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1893/4 – CHRISTIAN REVIVAL in Hopeman

Preface – by John McPherson 2019

During the latter part of the 1800’s and the early 1900’s there was a significant revival of the Christian faith where evangelists toured Scotland spreading the Gospel.  One such preacher was a Mr McKendrick who was born into a mining family in Ayrshire during 1859 .  He left school at the age of nine and with no formal training became a preacher and evangelist during his early twenty’s.  This he ...

1865 LETTER This letter was found during 1991 by Derek & Lesley McPherson under the floorboards of one of the upstairs rooms whilst renovating the Post Office house at 44 Harbour Street. Lesley was the postmistress and owner of the Post Office next door at No 42. The letter on one piece of paper was written by Aliser McDonald (presume Alistair) from Plusgarden a few miles from Elgin to his niece Hellen McDonald who at the time must have been ...