“As a theologian Hugh Martin’s knowledge was profound. Of this, the discourses which he preached, and the works which he published, are ample witnesses.
Taking his stand on the Bible as the Word of God, with an eye intensely keen he saw the truth which be was anxious to expound spreading itself out before him in its just proportion and logical relations, and seizing it with iron grasp he gave expression to it in language worthy of it: fervid, sparkling, powerful.
Mincing truth he did not understand and with milk-and-water statements of it he had no sympathy.
He stormed the fortress, and on his banner was broadly inscribed ‘No surrender.’ Such a mind could not fail to make a deep impression.”
–Reverend George Philip, Free St John’s, Edinburgh, speaking of Hugh Martin from the pulpit on the Lord’s Day after his death, in Hugh Martin, Union with Christ: Sermons of Hugh Martin, eds. Matthew J. Hyde and Catherine E. Hyde (Glasgow, Scotland: Free Presbyterian Publications, 2024), 22.
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