The Hebrides is a group of islands around 40 miles west of the north of Scotland. Lewis is the most northerly island and Harris is its southern peninsula.
The Western Isles had experienced a number of short periods of revival at the end of the 19th and during the first half of the 20th centuries, but especially between 1949 and 1952.
Spiritual crisis
The main preacher God used in this revival was Duncan Campbell. He was born in 1898 and was converted to Christ at the age of 15. He spent some time working for the Faith Mission, but resigned from that organisation in 1925 to go into other ministry. But some 20 years later he went through a spiritual crisis which challenged him to retrace his steps and rejoin the Faith Mission. It was at a conference in Edinburgh that things came to a head.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …