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Charles David Alexander began as a Scottish journalisticr and quickly demonstrated that talent for the written word, which was to distinguish his later pastoral career. He was turned from the prevailing Premillennial Arminianism of the day, and found himself imbibing the glorious doctrines of grace, then largely unheard of. He took on the honorary pastorate of Fabius Chapel in the city centre in 1938 and served faithfully during the war years, before moving to Dundee in 1949. In 1954 he returned to his home city to take up the pastorate of Norris Green Mission Church. Following his wife’s death in 1966 a new ministry opened and several times in the early 1970’s he visited North America for extended preaching tours lasting several months, sometimes preaching three times a day. In 1965 an opportunity arose for a written ministry. A friend and colleague of Charles Alexander, John Wesley Walker of Kent, founded the Bible Exposition Fellowship in association with Charles. Its appointed goal was a more serious approach to the exposition and understanding of the Word of God. It was and remains ‘committed entirely to the doctrines of the Reformation of the 16th century and the upholding of the historic creeds of the Christian Church.’ Charles was called home in 1991, after hospitalisation, and his mortal remains were laid beside those of his wife in Inverness.
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