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A Nonogenarian's [sic, Gabriel Macleod's] Reminiscences of Garelochside
A Nonogenarian's Reminiscences of Garelochside - sic, Gabriel Macleod's Author:Donald Macleod General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. NOTICE OF THE SO-CALLED RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT WHICH WAS DEVELOPED AROUND THE CAMPBELL FAMILY OF FERNICARRY, ROSNEATH, SPEAKING IN VARIOUS TONGUES AND THE WORKING OF MIRACLES GONE IN FOR BY THBJI. August 4th, 1827, an old Dumbarton Burgess whose diary, which was begun in 1815, and finished in 1832, is now in my possession, paid a visit to Fernicarry, on Gareloch side, six miles from the Clachan of Rosneath, where dwelt the family of Campbells, who for a time made such a noise in the religious world. One of their number (Mary) claimed to be prophetess, a worker of miracles, and a speaker in unknown tongues. But the member of the household that our worthy old burgess went forth to see was Isabella, who had been confined to her chamber and bed for nearly two years. " Yes, Isabella," our yearning old friend says in his diary, " I will ere long see your happy bedchamber, and be comforted together with you." The scenery of the Gareloch in a small way seems to have moved his pious soul by its charms, but he could not afford16 The Campbells of Fernicarry Interviewed. to waste much paper and ink on a description of it, as he says, " It was not Nature, but the God of Nature that T wished to adore -- in all His works, but especially in His work of redemption. It was not the noble mansion (the Duke of Argyll's), encompassed with woods and lawns which grace the left of its entrance; it was not the thriving crowded watering place which stretches itself along the right, nor hill nor dale nor glossy surface of the lake that (here he gets ravelled) caught my attention, but a work of grace and spiritual re...« less