Murdoch Campbell

Murdoch Campbell (1900–1974) was a Scottish minister and devotional author. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1956.

He has been called "the greatest Scottish devotional writer of the 20th century".

Life

He was born at Swainbost in Ness on the Isle of Lewis in 1900 the son of a crofting missionary of the Free Church of Scotland. He was educated locally until the age of 12 then apprenticed as a shipwright in Greenock. In 1918 he was conscripted into the army during the First World War. After the war he returned to Greenock as a shipwright.

He served as the Free church minister at Culnacarn on the Glenmoriston estate from 1930 to 1934 and gained a reputation as a fire and brimstone style preacher, focussed on the evils of sin. In 1934 he was translated to the Highland (Gaelic) Church in Partick, Glasgow.

Family

He was married to Mary Fraser of Fodderty (b.1899). One child died in infancy. Their son David Campbell was involved in the publication of some of his works.

Publications "God's Unsettled Controversy" (1941) "The Loveliest Story Ever Told" (1963) "Gleanings of Highland Harvest" (1964) "In All Their Affliction" (1966) "Memories of a Wayfaring Man" (1974-posthumous) "Wells of Joy" (Gaelic poems) "From Grace to Glory" "Everlasting Love: Devotional Sermons" "No Night There: Devotional Sermons" "The Suburbs of Heaven"