Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813 - 1843) was the greatly loved minister of St Peter's Church Dundee (1836 - 1843). He was a godly evangelical pastor and evangelist with a great love for souls.
M'Cheyne and colleagues made a journey to Palestine, as part of a Mission of Enquiry into the state of the Jews undertaken on behalf of the Church of Scotland. M'Cheyne had warm sympathy towards and desire for the salvation of both Arabs and Jews, and it was a great heart-ache to him that he was not learned in Arabic, so that he could preach to the Arabs as well as to the sympathetic Jewish hearers that he encountered during his travels.
While he was on his journey back through Asia Minor, he became desperately sick and close to death, but God preserved him and brought home safely to his beloved parish. It was at this time, while he was laid low with a fever, and out of touch with home, that God was pleased to visit Dundee and other parts of Scotland with real signs of awakening and true revival with many genuine conversions. M'Cheyne died just before reaching the age of 30.
His Bible reading system, involving 4 chapters of the Bible in four different books takes a person through the New Testament and Psalms twice in the year and the Old Testament once.
His readings have been set to four months of readings per A4 page, which can then be cut and laminated back to back to yield 6 cards suitable for slipping into a Bible.