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HALDANE, ROBERT (1764–1842)

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HALDANE, See also:ROBERT (1764–1842) , Scottish divine, See also:elder See also:brother of J. A. Haldane (q.v.), was See also:born in See also:London on the 28th of See also:February 1764. After attending classes in the See also:Dundee See also:grammar school and in the high school and university of See also:Edinburgh in 178o, he joined H.M.S. " Monarch," of which his See also:uncle See also:Lord See also:Duncan was at that See also:time in command, and in the following See also:year was transferred to the " Foudroyant," on See also:board of which, during the See also:night engagement with the " Pegase," he greatly distinguished himself. Haldane was afterwards See also:present at the See also:relief of See also:Gibraltar, but at the See also:peace of 1783 he finally See also:left the See also:navy, and soon afterwards settled on his See also:estate of Airthrey, near See also:Stirling. He put himself under the tuition of See also:David See also:Bogue of See also:Gosport and carried away deep impressions from his See also:academy. The earlier phases of the See also:French Revolution excited his deepest sympathy, a sympathy which induced him to avow his strong disapproval of the See also:war with See also:France. As his over-sanguine visions of a new See also:order of things to be ushered in by See also:political See also:change disappeared, he began to See also:direct his thoughts to religious subjects. Resolving to devote himself and his means wholly to the See also:advancement of See also:Christianity, his first proposal for that end, made in 1796, was to organize a vast See also:mission to See also:Bengal, of which he was to provide the entire expense; with this view the greater See also:part of his estate was sold, but the See also:East See also:India See also:Company refused to See also:sanction the See also:scheme, which therefore had to be abandoned. In See also:December 1797 he joined his brother and some others in the formation of the " Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel at See also:Home," in See also:building chapels or " See also:tabernacles " for congregations, in supporting missionaries, and in maintaining institutions for the See also:education of See also:young men to carry on the See also:work of evangelization. He is said to have spent more than £70,000 in the course of the following twelve years (1798–1810).

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plan for evangelizing See also:Africa by bringing over native See also:children to be trained as See also:Christian teachers to their own countrymen. In 1816 he visited the See also:continent, and first at See also:Geneva and after-wards in See also:Montauban (1817) he lectured and interviewed large See also:numbers of theological students with remarkable effect; among them were See also:Malan, See also:Monod and Merle d'See also:Aubigne. Returning to See also:Scotland in 1819, he lived partly on his estate of Auchengray and partly in Edinburgh, and like his brother took an active part, chiefly through the See also:press, in many of the religious controversies of the time. He died on the 12th of December 1842. In 1816 he published a work on the Evidences and Authority of Divine See also:Revelation, and in 1819 the ,substance of his theological prelections in a Commentaire sur l'Epitre aux Romains. Among his later writings, besides numerous See also:pamphlets on what was known as " the Apocrypha controversy," are a See also:treatise On the See also:Inspiration of Scripture (1828), which has passed through many See also:editions, and a later Exposition of the See also:Epistle to the See also:Romans (1835), which has been frequently reprinted, and has been translated into French and See also:German. See See also:Memoirs of R. and J. A. Haldane, by See also:Alexander Haldane (1852).

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