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See also:NORMAN See also:MACLEOD (1812-1872)
, Scottish divine, son of Rev
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See also:Norman See also:Macleod (1783-1862), and See also:grandson of Rev
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Norman Macleod, See also:minister of Morven, See also:Argyllshire, was See also:born at See also:Campbeltown on the 3rd of See also:June 1812
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In 1827 he became a student at See also:Glasgow University, and in 1831 went to See also:Edinburgh to study divinity under Dr See also: There the more liberal See also:theology rapidly made way among a See also:people who judged it more by its fruits than its arguments, and Macleod won many adherents by his See also:practical schemes for the social improvement of the people . He instituted See also:temperance refreshment rooms, a congregational See also:penny savings See also:bank, and held services specially for the poor . In 186o Macleod was appointed editor of the new monthly See also:magazine See also:Good Words . Under his See also:control the magazine, which was mainly of a religious See also:character, became widely popular . His own See also:literary work, nearly all of which originally appeared in its pages—sermons, stories, travels, poems—was only a by-product of a busy See also:life . By far his best work was the spontaneous and delightful Reminiscences of a Highland Parish (1867) . While Good Words made his name known, and helped the cause he had so deeply at See also:heart, his relations with the See also:queen and the royal See also:family strengthened yet further his position in the See also:country . Never since See also:Principal Carstairs had any Scottish clergyman been on such terms with his See also:sovereign . In 1865 he risked an encounter with Scottish Sabbatarian ideas . The See also:presbytery of Glasgow issued a See also:pastoral See also:letter on the subject of See also:Sunday trains and other infringements of the See also:Sabbath . Macleod protestedagainst the grounds on which its strictures were based . Fos a time, owing partly to a misleading See also:report of his statement, he became " the See also:man in all Scotland most profoundly distrusted." But four years later the Church accorded him the highest See also:honour in her See also:power by choosing him as See also:moderator of her See also:general See also:assembly . In 1867, along with Dr See also:Archibald See also:Watson, he was sent to See also:India, to inquire into the See also:state of the See also:missions . He undertook the See also:journey in spite of failing See also:health, and seems never to have recovered from its effects . He returned resolved to devote the rest of his days to rousing the Church to her See also:duty in the See also:sphere of See also:foreign missions, but his health was now broken, and his old See also:energy flagged . He died on the 16th of June 1872, and was buried at Campsie . He was one of the greatest of Scottish religious leaders, a man of wide sympathy and high ideals . His Glasgow church was named after him the " Macleod Parish Church," and the " Macleod Missionary See also:Institute " was erected by the Barony church in Glasgow . Queen See also:Victoria gave two memorial windows to Crathie church as a testimony of her admiration for his work . See Memoir of Norman Macleod, by his See also:brother, Donald Macleod (1876) . |
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