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Name |
Hector (Rev) (Son of 9Th of Treshnish) Maclean |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
Yes, date unknown |
Person ID |
I161506 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
19 Aug 2013 |
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Notes |
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"Johnson and Boswell in Scotland" edited by Pat Rogers, Yale
University Press, New Haven and London. Page 221. Johnson
writing:
"He has no public edifice for the exercise of his ministry;
and can officiate to no greater number, than a room can
contain; and the room of a hut is not very large. This is
all the opportunity of worship that is now granted to the
inhabitants of the island, some of whom must travel thither
perhaps ten miles. Two chapels were erected by their
ancestors, of which I saw the skeletons, which now stand
faithful witness of the triumph of Reformation.
The want of churches is not the only impediment to piety;
there is likewise a want of ministers. A parish often
contains more islands than one; and each island can have the
minister only in its own turn. At Raasa they had, I think,
a right to service only every third Sunday. All the
provision made by the present ecclesiastical constitution,
for the inhabitants of about a hundred square miles, is a
prayer and sermon in a little room, once in three weeks:
and even this parsimonious distribution is at the mercy of
the weather; and in those islands where the minister does
not reside, it is impossible to tell how many weeks or
months may pass without any public exercise of religion."
Fromhttp://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=e2539&id=I12898
by Marilyn Ann Erickson
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