| <tab>In the Aug. 1847 issue of //The Home and Foreign Missionary Record //(Edinburgh), a Free Church publication, he published a long and most unflattering letter criticizing the religious backwardness in which the Glengarrians had lived since the time of first settlement. The Rev. Alexander Mathieson, writing under the initials N.M.I.L. (//nemo me impune lacessit//, no one provokes me with impunity), made a cutting and effective reply in the Jan. 1848 issue of //The Presbyterian//, a Canadian publication of the Presbyterians who had continued their association with the established Church of Scotland. The biographical sketch of Mcgilvray published in 1913 shows him to have been a highly combative man, and the letter of 1847 can be seen as fitting into a pattern of strife and uncompromising positions. In Canada, he preached in both English and Gaelic. He mentions that his weekly prayer meeting in the Vankleek Hill church was “conducted alternately in English and in Gaelic.” Before he returned to Britain, Walter Macgilvray received, in 1847, the honorary degree of D. D. from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. In the following years of his clerical career, Dr Walter Macgilvray held parishes in Scotland. He died at Canaan Grove, Morningside, Edinburgh. He was the author of many writings, published and unpublished, on religious themes. | <tab>In the Aug. 1847 issue of //The Home and Foreign Missionary Record //(Edinburgh), a Free Church publication, he published a long and most unflattering letter criticizing the religious backwardness in which the Glengarrians had lived since the time of first settlement. The Rev. Alexander Mathieson, writing under the initials N.M.I.L. (//nemo me impune lacessit//, no one provokes me with impunity), made a cutting and effective reply in the Jan. 1848 issue of //The Presbyterian//, a Canadian publication of the Presbyterians who had continued their association with the established Church of Scotland. The biographical sketch of Mcgilvray published in 1913 shows him to have been a highly combative man, and the letter of 1847 can be seen as fitting into a pattern of strife and uncompromising positions. In Canada, he preached in both English and Gaelic. He mentions that his weekly prayer meeting in the Vankleek Hill church was “conducted alternately in English and in Gaelic.” Before he returned to Britain, Walter Macgilvray received, in 1847, the honorary degree of D. D. from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. In the following years of his clerical career, Dr Walter Macgilvray held parishes in Scotland. He died at Canaan Grove, Morningside, Edinburgh. He was the author of many writings, published and unpublished, on religious themes. |
