CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| 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—