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The Author of the following
Pieces (Dughall Bochannan) was a native
of Sutherland-shire, and resided from his youth in the heights of the Parish
of Kildonan. He was born in 1719, and die4 January, 1782. Though destitute
of the advantages of education, he was one of the most celebrated Christians
in that, or perhaps any other country. He possessed a clear and
comprehensive view of Divine truths; and discovered (what, alas! is more
rarely to be met with) a deep and practical experience of its power on the
heart and life. His memory to this day in that country is much and justly
revered, and will be long embalmed in the hearts of many who knew and could
appreciate his worth. It will be seen from the following Pieces, that he was
also a Christian Poet, and that in no ordinary degree. They were composed on
different occasions; and most of them relate to occurrences in the ways of
Providence respecting himself, of which he was not an inattentive observer.
They, may; nevertheless be useful to others, and especially to serious and
exercised Christians. It is with this intention, and at the importunity of
friends who reckoned them worthy of being preserved, and more generally
spread, that they are now published. The work necessarily labours under the
disadvantages of a posthumous one; and the dialect in which it is written,
but which it was not thought proper to alter, may not be quite intelligible
to those in the more Southern Districts of the Highlands. It is hoped,
nevertheless, that its circulation may be attended with no small degree of
usefulness; and, under this impression, we most cordially give the
Publication our humble sanction.
JOHN MACDONALD
JOHN KENNEDY.
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Reminiscences of the life and labours of
Dugald Buchanan
Formerly teacher and evangelist at Rannoch, Perthshire: with his Spiritual
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