CONTENTS

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Introduction[9]
CHAPTER I
Descent—Boyhood—Student Years[11]
CHAPTER II
Minister of Loudoun—Non-intrusion Controversy[28]
CHAPTER III
After the Battle—Minister of Dalkeith—Embassies—EvangelicalAlliance—Death of John Macintosh[47]
CHAPTER IV
The Barony Parish—Macleod as Pastor—As Preacher—HisSympathy—Position in Glasgow[65]
CHAPTER V
Editor and Author[85]
CHAPTER VI
Balmoral[102]
CHAPTER VII
Travels—Broad Church Movements[108]
CHAPTER VIII
India—The Apex—The End[125]

NORMAN MACLEOD

INTRODUCTION

If any modern minister has a place, though it were the least, among the worthies of his nation, he must have been a surprising personality. When Scottish life was based on Calvinism, and there was a Stuart deforming the Kirk at the sword’s point, a preacher might rise to be a leader of the people, if not a virtual ruler in the kingdom. From Knox to Carstairs the line of famous Scots (such as they are) is black with Geneva gowns. But for two hundred years the Protestant spirit has gone all to democracy and the march of intellect, while the clergy have stood by the vacant symbol, exiled—