Norman Macleod

The vision of millions upon millions in the far East worshipping idols had long haunted Macleod’s imagination, and, with his sense of apostleship waxing as the years went on, he...

The minister of the Barony--henceforth for many years commonly called ‘young Norman’ to distinguish him from his father--was a shining exception to the prevailing type of the Es...

Just after his return from this tour, Macleod was presented, virtually at the instance of Chalmers, to the living of Loudoun, in Ayrshire. On March 5, 1838, he was ordained. Fro...

Pursuing his aim of putting life into the Establishment Macleod had, in 1849, started a little paper, the _Edinburgh Christian Magazine_, which may be described as a miniature p...

That he should have chosen Dalkeith when he had the chance of going to Edinburgh has been remarked as strange. ‘I prefer,’ he said in explanation, ‘a country parish to a town, b...

No minister, whose hands were full at home, ever travelled more or further, whether as tourist or apostle, than Norman Macleod. At least once a year on an average he spent time...

Nothing astonished Dr. Johnson so much, when he was roving in the Hebrides, as to find men who lived in huts and quoted Latin. These were the ‘gentlemen tacksmen,’ and no more r...

ever came from Norman Macleod, it was answered only too well; like a certain prayer for rain, which was interrupted by a ridiculous flood. Not only were his activities immense a...

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 Calvi...