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<p> an eminent [[Christian]] philanthropist, was born in London (of Scotch parents) Feb. 28, 1764, and inherited a large property. His early manhood was spent in the navy; he was afterwards an enthusiastic Democrat in politics, and welcomed the French Revolution. After this excitement subsided he was converted, and resolved on dedicating his life to missionary labors. [[India]] was the chosen field, and, having secured the promised co-operation of Messrs. Innes, Ewing, and Bogue, of Gosport, to whom he guaranteed adequate stipends, he applied to the Indian government to sanction his enterprise. The East India [[Company]] directors, after much deliberation, resolved that the superstitions of. Hindostan should not be disturbed. Mr. Haldane now determined to employ his resources in spreading the [[Gospel]] at home, and, in conjunction with Rowland [[Hill]] and other eminent evangelists, he was instrumental in awakening an extensive revival of religion throughout Scotland. The General [[Assembly]] (1800) forbade field preaching, and discouraged the revival. Mr. Haldane therefore seceded from the [[Established]] Church, and at his own expense erected places of worship, under the name of [[Tabernacle]] in. all the large towns of Scotland; and educated 300 young men under Dr. Bogue at Gosport, Mr. Ewing at Glasgow, and Mr. limes at Dundee. He also organized a theological school at Paris. His attention was subsequently directed to the evangelization of Africa. To commence this undertaking, the procured thirty young children from [[Sierra]] Leone to receive a Christian education at his expense, and gave a bond for £7000 for their board arid education, which, however, the friends of emancipation in London undertook to defray. This is only one specimen of his munificence. His personal labors. in awakening a religious spirit in the south of [[France]] were successful beyond his own most sanguine expectations; and both at [[Geneva]] and Montauban he sowed the seeds of truth, which are bearing good fruit to this day in the [[Protestant]] churches of France. Mr. Haldane took a prominent part in the management of the Continental [[Society]] and the [[Bible]] Society of Edinburgh; and in the painful controversy relative to the circulation of the [[Apocrypha]] by the British and Foreign Bible Society, which led to the establishment of the latter. He was the author. of The Evidence and [[Authority]] of divine Revelation (3rd ed. 1839, 2 vols. 12mo): — An [[Exposition]] of the [[Epistle]] to the Romans (Lond. 1839, 2 vols. 12mo): — Verbal [[Inspiration]] (6th ed. 1853, 12mo); and various controversial pamphlets. He died Dec. 12, 1842. — Jamieson, [[Religious]] Biography, p. 240; Rich, Biogr. Dictionary; Darling, [[Lives]] of the [[Brothers]] Haldane (Lond. 1852, 8vo); Belcher, Memoir of [[Robert]] and James [[Alexander]] Haldane (Amer. Tract. Soc.). </p>