Andrew G. W. MacBeath, a Scottish preacher associated with the

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, was younger brother of John MacBeath; studied at the

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, the Baptist College in Glasgow, and New College, Edinburgh. MacBeath spent 15 years with the

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in Congo. During World War II he spent 6 years in Cape Town, and then was a lecturer on the Bible at

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for four years. In 1954, he spent three months in

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, and in the summer of 1967, re-visited Congo. He then went on to

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countries. In the 1950s and 1960s, MacBeath was at the

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. (Source: back cover of "The Book of Job" by Andrew MacBeath) He took part in the funeral of his brother in May 1967 by which time he was no longer principal of the Bible Training Institute. As a student at the Bible Training Institute in Bothwell St. Glasgow during the years 1967–1969 the Principal for those two years was Andrew Macbeath. (Source
Cambuslang Baptist Church centenary history page

Published works (selected)

''W. H. Aldis''
(1949), biography of

W. H. Aldis William Henry Aldis (1871 – 16 June 1948) was an English Anglican missionary who served as Chairman of the Keswick Convention from 1936 to 1939, and again from 1946 to 1947. Life and career W. H. Aldis was born in 1871 to Henry S. Aldis, a ...

''The Book of Job: A Study Manual''
(1966) Scottish Christian theologians Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish Baptist ministers {{scotland-reli-bio-stub