THESE CALLED ON GOD Rev. Murdoch Campbell, M.A.* The Evangelical Revival in the Highlands brought into being a Church which knew the way to the Throne of Grace and whose prayers ascended up to heaven ‘like pillars of smoke.’ It was a Church which travailed for the rebirth of souls, and for the upbuilding of …
Author: Murdoch Campbell
THE LAST ENEMY Rev. Murdoch Campbell, M.A.* A famous preacher once said that there were golden hours in the lives of many of God’s people when they could, without fear, look beyond the trials of this life, the grave, and even their final judgment before God, to the day when they would see their Lord …
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds 2 Cor. 10.4.
GROWING IN GRACE Here is a short description of a ‘Men’s’ meeting held at Achterneed—the scene of Donald Duff’s labour in the past—in the summer of 1880, a few years before he died. Such meetings were occasionally held in the district between services during summer communion seasons. The account given of this particular service is …
CALLING ON GOD On a communion Sabbath in the North, the felt presence of the Lord was so overpowering that the presiding minister found it difficult to speak. Many were melted down, for a ‘bright cloud had overshadowed them.’ Some time afterwards, a good man who was present remarked in his prayer that, at the …
DONALD MORRISON Donald was once at Uig where, on a Friday, he listened to Donald MacLean, a worthy from Bragar. The Bragar Donald gave marks peculiar to the several kinds of religious deceivers within the professing Church of God. Among other choice things he said, ‘There is no man in this large congregation who is …
SUMMER AND WINTER As it was in the lives of God’s people in other days, so it is now. Let me give but one example. It is that of a young man who was one of my dear companions on earth. This young man could be seen walking on a summer day on a Hebridean …
ANGUS MURRAY, A MAN OF PRAYER We mentioned Angus Murray. Let us look for a moment at the rural and spiritual setting in which we first find this lively and attractive Christian. It is summer. The countryside is in its prime. A visitor approaching Dornoch that day could hear the soft ebb and flow of …