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MACLEOD, NORMAN (1812-1872)

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MACLEOD, See also:NORMAN (1812-1872) , Scottish divine, son of Rev. Norman Macleod (1783-1862), and See also:grandson of Rev. Norman Macleod, See also:minister of Morven, See also:Argyllshire, was See also:born at See also:Campbeltown on the 3rd of See also:June 1812. In 1827 he became a student at See also:Glasgow University, and in 1831 went to See also:Edinburgh to study divinity under Dr See also:Thomas See also:Chalmers. On the 18th of See also:March 1838 he became See also:parish minister at See also:Loudoun, See also:Ayrshire. At this See also:time the troubles in the Scottish See also:Church were already gathering to a See also:head (see See also:FREE CHURCH OF See also:SCOTLAND). Macleod, although he had no love for See also:lay patronage, and wished the Church to be free to do its proper See also:work, clung firmly to the See also:idea of a See also:national Established Church, and therefore remained in the See also:Establishment when the disruption took See also:place. He was one of those who took a See also:middle course in the non-intrusion controversy, holding that the fitness of those who were presented to parishes should be judged by the presbyteries—the principle of See also:Lord See also:Aberdeen's See also:Bill. On the See also:secession of 1843 he was offered many different parishes, and having finally settled at See also:Dalkeith, devoted himself to parish work and to questions affecting the Church as a whole. He was largely instrumental in the work of strengthening the Church. In 1847 he became one of the founders of the Evangelical See also:Alliance, and from 1849 edited the See also:Christian Instructor (Edinburgh). In 1851 he was called to the See also:Barony church, Glasgow, in which See also:city the See also:rest of his days were passed.

There the more liberal See also:

theology rapidly made way among a See also:people who judged it more by its fruits than its arguments, and Macleod won many adherents by his See also:practical schemes for the social improvement of the people. He instituted See also:temperance refreshment rooms, a congregational See also:penny savings See also:bank, and held services specially for the poor. In 186o Macleod was appointed editor of the new monthly See also:magazine See also:Good Words. Under his See also:control the magazine, which was mainly of a religious See also:character, became widely popular. His own See also:literary work, nearly all of which originally appeared in its pages—sermons, stories, travels, poems—was only a by-product of a busy See also:life. By far his best work was the spontaneous and delightful Reminiscences of a Highland Parish (1867). While Good Words made his name known, and helped the cause he had so deeply at See also:heart, his relations with the See also:queen and the royal See also:family strengthened yet further his position in the See also:country. Never since See also:Principal Carstairs had any Scottish clergyman been on such terms with his See also:sovereign. In 1865 he risked an encounter with Scottish Sabbatarian ideas. The See also:presbytery of Glasgow issued a See also:pastoral See also:letter on the subject of See also:Sunday trains and other infringements of the See also:Sabbath. Macleod protestedagainst the grounds on which its strictures were based. Fos a time, owing partly to a misleading See also:report of his statement, he became " the See also:man in all Scotland most profoundly distrusted." But four years later the Church accorded him the highest See also:honour in her See also:power by choosing him as See also:moderator of her See also:general See also:assembly.

In 1867, along with Dr See also:

Archibald See also:Watson, he was sent to See also:India, to inquire into the See also:state of the See also:missions. He undertook the See also:journey in spite of failing See also:health, and seems never to have recovered from its effects. He returned resolved to devote the rest of his days to rousing the Church to her See also:duty in the See also:sphere of See also:foreign missions, but his health was now broken, and his old See also:energy flagged. He died on the 16th of June 1872, and was buried at Campsie. He was one of the greatest of Scottish religious leaders, a man of wide sympathy and high ideals. His Glasgow church was named after him the " Macleod Parish Church," and the " Macleod Missionary See also:Institute " was erected by the Barony church in Glasgow. Queen See also:Victoria gave two memorial windows to Crathie church as a testimony of her admiration for his work. See Memoir of Norman Macleod, by his See also:brother, Donald Macleod (1876).

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