International Bulletin of Missionary Research, October 1st, 2001
William Milne was born in 1785 at Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. After his father's early death, Milne supported the family as a farmhand and carpenter while receiving an education from his mother and a Sabbath school. At sixteen, Milne sensed God's "free grace" remitting the "eternal wrath" that he feared his previous indifference to religion and his "profane swearing" had surely incurred. [1] Three years later, he left the Church of Scotland for the Congregational "Missionary Kirk" at neighboring Huntley, which endorsed the conviction of the Evangelical Awakening that Christians mus...
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