Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A politician and turbulent priest whose religious fervour and political passion won him large majorities at Westminster and the largest vote in the European Par
On the island
Eight records
The Twenty-Third PsalmFavourite
Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland
The only music that would calm him as a baby.
Somebody must have pulled me ashore, so this would be appropriate.
Martyrs' Memorial Free Presbyterian Church Congregation
A gospel hymn sung by his own congregation.
Bob Jones University Concert Choir
A wonderful hymn; he has close connections with Bob Jones University.
When the Trumpet of the Lord Shall Sound
A good arousing piece.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:22Do you admit to having two sides to your personality – humorous and charming on one hand, threatening on the other?
No, I think that uh a person is the same person, but of course when they're dealing with uh the sobering aspects of the life that my constituents are going through, being bombed and murdered and killed and put under pressure day and daily, uh there must be a very sober side and there must be a very stern and strong side.
Presenter asks
3:52Who had the greater influence on you, your mother or your father?
I would say equally both. My mother was a a covenanter from Scotland and my father at that time was a Baptist preacher. And both of them had a very big influence on me. My father especially he was my hero and always will be my hero.
Presenter asks
5:31Did you feel, when you were really quite young, that there was something special about you?
No, I never felt there was anything special about me. I don't feel there's anything special about me even today. I think I'm just an ordinary individual who has a job of work to do and is doing it to the best of his ability.
The keepsakes
The book
John Foxe
John Bunyan was imprisoned for twelve years and he read uh a very big work, uh The Acts and Monuments of John Fox, which is better known to the general public as Fox's Book of Martyrs. It's an eight volume set, and I think I would like to have that because I have never had time to read it, and I'd like to take time to read it, and perhaps get some of the inspiration that Bunyan got when he wrote His Pilgrim's Progress.
The luxury
I said to my wife, Could I take you? You'd be my luxury. And she said, No, why not be there? So uh I I would like A high powered Uh radio that I could uh uh find out what was happening and in my uh loneliness could set the world right and say what I would do in such circumstances.
Presenter asks
8:46When was the moment that you knew it was your destiny to preach?
Well, that was when I was fifteen. and uh I was uh in the Count of Tyrone. uh with a friend of mine who was a farmer, and uh I was uh using a harrow with two horses, and uh that day I had a conscious experience. calling me to be a preacher of the gospel. I didn't see angels, I didn't see anything, but it's uh an experience of the heart uh where I felt. that uh this was the way that I had to go.
Presenter asks
17:29Did you mean that [statement about the Pope being in hell]?
Well, I don't know whether you got the quote right, but uh I'm sure the the the uh sentiment was right. I don't know whether I expressed it in those words or not. I hear myself quoted on many occasions in words that uh may try to get the sense. What I did say was that the uh reform position… That has always been the position of the Reformed churches and is the position of the Westminster Confession of Faith, which every Presbyterian minister, whether it be Irish Presbyterian, Reformed Presbyterian, or Free Presbyterian, or Evangelical Presbyterian, sign in their ordination, states clearly that the Pope is that Antichrist, that man of sin, that son of perdition in the Church. Now, ante means instead of Christ.
Presenter asks
30:04What would you most like to be remembered for? What have you achieved?
Well, I would most like to be remembered for as a preacher of the gospel. and as a person who brought the truth of the gospel to many hearts.
“I think I'm just an ordinary individual who has a job of work to do and is doing it to the best of his ability.”
“I have been a total and absolute failure as far as I am concerned, but he has been an absolute success for me.”
“I don't have any fear of death because the scriptures tell us that those that know Christ have been delivered from that fear.”
“No, I never have any regrets that I have gone the road I've gone because I'm conscious that it was a preordained path as far as I was concerned.”
“I will face him as a sinner who deserved eternal hell and judgment. But I will face him not in any righteousness of my own, for my righteousnesses are as filthy rags, but in the imputed righteousness of his Son.”