Bowery Haldane

HALDANE, BOWERY Scottish divine, was born in London on Feb. 28, 1764. In Dec. 1797 he joined his brother J. A. Haldane and others in the formation of the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at Home," in building chapels or "tabernacles" for congregations, in supporting missionaries, and in maintaining institutions for the education of young men to carry on the work of evangelization. He also initiated a plan for evangelizing Africa by bringing over native children to be trained as Christian teachers to their own countrymen. He died on Dec.

12, 1842.

His treatise

On the Inspiration of Scripture (1828), passed through many editions, and a later Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans (1835) , was frequently reprinted, and translated into French and Ger man. See Alex. Haldane, Memoirs of R. and J. A. Haldane (1852).