BANNER OF TRUTH - Key Persons

Iain Murray's interest in such literature had begun in 1951, when, as a young soldier in Singapore, a lady missionary had spoken to him and pointed him to the writings of M'Cheyne. Following on from the interest in M'Cheyne, on his return to England he had found the riches of long dead Puritan authors, hidden away in second-hand books. It was clear that the old Puritan authors had power in their writings. As the lives of more recent giants of church history such as Whitefield and Spurgeon were studied, it became apparent that the writings of the Puritans had been very influential in their lives. Seeing the way that God had used the writings of the Puritans in days gone by, Iain Murray and Sidney Norton longed to see such writings of the past readily available to the church once again. So along with the magazine in 1955, steps were taken to see if it might be possible to put back in print some of these treasures from the past.