Kilmacolm

The last paragraph of Rutherford's letter to the parishioners of Kilmacolm is taken up with the consolation that always comes to a Christian man's heart after every deed of true self-mortification.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

The parishioners of Kilmacolm must have been fed to some purpose at one time, for the two letters they write to Rutherford in their present starvation bear abundant witness on every page to the splendid preaching and the skilful pastorate that this parish must at one time have enjoyed.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

They have some new beginners in Kilmacolm in spite of all its spiritual stagnation, and the older people are full of anxiety lest those new beginners should not be rightly directed.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

But the poor Kilmacolm people did not need that sharp rebuke, for they had written to Rutherford at their own instance to consult him in their terror of conscience about this very matter, till Rutherford had to exhaust his vocabulary of comfort in trying to pacify his correspondents just in this sufficiently disquieting matter of light in the mind with great darkness in the heart and the life.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

The first complaint that came to Anwoth from Kilmacolm was expressed in the quaint and graphic language natural to that day.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

The pulpit of Kilmacolm was but too sib to the pew, and both pulpit and pew slept on together in undisturbed security.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

Everybody else was getting what counsel and comfort they needed from the famous adviser of Anwoth, and why not they, the neglected parishioners of Kilmacolm?

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

If the parishioners of Kilmacolm were severe on their minister it was not that they let themselves escape.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

The ministry may not have been wholly dead in and around Kilmacolm, though it could not keep pace and patience with those so eager and so anxious souls who would have Rutherford's mind on all possible points of their complicated case.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

There is a well-known passage in Lycidas that exactly describes the religious condition of the parish of Kilmacolm in the year 1639.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894