Charles Stuart

Charles Stuart (1746-1826) was initially a parish minister in the Church of Scotland at Cramond. Stuart resigned over doctrinal differences in the late 1770s and joined the Scotch Baptist congregation in Edinburgh. He was greatly influenced by reading Archibald McLean’s Defence of Believers’ Baptism, and later became a close friend of Andrew Fuller and an active supporter of the Baptist Mission, though the two men did not agree on all matters of doctrine. Fuller’s list of books in his library in 1798 included one title by Stuart, a work published anonymously and not previously identified with him by scholars or librarians: Brief Thoughts: I. Concerning the Gospel, and the Hindrances to believe it: II. Concerning the Way in which a Believer comes at True Satisfaction about his State towards God (Edinburgh, 1790). Stuart edited the Edinburgh Quarterly Magazine from 1798 to 1800. In 1804-1805 he helped Fuller once again raise funds in Scotland for translation work at Serampore. See George Yuille, History of the Baptists in Scotland from Pre-Reformation Times (Glasgow: Baptist Union Publications Committee, 1926), 49, 306. See Yuille, History, 49, 306; Periodical Accounts, 2:207; 3:147; DEB.