As Murray lay upon his deathbed he was overheard praying in the silence of the night for each of his children by name. This so impressed the oldest son, John, then twelve years of age, that he decided that very night to devote himself to the work of the Christian ministry. By patient endeavor and with the kind aid of an unmarried uncle, John graduated with an M.A. degree from Marischal College, Aberdeen, at age twenty-two. During the subsequent decade he completed the divinity course at the University