Memorials of John McLeod Campell (Volume 2)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. 1868-1869. Degree of D.D. conferred on Mr. Campbell--Marriage of his Daughter--Visit to England--Letters to Mr. Prichard, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Erskine, and others--Jeremy Taylor on Repentance--"Restitution of all things"--Clergy and Laity--Dr. Wylie's Jubilee--Visit to St. Andrews--John Keble--The Irish Church. In the spring of 1868 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on Mr. Campbell by the University of Glasgow. He valued the degree as coming from his old University, and as a recognition of his work as a theological writer. Many expressions of approval and congratulation came from various quarters. The Bishop of Argyll, for example, wrote "a letter to Dr. Caird, which appeared in the newspapers. "Few," he said, "who have had any interest in the religious life of Scotland for the last forty years but will regard the event with deep emotion, significant as it is of the change in religious feeling which has taken place. If it has been Mr. Campbell's happiness to receive in this life that recognition which confessors too often but receive after their death, it is becoming on the part of those who rejoice in the recognition to testify their joy, and to return thanks to those by whom the recognition has been made." In February of this year Mr. Campbell's youngest daughter had been married to Mr. William Crum, second son of the late Mr. Walter Crum of Thornliebank,--an event which gave him unmixed pleasure; and in June he went to stay with his son-in-law near Manchester. He afterwards visited Mr. David Robertson at Lye Vicarage, near Stourbridge, and Mr. Vaughan at Leicester. At Mr. Vaughan's house he met, besides other clergymen who were interested in his books, Mr. C. E. Prichard,1 Rector of South Luffenham, with whom he had already corre...