Christianity in the Scottish Highlands

This sermon was preached at Rosskeen at the close of the Communion Sabbath [20th June 1858].  The Rev. John H. Fraser, minister of Rosskeen, said: ‘I can yet recall the appearance of the vast crowd, as in his closing appeals he became most pathetic, and the echo from the gable of our church seemed to second him.’ ‘Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing’ (2 Tim. 4:8). After reviewing the period of his life which had passed since Christ met him, the Apostle alludes to the comfortable frame of mind which he then enjoyed. As if he had said, I have wrestled and pressed toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus; and in all my difficulties, trials, and temptations, I have by grace been able to keep the faith. In the text we have the glorious prospect which the Apostle had before him: ‘Henceforth ...

Under the hand of God, Rev. Duncan Campbell became a Christian through the ministry of Robert Findlater in Glenlyon. Later Campbell became minister in Kiltearn, Ross-shire, the location in which Findlater had grown up. Campbell also married the daughter of John Macdonald, the Apostle of the North, who preached often for Findlater. The inter-connections give an insight into the providential control of God.  Duncan was born at Glenlyon on the 21st August 1796. Despite living an outwardly moral life, he was taught that he needed new birth by the Spirit and was converted at the age of twenty-one. In particular he was helped by a sermon Findlater preached from  Jeremiah 8:22: ‘Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?’  Ephesians 2:4-5 (‘But God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he has loved us, even when ...