander Henderson a colleague of Rutherford and author of the National Covenant, 1638, and of the Solemn League and Covenant, 1643. Then Dundee and a wonderful time with Hugh, a deacon at David Robertson's church, St Peter's, better known to history as Robert Murray M'Cheyne's pulpit. He was the Mark Driscoll of Scotland in the 19th century, and Robertson may be so for today. We sang psalm 23 with Hugh to a new Celtic tune. Perth and St Johns of great importance in Knox's ministry, he preached a firebrand sermon against idolatry here in may of 1559, iconoclasm to follow. We talked about when it is essential to tear down idols.

St Peter's Dundee, M'Cheyne's pulpit

St John's Perth