The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

44^ ^/^^ Highland Monthly.
Nis O na fag mi gu ceann mo reis ;
Thoir leat mi, sabhailt, nuair theid mi eug ;
'S nuair bhios na h-oighean dol thun a phosaidh,
O biodh mo lochrans' le oladh 'n gleus.
Le Fear-na-bainnse, 'n sin, theid mi suas,
A sheinn, le aoibhneas, air gradh an Uain ;
Bi' co-sheirm ghloirmhor sa chuideachd mhor ud ;
'S e brigh an orain —toirt gloir do'n Uan.
Bi' 'n t-Uan an comhnuidh dhoibh 'n comunn dluth ;
Gach suil a dearcadh sann air a giinuis ;
'S ge buan an t-siorruidheachd, cha'n fhas iad cianail ;
Ni lathaireachd Chriosda gach sonas ur.
This beautiful hymn, so full of the sweetness and gladsome
trust of simple Christian faith, was made by Jean
Macarthur, one of the daughters of Archibald Macarthur,
miller of St Eonan, or St Adamnan's mill, in Glenlyon, and
a remarkable man in many respects, from whom his
daughter inherited her poetic gifts. The miller fell under
the influence of the strong religious revival in the early part
of the present century, and when the missionary movement
came to a separation of ways, he followed the Haldane
or Baptist wing of the revivalists, and was himself for a good
many years practically the pastor of the Glenlyon Baptists,
Peter Grant, the Strathspey hymn-maker, and William
Tulloch, Athole, being his contemporaries and frequent
visitors. The miller's daughter, Jean, became, at an early
age, the wife of another remarkable man, the late Rev.
Donald Maclellan, pastor or travelling bishop of the handfuls
of Breadalbane, Glenlyon, and Rannoch Baptists,
who, full of years and the honours of Christian life and
labours, died little more than a twelvemonth ago, at the age
of 87, having lived more than twenty years after he lost
his wife.