Charlie Kirk, say hello to Henry Scougal, a Fellow Scot

Some 322 years ago a 28-year-old Scot by the name of Henry Scougal lost his life to disease. Scougal shared many personal attributes and accomplishments with Charlie Kirk. He took on significant roles at an unheard of age, such as teaching Philosophy at a college during his freshman year. His subsequent ministry was spent primarily as a Professor on university campuses.

When Scougal was nearing death in his 28th year, he wrote a treatise called "The Life of God in the Soul of Man." The treatise was a private letter to a personal friend, not intended to be published more broadly.

"but  Bishop Burnet,  seeing  it,  appreciated  it  so  highly that  he hastened  to  give  it  to  the  world with the  most  generous  and earnest  commendation.  "It  was written," he says, "by a pious and learned countryman of mine, for the private use of a noble friend of the author's, without the least design of  making it more public.  Others, seeing  it,  were much taken, both with the excellent purposes  it  contained, and the great clearness and pleasantness of the style, the natural  method and shortness of it, and desired it might be made a more public good." 

I don't know if Charlie Kirk ever heard of Henry Scougal, but from what I have heard and read about Charlie Kirk's faith and piety, I am certain that Henry Scougal's friend to whom he addressed his treatise must have been something like Charlie Kirk. 

I believe we can say with considerable confidence that The Life of God was in the Soul of Charlie Kirk. 

Scougal's treatise is not all that long, but in it he lists 42 characteristics, or signs, of the life of God in the soul of a man. Reports of the character, beliefs and piety of Charlie Kirk would seem to indicate that the life of God was in his soul. 

Charlie Kirk died at a young age, but like Scougal, not "before his time." It has been said that Charlie's death will be a force multiplier for his mission, just as Scougal's treatise has been for thousands of Christians for the past 322 years. In the event you might not have noticed, the names of many Godly men are still known and spoken many centuries after their deaths. The names of those who vehemently opposed them have long since been forgotten. The causes of the just and the justified go on, the causes championed by evil men continually and repeatedly collapse into the mire of sin and evil.

Charlie Kirk, we won't forget you. And please say "hello and thank you" to Henry Scougal. Don't know if you've met him yet, but I'm sure you will.