This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. JUirfjj of, #aftr.--Jar& 8&orlt.--nttboiM. fN 1830, Mr Macdonald's father, the worthy catechist of Reay, died, at the age of ninetyfive. During the last eight years of his life he had entirely lost his eyesight. His second wife, the evangelist's mother, had died before he became blind, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. JUirfjj of, #aftr.--Jar& 8&orlt.--nttboiM. fN 1830, Mr Macdonald's father, the worthy catechist of Reay, died, at the age of ninetyfive. During the last eight years of his life he had entirely lost his eyesight. His second wife, the evangelist's mother, had died before he became blind, and when this second calamity befell him, Sir John Sinclair, who had always been his good friend, wished him to come to Ulbster Castle, where quiet apartments awaited the blind widower, in which he might spend his last days in peace and comfort. The old man, though grateful for Sir John's kind offer, preferred to end his days in the cottage where he had lived so long, and it is here we get these glimpses of him when his son visited him for the last time, during one of his Missionary Society tours in the north. "On Saturday, March 6, 1830, took a trip to see my father; found people assembled for prayer in his bouse when I arrived, and joined with them in the duty. This prayer meeting, I was happy to learn, was some time ago transferred to his house from another place, owing to his inability to attend it elsewhere, and is now regularly once a fortnight kept in his house. He moderates the meeting, and points out the psalms to be sung and the chapters to be read, though he long ago lost the use of his sight. I was pleased to hear him do so on the present occasion. After the people dismissed, I had a long conversation with him, and was happy to find his mind entire, his spirit lively, and his faith firm on the Rock." In the following week Mr Macdonald writes: --" Called on my father for the last time; spent some time with him. We were mutually affected at parting, not knowing whether we should see one another again on this side Jordan; he sent his...
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