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Sermons preached at Lochcarron [ed.] with preface by W. Mackenzie
Sermons preached at Lochcarron with preface by W Mackenzie - ed. Author:Lachlan Mackenzie Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. The Reverend Lachlan Mackenzie of Lochcarron was no ordinary man. He has stamped his impress on a large portion of his countrymen. The remarkable con... more »trast between the Highlanders of 1745 and 1845 is in no small degree owing to him. If Dr Macdonald of Urquhart led the clans of the Highlands and Islands under the Christian banner of the Disruption, Mr Lachlan's previous labours had a great influence in rescuing their minds from ignorance and barbarism, and bringing them under the power of the gospel. Neither Knox nor the Covenanters influenced the Highland mind. Hog of Kil- tearn, Fraser of Alness, the Frasers of Kirkhill, the Calders, the Sages, the Macintoshes, the Bains, and the Kennedys, Mr Lachlan MacKenzie, and Dr John MacDonaldâ??those were the evangelists and apostles of the Highlands and Islands. They succeeded to the influence over the minds of their countrymen which the ancient chieftains abused and the modern forfeited. To Mr Hog and Mr Lachlan the Highlanders ascribe something beyond ordinary ministers â??a high acquaintance with the secret of the Lord, such as the Lowlanders claimed for John Knox and Robert Bruce. Mr Lachlan was a profound divine, an eloquent preacher, a deeply experienced Christian, and, withal, a classical scholar, a popular poet, a man of original genius, and eminently a man of prayer. Highland evangelists have often descended to the tomb without leaving any written remains or memoir. The following pages are an attempt to preserve some recollections of Mr Lachlan. This Memoir is compiled from the recollections of his only surviving sister and her son, some time my next neighbour in the ministry. The Sermons are from Mr Lachlan's manuscript. Certain statements in the Memoir that seem to claim supernatural gifts for its subject, are s...« less