The spiritual life of an eighteenth-century Highland parish comes to life in A Tide of Blessing, an engaging collection of diary extracts chronicling the ministry of James Calder (1712-1775). One of the pre-eminent preachers of his age, James Calder served as the parish minister in the scattered rural comnmnity of Croy, a few miles east of Inverness. His reflective diary entries offer a rare window into the spiritual and everyday life of a bygone era.
The book is enhanced by biographical sketches of two ministers who are mentioned in the diary – Hector McPhail of Resolis and John Porteous of Kilmuir.
