Son of Adam Mc­Cheyne, Ro­bert was ed­u­cat­ed at Ed­in­burgh Un­i­ver­si­ty. In 1835, he be­came As­sist­ant at Lam­bert (near Stirl­ing). In 1836, he was or­dained Min­is­ter of St. Pe­ter’s Es­tab­lished Church in Dun­dee. In 1839, he went to Pal­es­tine as one of the Mis­sion of En­quiry to the Jews from the Church of Scot­land. His hymns, a few of which he wrote in Pal­es­tine, ap­peared post­hu­mous­ly in:

• Songs of Zi­on to Cheer and Guide Pil­grims on Their Way to the New Je­ru­sa­lem (Dun­dee, Scot­land: W. Mid­dle­ton, 1843)

• Julian, pp. 557, 707, 1272

1. Beneath Mo­ri­ah’s Rocky Side
2. I Once Was a Strang­er
3. Like Mist on the Mount­ains
4. Ten Vir­gins, Clothed in White
5. When This Pass­ing World Is Done