Churches

On the Sunday after the Disruption of the Church in 1843 there was a full attendance at Roseneath Church. The only ominous sympton was that one of the elders went to his own seat instead of the elders' pew. On the second Sunday a service was held in the little school - now a cottage - close by Dhualt Bridge, on the high road, under Free Church suspices. The preacher was a son of Burns, "Dr Hornbook". The audience was such as to account for depletion at Roseneath where only a few steadfast ones remained to bear up with the well-beloved pastor. During the summer, Free Church worship was maintained in the Campsail Sawmill shed, as depicted by Principal Rainy. I remember a service of that time in the old Parish Church when the walls of the new Free Church had been raised very perceptibly above ground. The impressions retained were of the great height of the pulpit, the narrowness and nearness of everyone to another and the conventional nature of the sermon. The former parish minister of Petty, near Inverness, was chosen by the new congregation.