FORFAR
was visited on the two closing days of the working week. Since the days of Duncan Matheson, at any rate, this community seems to have been regarded as an exceptionally difficult and flinty-hearted one in the matter of gospel effort. Indeed, there is a current saying to the effect that however remiss the enemy of souls might be in regard to other places, he has “kept his thumb on Forfar”. What malign or deadening influences may be at work it is impossible for a passing stranger to say. At any rate, the two evening meetings in the Established Church were very large and the spirit of hearing was manifest. The after-meetings in the Congregational Church were not, perhaps, so large in proportion as in some other places, but God was evidently owning the faithful messages of his servants and the workers had to deal with some very interesting cases of soul anxiety and decision.
From, "The Christian," January 21st, 1892