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Aspects of the Religious History of Lewis
Up to the Disruption of 1843 by Rev. Murdo MacAulay (1980)


Rev. Murdo Macaulay was born in Upper Carloway, Lewis, the eldest child of a family of four boys and two girls. On the day of his birth the famous and saintly Mrs Maclver of Carloway predicted that he was to be a minister of the Gospel. This prediction, of which he had been informed, appeared to have no particular bearing upon his early career. It was not until the great spiritual revival, which began in the district of Carloway a few years before the outbreak of the Second World War, that Mr Macaulay came to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Whatever thoughts he may have entertained previously, it was in a prisoner of war camp in Germany that he publicly made known his decision to respond to his call to the ministry of the Free Church.

The Lord’s sovereignly in preparing him for the ministry could make interesting reading. It included a full secondary education, a number of years of military training, some years in business where he came to understand the foibles of the public whom he had to serve, a graduation course at Edinburgh University and a divinity Course in the Free Church College.

Mr Macaulay has a studious mind, a retentive memory, and scholastic ability for research. He has a good working knowledge of six languages, yet he is more concerned about stating facts than about clothing them in attractive language.

Statistical Accounts of the period treated are scanty in detail, and do not cover certain areas. Records of Church Courts concern only their own transactions. Anecdotes and peculiar incidents which have come down through oral tradition required checking and rechecking in order to get the actual facts. Present and future historians will appreciate this work, but it is mainly written for the general public.

Norman MacLeod.

Aspects of the Religious History of Lewis
Up to the Disruption of 1843 by Rev. Murdo MacAulay (1980) (pdf)


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