The Scottish (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1850. Excerpt: ... THE SCOTTISH CONGREGATIONAL MAGAZINE. AUGUST, 1849. MEMOIR OF THE REV. JOHN MACDONALD, A.M., Late Missionary Minister Prom The Free Church Op Scotland At Calcutta. The Church of Scotland, though culpably late in attending to the wants and claims of the heathen world, has been exceedingly happy in not a few of the agents she has sent out. Such a man as Dr. Duff is a treasure beyond all price to any missionary body, and there are others besides him whose names will be remembered with honour and love by multitudes, and whose connection with the'Scottish Church would have continued to reflect upon it imperishable lustre, had it not been that all of them have retired from its communion. The party by which they were really sent out has retained them; they knew their friends and supporters, and made common cause with them in the Disruption; they have been secured as no small part of the treasures, and no mean element of the strength, of the Free Church. Of those men one, not the least deserving of being remembered, was the Rev. John Macdonald, late of Calcutta, of whose life and labours we purpose giving our readers a brief sketch, for the materials of which we are indebted to the admirable Memoir recently published of him by the Rev. W. K. Tweedie, Minister of the Free Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh.* Mr. Macdonald was the son of the Rev. Dr. Macdonald, the wellknown and zealous minister of Urquhart, whose recent decease a wide district around his place of abode in the Highlands still deplores. At the time of his son's birth, which took place on the 17th of Feb. 1807, he was minister of the Gaelic Chapel in Edinburgh, so that the subject of this notice was a native of the metropolis. A few years after his birth, his father removed to Urquhart, and there his early days were spent. Deprived of ...