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McGUGAN---Died, near Lumber Bridge, Robeson county, N. C., on February

13th, sister A. B. McGugan. She was born May 28th, 1809, and was the daughter

of the late Rev. Daniel White, of precious memory, so well known to out Baptist

fathers, and so highly esteemed by all who knew him. She was married to the

late Duncan McGugan in April, 1826. She was a consistent member of the

Missionary Baptist church about sixty years, ever showing her faith by her

works. She had been a reader of the Recorder for at least forty years. She

first joined the Spring Hill church, Richmond county, after which she moved

her embership to Providence church, Robeson county, of which was a member when

she died. She leaves two sisters, one of which is the widow of the late

Rev. P. C. Conoly; the other is the grandmother of Rev. L. Johnson of Rockingham,

N. C.; also four sons and five daughters.

This writer remembers to have heard her say some years ago that she had

prayed the Lord if it was his will that one of her sons might preach the gospel,

and the good Lord allowed her to live to see her prayer answered, her son

C. P. McGugan now being a minister of the gospel. Her feet were ever swift on

errands of mercy, being prompt to visit the sick, to comfort the sorrowing,

and help the poor and needy. She died as she had lived, trusting and praising

the Lord for his goodness. Her funeral was preached on Sunday, Feb. 15th by

the writer, to a large number of people, some of whom said it was the largest

they had ever seen at a burying. Thus both white and colored showed their

high appreciation of her. The relatives and friends need not weep for her, but

for themselves, their loss being her eternal gain. J. G. FISHER

BIBLICAL RECORDER, Feb. 25, 1891, p. 7:3

TRIBUTES OF RESPECT

Ann B. McGugan, the subject of this memoir, was the daughter of Rev. Daniel

and Catharine White, who emigrated from Greenoch, Scotland, leaving that port

August 28th, 1807, and reached Charleston, S. C., October 7th, 1807, thence via

Wilmington to the neighborhood of Lumber Bridge, about the last of the same

month. He preached his first sermon in America at Lumber Bridge on the first

Sabbath in November, 1807. He located near Society Hill, S. C., where the sub-

ject of this memoir was born, May 28th, 1809. The family soon afterward moved to

Richmond county, N. C., and located near Spring Hill, where the deceased was

reared and educated. She married Duncan McGugan in April, 1826, and located near

Lumber Bridge, Robeson county, where she spent the remainder of her life. She was

the mother of eleven children, two of whom are dead. The others survive her.

She was a widow about twenty-nine years, her husband having died January 15th,

1862. She united with the Spring Hill Baptist Church about the year 1830. When

Providence Baptist Church of Robeson county was organized she transferred her

membership to that body, and remained a consistent and exemplary member of the

same until her work was done and her Heavenly Father bade his child come home on

February 13, 1891.

Resolved 1. That in the death of our sister Ann B. McGugan our church and community have lost one of their most faithful, liberal, devout and godly women. Her removal is felt and deplored by the church and entire neighborhood. But we grieve not as those without hope. "For her to live was Christ, but to die was gain."

Resolved 2. That our profound sympathy is hereby extended to the bereaved family and many friends of the deceased. We weep with those who weep.

Resolved 3. That a copy of this memoir and resolutions be recorded in our church book, and the same forwarded to the Biblical Recorder for publiscation, a copy of which shall be furnished to each family of her living children.

S. J. COBB, J. W. CONOLY, Committee

BIBLICAL RECORDER, September 9, 1891, p. 7:4

~ . A SYNOPSIS OF

LIFE OF

i· REV. DANIEL WHITE

With Incidents in ···~

Scotland and America

------ By Duncan McNeill

1879

Published by Edwards, Broughton & Co. Raleigh, N. C.

Ar ch iba ld -Memor-y McMillan Condensed in the following digest form by/~M~:i; "River-ton, 11 Wagram, N. C., November 25, 1955, at the suggestion of Professor Jasper L. Memory, Jr., Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. c.

PREFACE

Some of the chapters of the life of the Rev. Daniel White were published in the Biblical Recorder and proved so popular that the author and publisher have put this material, with additions, into book form. Heroes of the faith should be held up as examples to future generations primarily rather than heroes in the military and literary realms.

CHAPTER .... SCOTCH CHARACTER.

Scotsmen through the ages have maintained a character of courage, g~andeur and rugged isolation, in keeping with the awe-inspiring scenery of Sco~l<..::d itself, with its picturesque mountains, lakes and rushing streams. Scotsmen t~v0 rever been permanently subjected by superior force.

Scotland's military heroes include W.:2:..ace end Bruce; her li·~ ~·ar... s; .. Walter Scott -. and Robert Burns; hec :inver:.-C rs, Stc.'!)l";to:nson and Watt, .1eI _::::::... __ z., :3 heroes, McArthur, White and Knox. Travelers say L':.J.t Edinburgh, · .. a c . ~-- of this land, observes Sunday strietly, with general worship and a miL secular work on this holy day. Scotsmen are willing to fight for the .. -- v --·~

voul.d rather die than endure wrong. In peace they are like a placid lt...-~, ..:.. .. war, like a rushing avalanche.

CHAPTER II. .':S BOYtlOOD.

Dan.:.01 White was born during t ·oub:..v s ·.:.:...... s, in about · · -· C~ .::; oc- land, a s...;all p~ace on an arm of ·c e sea. His parents vcr ;.~c-· · .. ~ r ; ~J

and made t.heir living as shepherds. There were four chi dzc .. : ~-- so. Daniel was the younger; and two daughters. The elder brov, _ :.c...=. ., .st, _ ··' - the shoe-making trade when the father died. The family t·.~.- . .:.~.:.k ...... _, L . which proved profitable, because there were plenty of fish ~ ~ a :..· dy . · vo the t"..3-"lY travelers between the Hi0:.lands and the Lowlands of ~ ~ '~: .. d , -· - vUG-· this eans the family was supported. and a fnir education provc.,., .·vr :.., __ ,~ol and his two sisters.

One time when the brothers were fishing in their boat with ·..:.:. ir .~...:., or

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seine, they saw a whale a short distance away Who chas~d them back to shore. The Whites became acquainted with travelers in Scotland, many of whom later­

emigrated to America and continued to be good friends to Daniel, who easily made friends thro~gh bis frank manner and pleasing personality.

An aid in breaking down ancient barriers between Scots of different clans and ranks was the preaching of McArthur •. As an e:xample, young Daniel W4ite-- a cairert of McArthur•s and later a fellow~minister--won the love of and mqrri~d a member of the land-owning aristocracy, Miss Catherone .Campbe~ of the Campbell Clan. The great religious revival in Scotland helped draw together Scotsmen· in Scotland and in America as well.

c'Hj>.PTER III. 11THE DESPISED SECT •11

A great evil in England and Scotland during those times was the established clergy1 appointed by the State and supported thro~gh forced taxation by the people. These so-called clergymen were usually said to be more interested in horse-racing,. gambling, drinking and other immoral practices than they were in spiritual minis­ tries. Yet these hirelings wouid get State polioe to hunt out and punish any who sought true worship outside of the State religion. Mrs. White personally told Author McNeill about such cases.

The writer told of the following well-authenticated instance of worship under difficulties. A group of Scottish Christians used to worship in a little glen in the mountains, through which flowed a stream. Sometimes avalanches of snow and dirt would dam up the stream so that a tremendous amount of water would be backed up. When this would break loose, it would fill this little glen or basin because

1 - the outlet through the rocks was small and the waters would take some time to flow through. The worshipers not only used this little valley but also had a cave high above where they could escape the sudden floods or their enemies, the' soldiers. One Sunday they were conducting worship in the glen when the lookout warned that soldiers were coming. Leaving behind a Bible in the rush, minister and congregation hurried up the rocky path to the cave above. The troops found the Bible and started cursing and blaspheming• Just then a sound like thunder was heard as the dammed-up waters broke loose; the white-headed minister at the mouth of the cave above exclaimed: 11The Lord God ··.mnipotent reagne tn;" and the troopers were drowned in the water which suddenly flooded the glen; though the worshipers above escaped. .

CHAPTER IV. HIS CO!li~SION AND BAPTISM.

Daniel White was converted in a revival conducted in Scotland about the year 1800 by the Rev. Daniel }fcArthur, who chose to obey the great King of all creation rather than King George III of England, head of the Church of England. The rite of-baptiun was performed in a lake (or loch) ringed with hills, and this rocky amphitheatre was surrounded by people on this day, despite the secrecy attendant upon the danger of conducting this ordinance. Otheisbaptized this day included Alexander McNeill, J. McKellar, Duncan Campbell and Catherine Campbell. The first two named, along with White, became Baptist ministers; the last two were brother and sister, the sister afte:rWard becoming :Mrs. White. The Rev. John Monroe, pastor for 65 years of Spring Hill Baptist Church in Wagram, N. c., said that he la:ew and attested the true Christianity of many who were converted in that revival in Scot­ land and later came to the United States.

Troops who went, along with aristocrats of the established church, to arrest Minister McArthur were so moved by his sermon that they returned without making the arrest. Another body of troops came a few Sundays later and took the Baptist minister away •. Duncan Campbell and Daniel White immediately.continued the service.

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After the service ended, the Baptists immediately drew up a petition to the King asking clemency for McArthur. This was taken speedily to London by Duncan Campbell. Meanwhile McArthur was tried, condemned, and put on a ship headed for Botany Bay, a place of exile. Campbell's petition won royal approval, due perhaps to one or more of the foll<:wing three factors: the importance of the Campbell clan, the waning spirit of religious persecution, or the King1s own concern over his personal spiritual welfare. It turned out that the ship on which McArthur was being taken away had met with a storm and returned to England. Therefore the unjustly condemned minister and his rescuer were able to return together quickly to Scotland.

White, McNeill and McKellar all were ordained as ministers and all felt a call to preach to their countrymen in America. Mrs. White strongly opposed her husband's will. As Daniel White preached in his native Scotland, he and his wife often would pass a beautiful body of water en route to one of his churches. One night Yirs. White heard her husband praying and preaching in his sleep as if to an American audience. She tried in vain to awaken him. Then she feared that her opposing him in following God's call to America had affected his mind, and she told God in prayer that if God would forgive her and 11restore her husband to his right mind," she would never again object to his crossing the ocean as a missionary to preach the gospel. White awoke and told of his dream, describing an American church and congregation to whom he imagine:Ihimself preaching. Later, in America, he preached to a congregation whom he recognized as being the srune he had imagined in his dream in Scotland.

Elder White and his wife, accompanied by two other ministers, McNeill and Keller, left Scotland for the United States on August 28, 1807. McArthur remained at h9me to continue his ministry in Scotland.

CHAPTER V. HIS VOYAGE TO AMERICA.

In the Scotland of that day, Baptists were oppressed on the one hand by the Church of England and on the other by Roman Catholicism.

The ship bearing the four Baptists named at the end of the preceding chapter set sail for Charleston, South Carolina. It escaped pursuit by a British naval vessel which would have 11impressed11 able-bodied men aboard into the British military forces. The other note-worthy incident during the voyage was their passing in mid-ocean a wrecked ship with no signs of life aboard. The vessel carrying the Whites and others reached Charleston, October 7, 1807. The Baptists of the city welcomed the newcomers. McNeill and HcKellar received a thorough theological education. McNeill, a young man of much promise, died soon after pre­ paring himself for work; !'.cKellar went to preach in Georgia and Alabama.

Elder i1hite and his wife sailed from Charleston to Wilmington, to seek out and preach to the Scottish people in N0rth Carolina. They went to Lumber Bridge, Robeson county, where he found a Scotch settlement and preached his first Sunday sermon in America the first Sunday in N0vember. ~·Jhi te stayed here for a time and did a great work, preaching both in English and Gaelic so old and young could understand. Here his first child, Nary, was born.

From Lumber Bridge he went to Richmond County (of the part now Scotland County) and there, after a faithful ministry, established Spring Hill church. This was in 1813. This, too, was a Scottish settlement; here, too, White1s ministry was blessed. Two influential family heads--Malcolm McMillan and Archibald Graham-- were converted, baptized in Jordan's creek, and added to the church. Soon after there was a great revival in the church, with many converted and baptized. Among them was John Monroe, who was baptized by Eider White at a beautiful bluff on the Lumber River called Fairley1s Ford (now owned by Jaspe:P L. 1-femory, Jr.). This is the same John Monroe who pastored Spring Hill so long. l'he re~ of the convert~

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in that great spiritual ingathering were baptized in Shoe Heel Creek, near the church.

In this vicinity the other children of the Rev. Mr. and Yu-s. White were born: Anna, afterwards married to Duncan McGougan; Euphemia, afterwards the wife of John Johnson; Rebecca, afterwards the wife of the Rev. P. C. Connelly; and John, who died early. Mary, his eldest daughter, married Charles Livingston. "Every daughter had large and interesting families, •• ,and every member of their families have followed Christ in baptism."

"Soon after Elder White settled in Spr:i.ng Hill neighborhood, he had a call to the Welch Neck church in South Carolina, where, upon his arrival, he and his wife saw, to their amazement, the very church and congregation to which, in his dream in Scotland, he had preached, and which he so vividly described that they knew him at once •••• this church, where his ministry was greatly blessed, be­ came his sure stay and support, helped to educate and supply his family with all necessities, and thus enabled him to carry out, in a measure, what had always been his wish, -- giving his whole time to the ministry."

Daniel White went out into church-less areas as well as to the churches and congregations he had planted: out through upper Richmond, in the Dockery neigh­ borhood, or Cartlege1s Creek; by Fayetteville; through Duplin, New Hanover, and adjacent regions.

After maintaining headquarters for some years at the Welch Neck church in South Carolina, White moved to Spring Hill, N. c., which had rapidly become stronger, and near here located his family permanently. Here he and his wife worked hard but had hardships to encounter in the early years, because they were poorly paid and lived under difficulties. Once while Elder White was on a preaching tour away from home (then just a small, rented log cabin), his wife was frightened by a bear when she went to a spring some distance away for water. At the house she found several men with guns--aniDng them Archibald Monroe, brother of John Monroe--who had been hunting the bear and who continued the chase after hearing her account.

When the older children got large enough to look after the rounger, Mrs. White would sometimes accompany her husband on his missionary tours. Once a great tornado arose at night, and when the \~hi tes returned home they found their children safely barricaded in the older part of the house while a newly added kitchen, along with a porch and trees around the house, had been blown down.

CHAPTER VI. SCOTCH BAPTISTS.

One of Elder White's converts from South Carolina used to visit him at Spring Hill each year during his lifetime and bring a barrel of flour and other presents to his 11father in Chr±st.11

He did not necessarily choose Spring Hill because it was the best place for him and his family to live but because here he could do the most good. White met opposition here for baptizing by immersion; he was poorly paid for his services; and the people were wandering in a maze of superstition, believing in witchcraft and ghosts. Returning one night from a strong sermon against superstition, Elder White saw a ghostly figure in the pale moonlight ahead, only to find, on walking forward, that it was just a bunch of tall dog-fennel, white in the moonlight and frostt. 11From this time superstition, with its concomitant horseshoes before doors and salt around dwellings, disappeared from all the regions around Spring Hill •11

Preaching in the Gaelic language of old Scotland continued for years in Sun­ Day ever.ing services at Spring Hill, where English was used at morning services. The Gaelic hymns "we always heard them sing to one tune ••• 11 To hear the old Highlanders sing in Gaelic would often move the hearer to tears.

11The Rev. Daniel White was of a pleasing and commanding appearance and address;

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Af ,t • ..'." the death of· Da icl \{c ,e t..1 re were rr.e.r.y ir.ciae:.ts tr, .,he- .. t.r.e <::EP 8.~"-~ ~3. · 'icer.t ef~ects of his me~.c.:-y.

An ".l:.d lady told John M0nr·oe Jokisor. :i.ow blessec~ uas tr.€.: 1:1::_ _3tr-~ f 1~. fat .er, Ja."1iel vJhite.

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busines he was courageous and U.."lswerv:..!11::.~ He easily cope - · i..," ~:·rn his ministry occasionally found in Am3r1ca, which was relat _ .:?..· · _ il. \.lit. tr.~eats of arrest and banishment. which ~e r~d braved in Scot_anc.

Once when about to start on a mi.ssj orin' y tour, Elder \fui T.t:: • Jnd <,hat :-. i., ~ ..:r ily were oJ.t of corn and went to b".ly some from a miserly nei )r. 'lni' : .i;; ::1 Jwi 1 F.ldva.ntage of the preacher a d chargad him ~2.00 a bushel, .1t tt ice 1~e r--e then prevailing. Elder Hhit.e bought it and told his family ot to c0 ~ain

:t this high-ha~ded deal. Tnis ~ume wealthy neighbor later nd h ,1th ~. t away,, and when he crune to Elder i~hi te 1 s for corn he was a .... .1.c to b . .J ::;ome . t

.:, .... ow rat.e. The man later sank even lower in the financial scalE:, ar, 1. .: 1• •. :..:i. ... es

~cok care of his needs without repayment.

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The following incident shows the prejudice of some people against baptism by immersion. Archibald Gratrun, a Baptist, was engaged to be married; the date was set; the people ready. But his bride-to-be had learned that he was a Baptist, and she could not be induced to come forward and follow through with the service. One of the brides-maids, a beautiful cousin of the groom-to-be, pitied his plight, stepred forward and offered to be his bride. 11This offer he gladly accepted, and they were then and there made one. They were a happy couple, and he was a useful Deacon and exhorted in the Spring Hill church, over which Elder 1ihite was pas tor ,"

Elder White was happy at the organization of Sprir.g Hill church, com~osed of his fellow-countrymen. A nephew of his, John White, recalled seeing a letter Daniel 1ihite was writing to friends in Scotland, in which the following passage appeared: "I have organized a church at Spring Hill, North Carolina, consisting of seven members, all of whom, except my wife, are my children in Christ.11

CHAPTER VIII. HIS vlORI\ FOR. MISSIONS.

The biographies of the first foreign missionaries to go out from the United States, Adoniram Judson and Luther Rice, are well known. They went out represen­ ting the Congregationalists but became Baptists by conviction during the ocean voyage as they studied their Greek New Testaments. Therefore, cut off from the de­ nomination which sent them out, they sought support from the Baptists for their foreign mission work. Luther Rice returned to the United States to rally this support, and he also helped found Columbian College. 11The Rev. Luther Rice often made the home of Elder Daniel White his abiding place in his missionary tours throug. the country, and in him and his family he found congenial spirits in his noble efforts for the spread of the gospel in heathen lands. Elder ·,ihite' s labors in this direction were indeed herculean; and so great was the impetus by which his eloquence and example imbued the Baptists throughout the whole broad bolt in which re preached that they have abated but little till this day, and such a name as 'Hardshell' we do not think exists in it. Nor was his wife any less zealous in her humbler sphere. She inaugurated a 1.!oman 1 s Missionary Society, all being required to make systematic contributions for Foreign Missions. They secured funds mostly b7 the sale of chickens, eggs, butter and such like articles as they could sell at i .c Leod 1 s Hotel, on the stage road between Fayetteville, N. C., and Cheraw, S. C. They even believed that these thines increased on their hands in the ratio of their sales, and that they still had as many chickens, etc. after all their sales and contributions to missions as did those who did not sell or contribute any thang , • •• :Nrs. ~·Jbite also enlisted the young people--boys and girls of the neighborhood--to do what they could for the poor heathen. The children in the Children's Yissionary Society were to contribute ten cents quarterly for this object. 1Both of these societies, under the guidance of Mrs. l'ihite, were successfully conducted, and contributed much to the aid of Foreign Missions.11 One of the boys of the ne rghbor'hooc J Hugh v!atson, learned under her while he was young to be a cheerful cont.r-fbut.or to the Lord 1 s work, and crew up to be a pillar in his church near .Selma, Alaoama.

J:>:rs. vlhi te also organized a i.ednesday night prayer meeting, held in rotation at the houses of the members of the church, which were continued through a period of about forty years. ·

Elder ~·lhi te, before starting on his last missionary tour, was in good heal th but nevertheless had premonitions that his work on earth was about done and showed added interest in arranging for the future needs of his ~amily. He told his wife of these feelings and urged her to go with him. She declined, saying she wos busy getting ready to go with him on a later .,trip to an Association at .:elch Neck, South Garolina, which he was to attend immediately upon his return from Duplin and New Hanover counties. After telling his family good-bye and going to the gate, where his horse was waiting, White went back once more to the house to ask his wife to go

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along. She said again t!·at she would like to but felt she should not. 11He then bade all an affecting, and what proved to be a last farewell upon earth.

nElder vlhi te went out through Fayetteville and down the Cape Fear to his field of labor in the Cape fear Association. He enga~ed in earnest preaching, and in the midst of one of his sermons he was stricken down by sickness. He was re­ moved by gentle and loving hands to the house of ~·r. Henry, where, after two cays of fever, which they did not consider dangerous, he suddenly grew worse and died, in the full assurance of a blissful immortality.

11Here ended the earthly life of this great and good man of God, in the year 1824.n

In the meantime his family, knowing nothing of his illness and death, had finished preparations for the Associational trip and were eagerly awaiting his re- turn. A neighbor received a letter for :tvirs. iilhite with the black seal, indica- tive of death. vJhen Ers. tlhite read the sad news, she fell helpless into the arms of this good woman, her friend and neighbor. "Another shock to the bereaved family was the return of the horse and empty sadclle •. Now they felt all the bitterness and pain of their mighty loss, but consolation came in the knowledge that he had battled bravely and fallen gloriously in the service of the Great King, to whom he had corr.mitted them and with whom he was now gone to live forever and ever.11

Some years afterwards, Mrs. White and her son-in-law, Charles Livingston, placed a tomb-stone over the dust of this noble man of God.

"Elder vJhi te was about 40 years old at his death, and his bereaved widow survived him 42 years, devoting that time to the furtherance of her Redeemer's kingdom; and at her death, which occurred on January 29, 1867, it was found that she had (out of the wreck left her by Sherman's army) bequeathed $50 to Foreign Missions, {k50 to I/lake Forest Co'LLege , and ~?100 to her beloved pastor, Elder Monroe.11

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MRS. CATHEPINE ~·iHITE

In Scotland about 1800 reports were heard of a mighty preacher, }~cArthur by name, who was variously reported to be mad and to be eYceedingly good, but about whom it was agreed that his messaees were so pmrnrful that hearers who went in frivolous mod usually came away uncfor deep conviction of sin after hearing him. Among his converts were Duncan and Effie Campbell, brother and sister of Catherine Campbell, all of Rosneth, Scotland. These new converts no longer delighted in ball~ and dancing parties, though Catherine continued to go. Catherine a~d her co~panion[ tried to force Effie to go to a party at a ne i.ghbor.' s house, on the other side of of a pool of uater, but while the party-goers st.c- ped to skate on the ice Effie slipped away and they went on to the ball without her. Duncan invited hcArthur to preach and Rosneth, and Catherine was persuaded, against her inclination, to stay and hear him. A formerly wild and boisterous man was there that night and was saved, ano the change in his life was so remarkable that it impressed Catherine. :l·nother time she heard McArthur preach at an old r'u i ned building nearby, with crumbling walls.

In this great revival Catherine, too, was converted. She influenced her associates in Scotland who saw her change from a fun-loving, frivolous girl, to a young woman of genuine and winning religious faith. In America as well ~he aided greatly in her husband l s Christian work during his Lif ct.Lr-e and continued it erter hi~ death. She kept up meetinr,-s, rr.issionary societies, and family prayer mse t ings ; she rode long distances to witness in home>; she endeared herself to old arid ~,o,mg Blike. When death came, she was r-eady, and "now in Heaven--the beautiful Zion of her love--she is forever at Home.11

WHITE, REV. DANIEL, was born in 1784 in Scotland; baptized by Rev. D.

McArthur in 1800; came to North Carolina in 1807, and estabi ished the

Spring Hi I I church in Richmond County; afterwards served the Welsh Neck

church in South Carolina, but returned to Spring Hi I I, and spent most of

his long and useful life in North Carolina. He preached both in Gaelic

and English, and was greatly blessed in revivals and in baptizing men

who became ministers of the gospel. Rev. Duncan McNei I has written a

memoir of this devout Scotchman.

THE BAPTIST ENCYCLOPEDIA, page 1237

Wm. Cathcart, ed.