Editing Robert Murray M'Cheyne (section)

==Legacy==
M'Cheyne was a preacher, a pastor, a poet, and wrote many [[Letter (message)|letters]].  He was also a man of deep [[piety]] and a man of prayer.

M'Cheyne died exactly two months before the [[Disruption of 1843]]. This being so, his name was subsequently held in high honour by all the various branches of [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[Presbyterianism]], though he himself held a strong opinion against the [[Erastianism]] which led to the Disruption.  Bonar records, "And when, on 7 March of the following year (i.e. 1843), the cause of the Church was finally to be pleaded at the bar of the House of Commons, I find him writing: 'Eventful night this in the British Parliament!  Once more King Jesus stands at an earthly tribunal, and they know Him not!'" —''Memoir'' (1892), p.&nbsp;147).

Although widely believed to have been engaged to be married to Jessie Thain at the time of his death (and once, some ten years earlier, to Margaret Maxwell), largely owing to Smellie's popular biography, recent scholarship has disproved both of these claims.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dickie |first=Robert |date=2017 |title=Robert Murray McCheyne - was he twice engaged to be married? |url=https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/srshj/07_193.pdf |journal=Scottish Reformation Society Historical Journal |volume=7 |pages=193-213 |issn=2045-4570}}</ref> Perhaps no minister in the Church of Scotland is better remembered for the saintliness of his character, the anxious devotion which influenced the whole of his short ministry, and the success which everywhere accompanied his efforts as a preacher of the Gospel. He was a diligent Bible student and a good classical scholar. He learned to read Greek when he was but a boy, and he could carry on a conversation in Hebrew. He had fine poetical, artistic, and musical gifts. He trained his congregation in psalmody, and his hymns are the property of all the Churches.{{sfn|Scott|1925}}

Not long after his death, his friend [[Andrew Bonar|Andrew Alexander Bonar]] edited his biography which was published with some of his manuscripts as ''The Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne''.  The book went into many editions.  It has had a lasting influence on [[evangelicalism|Evangelical Christianity]] worldwide.

M'Cheyne designed a widely used system for reading through the Bible in one year. The plan entails reading the [[New Testament]] and the [[Psalms]] through twice a year, and the [[Old Testament]] through once. This program was included (in a slightly modified form) in ''For the Love of God'' by [[D. A. Carson]] and is recommended by several Bible publishers, such as the [[English Standard Version]] and the [[New English Translation]].

The former<ref>Closed in 1999[https://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/895047].</ref> McCheyne Memorial Church in [[Dundee]] is named after him.