The Auld Kirk Minister
Paisley: J and R Parlane, 1895.
First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #15783
"Mr. David Cuthbertson, of the Edinburgh University Library, has in the press a volume entitled, The Auld Kirk Minister, a series of stories illustrating the relations which existed between pastor and people in a rural district in Scotland." - Academy and Literature, July 14, 1894. "We consider the book the best of its kind, brimful of genuine Scottish humour." - Stirling Observer. "For many years he had kept a diary in which he jotted down most of the prominent things which had come under his notice, or that he had heard from members of his own congregation; and it was usually a cuase for deep thankfulness on the minister's part, when, in reviewing the events of the previous twelvemonth, which had silently flitted into the shades of the past, he could point to several momentous problems which had been overco=em, which had seriously threatened the spiritual life of the church, or to the dispersion of sullen clouds of discontent which had dissolved at the stronger breath of brotherly love. And it is of some of these events we wish to speak, to lift the veil and disclose a few of the things which try the temper of a country minister, and either thus bind him to his people, or force him to accept a call to another sphere of usefulness, and leave to a stranger "to reap that whereupon he has bestowed no labour."" - pages 26/27. Uncommon Scottish rural life and humor fiction. ; 175, 4 ad pages.
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