Robert Annan: A Christian Hero and a Life Worth Emulating

I commend to you the life of a little-known open-air preacher of 1860's Dundee, Scotland, by the name of Robert Annan—an open-air preacher, street evangelist, letter writer, dock worker and mason, husband and father, and man of God by the name of Robert Annan.

Annan was one of those rare men who could say, "Follow me as I follow Christ." He could say it with humility. He could say it with sincerity. He could say it and expect those who heard to take him seriously.

Annan's Christian life resembled that of meteor entering the earth's atmosphere. It was intense, bright, and short-lived. Again, just seven years from conversion to final glorification. Yet he amassed a body of evangelistic work and Christian living in seven short years that likely dwarfs the lives of most modern-day, American Christians who have been in Christ much longer.