John Knox’s House, Edinburgh

Submitted by Alan Marsden on Wed, 08/08/2018 - 07:58

Yesterday I visited the ‘John Knox House’ on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Inbetween visiting the city’s castle, its royal palace at Holyrood and its parliament, I called at this late medieval town house. The displays inside were interesting and included early printed texts connected to the great reformer. As the house was occupied by one Mossman, a Catholic goldsmith to Mary Queen of Scots, I suspect this is a house with which Knox would have been familiar but not welcome. The information boards suggest the great man died here, which legitimises its name and association.

For the Christian, the location of one’s departure matters not. It’s the destination that counts.

Knox said at the end of his life, “So I end, rendering my troubled and sorrowful spirit in the hands of the Eternal God, earnestly trusting at His good pleasure to be freed from the cares of this miserable life, and to rest with Christ Jesus, my only hope and life.”