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  • 'I can report nothing but good of the land,' said Joshua Redivivus, as he sent back such clusters of its vineyards and such pots of its honey to Hugh Mackail, to Marion M'Naught, and to Lady Kenmure.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • Let them read his Letters, and they will see that Rutherford could not only write home to the deepest experiences of Lady Boyd and Lady Kenmure and Marion M'Naught, but that he was quite as much at home with their sons and daughters also.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • We have a valuable letter of Rutherford's addressed to Marion M'Naught about the impending election of a commissioner for Parliament for the town of Kirkcudbright.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • And in all his services and sufferings for the truth he had a splendid wife in Marion M'Naught.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • And then, just over the leaf, to Marion M'Naught: 'I am well: honour to God ....

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • Lady Robertland, like so many of the other ladies of the Covenant, was not only a woman of deep personal piety and great patriotism, she was also, like Lady Kenmure, Lady Boyd, and Marion M'Naught, a woman of remarkable powers of mind.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • And who shall blame Rutherford for liking to see Marion M'Naught coming into the church on a Sabbath morning as well as she liked to see him coming into the pulpit?

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • But, then, no wonder, on the other hand, that, when two fanatics so full of that humour as Samuel Rutherford and Marion M'Naught met, they corresponded ever after with one another in their own enraptured language night and day.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • Marion M'Naught had a good minister of her own at home; but Rutherford was Rutherford, and he made Anwoth Anwoth.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • It is much to be wished we had, for Marion M'Naught was a woman greatly gifted in mind, as well as of quite exceptional experience even for that day of exceptional experiences in the divine life.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

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