The book Arran; - Cook Clan

THE NEW ARRAN 247
Rev. Angus M'Millan (' Maighisteir Aonghus') preached his
' last sermon from the old pulpit on the text : And she named
the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel.'
Provision was made for the self-displaced congregation on
the farm of Clachaig.^
Indeed, Arran Avas free from the difficulties about finding
sites for new churches and manses, such as made things
uncomfortable for some time in other parts of the country.
The chapel at Brodick continued in occupation by the old
congregation until the death of their new minister Mr.
M'Alister in December 1844, when the Duke of Hamilton
found them quarters at an old saw-pit near the Castle. But,
Mr. M'Millan dying in the year of the Disruption and Mr.
M'Alister the year after, the Free Church congregation had
to make shift for a space without the services of an ordained
clergyman.
We taste something of the bitterness of the time in the
fact that in May 1848, at a Sacramental Fast of the Estab-
lished Church in Shisken, it was hailed ' as a pleasing proof
of the better feeling now prevailing that many of those
belonging to the Free Church attended, and obligingly lent
us their tent for the occasion.' ^
Of the Free Church clergymen of the island, the most
distinguished has been the Rev. Alexander Cameron, LL.D.,
of Brodick, conspicuous in the field of Celtic scholarship,
whose work has been collected in two volumes under the
title Beliquae Celticae. His last days, before his death in
1888, were clouded by a quarrel with the Church Courts
regarding an iron church which Dr. Cameron had erected
at Lamlash, when it was proposed to establish a regular
mission in that place. This church he intended for the use
of those members of his congregation who preferred re-
taining their previous connection with Brodick. The con-
' The Church in Arran, by Rev. J. Kennedy Cameron, M.A., p. 114.
' Ayr Observer, May Ifi, 1848.