Rev. James Robe, Kilsyth, Scotland
I'm posting this in case any Robe researcher might be interested.This comes from the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 16 (Oxford, 1937):Robe, James (1688-1753), Scottish Presbyterian divine, son of Michael Robe, minister of Cumbernauld, was born there in 1688. He studied at Glasgow University, and was licensed by the presbytery of Linlithgow in 1709.In 1713 he was ordained to the parish of Kilsyth.In 1740 his ministry was signalised by a remarkable religious revival, following immediately upon a similar movement at Cambuslang, and extending to other districts in the west of Scotland.The movement gave rise to a controversy, especially with the associate presbytery, leading Robe to issue his first publication, entitled "A Faithful Narrative of the extraordinary Work of the Spirit of God at Kilsyth, and other Congregations in the Neighbourhood near Glasgow," published at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London, 1742, 8vo., 1742, 8vo, Glasgow, 1790, 1840, as well as a "Letter to Mr. Jas. Fisher," Edinburgh and Glasgow, 8vo, 1742.Robe's other works include "The Christian Monthly History,' 6 numbers, Edinburgh, 1743-4; "Faith no Fancy" (oops! I can't find the second page). Rev. James Robe married Anna Hamilton, who survived him twenty years following his death, 26 May 1753.Another biography of Rev. James Robe and his father Rev. Michael Robe is given in Hew Scot's Fasti Ecclesiasticae Scotiae.The story of the Cambuslang Revival is given in the book of that title by Rev. Arthur Fawcett (London: Banner of Truth Trust, 1971).Rev. Robe's colleague William McCulloch's case histories of conversions were published in 1845; Fawcett quotes from vol. 1 p. 183: "One young servant-girl of twenty, Jean Robe, speaks of walking twelve miles into Stirling to hear the seceders, before coming to Cambuslang.This so angered her master that he cursed her with great vehemence, 'saying We were a parcel of Mad people that went there; and we would never rest till we would get a parcel of Dragoons to scatter us.'In great depression of spirit she was about to give up hope, 'but hearing My Mistress reading the Psalms, that word she was reading beside Me, while I was spinning at the wheel: Assuredly he shall thee save/And give deliverance--came with such power that I was filled with joy." (Fawcett, 83-84).
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