Catch the Wind: Part 1 — Brad Allen

A Story About the Opportunity to Preach

Night I want to I want to honor Pastor Randy the shepherd of a congregation. That's an awesome task. And I was a pastor for 40 years. I tell everyone I know last November I had been preaching 57 years.

Last November I started preaching when I was two. But we honor you pastor I. We went to bed last night in the motor home and I got to thinking what an opportunity it is for me to be here. An old boy grew up on a farm in western Oklahoma.

You know. We didn't know anything out there until I went off to college. The longest trip I'd ever made was up under the house and I just just the privilege of being here to preach. I got to thinking while I was lying in bed.

I got to thinking what an opportunity it is and it reminded me a story on opportunity. I just got to share it. You don't mind. It's all right for Christians have a little fun years ago. Now train travel is not popular at all today.

I guess maybe Amtrak's on a training ride on these days. But years ago train train travel was popular. They had passenger cars back then. Where over on the side of the car was a narrow aisle and there were compartments you'd go in and sit in and in these compartments there was a bench over here and a bench over here and people would sit on these benches each other on this particular train ride.

On this bench sitting over here was an old general of the army and his young nineteen year old aide who was a private over here facing them. Sitting in the compartment was an old white haired grandmother and her beautiful eighteen year old granddaughter.

Train was going down the track. The train went into a tunnel. Black is night couldn't see a thing in the midst of the tunnel. They heard the sounds of a kiss and a slap. They came out of the tunnel into the bright sunlight.

All four of them seated ramrod straight. They didn't know who had kissed him or who had slapped him. But there were all four thinking in their mind. The old general of the army he thought in his mind what an insolent young pup he had the audacity to kiss that sweet young girl.

But why did the old lady slap me. The old grandmother was thinking in her mind what an old coot. He had the nerve to kiss my granddaughter. But thank goodness she had the sense enough to slap his face.

The sweet granddaughter was thinking in her mind what a situation that sweet young boy kissed me. But why did granny slap the old man. The young private was thinking in his mind what an opportunity I get to kiss the girl and slap the old man.

So so it's it's an opportunity for me to be here tonight. Thank you for coming. How many of you were not here last night. Raise your hand. OK. Several of you. Let's play catch up very quickly. Great revival.

The Lewis Revival and Duncan Campbell's Conversion

Tremendous. One of the greatest revivals in all of church history. It happened nineteen forty nine to nineteen fifty three on the island of Lewis off the west coast of Scotland. Lewis is one of the Hebrides islands.

The preacher in that great revival was the old Scottish Highlander preacher Duncan Campbell. Duncan Campbell was born on the mainland of Scotland. At the age of fifteen he was converted to Jesus Christ.

And at the age of nineteen he went off to World War One as a member of the Scottish Cavalry. He was stationed in France in a cavalry charge. He was horribly wounded badly wounded. He was picked up off the battlefield by a Canadian cavalryman.

And on that horse's back a miracle occurred. I don't know is there anybody here that has been born again. You have been saved but you still struggle with the flesh. Anybody like that here he said that was him.

He struggled with the flesh. And on that horse's back Duncan Campbell prayed a one sentence prayer. Oh God make me as holy as a save sinner can be. And he said God did it. God filled Duncan Campbell with his Holy Spirit.

He was transferred back to Scotland. He spent thirteen months in the hospital. Then he spent five years as a member of the faith mission a pilgrim a missionary with the faith mission going out into the rural area there where he lived with his mother and dad just talking about Jesus Christ.

He didn't even call himself a preacher at that time. At the age of twenty five he and Shona Gray got married and he became a pastor. He served three churches. He served first at the village of Ardvassar on the southern tip of the island of sky one of the Hebrides islands.

Then he served in the town of Ballantyre on the northwest coast of Scotland. And then he came to the center of the country and served ten years in the city of Falkirk. Twenty four years he served as a pastor.

The words of my not my words there. Duncan Campbell's words he said they were. They were years of living in a barren wilderness because he lost the fullness of the Holy Spirit of God. Dear people it is easy it is easy to lose the fullness of the Spirit of God.

You know the Bible tells us to grieve not the spirit. You know what that means it. It's easy to hurt the Holy Spirit's feelings. It's easy to hurt his feelings. Duncan Campbell lost all. He was a successful pastor.

People loved him. He preached good sermons. He did everything a pastor ought to do. But he said in here I knew I would write with God. November November the fifteenth nineteen forty seven. At the age of forty nine Duncan Campbell in the parsonage in Falkirk Scotland came back to a fullness of the Holy Spirit.

God filled again. He's completely surrendered his life. While God was down in Falkirk Scotland working on a preacher God was also up on the island of Lewis working in the heart and lives of a few people up there.

Have you ever noticed that when God really gets ready to do something he works on both ends of the situation and brings it all together. Now God now. I really believe this. I really believe this. I believe that God has been working on a preacher out in Oklahoma and a congregate of people a people of God in North Port Alabama.

And he has brought us together. He's brought us together. Let me tell you what had been going on up on the island of Lewis. On the island of Lewis there are two main denominations the Church of Scotland.

If you bring the Church of Scotland over here it's Presbyterian Church. There's the Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland. They split back in eighteen forty three became two separate denominations.

The Church of Scotland's Spiritual Decline

The Church of Scotland. And by the way I hate this. There's not a thing I can do about it. But there is. But there is an error in my book on page sixty four in my book it says that the Free Church of Scotland held a presbytery meeting in the village of Ness.

It wasn't the Free Church it was the Church of Scotland. OK. I don't know unless I chase down all my books and mark that out the word free. Now the presbytery meeting in the village of Ness up on the north end of the island.

A presbytery meeting was made up of the pastors of the churches and elders leaders in the church. They came together for a presbytery meeting. In this meeting they drew up a declaration and voted for this declaration to be read in every Church of Scotland on the island the next Sunday morning.

I have the full declaration in my book. But let me just give you the highlights of it. The declaration. They were deploring the low state of religion on the island of Lewis. And then down toward the end they said especially among the young people.

There were some of the churches of Scotland on the island where no young person ever came to church. Well if this was to be read the next Sunday morning. Now there's a little village called Barbas. B .A .R .B .A .S.

Peggy and Christine Smith Begin Praying

This is where God exploded on the island of Lewis. First the pastor of the Church of Scotland in Barbas was a man named James Murray Mackay. He got into the pulpit the next Sunday morning and read this declaration.

The next day on Monday he went down south of the church to a humble little cottage where two old maid sisters lived. These two old sisters were members of the church. They were godly women but because of their health they were unable to attend church.

He went down to read the declaration to them. The two old sisters Peggy Smith was eighty two. Peggy was blind. Her sister Christine Smith was eighty four. Christine was almost bent over double with arthritis.

Pastor Mackay read the declaration to them and he left a few days later Peggy Smith the blind sister call for her pastor to come back to their cottage. He went down and she said Mr. Mackay and I need to say this.

I'll use them quite a bit on the island of Lewis. They do not call their pastors. They don't call them pastor. They don't call them reverend. They don't call them brother. They call the mister Mr. Mackay.

Oh blind Peggy said Mr. Mackay I've I've been in prayer and God gave me a vision. And in this vision I saw the church of my father's the Barbas church crowded to capacity with people especially young people.

Mr. Mackay said well Peggy what do you suggest we do about this. And she said I suggest we pray. You find some man in the church you and some of the man in the church. You go up in the north end of the parish and find a place to pray.

And Christine and I will pray here in our home. Let's covenant together. We'll pray every Tuesday and Friday night. We'll start praying ten o 'clock at night and we'll pray until two or three o 'clock in the morning and we'll pray for God to come in all of his glory.

Mr. Mackay found six men in the church. There was Kenneth MacDonald and Sandy MacDonald. Roderick MacLeod. There was Colin MacLeod and Angus MacLeod and the old blacksmith John Smith remember him. I'll mention him again later.

What a man. So these six men and the pastor they found a little barn up north of the Barbas church to pray. And when I when Nancy and I went to Louis that little barn is now gone. But I walked around where the barn was and it was like walking on holy ground.

And they said into praying. Those seven men in the church in the barn and old Peggy and Christine in their home every Tuesday and Friday night ten till two or three o 'clock in the morning they prayed night after night week after week month after month during the fourth month of praying one night in that little barn about one thirty in the morning Kenneth MacDonald stood to pray.

Kenneth MacDonald was a deacon in the Barbas church. He stood to pray and listen to his prayer. He said God you have said in your word who shall ascend to the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart he shall receive the blessing of the Lord. He said Lord I don't know about these other men here but he said I do know this. He said it seems like so much humbug to me for us to be gathered here night after night praying if we don't have clean hands and pure hearts.

No Kenneth MacDonald. Then he said Oh God. And he lifted his hands to heaven. He wasn't southern Baptist he could do that. He lifted his hands to heaven and said Oh God are my hands clean. Is my heart pure.

And when he asked those two questions suddenly Kenneth MacDonald fell forward to the into the straw and went into a trance. Now if that bothers any of you go read the Bible and Acts chapter ten when God appeared to Peter and said go up and preach to the house of Cornelius.

The Bible says Peter went into a trance when Saul of Tarsus was on the road to Damascus and the risen Lord appeared to him. Saul of Tarsus fail. When John was on the Isle of Patmos he said I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day.

I heard a voice behind me. I turned to see who it was. And when I saw him I saw one likened to the son of man. And when I saw him I fell at his feet as though I were dead. I have the suspicion that if we ever get as close to God as we ought to be we'll fall before him.

We won't strut around like peacocks. And Mr. Mackay the pastor said the fire God fell in that little barn. He could hardly wait till the next morning to get down and tell old Peggy and Christine what had happened.

But when he got down to their house the next morning and told them they weren't surprised because God had fallen on their cottage at the same time. A few days later old Peggy the blind sister I wish I'd have known these two old sisters my soul.

Peggy called for her pastor to come back to the house. He went down and she said Mr. Mackay I've been in prayer and God gave me a message to give to you. God told me to tell you to invite some preacher named Duncan Campbell to come and preach a meeting at our church and she said I don't know who Duncan Campbell is.

I never heard his name until God told in prayer. But God told me that Duncan Campbell would be here within a fortnight. That's two weeks. Mackay got in touch with Duncan Campbell. He was down preaching on the island of sky.

Ask him to come to Barbus and preach a meeting. Duncan Campbell said it's impossible for me to come. I'm planning a convention. I can't. Maybe I can come next year but not now. So Mackay went back down told Peggy said well.

Duncan Campbell said it was impossible for him to come now. I just love old people. They're just as blond as two befores. I've been black. Impossible for him to come. Peggy and Peggy said that's not what God said.

God said he'd be here in two weeks. Man said he couldn't come. A few days later Duncan Campbell got in touch with Mackay and he said I've had to cancel this convention. I can come if you still want me.

Duncan Campbell Arrives on Lewis

First week in December nineteen forty nine. Duncan Campbell rode the ferry from the island of sky up to the island of Lewis. When he got with the ferry docked at Lewis the pastor Jack Mr. Mackay and one of the church elders met the ferry.

They said when Duncan Campbell got off the ferry said he was wearing a big big old overcoat that is way too big for him. Is just you know hanging on him. And he's wearing great big old galoshes or big old boots that were way too big for him.

And he came tromping off the ferry. The church elder walked up to him and said Mr. Campbell might I ask you a question. Are you walking with God. And Duncan Campbell replied well at least I can say this.

I fear God. And they got in the car and started back out to the village of Barbas. Town of Stornoway is the only town of any size on the island besides Stornoway. They're just scattered villages out around the island.

And they started twelve miles out to Barbas. Now let me explain just a little bit about Lewis. Now in the town of Stornoway they planted some trees through the years. But once you get out of Stornoway and drive out across the island there are no trees.

I mean zero no trees. There's there are peat bogs and heather sheep grazing everywhere they were driving out. And this revival was starting that night. The meeting they hadn't. They hadn't done any publicity.

They hadn't put anything on the radio. There was no there were no handbills printed advertising. The only thing that had been done there was an announcement made from the pulpit of the Barbas church that some preacher named Duncan Campbell was coming to preach a ten day meeting.

Duncan Campbell came to Barbas to the island of Lewis to preach a ten day meeting. He didn't go home for almost three years because God came. Had a man asked me before church tonight would you be willing to stay here three years.

And I said if God comes I'd be glad to. I'd be glad to. I need to tell you a little bit about worship on the island of Lewis. First of all the music. There are no musical instruments in the churches. They sing acapella.

They don't have any handbills. They don't sing any hymns. They do not sing any gospel songs. The only thing they sing are the Psalms. They just sing the Psalms in church. Their their beliefs. Now I probably a lot of you have heard of five point Calvinist believe predestination election.

Five point you know extreme predestination. So on the island of Lewis they're just almost ten point Calvinists. They're so strict they would not dare give a public invitation in the church services on Lewis.

They'd be afraid they were interfering with the work of the Holy Spirit. So that's kind of the set up. I have to tell you this when Nancy and I were on the island of Lewis I was interviewing elderly people who were converted to Christ during this great revival.

By the way I might say this. We were there in October of two thousand one and since that time every person that I interviewed has gone home to glory. I'm glad I went. When I did of all things Nancy and I wanted to do while we were there we wanted to attend a service in the Barbas church.

We were staying in a hotel in the town of Stornoway. I had rented a car. There are no there are no automatic transmissions on the island of Lewis for rent. So I spent all the time over there sitting on the wrong side of the car driving on the wrong side of the street shifting a five speed with my left hand.

We found out church. Their midweek service is not Wednesday night like America. It's Thursday night seven o 'clock Thursday night. So we got dressed up. Let me tell you this. A pastor friend he was pastor on the on the mainland of Scotland.

He he warned me before we went. He said No Brad if you and Nancy go to church on the island of Lewis you be sure and take a black preferably a black suit but a dark suit. White shirt. Only conservative tie and black shoes.

That's all you. Nancy you take a black suit and whatever you do. Nancy be sure and wear a hat. All the ladies wear a hat to church on Lewis. OK. We took all that we got all dressed up in our funeral attire.

That night we went to church on Lewis out at Barbas. I was the only man in church that had on a white shirt. All the rest of them had on a colored dress shirt. Nancy was the only woman in church that had a hat on.

But we got to church that night at 20 till 7 we sat down. I was sitting on the end of a pew. I found out later. It was one of the church elders at 5 minutes till 7 he came over and leaned down to me and said pardon me.

But are you a minister. And I said yes I am. And he said we don't have a minister tonight. Would you preach pastor. I literally thought I was going to fight. Literally. I got to preach in the Barbas church.

I thought about that hundreds of times. If I tried to promote myself I tried to send e-mails and say hey can I preach. It couldn't be that. God was gracious. God allowed me to preach. What a blessing.

What a blessing. OK. Duncan Campbell. Mr. Mackay the church elder they're going out back out to Barbas and the pastor Mackay he says now Mr. Campbell we start tonight. We'll make it short because we know you're tired from your trip.

We'll have some prayers. We'll sing some psalms and then you preach a little bit and then we'll we'll get started in earnest tomorrow night. They gathered that night. There were about three hundred in the service that night.

That's pretty well capacity in the Barbas church. Duncan Campbell said they did that. They sang some psalms had prayer. He he spoke some and he said really. He said it was a very dry service where very wooden wooden service.

When the service is over when he finished no invitation he pronounced the benediction and the people got up and filed out the doors. He stayed in the pulpit and he said the doors were open and he said I could see the people out in the front churchyard and he said they were out there but they weren't leaving there weren't going home and he said they weren't visiting.

He said I could see everyone was standing out there just in a tense silence. He left the pulpit and he walked down this aisle. He said I was going out to join the people out in the front churchyard and he got right about here and Kenneth McDonald the deacon who had prayed that prayer in the barn he said Kenneth McDonald came right up beside me right there and said Mr. Campbell God is hovering over us and he's just about to break through.

Wouldn't be gracious if he broke through here tonight. Duncan Campbell said. When Kenneth McDonald said that all of a sudden he fell to his knees and he began to pray. Pray just a minute and all of a sudden Kenneth McDonald just fell over in the aisle and went into another trance.

The Revival Fills the Churchyard and Church

Now I want you to understand who these people are. They are reserved stayed. Presbyterian Scotsman and Scotsman when they come to church they are silent. They are just like this. They don't visit in church.

They sit there in silence very very reserved people. When Kenneth McDonald fell over church elder ran in the door and said Mr. Campbell come out here and see. Duncan Campbell went out on the front porch of the church in this crowd of three hundred people that had been in church service.

Now there are well over six hundred people out in the churchyard where they come from. Well they came from the houses. Spirit of God had fallen on the houses of Barbus and they had streamed toward the church house.

Another place they came from there was a big young people's dance in the community that night and the spirit of God had fallen on the dance. And now all the young people have come to the churchyard. The church elder said Mr. Campbell what are we going to do.

Duncan Campbell said let's sing a song. They all began saying when Zion's bondage God turned back as men who dreamed. Were we then filled with laughter. Was our mouth our tongues with melody. There are four four verses to that song.

When they finish singing that song the people just begin to flood back into the church house. Less than half of the crowd could get it even get in the building. Duncan Campbell made his way back in. He said he was going to come back to the pulpit and preach.

And he said when I came back in every available seat was taken. People were sitting in the windowsills. He said. Every aisle was filled with people and these old reserved quiet Scotsman Scots women. They weren't sitting in the aisles.

They were lying in the aisles weeping and crying out to God for mercy. He stepped over bodies coming down the aisle. This most Scottish churches. The pulpit is up high and usually there's kind of a semicircle staircase here and one over here.

Duncan Campbell said he got to this staircase and there was a young lady who was lying on this staircase. She was a local school teacher and he said this young school teacher was crying and saying Oh God is there any mercy for a sinner like me.

You'll be glad to know there was. She was converted to Christ. She spent the rest of her life as a missionary in Thailand. Duncan Campbell stepped over her and he came up to the pulpit and he started preaching.

He preached just a moment. He said nobody could hear a word I was saying because of all the weeping and all the crying out to God. So he said he said I just stepped aside folded my arms and he said I just stood there and watched God work.

At two thirty in the morning Duncan Campbell decided to go home. He's staying in the parsonage over here across the street. He and the pastor went home. They left left the building filled with people weeping and crying out to God.

When I first came across that I thought my soul a Baptist pastor be fired the next day if he tried that. You know pastor supposed to be the person you know who. Pastor both stay and turn off the lights and lock the state of the last cat skilled.

You know Duncan Campbell. Mr. McKay. They left people. Ask him later said you mean you left the building filled with people crying out to God. Yes. You mean you didn't stay in council with him. He said.

No. God is the supreme counselor he said. He said they may not be saved tonight and they may not be saved tomorrow night. But he said I can promise you one thing if they're seeking him with all of their heart they're going to find him.

Revival at the Police Station and Farmhouse

So they left to go home. They got out in the middle of the street and a young man came running up to Duncan Campbell. The street to Mr. Campbell. You you've got to come. You've got to come down here to the police station.

It's just south of the church a little ways I don't know. Three hundred yards. Maybe something. Come down the police station. There's a big crowd of people there at the police station and they're out in the highway and some of them are sitting.

Some of them are lying in the highway and they're weeping and crying out to God. You've got to come and help. Well who are these people. Well this is all the crowd that couldn't get back into the church house and now they're down the police station.

I kept running in that in my research and it didn't make any sense to me until I got to Barbos and I knew why why. They leave the church yard and go to the police station. They weren't out in front of the police station at all.

Next door to the police station is the little cottage of old Peggy and Christine Smith. The people of that village knew where the seed of divine power in their village was. So Duncan Campbell he starts down toward the police station and on the way he hears a sound over here in the ditch and there are two young men there in their twenties and they're weeping and crying out to God.

They're there in the dark. In the ditch they were converted to Christ. They spent the rest of their life as church of Scotland pastors. He went on down to the police station ministered to these people.

And now the race is on. Revival has come. God has come. God has come. The revival. First of all it started up north started moving north from Barbos. It went up to the northern end of the island to toward the village of Ness.

One night Duncan Campbell received a call. Come up to this certain farmhouse. There's a group of people up there. They they're crying out to God. Come. And Duncan Campbell walked seven miles to this farmhouse.

He got there two o 'clock in the morning and when he got there this farmhouse was filled with people weeping. He started preaching. He preached a few minutes and suddenly the back kitchen door of this farmhouse open and a small group of men came in the kitchen door and Duncan Campbell said it was very evident.

They had not come to worship God. In his words he said you could see demon possession in the eyes of these men. He kept on trying to preach but he said he suddenly he was bound. He couldn't preach. Couldn't preach.

Well Kenneth MacDonald that deacon. He was there and Duncan Campbell just said Kenneth you handle this. You pray. Kenneth MacDonald started praying. He prayed several minutes and then all of a sudden in his prayer he said God would you excuse me just for a bit.

I want to address the devil. And he started talking. The devil he said devil you're in this meeting and you're here to frustrate the purposes of God and on the basis of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.

I order you out of this meeting. And then he said last he said be gone devil. And that Duncan Campbell said the fire of God fell. He started preaching again. Several people were saved including all of those men who had come in the back door.

They were all converted to Christ. Finally the revival swung around to the south going south of Barbas all I can do. You see. I could I could talk to you all till sunrise. Tell you what happened there.

Opposition to Revival and the Praying Men of Barbas

Let me just pick out some of my favorite things that happened. Four miles south of Barbas is the village of Arnall. A .R .N .O .L. Arnold. For quite some time the revival had not come to Arnold. Probably because there was a pastor in that village who was bitterly opposed to the revival.

Let me say this. The revival happened in the Church of Scotland. The Free Church of Scotland bitterly opposed the revival. You know why. They said yes we need revival. But if it comes it has to come in our church not theirs.

I tell you what. I've reached the place now. I'm a Baptist preacher but I've reached the place where I don't care. I don't care where God comes. I just want him to come in great revival. Revival had not come to Arnold at all.

Duncan Campbell got some of the he called them. He had a name for him the rest of his life. He called them the praying men of Barbas. Small group of men. He got these praying men of Barbas and they went down to Arnold to pray.

They found a building little workshop building pray. And I was I just so hoping that when Nancy and I went to Lewis that that little building was still standing and it was got a picture of it in the book little workshop building.

They gathered there that night to pray. They started praying at nine o 'clock at night. Duncan Campbell said we prayed till one about one thirty in the morning. And he said nothing was happening. He said dry prayers.

Nothing happened. He said. He looked over here and there said old John Smith the blacksmith. And he just said John would you pray. And John Smith stood to pray by the way you know every every culture has its own traditions on the Lewis.

You stand to pray. You sit to sing that don't ask me why. That's just the way they do it. But they stand to pray sit to sing. John Smith the old blacksmith stood to pray listen to his prayer. I don't.

I don't know if I'd ever have the nerve to pray like this. He said God did you know your honor is at stake. You promised in your word I will pour water on him who is thirsty. And floods on the dry ground.

He said God I'm thirsty. And he said God if you don't do what you promised to do how can I ever believe you ever again. And then he asked it again. He said God did you know your honor is at stake. And Duncan Campbell said all of a sudden that little workshop building began to violently tremble and shake.

It shook and it shook and it shook and it shook. If that bothers any of you here tonight go read the book of Acts. The place where they were gathered was shaken. Duncan Campbell said that building shook and shook and shook he said.

After a while finally it settled down. And only as old Duncan Campbell he said I immediately dismissed the prayer meeting because I knew that God had taken the field. Two o 'clock in the morning they filed out of that little building stood out here on a moonlit night in the village of Arnall two o 'clock in the morning and Duncan Campbell said we watched.

And the lights in the village of Arnall begin to come on in the houses. And people began streaming from their houses toward this little workshop building with torches candles and lanterns check clearing stools and chairs saying is there room for us.

Revival came to Arnall that night. By the way the pub the beer joint in Arnall it closed that night never did open ever again. Toward the end of that week there was a fifteen year old boy saved in the village of Arnall.

His name was Donald McPhail. Duncan Campbell called him little Donnie. Little Donnie. Duncan Campbell said concerning little Donnie McPhail. This teenage boy he said little Donnie McPhail is closer to God than any other person I've ever known in my life.

Donald McPhail and the Revival at Bernera

Now when I was there now like the village of Arnall. They don't have street names. The villagers are so small their house numbers on the houses. And I went to a house twenty eight Arnall. I interviewed an elderly man Donald McLeod eighty three years old.

He was converted to Christ during this revival. Toward the end of that week when a revival came to Arnall little Donnie McPhail was converted to Christ there at twenty eight Arnall. The next night he brought his mother.

They had a meeting. He brought his mother over here to this house is outside that house and he said mother right here is where I was converted to Christ. You'd be saved right here at this spot. And she was the next night he brought his father dad this spot right here you'd be saved.

And he was. Two weeks later Donald McPhail was out in the heather praying and God filled little Donnie McPhail with this Holy Spirit in a marvelous way. One day Duncan Campbell came to the McPhail house to talk to little Donnie.

His mother said well Mr. Campbell. He he's out in the barn praying. So Duncan Campbell went out to the barn. He opened the barn door and looked in. Donnie McPhail was over in the corner on his knees. He heard the barn door open and he looked up saw Duncan Campbell.

He said Mr. Campbell would you pardon me for just a bit. I'm having an audience with the king in that good want to tell you something about little Donnie McPhail. South of the island of Lewis is the island of Berner a little small island Donnie McPhail was.

He was about seventeen by now and they had invited Duncan Campbell to come down to the church on Berner a and preach communion services. Now communion over there is totally different than American churches communion season.