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Robert Moffat: Missionary

by Fred Barlow
Copied with permission from Profiles in Evangelism, ©1976

1795-1883

Scottish pioneer missionary to South Africa for over 50 years. He opened mission stations in the interior, translated the Bible into the language of the Bechuanas, and wrote two missionary books on South Africa: Labors and Scenes in South Africa and Rivers of Water in a Dry Place. His oldest daughter Mary, married David Livingstone.

When I think of Robert Moffat, I am rightly reminded of the Scripture in Zechariah 4:10, which witnesses, "For who hath despised the day of small things?"

It seemed a small thing to some godly men in a southern Scotland church when a boy about four years old, from a home of poor but pious parents, knelt at an altar to pray. His decision was despised by the elders as one who was too young to understand. Thank God, one unnamed, unknown-to-us brother bothered to kneel in prayer with "Robbie."

Moffat may well have been converted to Christ then — if not, it was the commencement of a chain of events that led to his conversion

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Robert Moffat (missionary)

Scottish missionary (1795-1883)

Robert Moffat (21 December 1795 – 9 August 1883) was a ScottishCongregationalistmissionary to Africa from 1817–1870.

Moffat began his missionary career in South Africa at the age of twenty-one. Moffat was married to Mary Moffat. Their daughter was Mary Moffat Livingstone and their son-in-law was David Livingstone, who often worked with Moffat and his missionary efforts at various stations in southern Africa. While doing missionary work at the mission at Kuruman, Moffat was the first to translate and have the Bible printed into the Sechuana language^[a]. While in Africa, Moffat devoted much of his time preaching the gospel and discussing the Bible, and also taught many of the natives how to read and write. Moffat's missionary career in Africa spanned a total of fifty-four years.

Family and early life

Moffat was born of humble parentage in Ormiston, in Scotland. Robert received an intermittent education.^[1] In 1797 his father received an appointment in the Custom House at Portsoy. In 1

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1795-1883
Presbyterian
South Africa

Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, Kent, England, August 8, 1883) was a missionary and a linguist, who worked in South Africa and Botswana for more than 60 years.

Of modest parentage, he had an elementary education and was raised as a Presbyterian on strict religious principles by his mother (a Scotswoman, née Anne Gardiner). He first worked as a gardener in Scotland and England.

Influenced by Methodism, he determined to become a missionary and in 1816 joined the London Missionary Society (LMS). He had already met and become engaged to Mary Smith who came from Lancashire, near Manchester. He was sent out to South Africa, where he arrived in Cape Town on January 13, 1817. His fiancée, however, due to her father’s objections, did not join him for another three years.

He was to begin his service in Great Namaqualand, south of the Orange River, but at first was refused permis